Obama Biography Lands New Global Broadcasters

NEW YORK, January 15: AETN has closed a number of deals for BIOGRAPHY: Barack Obama, less than a week ahead of his historic U.S. presidential inauguration.

The hour-long program has been licensed to ATV in Hungary; ETB and Telemadrid in Spain; TV2 in Norway; Nelonen, Jim TV and Liv TV in Finland; CT1 and CT2 in the Czech Republic; N-TV in Germany; RTP2 in Portugal, Schweizer Fernsehen for German-speaking Switzerland; RTL4, RTL5, RTL7 and RTL8 in the Netherlands and Luxembourg; and Voice of America in the Middle East.

BIOGRAPHY: Barack Obama is slated to air on BIO in the U.K., Southeast Asia, Spain and Portugal, Israel, Canada, Latin America and Germany. The feature, produced by Tower Productions, traces the journey of the soon-to-be president from childhood through to his victory over John McCain on November 4, 2008.

"The 2008 U.S. presidential election was watched closely all over the world, and people are keen to know about Barack Obama," said Jonathan South, the director of international content sales for Europe, the Middle East and Africa for AETN International. "BIOGRAPHY: Barack Obama is a compelling up-to-date account of the president-elect, and we are very pleased to offer the program to our clients in time for the inauguration."

—By Kristin Brzoznowski