Kristin Brzoznowski

NEW YORK: New research from Parks Associates shows that 16 percent of Spanish pay-TV households subscribed to pay TV for the first time last year, though the country's broadband homes still have a high incidence of cord-shaving, cord-cutting and cord-nevers.

AMSTERDAM/LONDON: Peter Salmon, currently director of BBC Studios, has become chief creative officer at Endemol Shine Group, which has also announced several other new senior executive team members.

LONDON: Producer Ten Alps has changed its name to Zinc Media in an effort to reflect the newly focused business since undergoing a restructure over the past year.

MUNICH: Red Arrow Entertainment Group's Snowman Productions Norway has promoted Jørgen Steinheim to the position of managing director, a post previously held by Peter Blanck.

COPENHAGEN: Further senior executive appointments have been made for Banijay Zodiak Nordic Group, including Karoline Spodsberg being named COO.

MAINZ: ZDF Enterprises has licensed a package of TV movies, among them A Summer in ... and Katie Fforde, to the Spanish broadcaster RTVE.

COPENHAGEN/STOCKHOLM: Following the completion of the Banijay-Zodiak merger, Jacob Houlind has become group CEO of the company's Nordic operations.

MUNICH: Red Arrow Entertainment and Smuggler have invested in a new TV production company, Cove Pictures, which will focus on high-end drama and comedy as well as blue-chip factual programs.

PARIS: Gilles Pélisson, the chairman and CEO of TF1, has outlined a new organizational structure that sees Ara Aprikian assuming the post of executive VP of content.

TV advertising revenue in the U.K. totaled £5.27 billion ($7.43 billion) in 2015, up 7.4 percent on the prior year, according to figures provided to Thinkbox by British commercial broadcasters. The figure represents all the money invested by advertisers in commercial TV: linear spot and sponsorship, broadcaster VOD and product placement.