Mansha Daswani

BOULOGNE: TF1 has picked up a majority stake in MinuteBuzz, a French social-media platform with 9 million subscribers and 2 billion videos viewed this year.

LONDON: A new strand of youth programming, under the banner of 2Awesome, is set for ITV2 and ITV Hub following a pact between the British broadcaster and AwesomenessTV.

HELSINKI: Finnish production outfit Yellow Film & TV has tapped ex-YLE exec Olli Tola as its chief creative officer.

MADRID: Following legal action by Mediapro, a Spanish court has ordered the website rojadirecta to stop enabling access to pirated streams of sporting events.

LONDON: John O’Sullivan's recently launched 560 Media has signed an agreement to collect international revenues generated by Discovery Communications' secondary rights' deals.

Marking World Television Day today, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the Association of Commercial Television in Europe (ACT) and egta, the association of television and radio sales houses, are touting the continued strength of the medium across the globe.

LONDON: The BBC and the All England Club have extended their broadcast partnership for Wimbledon coverage for another four years.

LONDON: Indielab, a program set up to bolster the independent production sector in the U.K., is returning in 2017, offering up specialist training from 50-plus industry leaders.

LONDON: A+E Networks UK has reached a deal with subscription-free satellite TV platform Freesat for its new free-to-air service BLAZE.

STOCKHOLM: MTG has inked a deal to pick up a 35-percent interest in Hamburg-based online games developer InnoGames, with an option to increase that to 51 percent.