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The Edinburgh TV Festival (ETF) will become a digital event as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

BBC Studios Entertainment is producing a live three-hour special—meant to celebrate the acts of kindness, humor and the spirit of hope and resilience that is keeping the U.K. going during the COVID-19 pandemic—for BBC One.

Eastern Europe is expected to add nearly 10 million digital pay-TV subscribers from 2019 to 2025, bringing its total to 77 million, according to Digital TV Research.

A new multiyear agreement sees WWE’s weekly flagship programming becoming available live and on-demand with original U.S. commentary on the DAZN streaming platform in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

NENT Group has extended its long-term distribution agreement with Com Hem, a Swedish telecommunications, TV and broadband operator.

ITV has created a £500,000 development fund targeted at the U.K. independent sector to help producers during the COVID-19 crisis, while the BBC has outlined its own package of measures to bolster the creative health of indies.

SPI International/FilmBox has inked a channel distribution deal to bring the gaming and esports channel Gametoon to the French streaming service Molotov.

The AMC Networks streaming platform Acorn TV is slated to roll out in the U.K. starting Wednesday, April 29.

Following the cancellation of the Eurovision Song Contest, Banijay Group's Brainpool is working with Stefan Raab and ProSieben to produce and broadcast a new competition, the Free European Song Contest.

The SPI International affiliate Kino Polska TV has signed a new content license agreement with The Walt Disney Company to deliver a range of new movies and TV series to Stopklatka, Zoom TV and Kino TV viewers in Poland.