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STOCKHOLM: MTG has inked a deal to sell its free-TV, pay-TV, digital and radio businesses in the Baltic region to Providence Equity Partners.

BARCELONA: At this year's MIPTV, Filmax International is slated to showcase the hit thriller I Know Who You Are, among other highlights.

PREMIUM: Kevin Lygo tells World Screen Newsflash about what the priorities have been in his first year as ITV's director of television.

LOS ANGELES: NATPE Budapest, which will be held June 19 to 22, will host the inaugural CEE Regional Producers’ Summit.

LONDON: Discovery Communications and Group Nine Media have unveiled a new collaboration between Eurosport and the millennial media brand NowThis for the production and co-distribution of sports-related social video content.

LONDON: Channel 4’s chief executive, David Abraham, intends to step down from his role by the end of 2017 in order to develop personal plans to launch a media enterprise in 2018.

PARIS: The winners of the 13th annual Export Awards, which recognize the best-selling French TV productions worldwide, have been announced, with Banijay Rights' Versailles winning in the fiction category.

LONDON: A newly expanded leadership team has been appointed at A+E Networks UK with the promotions of Adrian Pilkington, Izabella Wiley and Mark Neil.

LONDON: DRG will be showcasing more than 125 hours of new content at MIPTV, including some newly acquired factual programs as well as formats.

PARIS: Delphine Cazaux, currently the COO and head of production at Endemol France, has been appointed director-general of Endemol Shine France.