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LONDON: Lifetime and Women in Film & TV UK (WFTV UK) are launching a short film competition that recognizes the work of women behind the camera, as part of A+E Networks’s Broad Focus initiative.

New insight from Pyramid Research points to robust growth for the OTT video market in Europe, where global players are urged to "focus on domestic content and local languages" to increase the uptake of their services and revenue.

LONDON: Ruth Clarke has been elevated at ITV Studios Global Entertainment (ITVS GE) to the managing director post.

LONDON: Karen Bradley has been appointed as the U.K.'s secretary of state for culture, media and sport.

BRUSSELS: The recently concluded UEFA Euro 2016 soccer championship broke viewership records throughout Europe, becoming the most-watched TV program in tournament finalist countries France and Portugal, according to egta.

OTT TV and video revenues across Western Europe are expected to more than double between 2015 and 2021, according to Digital TV Research.

LONDON: CSI Sports has acquired the Sport 10 channel in Belgium, which reaches 1.3 million subscribers on the Proximus platform.

AMSTERDAM: Endemol Shine Group has named Liberty Global's Ivan Nash Vila as the company's chief financial officer, effective this fall.

WARSAW: Markus Tellenbach is stepping down as president and CEO of the Polish media company TVN, with Jim Samples, the president of Scripps Networks’s international division, becoming president of the management board.

LONDON: Oscar-winning filmmaker Ang Lee has been tapped to deliver a keynote address at the IBC2016 Conference in Amsterdam as part of the IBC Big Screen Experience.