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LONDON: Industry veteran Erik Huggers, who currently serves as president and CEO of Vevo, is set to deliver a keynote at the upcoming IBC2016 Conference.

HELSINKI: Finnish indie Rabbit Films has hired Jonathan Tuovinen to lead its international distribution expansion plans.

LONDON: Sky Atlantic has a new comedy coming to its schedule, Sick Note, which will star Rupert Grint, Nick Frost and Don Johnson.

HAMBURG/MUNICH: ProSiebenSat.1 group is merging its 100-percent holding in Aeria Games Europe into Gamigo and will become a minority shareholder in the merged publisher, with a 33-percent stake.

ISTANBUL: Global Agency has appointed former Eurodata TV Worldwide executive Nassima Boudi as head of research.

MONACO: Hollywood actors Danny Glover and Jason Priestley have become jury presidents for the Golden Nymph Awards at this year's Monte-Carlo Television Festival, which is being held from June 12 to 16.

STOCKHOLM: MTG has acquired 22 percent of Engage Sports Media (ESM), which enables premium sports-rights owners to digitalize and monetize their content for global audiences, by making it available online, on-demand and on mobile.

LONDON: Channel 4 has promoted Sarah Lazenby to the post of commissioning editor for entertainment.

BRUSSELS: The European Commission has proposed a set of new guidelines that would require streaming platforms across the EU such as Netflix and Amazon to devote at least 20 percent of their catalogues to European movies and TV shows.

MUMBAI/LONDON: Janice Strangward, formerly of Discovery and Entertainment One, has been appointed as head of European sales syndication at Zee Entertainment Enterprises.