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LONDON: Twofour Rights has hired Reka Gaspar as the company's new sales executive for Germany-speaking Europe, Eastern Europe, Greece and Turkey.

LONDON: A number of broadcasters in Europe have snapped up the rights for the two-hour event Shakespeare Live! From the RSC from BBC Worldwide.

MUNICH: ProSiebenSat.1 Media has created a new segment structure for its digital business, through which it intends to generate revenues of around 1.5 billion euros ($1.7 billion) by 2018.

LONDON: BBC Worldwide has ramped up investment in its Western Europe content sales team, with the creation of new specialist roles and an expanded remit for Executive VP Tobi de Graaff.

LONDON: Sky delivered revenues of £8.7 billion ($12.5 billion) for the nine months ended March 31, 2016, a 5-percent gain on the same period last year, with operating profit rising 12 percent to £1.1 billion ($1.6 billion).

LONDON: Bea Hegedus, whose previous experience includes time at MTG's Viasat and Debmar-Mercury, has set up her own entertainment consultancy, Ashgate Media, which has already closed its first deal with dick clark productions.

STOCKHOLM: Modern Times Group (MTG) reported record first-quarter sales, affirming that the company's transformation is "on track."

LONDON: Sky and Sony Pictures Television have reached their first-ever multiyear pan-European movies agreement, covering Sky’s subscription and transactional movie services in the U.K., Ireland, Germany, Austria and Italy.

LONDON: UKTV has commissioned a sophomore season of the original series Marley’s Ghosts for its comedy channel Gold.

BUCHAREST: Paprika Latino, which is part of Nice Entertainment and the MTG group, has appointed Akos Erdos to the post of CEO.