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LONDON: Following the success of the service in the U.K., Ireland, Germany and Austria, Sky Box Sets has become available in Italy.

MUNICH: James Baker has been given an expanded role as president of Red Arrow Entertainment Group.

LONDON: Total external revenues rose by 15 percent to £3 billion ($4.2 billion) at ITV in 2015, with ITV Studios's revenues up by 33 percent to £1.2 billion ($1.7 billion).

NEW YORK: New research from Parks Associates shows that 16 percent of Spanish pay-TV households subscribed to pay TV for the first time last year, though the country's broadband homes still have a high incidence of cord-shaving, cord-cutting and cord-nevers.

WARSAW: Several channels from SPI International/FilmBox’s pay-TV portfolio are rolling out in the Balkans via Telekom Srbija, Mtel Bosnia & Herzegovina and Mtel Montenegro.

AMSTERDAM/LONDON: Peter Salmon, currently director of BBC Studios, has become chief creative officer at Endemol Shine Group, which has also announced several other new senior executive team members.

STOCKHOLM: Modern Times Group (MTG) is selling off its Ukrainian pay-TV business to 1+1 Media Group as part of its "ongoing strategic portfolio review."

LONDON: Veronica Pottinen, formerly of ITV Studios Global Entertainment (ITVS GE), has been tapped by all3media international to fill the company's newly created head of insight position.

LONDON: Producer Ten Alps has changed its name to Zinc Media in an effort to reflect the newly focused business since undergoing a restructure over the past year.

MUNICH: Red Arrow Entertainment Group's Snowman Productions Norway has promoted Jørgen Steinheim to the position of managing director, a post previously held by Peter Blanck.