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LONDON: Endemol Shine's Lovely Day and Shine Pictures will now be part of Kudos, the company's U.K.-based scripted content outfit known for hits like Broadchurch and Humans. Kudos founded the Lovely Day label in 2010 under Diederick Santer. Earlier this year, Santer was named joint CEO of Kudos alongside Daniel …

LUXEMBOURG: A surge in digital revenues and gains at its German and Dutch operations and at FremantleMedia contributed to a 7.5-percent boost in revenues at the RTL Group in the third quarter. For the period, revenues were 1.35 billion euros ($1.46 billion), with net profit rising by almost 10 percent …

WARSAW: Kino Polska TV is planning to take a 49-percent stake of Cable Television Network & Partners (CTNP), which is set to launch a new DTT news channel in Poland. SPI International's Polish media company Kino Polska TV says it will spend PLN 10 million ($2.5 billion) for an interest …

STOCKHOLM: MTG has acquired DreamHack, Scandinavia's leading eSports company, for SEK 244 million ($28 million). DreamHack runs both local and global eSports leagues, tournaments and championships. Its seven live events in 2014 attracted a total audience of over 105,000 people, and eSports fans have watched 34 million hours of DreamHack …

LONDON/NEW YORK: HBO has extended its programming pact with Sky, making Sky Atlantic the home of content from the premium channel in 21 million homes across Germany, Austria, Italy, the U.K. and Ireland. The deal extends the pact HBO has had with Sky in the U.K. to all of the …

STRASBOURG: Europe's top 12 media companies accounted for 62 percent of the region's content revenues last year, according to the European Audiovisual Observatory. There are 12 companies from the continent in the Observatory's Yearbook 2015 ranking of the world's top 50 media companies based on audiovisual revenues. The Observatory notes …

MUNICH/STAMFORD: The OTT WWE Network will become available in Germany in January 2016, delivering its original programming and pay-per-view events for a monthly fee. For $9.99 a month, subscribers will have access to the U.S. English-language version of WWE Network and get all 12 WWE pay-per-view events at no additional …

LONDON: Following an eight-way auction, DNA Films and TV has optioned television rights for Welsh novelist Neil Spring’s book The Watchers, published by Quercus. The sci-fi mystery novel is set against inexplicable happenings along the Pembrokeshire coastline and Cold War cover-ups at the Ministry of Defense. It blends fiction with …

PARIS: Hervé Michel, the director of international affairs at France Télévisions, has been elected president of TV France International by the board. Michel will take up the post on January 4, 2016. He founded and directed France Télévisions Distribution, the commercial arm of the French pubcaster, between 1992 and 2007, …

WARSAW: SPI International's Kino Polska TV has posted a 66-percent increase in net profit in the third quarter. For the period, the company said revenues were up by 19 percent to PLN 85.4 million ($21.4 million), driven by improved licensing revenues and gains in its FilmBox-branded channels. EBITDA rose by …