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Total external revenues at ITV plc fell by 7 percent in Q1 to £776 million ($976.5 million), largely as a result of a weakened ad market.

SPI International’s FAST channel Filmstream has launched on Samsung TV Plus in Norway, Finland and Denmark.

Guillaume Thouret has been appointed as managing director for Banijay Studios France, joining from Newen Group.

Industry Media has hired business affairs specialist Gwenda Carnie as director to help grow its presence in the U.K. and internationally.

Sony Pictures Television and Warner Bros. Discovery have extended their content deal across Central Eastern Europe, with a slate of feature films and TV series to be shown exclusively on HBO channels and the HBO Max streaming platform across the region.

Revenues at the RTL Group were down 9 percent in the first quarter to €1.4 billion ($1.5 billion), largely due to a challenging advertising market.

Viaplay Group has appointed Filippa Wallestam, recently executive VP and chief content officer, as executive VP and chief commercial officer for the Nordics.

On the heels of an 8.8 percent increase in 2022 to reach £34.8 billion ($43.5 billion), the U.K. advertising market is expected to be flat this year, inching up to £35 billion ($43.8 billion), before returning to growth in 2024, according to new data from the Advertising Association/WARC Expenditure Report.

Citing broader macroeconomic forces in its German-speaking markets, ProSiebenSat.1 Group reported 2022 revenues of €4.2 billion ($4.6 billion), a 7.4 percent reduction on 2021, with adjusted net income dropping 17.4 percent to €301 million ($332 million).

Richard Sharp, chairman of the BBC, is stepping down, though he will remain on until the end of June while the process to appoint his successor is undertaken.