{"id":8505,"date":"2018-06-21T13:07:55","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T17:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/comedy-central-get-24-hour-network-germany\/"},"modified":"2018-06-21T13:10:32","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T17:10:32","slug":"comedy-central-to-get-24-hour-network-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2018\/06\/21\/comedy-central-to-get-24-hour-network-in-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Comedy Central to Get 24-Hour Network in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) is expanding the Comedy Central brand in Germany to a 24-hour channel at the beginning of 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Comedy Central Germany offers a variety of local and international programming, with such comedic talent as Ingmar Stadelmann, Maxi Gstettenbauer and Oliver Kalkofe. Highlights include <em>CC:N<\/em> (<em>Comedy Central News<\/em>) and a local treatment of <em>Takeshi\u2019s Castle: Thailand<\/em>, as well as such global hits as <em>The Daily Show<\/em>, <em>Friends<\/em> and <em>South Park<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>VIMN is removing VIVA from its local brand portfolio at the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Comedy Central brand has demonstrated consistent successful performance in Germany,&#8221; said Raffaele Annecchino, the president and managing director of VIMN Southern and Western Europe, Middle East and Africa. &#8220;After five consecutive quarters of year-on-year growth, we have decided to expand the Comedy Central channel offer to a full 24 hours, beginning in January.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) is expanding the Comedy Central brand in Germany to a 24-hour channel at the beginning of 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":479,"featured_media":8506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[1656,1364,393],"class_list":["post-8505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-comedy-central-germany","tag-viacom","tag-vimn"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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