Profiles

TV Real Weekly recaps highlights from this year’s edition of MIPDoc and the deals that followed at MIPTV. Ahead of the official start of MIPTV, around 700 delegates from the factual community were on hand for MIPDoc. Commissioning editors, buyers and executives from digital platforms and social networks joined together ...

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OWNERSHIP: YLE Finnish Broadcasting
 SENIOR EXECUTIVES: Lauri Kivinen, Director General, YLE
 Tarmo Kivikallio, Head of International Program Acquisitions, YLE LAUNCH DATE: August 2001 LANGUAGE: Finnish and English
 GENRE: Culture, education and science, plus movies
 TARGET DEMOGRAPHIC: Viewers 10+
 HD FEED?: No
 AVAILABILITY: Finnish DTT, plus cable and satellite distribution Programming ...

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Deutsche Welle (DW) has revised its TV program and online presence to reinforce its position in the international media landscape. Changes are afoot at Deutsche Welle (DW), which has been providing news, analysis and more from a European perspective to a global audience for more than 55 years. “This overhaul ...

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Jane Root, the founder and CEO of Nutopia, talks about the company’s latest crop of ambitious documentary productions, including the upcoming Mankind: The Story of All of Us. HISTORY recently announced an epic 12-hour, six-night TV event, Mankind: The Story of All of Us, produced by Nutopia. The project follows ...

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It was a relatively quiet year in the factual community, as the “big three” once again maintained their dominance. Discovery Communications posted strong financials throughout 2011, seeing particularly large revenue gains from its international networks. There were new launches, including Velocity, which replaced the HD Theater network, as well as ...

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With its catalogue of comedic non-dialogue hidden-camera clips and gag shows, Novavision is focused on providing content that easily crosses borders. One of the world’s largest suppliers of comedic clips, Novavision has entered into an agreement with TV Azteca to provide the Mexican broadcaster with 4,000 clips over a six-month ...

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