VIENNA: ORF-Enterprise has clinched several sales for its\u00a0Universum brand, with broadcasters around the world signing package deals for the strand\u2019s factual programming.<\/p>\n
DR in Denmark nabbed a number of documentaries, among them Making an Ancient Forest<\/em>, Africa\u2019s Wild West<\/em>, the 4K Ultra HD highlight Wild Venice<\/em> and the 4K two-parter The Canary Islands<\/em>. Sweden\u2019s SVT also went for The Canary Islands<\/em>, which will premiere this fall at MIPCOM.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Thai PBS secured a package that includes Making an Ancient Forest<\/em>, which has also been picked up by EBS in Korea, Italy\u2019s RAI and France 5. The French broadcaster also acquired other titles from ORF\u2019s wildlife lineup.<\/p>\n Bangkok Business Broadcasting signed on for\u00a0a package made up of 40-plus hours of documentaries from ORF\u2019s catalogue. Additionally, Fox Networks Group Italy will soon air the newest seasons of ORF\u2019s Four Women and a Funeral<\/em>, as well as a crime package of 90-minute spin-offs of the successful TV series Fast Forward<\/em>.<\/p>\n In terms of ORF\u2019s current affairs offers, a curated selection of titles from the strand World Journal will soon air on Switzerland\u2019s SRF.<\/p>\n Knowledge Network in Canada secured the broadcast of musical highlights such as the two annual events Springtime in Vienna<\/em> and Christmas in Vienna<\/em>, as well as the recording Karajan: Requiem by Brahms<\/em> from ORF\u2019s music archive and Claudio Monteverdi\u2019s Selva Morale e Spirituale<\/em> from the concert series Baroque Treasures<\/em>.<\/p>\n Various broadcasters showed interest in the documentary Mother Teresa: Saint of Darkness<\/em>, which has been recently sold to the Latin American broadcaster VIP2000. Also, Chinese VOD platform Super Movie Entertainment took a package consisting of wildlife highlights, including the documentaries Secrets of Bumblebees<\/em>, Planet Sparrow<\/em> and Buddies: How Dog Discovered Man<\/em>.<\/p>\n Finally, the two Jackson Hole Award-winning documentaries On a River in Ireland<\/em> and A Tiger Called Broken Tail<\/em> will soon be available worldwide on the SVOD platform curiositystream.com.<\/p>\n \u201cFollowing up our annual focus on wildlife at MIPTV, we are pleased to see that the demand for ORF\u2019s premium brand Universum is continuously growing,\u201d said Marion Camus-Oberdorfer, the head of content sales international at ORF.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" VIENNA: ORF-Enterprise has clinched several sales for its \ufeffUniversum brand, with broadcasters around the world signing package deals for the strand\u2019s factual programming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"featured_media":8529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[535,864,865],"class_list":["post-8528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-miptv-2016","tag-orf-enterprise","tag-universum","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"\n