engels nieuws van tele satellite.

[Gast]

hi,

hieronder voor mij een paar belangrijke nieuwsbijdragen van tele satellite.indien je dit niet meer apprechieert in de toekomst stuur dan een reply terug.Aangezien ik de vorige keer geen tegenkanting kreeg doe ik het nu weer.FRANCE

 

CANAL PLUS EXPECTS TO LOSE 70,000 SUBSCRIBERS

Canal Plus chairman Xavier Couture said the broadcaster expects to lose

70,000 subscribers this year, the same number of subscribers lost in 2001,

although Couture said he targets "strong growth" of the subscriber base

over the next 5 years, and said there are 3 million potential clients for

satellite TV offerings in France. Couture added that Canal Plus generates

sufficient earnings and has enough subscribers to sustain its ?480 million

per-year bid for French League football rights from 2004-2007, even though

the price is nearly 40% higher than what the broadcaster currently pays for

annual broadcast rights. Concerning a possible bourse listing of Canal

Plus, currently owned by Vivendi Universal, Couture said the project is on

hold and not likely in the short term.

 

CANAL PLUS WARNED ON FILM FUNDS

The French government on November 16 told pay-TV channel Canal Plus it must

uphold its commitment to subsidise independent French cinema despite

splashing out to keep exclusive rights to French football matches. "Canal

Plus must respect (its cinema commitments). Football is not the only thing

that matters. I will see to that," Culture Minister Jean-Jacques Aillagon

said in an interview for Journal du Dimanche. Canal Plus's broadcasting

licence obliges it to spend a proportion of its revenues on funding French

cinema and 40 per cent of the films it shows must originate in France.

 

TPS CHALLENGES CANAL+ FOOTBALL DEAL

Satellite TV operator TPS, owned by commercial channels TF1 and M6, said on

November 18 it had filed a competition complaint over the award of French

football rights to rival Canal Plus. TF1 Chairman Patrick Le Lay announced

the legal challenge in a newspaper interview, saying TPS had been treated

unfairly in an auction which saw Canal Plus awarded the three-year rights.

A TPS spokeswoman said its Star premium channel had filed the complaint to

France's competition watchdog, seeking to scrap the auction on the grounds

that Canal Plus had bid for the whole rights package and not lot by lot.

 

KIRCH TO SUE BREUER

The lawyers for German mogul Leo Kirch argued their case on November 19 in

a ?100 million lawsuit against the former head of Deutsche Bank, Rolf

Breuer. The case centres on Kirch's claims that comments Breuer made

earlier this year led directly to the collapse of the Kirch media empire.

In a TV interview in February, Breuer indicated that Kirch might have

problems finding investors to refinance his company's massive debt. At the

time, Deutsche Bank was one of Kirch's main creditors. Kirch was unable to

secure new loans and his company, KirchGroup, filed for bankruptcy

protection in April.

 

KIRCHMEDIA SIGNS CONTENT DEAL WITH BUENA VISTA

KirchMedia said on October 21 it had closed a movie deal with its TV unit

ProSiebenSat.1 and U.S. movie studio Walt Disney. Under the four-year deal

KirchMedia will buy movies and television serials from Disney's Buena Vista

International Television and license them to ProSieben, Germany's biggest

broadcaster controlled by Kirch. The deal is the first major licensing

agreement Kirch has signed since it filed for bankruptcy protection last

spring. The deal will see Kirch acquire German free TV rights to Disney

features such as "Signs," "Sweet Home Alabama" and "The Santa Clause 2," as

well as TV series including "Scrubs," "Alias" and "8 Simple Rules."

Programming will be broadcast on German commercial channels ProSieben and

Sat.1, which are controlled by Kirch. The agreement will also see ProSieben

air two Disney-branded programming blocks of animated children's series

starting in early 2003, with titles including "Tarzan" and "Buzz Lightyear."

 

BBC3 TO LAUNCH NEXT FEBRUARY

The BBC's new digital channel BBC3 has been given the launch date of

February 9, 2003. BBC3 will be aimed at the 26-34 audience and will feature

new entertainment, comedy, contemporary drama and music. Some 80% of

airtime must be devoted to programmes specially commissioned for the

channel, and 90% of programming will be made in the UK. At least one

quarter of the BBC3 £97 million annual programme budget will be spent on

independent productions. More than a third of the programmes made for BBC3

will be news, current affairs, education, music and the arts - around 15%

of hours broadcast. The channel will also have a commitment to 15 hours of

science, religion/ethics and business per year, a dedicated 15 minute news

programme every weekday in peak and hourly bulletins until midnight. The

channel will air from 19:00-04:00 daily, and will be free-to-air on all

digital platforms, including the BBC's new Freeview DTT platform.

 

END OF THE ROAD FOR PAY-TV FORMULA 1 SERVICE

The pay-per-view Formula One service available through Sky Digital in the

UK, F1 Digital Plus, has been closed down. Not even a year old, Bernie

Ecclestone's innovative channel, which offered a choice of eight video

screens and information feeds was just too expensive to attract subscribers

at ?18 a race. The production operations included flying two jumbo jets

full of equipment around the world for each race. Similar services to Sky's

had been running with other European pay-TV operators including in Germany

- where it was launched in 1995 - and France. But now all the digital

broadcasts have been halted.

 

CHANNEL 4 WANTS TO LAUNCH NEW DIGITAL TV CHANNEL

Channel 4 is said to be keen to make use of its space on Freeview and wants

to launch a new digital channel called 'Channel 4 Extra' to counter the

threat from BSkyB and the BBC. However the launch won't be imminent and its

content is still under discussion. The options are thought to be either a

highbrow factual, education and documentaries channel or drama, music and

soaps. Anyone with a Freeview set-top box will get the channel for free

although it may initially carry only repeats.

 

dit was voor mij een paar interesante nieuwszaken,usa en ander onbelangrijk nieuws heb ik weggelaten.

sorry voor het engels,maar ik kan het niet vertalen naar het nederlands.

 

 

[pepper]

Toch leuk nieuws

 

[Gast]

Tof, dat je de moeite neemt om 't te vertalen! Ik denk niet dat veel mensen moeite met Engels zullen hebben, Frans is daarintegen toch 'n stuk moeilijker.