International Out and About

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France 4 has refreshed its on screen identity. 

 

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Australia

 

Some viewers in regional South Australia and New South Wales could see the Seven Network go away thanks to an expiring contract with WIN.

 

 

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Spain (using a bull because its something synonymous with Spain, plus the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona is next month. Its almost that time once again)

 

RTVE is making changes once again to its flagship news product, Telediario. Marta Carazo will leave her duties as presenter of the 9pm edition after just 18 months at the helm in September (she originally took over for Carlos Fraganillo when he left to helm the 9pm edition of Informativos Telecinco).

 

This article states that it'll be Lluis Guilera from Canal 24 Horas. There were earlier reports that Silvia Intxaurrondo could've taken over the role (where she would've been moved over from the morning program La Hora de La 1) but several journalists were discontent over that choice, so nothing is certain as of right now.

 

https://www.esdiario.com/chismografo/medios/250622/161681/tve-encuentra-sustituto-marta-carazo-frente-telediario-2.html

 

Also, Sirun Demirjian will be leaving her post hosting the morning edition of Telediario after a five-year run of doing so. Cristina Pampín from Canal 24 Horas was given the position, but she has flatly rejected it.

 

The only certain thing coming in September is that Alejandra Herranz will continue to anchor the 3pm edition of Telediario who she took over from Ana Blanco when she stepped down from the desk after a 30+ year run back in 2022 to work on other projects and programs for TVE (Blanco is now retired).

 

https://www.eldebate.com/cine-tv-series/20250620/malestar-dentro-tve-ante-posibilidad-silvia-intxaurrondo-presente-telediario-2_309138.html

 

One more thing, they're making these changes to better compete against their main competition, Informativos Telecinco, and the undisputed leader right now (and my favorite), Antena 3 Noticias. For example, last Thursday, Juneteenth here in the U.S., the 9pm edition of A3N (anchored by Vincente Valles, himself an ex-Telecinco and TVE anchor) got a 22.2% share, well past TD2 (11.2% with Marta Carazo) and I5 (7.5% with Carlos Franganillo).

 

This article also states that Marc Sala, who also anchors La Hora de La 1 with Silvia, is looking to possibly leave the program in favor of hosting some sort of program on Radio Nacional de Espana (RNE; Spain's public radio broadcaster).

 

https://www.eleconomista.es/informalia/television/noticias/13425333/06/25/tve-ultima-cambios-en-los-informativos-pero-silvia-intxaurrondo-esta-descartada-para-el-telediario-2.html

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 DPG Media from Belgium has been approved by the Authority for Consumers & Markets to take over RTL Nederland, as announced on the Noedoleckin YouTube channel. https://www.acm.nl/nl/publicaties/acm-stelt-strenge-voorwaarden-aan-overname-rtl-nederland-door-dpg-media
 

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The die has finally been cast: the Belgian DPG Media is allowed to take over RTL Nederland for the sum of 1.1 billion euros. The Belgian media giant already owns various brands; such as VTM, QMusic and RTL-TVI in Belgium and in the Netherlands it publishes Donald Duck and Libelle and also owns newspapers such as AD and De Volkskrant. This deal is subject to strict conditions, according to the ACM, which conducted a lengthy investigation into this. For example, RTL Nieuws must remain an independent news brand, it may not copy other news content from other DPG titles and there may be no paywall on articles, as is already the case with NU. What this will mean for the RTL channels will all be announced later, but they will undoubtedly undergo a rebrand soon after more than 2 years of the 'united' brand of our eastern neighbours.

And so, after 36 years, RTL's Luxembourg adventure comes to an end; the company will now become fully Dutch.