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Rios for Global Crossing
Latin American industry veteran Jose Antonio Rios has been named president for Latin America and the Caribbean of Global Crossing Ltd, a US firm dedicated to integrated telecommunications solutions.Rios has also been named senior vice president of the firm and will serve as a member of the company's management committee. ...
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Spain's private TV nets post blockbuster results
Spain's thriving television sector, set to grow exponentially in the next year, is proving its potential with recently published, landmark year-end financial results, which place private networks Telecinco and Antena 3 among Europe's most profitable.Calling itself "the most profitable commercial broadcaster in Europe" for the second year in a row, ...
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Veo announces CEO
In the first major announcement to come out of one of the two powerful consortia awarded Spain's new free-to-air digital terrestrial television licenses, Veo TV has named Andres Tejero as CEO.Tejero was previously director of corporate resources at Telefonica under former chairman and CEO Juan Villalonga.The appointment was followed by ...
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Telefonica reveals 2000 profit up by nearly 40%
Spanish telecoms and multimedia giant Telefonica confirmed its place among Europe's top operators with a 38.8% rise in net profits for the year 2000 to Euros2.5bn. Earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) rose 9.5% to Euros11.9bn.Multimedia filial Telefonica Media didn't fare so well, posting net losses of Euros627.1m, ...
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Terra Lycos appoints Killeen
Internet company Terra Lycos, a subsidiary of Spanish telecoms giant Telefonica, has appointed Stephen J. Killeen president of operations in the United States.In the newly-created position Killeen will fill a hole left by the departure earlier this month of Lycos founder and CEO Bob Davis, who continues on as non-executive ...
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Sogecable posts net operating profits
Spanish multimedia conglom Sogecable posted net operating profits of Euros3.3m (pts 548m) for 2000, a rise over the previous year's losses of Euros22.6m (pts3,768m). The group's net consolidated losses were down 18.2% from 1999 to Euros11.4m (pts1,900m). The company has grappled with debt since the expensive 1997 launch of digital ...
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Portugal's SIC Filmes reveals second-year slate
Portuguese private broadcaster SIC (Sociedad Independente de Comunicao) has unveiled the next five titles on its second-year slate of made-for-TV movies from production division SIC Filmes.The titles include: The Secret, a melodrama from director Leandro Ferreira; Dear Mother, a comedy about three sons dodging responsibility for their elderly mother, from ...
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Spain's Grupo Correo restructures ahead of float
Spanish publishing and multimedia giant Grupo Correo has appointed a new CEO and restructured its organisation into five main business areas with an eye toward expansion and in preparation for a planned spring stock flotation. Jose Maria Bergareche, current general manager of Correo and right-hand man to chief Alejandro Echevarria, ...
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El Deseo to shoot Coixet drama in the US
The Almodovar brothers' Madrid-based production outfit, El Deseo, has boarded English-language drama My Life Without Me, which is set to shoot in the US later this year with Isabel Coixet directing.The film, which tells the story of a young mother's confrontation with her own death, will mark writer-director Coixet's second ...
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Villalonga joins Univision board
Juan Villalonga, the former chairman and CEO of Spanish telecoms giant Telefonica, has been appointed to the board of directors of US-based broadcaster Univision Communications Inc.Villalonga was forced to resign his post at Telefonica last July amid accusations that he benefited from insider information when he bought and sold stock ...
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Malaga fest to launch documentary market
The Spanish Film Festival of Malaga plans to inaugurate a sales office and documentary film market at this year's fourth edition (June 1-9).The sales office will be open free of charge to films participating in any of the sections of the festival, which include the official competition, a short film ...
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Telefonica appoints Juarez to strengthen US links
Industry veteran Ele Juarez will leave his post as president and CEO of HBO Latin America Group and HBO Brazil to take over the newly created position of managing director of strategic alliances, international sales and music for Spain's Telefonica Media. In a company statement, the multimedia subsidiary of telecoms ...
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Pons to make English-lang debut for 42nd Street
Spanish director Ventura Pons is preparing his English-language debut, Food Of Love, which he will co-produce with start-up production and sales outfit 42nd Street Productions, backed by German facilities giant Das Werk (ScreenDaily, February 5). 42nd Street CEO Thomas Spieker said he is seeking international partners for the project, a ...
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Media Park to co-produce Risi's Three Wives
Spanish content broker and producer Media Park has boarded its third feature film, Three Wives (Tres Esposas) from Italian director Marco Risi.Wives follows Media Park's first two forays into feature films: Mi Dulce, a co-production with Tusitala starring Aitana Sanchez-Gijon and now in post-production; and Universal Pictures Spain's Km. O, ...
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Das Werk launches Spanish production-sales outfit
German facilities giant Das Werk has launched a new production and sales company in Spain under the name 42nd Street Productions.Headed by CEO Thomas Spieker, the new company will invest some $200m in film and television production through 2005 with five-year plans encompassing nearly a dozen feature films developed in-house, ...
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Pellet scoops four awards at Spain's Goyas
Actor-turned-director Achero Manas' debut feature film, Pellet (El Bola), was the surprise grand winner at the 15th edition of Spain's top Goya Awards on Saturday night.A startlingly realistic tale of child abuse and one of the first titles out of new production house Tesela Producciones, Pellet won four out of ...
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Kevin Williams picks up Cordoba's debut
Madrid-based sales outfit Kevin Williams Associates (KWA) has picked up world rights on Juan Vicente Cordoba's feature film directorial debut, What You Never Knew (Aunque Tu No Lo Sepas).The film, a co-production between Samarkanda and Enrique Cerezo PC, premiered at last year's San Sebastian International Film Festival.What You Never Knew ...
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Davis quits as CEO of Terra Lycos
Bob Davis, founder of internet giant Lycos, will step down as CEO of Terra Lycos in a move widely depicted as the result of a power struggle with Terra chief Joaquim Agut.Davis will continue as non-executive vice president to the administrative board of Terra Lycos, the merged firm which resulted ...
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Grupo Boca adds thriller to expanding slate
Spanish production outfit Grupo Boca is seeking an Italian co-production partner on forthcoming thriller They're Watching Us (Nos Miran), to be directed by first-time feature director Norberto Lopez, from a script by Jorge Guerricaechevarria (Live Flesh, Common Wealth co-writer).The film, which is scheduled to start shooting next week, will star ...
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Media Park cancels IPO; unveils studio plans
Barcelona-based content producer and packager, Media Park, has postponed its proposed stock flotation, but at the same time has revealed that it will open a 6,500 square metre production facility in Madrid next month.Commenting on the cancelled IPO, company sources said: "Financially, we don't need to do it," and pointed ...