Malta station sees drop in market share

Malta TV channel Net TV saw audience share drop by nearly half in the second quarter of of 2009.
19-08-2009

Production: Hanta begins filming next week

Director Ioan Cărmăzan (The Wood Cutters, The Blue Sleigh) will begin shooting Hanta, a 100% Romanian production, on August 24.
18-08-2009

Digital TV reaches 1 million mark

Digital TV households have crossed the 1 million mark, reaching 42.4% of Hungarian households.
18-08-2009

Estonia debates cancelling TV fees

Estonia's governing coalition is moving toward cancelling $2.3 million in annual license taxes paid by Kanal2 and TV3,
18-08-2009

Lithuania announces grants

The Lithuanian Cultural State Support Fund has announced its second stage of grants.
17-08-2009

IPTV increases at cable's expense

IPTV growth doubled in 2008 and accounted for 35% of Slovenia's cable/IPTV subscriptions as of the end of Q1 2009,
17-08-2009

Production: Child-Miner in pre-production

Director/screenwriter Alexandra Gulea is in pre-production with her first feature Child-Miner (Copil-miner), with plans to begin shooting in spring 2010.
17-08-2009

Production: Russian Faust starts shooting in Prague

The Russian-German-Austrian-Czech coproduction Faust started shooting on August 17 at Točník castle in central Bohemia and in Prague's Barrandov ateliers, Barrandov Studios (www.barrandov.cz) announced.
17-08-2009

Production: The Mill And The Cross wraps shoot

Lech Majewski has finished shooting The Mill And The Cross, one of the biggest Polish productions of the year with a cast including Charlotte Rampling, Michael York and Rutger Hauer.
16-08-2009

Shooting of Wilhelm Tell: The Legend postponed

Bogdan Moncea, PR Manager at Castel Film Studios, told FNE that filming on Wilhelm Tell: The Legend has been postponed until 2010.
16-08-2009

Lithuanian box office sets record

Lithuanian cinemas was 4.53 million Litas (€1.31 million) in box office in July, 2009, the country's biggest revenues in a one month period.
16-08-2009

Darik Radio launches Bulgarian TV Channel

Bulgaria's Council for Electronic Media (www.cem.bg) has issued a license to the leading radio station, Darik (http://darikradio.bg) to establish a TV channel under the name Darik Radio and TV.
13-08-2009

Latvian filmmakers support National Film Centre

Nearly 200 Latvian film professionals voiced their support for retaining the independent legal status of the National Film Centre of Latvia during demonstration on August 12.
13-08-2009

Production concept premieres in Malta

Watermelon Media of Malta is piloting a new concept for the international game show Divided.
12-08-2009

Latvian ad market shows steep decline

The Latvian Advertising Association announced a 42% decline in the media advertising market in the first half of 2009.
12-08-2009

Fire destroys props storage at MediaPro Studios

One fireman was slightly hurt in the attempt to extinguish the fire started Tuesday evening at MediaPro Studios (www.mediaprostudios.com) in Buftea, near Bucharest.
12-08-2009

National Film Centre of Latvia is under the threat of reorganization

The financial crisis in Latvia has triggered a chain of reorganization of cultural institutions that threatens the existence of the National Film Centre of Latvia (NFC) as an independent establishment.
11-08-2009

m-appeal picks up Slovene, Hungarian films

Berlin-based film sales company m-appeal has picked up Áron Mátyássys feature debut Lost Times and Damjan Kozoles new film Slovenian Girl.
11-08-2009

Production: The Graduates of the 3rd Millenium in post-production

Adrian Popovici is finishing post-production on The Graduates of the 3rd Millenium (Liceenii mileniului trei, working title).
10-08-2009

Slow moves to digital television in Romania

Romanian Ministry of Communications and Information Society (http://www.mcsi.ro/) is expected to present a new draft for the strategy to transfer to digital television.
09-08-2009