Canal+ Group
New audience record!
For weeks now, Touche Pas à Mon Poste has been a big success on D8. Aired at 6:25 p.m. on January 23, the show attracted 830,000 viewers, or 4.1% of the people watching television in France. A peak audience of 1,079,000 viewers was recorded. The show also beat an audience record in the highly valued 25-49 age group, with an 8.5% audience share. D8 thus ranked third among national channels and first among new DTT channels with this demographic. The market share reached 7.6% in the upper socio-professional demographic (fifth-leading national channel and the leading DTT channel.).
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Activision Blizzard
Survival Instinct
Survival Instinct is a first-person shooter game based on the TV series The Walking Dead. In this game, the player takes on the role of Daryl Dixon, who can use a crossbow like nobody else. To escape the zombies, brothers Daryl and Merle try to reach Atlanta. But their route is full of obstacles and they must sometimes be very careful stay out of the clutches of the many zombies. The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct will be released March 29 for PC, PS3, Xbox 360, PS3, and WiiU.
Universal Music Group
Wiener Philharmoniker Symphony Edition
The symphonic publishing branch of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra has released a 50-CD box set to celebrate the iconic orchestra’s 42-year collaboration with Deutsche Grammophon. Presented in a luxury gold box, this unparalleled anthology is dedicated to the history of both the orchestra and symphonic composition. It brings together 95 symphonies by 13 composers ranging from Mozart to Chostakovitch (including the complete cycles of Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann and Brahms). The set also features an 80-page booklet including an introduction by Dr. Clemens Hellsberg, violinist and director of the orchestra’s committee, a complete list of the works and many photos of the artists.
SFR
Network expands, prices shrink
The Carrée 2Go plan (unlimited calls, text messages and multimedia messages + 2 Gb in data), which uses dual carrier and 4G technology, is now available for €29.99/month, or €19.99/month for Box SFR clients, representing a reduction of €10/month All subscribers will be contacted about this offer, and nearly two million of them will receive it automatically. The biggest changes are in the Red series (commitment-free offers not including phones, available only at sfr.fr). SFR aims to provide the best offering on the market, both in its most comprehensive plans (the Carrée plans) and in the low-price offering (Red series). To take advantage of these new rates, visit sfr.fr, or one of the 830 Espace SFR outlets.
Maroc Telecom
Maroc Telecom modernizes its infrastructures
Maroc Telecom and the government of Morocco have signed a fourth investment agreement representing 10 million dirhams and covering the 2013-2015 period. This new program aims to modernize and extend infrastructures to meet the country’s growing needs in terms of mobile traffic and high-speed Internet. It also covers the rollout of a fiber-optics network for very-high-speed. It will make it possible to introduce the most high-performance technology, replace almost all of the existing equipment and create 500 direct and stable jobs. Maroc Telecom underscores the fact that the three agreements signed previously covered a volume of investments representing nearly 25 million dirhams, which brings the total to 35 million dirhams for Morocco alone.
GVT
Rio de Janeiro Carnival
GVT sponsors the school of samba Unidos da Tijuca at Brazilian Carnival this year. The sponsorship is part of the socio-cultural initiatives of the company and involves all activities until the Carnival, as rehearsals, promotional parties and parades. Rio de Janeiro Carnival is the biggest festival in Brazil and one of the most interesting artistic events on the Globe.
