Mid Europa Partners acquires Bulgaria's ITV

Mid Europa Partners (www.mideuropa.com) announced that it has completed acquisition of Bulgarian pay-TV operator ITV.
13-10-2009

CME looks at Bulgarian channel

News Corp is considering the sale of a 55% stake in its Bulgarian TV station bTV to Central European Media Enterprises (CME).
20-09-2009

Eastern Plays received Lux nomination

Kamen Kalev's acclaimed look at Sofia's underground youth life, Eastern Plays, has received one of the coveted three nominations for the European LUX Prize of 2009.
13-09-2009

Rambo 5 heads back to Bulgaria

Sylvester Stallone's fifth Rambo opus is green lighted for filming in Bulgaria with Stallone once again teaming with Nu Image/Millennium and Sofia based Nu Boyana Film (http://nuboyana.com/) .
03-09-2009

Production: Sneakers starts shooting in Sofia

Sneakers, the Bulgarian debut film by co-directors Ivan Vladimirov and Valery Yordanov, is filming on locations aroung Bulgaria through September 26.
30-08-2009

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

Bulgaria's new Minister of Culture promises a film fund

Bulgaria's new minster of culture Vezhdi Rashidov, the new Bulgarian minister of culture, has appointed former National Film Centre (NFC, www.nfc.bg) director Dimitar Dereliev as a vice-minister.
09-08-2009

Bulgarian antitrust commission allows TV channel acquisition

The New Bulgarian Media Group Holding (NBMGH) owned by the former head of the Bulgarian State Lottery Irena Krusteva has been allowed to acquire cable operator Balkan Bulgarian Television (BBT)…
05-08-2009

Zift wins at Bulgarian film awards

Javor Gardev's radical neo noir Zift was awarded "best film" of the year during an official ceremony on July 30 at the National Palace of Culture in Sofia.
02-08-2009

Bulgarian TV stations cope with ad market decline

A TNS/TV Plan survey shows the Bulgarian TV advertising market has decreased 8.6% in the first half of 2009, to 151 million Euros, compared with the same period in 2008.
30-07-2009

CME signs WB deal

Central European Media Enterprises (CME, www.cetv-net.com) announced that it signed a multi-year output deal for Warner Bros TV (www.timewarner.com) series and feature films for CME's Bulgarian station, PRO.BG.
02-07-2009

Bulgarian company wins digital TV tender

Hannu Pro Bulgaria has been selected from a field of six bidders for the tender to build digital TV networks in Bulgaria.
25-06-2009

Austrian firm acquires stake in Bulgarian channel

Austrian media company Stevia Communications will buy a 50% stake in TV Evropa, a Bulgarian news channel.
22-06-2009

Green light for Bulgarian feature projects

Six film productions and five projects in development have been chosen to receive 2.1 million Euros in support from Bulgarian state funds.
18-06-2009

Production: Ao in rehearsals in Sofia

French directorJacques Malaterre is in Sofia rehearsing the UGC YMhigh budget epic fictionAo: The Last Neanderthal based on Marc Klapczynski's book Aô, Ancient Man.
11-06-2009

New Bulgarian NFC director

Alexander Donev was elected as the new executive director of the Bulgarian National Film Centre on May 27 by a committee of 11 members.
01-06-2009

Nu Boyana Film Studios Helmers in Cannes As Studio Reports Strong Start to 2009

Bulgaria's Nu Boyana Film Studios (http://nuboyana.com/) continues to be one of the busiest studio facilities in Europe attracting a steady stream of 10 to 12 international productions a year that…
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Eastern Plays bows in Cannes

Shot in five weeks in Sofia and Istanbul, Kamen Kalev's debut Eastern Plays, a look at Sofia's underground youth life, screens at Director's Fortnight before its fall release in Bulgaria.
06-05-2009

EFP Producer on the Move: Bulgaria's Ilian Djevelekov

A trip to Cuba in 2002 was the inspiration for naming Miramar, the production company founded by 42-year-old Ilian Djevelekov and co-owners Matey Konstantinov and Georgy Dimitrov.
03-05-2009

Bulgarian ad market in decline

The Association of Bulgarian Advertising Agencies (http://www.arabulgaria.org/) reports that the Bulgarian media market fell 20% during the first quarter of 2009.
14-04-2009