ProSiebenSat.1 Group signs deal with Warner Bros. International Television Distribution
Munich, February 22, 2007. In a long-running agreement, ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG has acquired the Free TV rights for future productions from Warner Bros. International Television Distribution (WBITD). Starting in 2007, the broadcasting group has exclusive Free TV rights to all the Studios feature films and a selection of series released during the contract period.
The first movie under the new agreement to air on the ProSiebenSat.1 stations will be Blood Diamond, starring Academy Award® nominee Leonardo DiCaprio. The package also includes movies such as Oceans Thirteen, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Overall, the deal covers around 30 movies per year. Selected series distributed by WBITD will also go to the ProSiebenSat.1 Group.
Guillaume de Posch, CEO of ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG: With this deal with one of Hollywoods most prolific and successful studios we make sure that our group offers the best movies and series on German TV.
ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG is a perfect network in Germany to telecast the films and television shows produced by Warner Bros., said Jeffrey R. Schlesinger, President Warner Bros. International Television. Our programming has great appeal to the target audience of ProSiebenSat.1, and we expect our films and TV programs to enjoy strong ratings in the years to come.
The ProSiebenSat.1 Group has long-term contracts with virtually every major Hollywood studio and many other important production companies and distributors. Other partners of the group include Sony Entertainment, Paramount, Disney, Dreamworks, Lucasfilm, Senator and Tobis, as well as Constantin and Kinowelt.
About ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG
The ProSiebenSat.1 Group is the largest commercial TV provider in Germany. It owns two of the five largest German TV stations Sat.1 and ProSieben. The Groups four Free TV stations financed through advertising Sat.1, ProSieben, kabel eins and N24 are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the ProSiebenSat.1 Group. The corporations core business is Free TV. Additionally, in 9Live, the Group owns the market leader in the Call TV segment. Four Pay TV stations, the maxdome video-on-demand platform, and interests in innovative Internet services like MyVideo.de and lokalisten.de are among the activities with which the Group has increasingly been diversifying its sources of revenue. For additional information, see www.ProSiebenSat1.com
About Warner Bros. International Television Distribution
Warner Bros. International Television Distribution is one of the worlds largest distributors of feature films, television programs and animation to the international television marketplace (broadcast, pay cable, basic cable, satellite, pay-per-view, video-on-demand, digital platforms, etc.). It licenses some 48,000 hours of programming (including more than 6,000 features and 74 current series), dubbed or subtitled in more than 40 languages, to telecasters and cablecasters in more than 175 countries.