Dubai Media Incorporated (DMI) has signed a new international cooperation agreement with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) giving the state-backed broadcaster exclusive rights to broadcast MGM material until 2015. The agreement was signed by Ahmad Abdullah Al Shaikh, Managing Director and General Manager, and Meyer Chris Auatengr head of the distribution and acquisitions of World TV at MGM, […]
Dubai Media Incorporated (DMI) has signed a new international cooperation agreement with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) giving the state-backed broadcaster exclusive rights to broadcast MGM material until 2015. The agreement was signed by Ahmad Abdullah Al Shaikh, Managing Director and General Manager, and Meyer Chris Auatengr head of the distribution and acquisitions of World TV at MGM, in France.
The agreement gives DMI the exclusive TV rights to a number of new films for the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) over the next three years including the latest James Bond flick Skyfall, starring Daniel Craig, as well as the The Hobbit. ‘Dubai One will be the only Mena channel to screen these.
The agreement was signed on the sidelines of the MIPCOM – in Cannes, France.
The event is attended by more than 12,000 decision-makers in the industry from more than 100 countries.
The agreement strengthens the DMI strategy in terms of media tie-ups with the most important content providers in the world and its approach which aims at providing a rich and diverse offering to different segments of viewers. Ahmad Abdullah Al Shaikh, Managing Director and General Manager of DMI confirmed that the DMI is very keen to work to access to the highest levels of performance which comply with the orientations of the Government of Dubai.
Ahmad Al Shaikh welcomed this agreement which underlines DMIs pioneering role in media and its efforts to be the most effective bridge to connect Arabs with different cultures of the world.
He added: The agreement allowed non-Arabs in the region the opportunity to communicate with their culture through the distinguished product which is not incompatible with our values and our morals.