Private Unveils New Adult Entertainment Channel - PrivateTV

BARCELONA, Spain—European adult entertainment leader Private Media Group has announced that PrivateTV—its new adult entertainment channel—will launch this month. According to the Barcelona-based company, the international version of the channel will be available on Eutelsat Hot Bird 13B, and that a French language version, PrivateTV France, will be made available separately, and offer substantial original short-form French lan guage programming, "Simply put, PrivateTV and PrivateTV France are exclusive, original and addictive,” said Private CEO Charles Prast. “With a refreshing scene-driven format, thematic scheduling and the iconic Private brand, we deliver the promise of the on-line experience to the TV, the only platform which can adequately convey the quality of our content.  Of course, Private has been in the European broadcast market for over a dozen years and is already a library and branding partner with Playboy Plus, which operates and distributes Private Spice.  We expect Private Spice and PrivateTV to be complementary in the market. "Private." he added, “has always focused on innovative operator-friendly strategies to provide entertainment to their viewers, and the launch of PrivateTV is a further endeavor in this direction.” In addition to exclusive scenes from Private and its content partners, the channels will see the launch of new shows like Private Investigations, Private Stars, Private VIP Pass and Private Hotline. Private will be working in close cooperation with tmc Content Group AG, a stakeholder in this new venture and through its subsidiary tmc Content Group GmbH in Berlin, the leading German-language adult broadcaster and telemedia service provider. "tmc is already well positioned for over a decade as the dominant provider of compliant adult themed broadcast channels and telemedia services content in the DACH market," said tmc Managing Director Andreas Fischer. ”Our association with Private, an existing preferred content supplier to tmc, will be further enhanced by this venture." Private’s consumer website can be found here; its corporate site here.