Client news · 6 June, 2017

ZDF Enterprises takes stake in World Media Rights

ZDF Enterprises announces it has signed an agreement to acquire a 32.5% minority stake in UK content production company and Boom! client World Media Rights.

ZDF Enterprises today announced it has signed an agreement to acquire a 32.5% minority stake in UK content production company and Boom! client World Media Rights. It is ZDF Enterprises’ first investment in a UK production company.

The new investment coincides with a board restructure at World Media Rights. Existing board member and company CEO Alan Griffiths is joined by David McNab, who joins the company as Creative Director and ZDF Enterprises’ Vice President Corporate and Portfolio Strategy Tanja Meier-Sieden.

David McNab, comes with a long-list of blue-chip factual credits including In the Shadow of the Moon, (Channel 4), Secret Universe, The Hidden Life of the Cell (BBC 2) and ‘The Planets’ (BBC 2).

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Founded in 2007, World Media Rights produces factual TV programming and drama reconstruction for a wide range of international broadcasters including Reelz, American Heroes Channel and Netflix. Successful US cable programming franchises include ‘Black Ops’‘Air Crash Confidential’ and ‘Myth Hunters’.

ZDF Enterprises’ investment is subject to approval by the Bundeskartellamt, Germany’s Federal Cartel Office.

“We have worked with a number of distribution businesses over the years and have found ZDF Enterprises an excellent partner who can best sell our shows internationally. This investment will help us further our ambitions by producing new types of shows in the factual entertainment space”.

— Alan Griffiths, CEO of World Media Rights

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