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  • BBC Magazines gives Romania a taste of ‘Good Food’

    BBC Magazines gives Romania a taste of ‘Good Food’

    MUMBAI: BBC Magazines has announced the launch of Romania’s first food and lifestyle magazine, Good Food .It has subscribers from Bangladesh to Bosnia but the Romanian version of Good Food marks the first international edition of the magazine.

    The monthly was launched as a Christmas special packed with 132 pages. A third of the content will originate from Romania and the title is set to build the profiles of Romanian food experts and chefs.

    The Romanian edition builds on the excellent relationship between BBC Magazines and Media Sport Group who launched the car magazine Top Gear in Romania this year. Top Gear has already become the market leader in advertising in Romania and the introduction of Good Food demonstrates the strength of the business partnership. Media Sport Group is currently exploring future projects with BBC Magazines.

    Thanks to BBC Worldwide licensing deals, Jamie Oliver’s Naked Chef is currently broadcasting in Romania on TVR 2. 50 Things to Eat Before You Die will soon be shown on the same channel.

    BBC Magazines global licensing manager James Hewes says, “The explosive growth of the economies in Eastern Europe has created a large and growing middle class whose aspirations increasingly match those of their Western European neighbours. This growth has created a great opportunity for a fantastic mid-market food magazine such as Good Food. Romania, as the second largest country in Eastern Europe, is a natural choice for Good Food’s combination of down-to-earth home cooking and exciting new food trends from around the world.”

    The UK Good Food launched 16 years ago acted as a springboard for launching the careers of Jamie Oliver, Gary Rhodes and Rick Stein and almost every other TV chef.

  • BBC Food channel launches in Scandinavia

    BBC Food channel launches in Scandinavia

    LONDON: BBC Worldwide has announced that its channel BBC Food has launched across Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland. BBC Food is the first new BBC channel to launch in Europe since 1995 when BBC Prime took to the airwaves.
     

    As the name suggests the content deals with cuisines and the different styles of chefs including the likes of Delia Smith and Gary Rhodes. Cooking shows that viewers will feast on include Delia’s How to Cook, Ready Steady Cook with Ainsley Harriott, Lesley Waters and Kevin Woodford, and Rick Stein’s seafood series Taste of the Sea. Keith Floyd will be ‘taking coals to Newcastle’ as he teaches the new audience some of their own culinary skills as he travels around the region with his travel cookery programme, Floyd’s Fjord Fiesta.
     

    Commenting on the launch of the channel into the market, BBC Worldwide director of channels EMEIA, Wayne Dunsford, said: “The enormous popularity of cooking programmes and the rise of celebrity chefs in television entertainment has created a great appetite for this style of British programming in the region so we are sending in our best celebrity chefs to tickle their taste-buds.” 

    An official release informs that BBC Food will be available to Canal Digital satellite subscribers in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark. BBC Food builds on the success of the entertainment channel, BBC Prime, which has broadcast in Europe since 1995 and now reaches over 12 million international subscribers.