ORF reports on early MIPTV deals

Austria's public broadcaster ORF has announced 110 hours of sales to Italy, including free and pay TV channels, after only one day of participation at the International Program Market. Brunei's RTB, Thai Public Broadcasting, Korean EBS and True Visions picked up packages from ORF, as well as Mexican university channel TV Unam, which bought 28 hours of programming. The package deal includes investigation doc on the Voynich Mystery. High Fidelity HDTV, Canadian broadcast and production company, picked up a package of UNIVERSUM programming, including three-part natural history doc The Great Rift.