Serge Adda, president of the international French-language TV channel TV5 and of Canal France International, has died of cancer. 

Mr Adda was director general of Canal + Horizons between 1990 and 1997. 

He took over from Jean Stock as president of TV5 in October 2001, after the latter was appointed secretary general of the EBU.

Serge Adda’s mandate was renewed for three years in June 2003. Mr Adda was 56.

Click here for TV5's press release (in French).

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