Banijay Group Takes Controlling Stake in Stephen David Entertainment

In its latest move to expand into the U.S., French media company Banijay Group has taken a controlling stake in New York-based production company Stephen David Entertainment. 

Financial details weren't disclosed. The companies also didn't specify the size of Banijay's stake. 

Stephen David Entertainment (SDE) is the scripted and unscripted documentary producer behind Emmy-winner The Men Who Built America and the upcoming Sons of Liberty, which will premiere on The History Channel on Jan. 25. 

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Divers retrieve flight data recorder from AirAsia 8501

Search teams believe they have found the missing black boxes of AirAsia Flight 8501. Divers are expected to recover them on Monday. Officials are hopeful the boxes will provide answers as to why the plane crashed into the Java Sea in December. 

Divers have retrieved one of the black boxes from the AirAsia flight that crashed more than two weeks ago into the Java Sea and continue to search for the second, an Indonesia official says. 

Henry Bambang Soelistyo, chief of Indonesia's search and rescue agency, told reporters the flight data recorder was brought to the surface by four divers early Monday morning. 

The search was continuing for the cockpit voice recorder. 

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