Moroccan Channels Reach American Satellite Television Viewers on GlobeCast WorldTV
2M Maroc and Al Maghribia join Direct-to-Home Service in North America
http://www.globecast.com/_2004/_0_library/press_releases/pr050403_2mwtv.htm
Paris, 3 March 2005 – Leading satellite services company GlobeCast today announced that it has added Moroccan broadcasters 2M Maroc and Al Maghribia to the lineup of 130 international channels available on GlobeCast WorldTV via Intelsat Americas 5. Both of these channels are free-to-air and broadcast 24 hours per day, targeting the enormous number of Moroccan immigrants in the United States. In addition, companion radio channels Radio 2M and Al Maghribia Radio are included in this distribution.
GlobeCast WorldTV on Intelsat Americas 5 provides international broadcasters such as 2M Maroc and Al Maghribia with instant access to America’s vast television market. GlobeCast makes it easy for these channels to tap into this enormous region with the power of Direct-to-Home satellite while maintaining control over revenue and content.
GlobeCast is providing the channels with satellite capacity, standards conversion, transmission and uplink. The company receives both of the channel’s feeds at its Paris technical operations center, where the signal is downlinked, NTSC-encoded and sent via GlobeCast’s proprietary ATM fiber network to GlobeCast’s Los Angeles gateway in Culver City for uplink and insertion to GlobeCast WorldTV on the Intelsat Americas 5 satellite.
Broadcasting free-to-air in both French and Arabic, 2M Maroc is Morocco’s 2nd largest television channel, offering a 24-hour line-up of news, documentaries, cultural, sporting and children’s programs as well as serials and films. GlobeCast already delivers this channel to Africa via its DTH platform on NSS 7.
Al Maghribia is a newly-launched channel, the product of a close collaboration between Radio Television Marocaine and 2M Maroc. With programming in Arabic, Amazigh (Berbčre), and French, the channel is aimed at the millions of Moroccans living abroad and highlights the country’s many faces and communities.
GlobeCast (www.globecast.com) - a subsidiary of France Telecom - is the leading global satellite services company, operating a worldwide network of satellite distribution platforms for DTH and cable broadcast, enterprise media and advanced IP-based content delivery. The company’s global presence includes 15 teleports and technical operations centers throughout America, Europe, Asia, Australia, the Middle East and Africa. GlobeCast offers the complete range of satellite broadcast solutions, including TV channel distribution, secure satellite Internet delivery, webcasting, satellite newsgathering, direct-to-home distribution, sports programming backhaul, program origination, studio production, special events mobile production and audio distribution.
Press Release http://www.globecast.com/_2004/_0_library/press_releases/pr050403_130channels.htm
Paris, 3 March 2005 – GlobeCast WorldTV ( www.globecastworldtv.com ) – America’s premier international satellite television provider – announced today that its Direct-to-Home satellite line-up climbed to 130 channels with the addition of Serbian entertainment channel Pink Extra. This new subscription channel augments GlobeCast WorldTV’s expanding bouquet of Serbian-language and Eastern European channels and re-affirms the company’s presence as a major player in the U.S. Direct-to-Home satellite market.
GlobeCast WorldTV – a subsidiary of satellite service provider GlobeCast – is the leading source for international programming via satellite in America, delivering 130 market leading television and radio channels in 30 languages representing 40 countries from Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Africa, via Direct-to-Home KU-band satellite on Intelsat Americas 5.
Pink Extra is a subscriber-based Serbian-language channel with a variety of programming including entertainment, sports, music and shows from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Pink Extra joins GlobeCast WorldTV’s Eastern European bouquet as a companion channel to Pink Plus, another Serbian-language channel from RTV Pink available on WorldTV’s Direct-to-Home satellite television platform. Pink Extra is downlinked from Hot Bird 6 satellite then delivered to GlobeCast’s Staten Island teleport via proprietary transatlantic fiber from GlobeCast Paris. GlobeCast uplinks the signal to its WorldTV platform on Intelsat Americas 5, transponder 19, where it is accessible to GlobeCast WorldTV’s Direct-to Home audience.
GlobeCast WorldTV furnishes a complete channel distribution package to programmers, including subscriber management and activation, consumer retailing of a private-label receiver and dish package, marketing, technical support and access to a regional installer network. Further, GlobeCast WorldTV facilitates carriage agreements between cable operators and channels to promote access to programmers by cable subscribers. A complete channel line-up is available at www.globecastworldtv.com.
================================ George Antunes, Political Science Dept University of Houston; Houston, TX 77204 Voice: 713-743-3923 Fax: 713-743-3927 antunes at uh dot edu
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