GlobeCast, the global content management and delivery company, has added BFM TV, Europe 2TV, NRJ12 and Gulli to the list of channels it delivers in France to Direct-to-Home viewers via satellite and to Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) bouquet operators via fiber.
BFM TV, a financial news channel belonging to the Nextradio group, has launched on GlobeCasts digital distribution platforms on the Hot Bird (13°E) and Astra (19.2°E) satellites, for insertion into the TPS and CanalSat bouquets.
Music channels Europe 2TV, entertainment channel NRJ12 and childrens channel Gulli, have also joined GlobeCasts satellite platform on Hot Bird. The three television stations are carried on TPS.
GlobeCast is also pushing all four of these new channels to French Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT), delivering the signals via fiber from their points of origination to multiplexes in Paris. GlobeCast is currently the leading provider of satellite and fiber services for operators of DTT in France, delivering broadcast content via satellite to transmitters of three of the countrys five DTT platforms and routing the majority of channels via fiber to all five DTT multiplexes.
BFM TV also called on GlobeCast to put together a global contribution and video distribution infrastructure for its launch, linking 6 sites to an automated mobile contribution network via satellite. The network, which allows uplinks of on-the-ground reports, is comprised of three digital SNG vehicles as well as a fixed satellite reception station.