21 November 2013
Sochi Today – RT’s latest project – is the first radio station in Sochi to broadcast entirely in English. The round-the-clock station is available on the 101.5 FM in Sochi and 105.8 FM frequencies in Krasnaya Polyana – part of the Sochi metropolitan area, which will host several Olympic events, – respectively.
The station’s content consists of a current, international music mix, as well as news updates prepared by RT journalists and airing every half hour. The news block covers the most urgent stories from around the world.
Sochi Today’s reach is expected to exceed 3 million people over the course of the 2014 Olympic Games, according to preliminary estimates. This audience will be made up of athletes, government officials, journalists and fans that will travel to Sochi from every corner of the world.
“Thanks to Sochi Today, millions of foreign visitors to the Olympics will be on top of the most important and interesting events within the Olympic Sochi, as well as around the globe,” – said Margarita Simonyan, RT’s editor in chief. “I am certain that Sochi Today will carry all the successes that RT has achieved in television broadcasting, online, and on social media platforms into the radio sphere.”
RT is an international news network that broadcasts 24/7 in English, Arabic and Spanish from its studios in Moscow and Washington, DC, and is available to 644 million viewers worldwide. RT is the first TV news channel in history to cross the one billion views mark on YouTube. It is the winner of the Monte Carlo TV Festival Awards for best 24-hr broadcast, and the only Russian TV channel to garner two nominations for the prestigious International Emmy Award for news reporting. Since 2012, RT has been broadcasting English-language news content on Moscow’s radio station Moscow FM (105.2).
20 November 2013
Globecast today announced that it has signed a new contract with longtime customer China Central Television (CCTV), the state broadcaster of China. Under the latest agreement, Globecast will deliver CCTV-français, the network’s French-language channel, on the SES-4 platform to West African viewers as part of Canalsat, a package of more than 130 channels, radio stations, and services. Canalsat is operated by CANAL+ Afrique, the leading pay-TV bouquet for the region. Globecast is providing a complete solution to bring the CCTV channels to the point of uplink, including contribution, encryption, and encoding.
“SES-4 and the Canalsat bouquet are the ideal vehicles for CCTV to reach a large new audience of African viewers in more than 20 countries,” said Philippe Fort, Chief Operating Officer of Globecast. “The new contract builds on our strong and ongoing relationship with CCTV to offer French-speaking viewers in Africa the best in high-quality international content.”
With a global reach of more than a billion viewers, CCTV currently delivers seven of its 30 channels throughout Europe and Africa via Globecast platforms. In addition to CCTV-français, CCTV recently moved four free-to-air channels for the African market to Globecast’s SES-5 platform.
20 November 2013
At an awards ceremony held on the first day of the SATCON 2013 Conference and Exhibition in New York City, the Second Annual Vision Awards announced Arabsat as winner of the “Most Promising Company of the Year” .
The Annual Vision Award was presented by Satellite Markets and Research, Application Technology Strategy LLC and SATCON .”Most Promising Company of the Year” is awarded to the company that has experienced growth in the markets they serve and demonstrated long-term viability of their enterprise.
Eng. Khalid Balkhyour President & CEO of Arabsat stated that ” We are very pleased with this international Award as it comes at the end of a very successful business year for Arabsat on both scales regionally and globally.”
20 November 2013
Nigeria-based TVC News has scooped two (2) major international awards only months after the channel launched.
Reporter Vivienne Irikefe won top prize from over 200 submissions in a competition on the coverage of vaccines & immunisations organised by the International Center for Journalists in Washington DC.
Vivienne’s report focused on Nigeria’s failure to vaccinate all new-born children against polio, the only country in Africa where polio is still endemic, with a troubling increase in recent years. With stirring images and powerful interviews, she drove home the horrors of the disease by profiling a victim who couldn’t get a job because of the stigma of polio. ICFJ President Joyce Barnathan said the coverage “served as a lesson to all on how to conquer devastating yet preventable diseases such as polio.”
In London meanwhile, TVC News was ‘highly commended’ at the 2013 annual awards of the Association for International Broadcasting (AIB) for a report entitled ‘The Accused’ in the Investigative Documentary category. Reporter Katie Mark’s documentary told the harrowing story behind the ritual abuse and even killing of African children accused of being possessed by evil spirits.
TVC News Chief Executive, Nigel Parsons, said: “The awards further prove that the 24-hour pan-African news channel can favourably compete on the global scene. TVC News has come a long way in a short time, and these awards are recognitions of the fantastic achievements of everyone at the channel.”
15 November 2013
Arab Satellite Communications Organization (Arabsat) has announced today that within its strategic plans to support and develop TV broadcasting for its customers, a transition plan will be performed for load distribution between Badr-4, Badr-5 and Badr–6 Satellites, in order to accommodate the growing demand for TV broadcast services on Arabsat exclusive orbital position 26° degree East and to meet the increasing marketing and operational requirements to attract new customers.
The following table shows the new frequencies for some of these TV channels:
|
Channel
|
Dish
|
Frequency
|
Symbol Rate
|
Polarity
|
Code Rate /FEC
|
|
Russia Today-HD
|
BADR-5
|
10730 MHz
|
27500
|
H
|
3/4
|
|
Tunis 1
|
BADR-4
|
12072 MHz
|
27500
|
H
|
3/4
|
|
Tunis 2
|
BADR-4
|
12072 MHz
|
27500
|
H
|
3/4
|
|
Hannibal
|
BADR-4
|
12072 MHz
|
27500
|
H
|
3/4
|
|
Nessma TV
|
BADR-6
|
11785 MHz
|
27500
|
V
|
3/4
|
|
Nessma K.TV
|
BADR-6
|
11785 MHz
|
27500
|
V
|
3/4
|
|
Algeria A3
|
BADR-6
|
11747 MHz
|
27500
|
V
|
3/4
|
|
Cartoon Network Arabia
|
BADR-6
|
11747 MHz
|
27500
|
V
|
3/4
|
