Bangladeshi broadcaster Channel S Television has struck a deal with leading content management and delivery company GlobeCast to deliver three of its channels – Channel S, Channel S World and Channel S Plus – to the Sky platform using GlobeCasts capacity on the Eurobird satellite.
The broadcasters flagship station Channel S Television is the fastest growing free-to-view Asian television channel in the UK. It is the only free-to-view broadcast tailored specifically for the UK’s growing, Sylheti-speaking Bangladeshi community.
The multichannel offering including Channel S World and Channel S Plus, broadcasts 24 hours a day free-to-air. The multi-channel offering aims to inform, entertain and educate British Bengalis and British Asians in the United Kingdom and Ireland. As such, programmes are bilingual in English and Sylheti and cover themes of interest for all British Asians. The channels feature both traditional and progressive content in their line ups of talk shows, kids shows, documentaries, current affairs and news programmes.
GlobeCasts tailored solution for the three channels includes fibre connectivity from the broadcasters studios in Walthamstow to GlobeCasts London Technical Operations Centre, where the signals are uplinked to the Sky Digital platform via the Eurobird satellite at 28.5ºE.
The Channel-S offering will join the over 50 video channels and 11 radio channels which GlobeCast delivers to the platform, including major television broadcasters such as EuroNews, Abu Dhabi TV, Extreme Sports, CCTV 9, Audi TV and others.