Market Intelligence Briefings

18 March 2009

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GlobeCast launches DW-TV ASIA+ on new satellite platform for Asia-Pacific viewers

18 March 2009

GlobeCast announced today that it has launched its second MCPC platform on the AsiaSat 3S satellite. Leading European broadcaster Deutsche Welle is the new transponder’s first client.

The new C-band platform on AsiaSat 3S, located at 105.5° E with a footprint covering the Middle East to East Asia, Australia and New Zealand, is a premium broadcast platform for the Asia-Pacific region reaching a potential audience of over 95 million households.

DW-TV ASIA+, Deutsche Welle’s new second free-to-air Asian channel, broadcasts a variety of lifestyle, cultural, arts and in-depth business and politics programmes around-the-clock with 18 hours of programming in English. The new channel complements DW-TV’s feed on GlobeCast’s existing AsiaSat 3S MCPC platform.

From GlobeCast’s point of presence in Frankfurt, DW-TV ASIA+ is delivered via GlobeCast’s international RIBU fibre network to the company’s Hong Kong teleport for uplink to AsiaSat 3 and distribution to the entire Asian-Pacific region.

AIB Contact details

18 March 2009

AIB

United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7993 2557

Fax:+44 (0) 20 7993 8043

Emails to AIB staff follow the pattern firstname.lastname@aib.org.uk

To send an e-mail, add “@aib.org.uk” to each of the addresses shown in blue italics
below:

General enquiries:
contactaib

AIB Consulting: consulting

Advertising in AIB publications: adverts

Accounts: finance

AIB Awards 2008 – success celebrated

18 March 2009

AIB Awards 2008 – the winners celebrate!

The results of the 2008 AIB Media Excellence Awards were announced at a
star-studded dinner in London on 12 November. The annual celebration of success
in international broadcasting was over-booked, with more than 215 guests from
all over the world joining the evening at funky LSO St Luke’s.

You can read about all the finalists in our special Awards brochure

here.

Our winners:

Best radio current affairs
documentary
Winner Tinderbox
Production – Where Next, A Soldier’s Journey

Best television current affairs
documentary
Winner Strix TV –
Class of ‘07

Best investigative TV documentary
Winner BBC Northern
Ireland – The Pitbull Sting

Clearest radio coverage of a single
news event
Winner BBC World
Service – The World Today: Chinese Party Congress

Clearest TV coverage of a single news
event
Joint winners SABC – Hambani
Makwerekwere
France 24 – Crackdown in the Heart of
Burma

Best creative TV feature
Winner Rockhopper TV
– A Sporting Chance

Best creative radio feature
Winner BBC
Portuguese for Africa – The Amazon Paradox

Best cross-media production
Winner BBC World
Service – Bangladesh Boat Project

Most innovative use of graphics
powered by Vizrt
Winner NFL Network – Games Graphics Package

Most creative marketing strategy
powered by Russia Today TV
Winner Sveriges Radio – The Programme Guide

Most innovative technology
powered by Bloomberg Television
Winner Link Research – The Prague Steps

Most creative specialist genre
Winner SVT – The
Truth About Marika

International TV personality of the
year
Winner Ross Kemp,
Sky One

International radio personality of
the year
Winner 3FM

AIB Editors’ Award 2008
France 24

AIB INSI Special Award
Sami Al-Hajj

We will be announcing the 2009 AIB Media Excellence
Awards in March. The Awards will be presented on Wednesday 11 November 2009 –
mark the date in your diary now!

euronews strengthens its presence in South-East Asia and in Oceania

17 March 2009

Thanks to new distribution agreements, euronews is now available in three new countries in Asia and Oceania

In the Philippines, Skycable, launched euronews on its digital cable network on February 27th 2009. euronews is now received in 170,000 new homes including Manila. Filipino subscribers have access to euronews in English through the digital basic offer.

This agreement with Skycable is the first in this country, which has a potential of more than 9 million TV homes.

euronews has also made its first step into Indonesia via Telkomvision which distributes the channel to its subscribers since March 5th. euronews in English was added to the offer in Bali and Jakarta. In the next months, euronews will develop its distribution this country, one of the most important in the region with a potential of more than 31 million TV homes.

In Papua New Guinea, euronews was launched on the Hitron network in their digital package.

With these three new agreements, euronews strengthens its presence in the region. euronews is available free to air throughout Asia and Oceania, via the AsiaSat2 satellite.

The channel is currently distributed by Asiatic operators in Hong Kong, Japan, Pakistan, Singapore and Vietnam, and in Oceania by operators in Australia, New Zealand and in New Caledonia.

With the new carriage agreements in the Philippines, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, euronews now reaches nearly four million homes in Asia and Oceania.

AIB CONTACT DETAILS

17 March 2009

Head office:

AIB

United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7993 2557

Fax:+44 (0) 20 7993 8043

Emails to AIB staff follow the pattern firstname.lastname@aib.org.uk

To send an e-mail, add “@aib.org.uk” to each of the addresses shown in blue italics
below.

General enquiries:
contactaib

AIB Consulting: consulting

Advertising in AIB publications: adverts

Accounts: finance