15 November 2006
NHK World Radio Japan, the overseas broadcasting service of Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK Japan Broadcasting Corporation) has started broadcasting its daily Arabic programme to listeners in the Middle East, North Africa and Europe via Sawt Al Alam, the Arabic satellite radio network from WRN, the London-based broadcast and transmission service company, that brings together daily programmes from the Arabic departments of many of the worlds leading public radio broadcasters.
The daily broadcast includes news and programmes that depict the full variety of life in Japan and covers politics and the economy, science, art and music, as well as news from Asia and the world. NHK World Radio Japans Arabic programme is broadcast daily at 1600 UTC on Sawt Al Alam which is available to millions of people on the most popular regional digital satellites: Eurobird 2/Arabsat for the Middle East, Nilesat for North Africa and Hot Bird for Europe.
Mr Yuki Sakagami, Head of South Asia and Middle East Division of NHK World Radio Japan, says, The commencement of the satellite radio transmission of our programmes via WRNs Sawt al Alam reflects one of our strategies to provide information using the most effective media to our target areas.
Gary Edgerton, WRNs Managing Director, adds, WRN is very honoured that NHK has made the historic decision to contract with us for the satellite transmission of its daily Arabic programme that was previously only available to listeners on short wave. Sawt Al Alam, WRNs Arabic language satellite radio station, is part of our strategy to continuously work with our valued international public service clients and provide them with new broadcast service solutions. In turn this allows them to remain at the edge of technological change and to reach ever growing numbers of listeners with their content.
15 November 2006
Broadcasting on the BADR-3 satellite will allow the new Iraqi Bouquet to immediately reach an audience of 130 Million viewers, from Morocco to the Gulf.
Arabsat, the leading satellite operator in the Middle East and North Africa region, announces the new broadcast of an 11 TV channels Iraqi Bouquet on the BADR-3 satellite of the Arabsat fleet.
The digital distribution platform in Ku-band will allow the Iraqi Bouquet to directly access Arabsats extensive Middle Eastern and North African audience of a 130 Million viewers via its constellation of 4 BADR satellites @ 26°East. The new bouquet includes: Al-Blad, Ashour, Al-Dyar, Nahrain, Rafedain, Al-Bagdadia, Ashtar, Al-Masar, Al-Salam, Turkomania, Kordistan.
Mr. Khalid Balkheyour, Arabsat President & CEO, welcomed the launch of the Iraqi Bouquet as part of the Arabsat rapidly expanding offering of channels, wishing them every success. Confirming Arabsats strong commitment to help its customers succeed and steadily support their growth throughout the region, “We are very proud to have earned their trust in our system and honoured by their confidence in the extensive penetration of Arabsat’s constellation of BADR satellites at our 26° East primary fast growing DTH neighbourhood he concluded.
15 November 2006
On the occasion of the visit to the FRANCE 24 premises, by Mr. Khalid Balkheyour, Chief Executive Officer and President of ARABSAT (Arab Satellite Communications Organization), and Mr. Abdelhafid Harguem, Chief Executive Officer of the ASBU (Arab States Broadcasting Union), the Management Board of FRANCE 24, chaired by Alain de Pouzilhac, reasserted its intention to actively collaborate with its partners in the Arab world, led by the satellite operator ARABSAT and the ASBU.
At the end of their meeting, FRANCE 24’s Chairman of the Board, Alain de Pouzilhac, stated that he was “happy to count ARABSAT and the ASBU among FRANCE 24s pro-active partners. Thanks to them, the channel will be well-established throughout the entire North Africa and Middle East region. With the Arabic version of our Internet website going live early December, and our Arabic programming scheduled to air on FRANCE 24 in the first half of 2007, this collaboration with ARABSAT and the ASBU is essential to our development.
“We are very impressed with the technical infrastructure of FRANCE 24, as well as its ambitious strategy for soon broadcasting in three different languages. We feel truly honored to have been selected for broadcasting FRANCE 24 over the whole Arab world via BADR-4, our brand new state-of-the-art satellite launched as recently as last Thursday at 26°East, the region’s “Hot Spot” for Direct-to-Home broadcasting”, declared Eng. Khalid Balkheyour, ARABSAT’s CEO and President.
ASBU’s CEO, Abdelhafid Harguem, concluded by specifying that the ASBU is ready to consider prospective cooperation with FRANCE 24, in particular with respect to current events in the Arab world. It is expected that a collaboration agreement will be signed in the weeks ahead. In any event, we wish FRANCE 24 great success.
Starting December 8th, 2006, the English-language version of FRANCE 24 will be distributed and broadcast over the whole Arab world via ARABSAT’s BADR-4 satellite where it will join its bouquet of 240+ TV channels and 90+ Radio stations already broadcasted by Arabsat’s constellation of BADR satellites co-located at its 26°East video “Hot Spot”. With its unmatchable stretched coverage and high power over the MENA region, BADR-4 will allow the channel to immediately reach an audience of 130 million viewers, from Morocco to the Gulf, as well as to most of Europe. The FRANCE 24 website (www.france24.com) will also be launched December 8th, 2006 in three languages: French, English and Arabic.
15 November 2006
Harris Corporation announced its collaboration with Tata Sky Ltd., to deliver Tata Sky’s satellite television service to viewers across the country via an end-to-end system from Harris that converts, processes, synchronizes and distributes digital program content. Tata Sky is the satellite television service for the TATA Group and STAR Network in India.
“At Tata Sky, we continuously invest in state-of-the-art infrastructure to provide Indian audiences with a world-class satellite television service, offering unparalleled entertainment with pristine picture quality and sound,” said Vikram Kaushik, managing director and CEO, Tata Sky Ltd. “We are delighted to collaborate with Harris, a company known for understanding the specialized, technological needs of its customers across the globe and for its strong track record of support services. The Harris broadcast equipment will help us boost the quality of our digital transmission, enabling us to deliver top-of-the-line services to our customers.”
Designed to support 120 channels, Tata Sky’s facility houses Harris® NEXIO servers, for use in their test center; Integrator® router for station routing; a Panacea router for clean switching; 6800+ and NEO® modular interface products for video processing; the NEO® MTG-3901 master timing generator system; the IconLogo modular branding solution; an IconStation master control graphics and channel presentation system; Videotek® test and measurement products; the NEO SuiteView multi-source display processor; and the CCS Navigator software application and NUCLEUS user-configurable network control panel for control and monitoring.
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“Tata Sky promises to revolutionize home entertainment in India, and we are extremely pleased to work with them in this venture,” said Tim Thorsteinson, president of the Harris Broadcast Communications Division. “Harris is able to offer customers a total content management platform to fit their needs from the small, local broadcaster to the large broadcaster seeking to distribute programming on a worldwide scale.”
About Tata Sky
Tata Sky Ltd., an 80:20 JV between TATA and STAR, is committed to offering viewers the best of pay television through its nationwide satellite television service. Tata Sky offers subscribers a wide array of programming choices coupled with a host of interactive services. For more information on Tata Sky visit http://www.tatasky.com.
13 November 2006
Al Jazeera English, the 24-hour English-language news and current affairs channel announced today their team of news presenters based at their Doha headquarters ahead of their worldwide launch on 15th November 2006.
Al Jazeera Englishs Director of News and Programmes, Steve Clark has assembled a team of experienced presenters from diverse backgrounds: Mariam Nemazee formerly of Russia Today, So Rahman from Granada TV, Kamahl Santamaria formerly of Sky News Australia and Sami Zeidan previously of CNBC.*
They join the following presenters who were previously announced to the press: Jane Dutton who most recently worked as presenter/reporter on The Business of Development for CNBC Europe/US, David Foster who joined from Sky News, Shiulie Ghosh formerly of ITV News, Darren Jordon who was one of the main presenters at the BBC and Lauren Taylor former Economics Correspondent of ITV News.
13 November 2006
Arqiva to uplink worlds first wedding channel
Wedding TV to launch on Sky in December this year
5-year deal includes space segment on Eurobird satellite
Arqiva today announced that it has secured a contract to enable UK direct-to-home distribution for Wedding TV. Due to launch in December, Wedding TV is the worlds first entertainment channel dedicated to the emotion and drama of relationships and weddings. Arqiva will uplink the channel onto the Sky platform via space segment on the Eurobird satellite.
Mirek Grabiec, COO, Wedding TV, said, Alongside enabling our direct-to-home distribution in the UK, Arqiva has also provided us with digital archiving facilities to store our content, making our planned roll-out across Europe much simpler and more cost-efficient. Arqiva has considerable experience in helping new channels to launch and weve found their solution comprehensive and tailored to our needs.
John Bozza, head of broadcast sales at Arqivas Satellite Media Solutions division, added: Arqiva works closely with new channels to ensure that the launch process is as straightforward as possible. We are delighted to add the worlds first wedding channel to our list of customers and look forward to continuing to work with Wedding TV to extend its reach out across Europe.
