Leading satellite services company GlobeCast announced that interactive dating channel Look4Love TV has signed up to its global distribution network. Produced by Television Concepts Limited, Look4Love TV will be available on BSkyBs platform, uplinked via Eurobird 28.5°E from GlobeCasts Brookmans Park teleport. The 24-hour service offers individuals that are looking for love the chance to appear in a short, professionally-made video profile shown on the channel. Viewers can then leave a message, either by phone or text, for those that appeal.
The distribution service includes an online content storage and broadcast system which will enable Look4Love TV to create and manage its own programming schedules remotely via a VPN from its production centre in Basingstoke, Hampshire. Content for the channel is recorded by video crews at specified locations throughout the UK. GlobeCast receives the DigiBeta master copies which they encode to MPEG2 and store on their secure server.
Once content is received and stored, Look4LoveTVs 24/7 programming schedule is automatically broadcast and uplinked to the Sky Digital platform. The television-based introductions service will be available on EPG channel 685 as well as on the internet.
Look4Love TV Director Simon Woolnough said: We chose to launch with GlobeCast for a couple of reasons; not only for their flexible, can-do attitude but also for the quality of their people. Id dealt with them when I was at the BBC and was thoroughly impressed with their service.
GlobeCast head of UK channel distribution Juliet Bayliss said: It is always exciting to be involved in the launch of a new channel such as Look4Love TV. The combination of cost-effective satellite delivery and GlobeCasts remote schedule management system means that we are well-placed to provide the support these new broadcasters need to bring their channels to air.