Sky Italia, ITV and TV Globo will receive content delivery and live positions from the football event of the year

Paris, 18 April 2006 – Content management and delivery company GlobeCast is gearing up for the World Cup this summer, with both rightsholders and non-rightsholders set to receive services throughout Germany. ITV, Sky Italia and Embratel, on behalf of Brazilian broadcaster TV Globo, are among the rightsholders working with GlobeCast for this event.

Facilities being offered to these leading broadcasters include on site production, uplink, space segment and transmission via GlobeCast’s content delivery network for both SD and HDTV.

In addition to servicing rightsholders at the World Cup, GlobeCast is also working with non-rightsholders, with full facilities being built through a joint deployment with the Associated Press and Sporting Promotions. Services offered will include live positions at the Brandenburg gate and the Reichstag, as well as onsite studio production and MCR facilities.

GlobeCast has been providing broadcast services from the World Cup since 1998.

GlobeCast (www.globecast.com) - a subsidiary of France Telecom - is a global content management and delivery company. Via its worldwide satellite and fibre network, the company manages and transports 10 million hours of video and other rich media yearly for its core customer base of broadcasters, as well as corporate, government and retail clients. GlobeCast is network agnostic and ingests once to deliver content to any network via multiple platforms, including direct-to-home satellite, cable, video-to-mobile, IPTV/video-over-ADSL, desktop broadband, and more. It is now the world’s largest provider of delivery services to live television-over-mobile operators and in 2005, it won Cable & Satellite International’s Product of the Year award for Best Outside Broadcast Technology for WING Content Exchange, its IP-based file delivery platform. The company’s global presence includes 15 teleports and technical operations centres throughout Europe, America, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Australia.