Paris, 17 July 2007– GlobeCast has launched its playout centre in central London and will be promoting it as well as its 10 th anniversary at IBC 2007. Another highlight is the recent expansion of its WorldTV brand to Europe with the launch of its Direct-to-Home satellite TV platform on IS-905.

Finally, GlobeCast will promote its service offerings for IPTV, HDTV, Mobile TV and traditional channel delivery, as well as content management tools to complement this delivery.

GlobeCast Opens Playout Centre in London, Full Origination Centre in Sunrise

Channel origination is a key component to content management. GlobeCast announces two brand new facilities in America and Europe to accommodate its Media Management solutions, from simple origination services to full-service broadcast center operations (24/7 origination).

London Broadcast Centre (Grays Inn Road) – From the heart of Europe’s most dynamic media capital, GlobeCast has recently launched a full-service channel playout facility at its Gray’s Inn Road hub at the ITN building. The Broadcast Centre can offer any solution, from 24/7 fully staffed origination to fully-automated content origination, all completely interconnected to GlobeCast’s worldwide satellite and fiber network.

Sunrise Broadcast Center (Florida) – GlobeCast now offers 24/7 origination and satellite delivery from newly leased facilities at HBO Latin America in Sunrise, FL (near Fort Lauderdale and Miami), one of the most modern and secure broadcasting centers in America. Serving as the company’s gateway to Latin America, the facility provides fully staffed program origination and MCR services, along with satellite capabilities and access to GlobeCast’s fiber network.

WorldTV Expands into Europe

WorldTV - GlobeCast’s hugely successful Direct-to-Home satellite brand has expanded to Europe, offering a new “international” service bouquet of Asian programming on the Intelsat 905 satellite. WorldTV is already the leading distributor of international TV and radio in America, delivering some 212 channels to viewers nationwide. The new European bouquet operates from GlobeCast’s London Broadcast Centre on Grays Inn Road and includes a rich mix of popular Indian and Pakistani channels such Sony Entertainment Television Asia, Star Plus, Star One, Star Gold, Sahara One, Max and FILMY. Content includes general entertainment, news, movie and music programming in Bengali, Hindi, Urdu and Punjabi.

About GlobeCast
GlobeCast ( www.globecast.com ), a subsidiary of France Telecom, marks its 10th anniversary in 2007 as the leading global provider of content management and worldwide transmission services for professional broadcast delivery. The company operates a secure global satellite and fibre network to manage and transport 10 million hours of video and other rich media each year, providing ingest, aggregation, transmission and repurposing of content for delivery to direct-to-home satellite platforms; cable, IPTV, mobile and broadband headends; as well as corporate and digital signage networks. GlobeCast’s fleet of SNG trucks deploys globally to support coverage of the biggest news and sporting events each year in SD and HDTV formats. Borders are non-existent when it comes to GlobeCast’s services, thanks to the company’s 12 teleports and technical operations centres and 20 offices in Europe, North and Latin America, The Middle East, Asia, Africa and Australia.

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