South Asian Direct-to-Home platform reaches ethnic communities in continental Europe via the Intelsat 905 satellite

Paris, 30 May 2007– WorldTV - GlobeCast’s Direct-to-Home satellite brand - has expanded into Europe with the launch of a new television bouquet of seven South Asian channels on the Intelsat 905 satellite at 24.5°W. A potential audience of hundreds of thousands throughout continental Europe now has access to quality channels produced in their homelands.

Already the leading distributor of international TV and radio in the US, delivering some 212 channels to viewers nationwide, WorldTV will bring its expertise in serving international content and distributing niche channels across the Atlantic, operating a full-service satellite TV bouquet from its London Broadcast Centre on Grays Inn Road. Programming will not be accessible to viewers in the UK and Ireland.

Programming on WorldTV’s initial bouquet in Europe will include a rich mix of popular Indian and Pakistani channels including Sony Entertainment Television Asia, Star Plus, Star One, Star Gold, Sahara One, Max and FILMY. The bouquet offers top-notch general entertainment, news, movie and music programming in Bengali, Hindi, Urdu and Punjabi.

WorldTV - a division of content management and delivery company GlobeCast - is the leading aggregator and distributor of international television and radio programming in America. The service currently delivers more than 200 market leading television and radio channels in 35 languages representing 42 countries from Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Africa, via Direct-to-Home satellite, cable, IPTV and hospitality networks. WorldTV is a division of France Telecom-subsidiary GlobeCast. For more information, please visit www.globecastworldtv.com or www.globecast.com .

GlobeCast ( www.globecast.com ), a subsidiary of France Telecom, marks its 10 th 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 fiber 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 15 technical operations centers and 20 offices in Europe, North and Latin America, The Middle East, Asia, Africa and Australia.

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