Paris, 31 January 2007– GlobeCast announced today the launch of the new 100% North African channel nessma via satellite. The channel is now available via Direct-to-Home satellite reception throughout North Africa and the Middle East. GlobeCast will also supply nessma with an access to its GlobeCast Content Exchange service, an IP-based video exchange and collaboration tool.

The channel’s programming will be carried via the leading regional orbital position on Arabsat’s BADR-4 satellite at 26°East (BADR 4), and on de Nilesat (Nilesat 102 ) at 7°West.

Nessma, part of the Karoui & Karoui World group of channels, has aroused considerable interest with the North African public as it is the first channel in that area to broadcast the popular reality series “Star Academy.”. The channel also aims to promote the North African culture and way of life to other areas of the world, focusing on a young and family-orientated public. The schedule of programming, made up of game-shows, entertainment and reality TV programmes, films, series, talk shows and magazine programmes, as well as sport and music, will be broadcast in the North African dialects and French.

GlobeCast is managing a seamless broadcast service for nessma , including fibre connectivity from Paris to its Madrid teleport, where GlobeCast provides uplink and space capacity on Arabsat’s Arabsat BADR - 4 and Nilesat 102.

Nessma will also be exploiting GlobeCast’s Content Exchange solution for the gathering of live news reports from the field for dispatch to the channel’s broadcast department. Developed specifically for global video contribution, Content Exchange is a powerful but user-friendly tool to capture, upload and share video between studio and field. A camera, a laptop and any wired or wireless connection allow authorized users from nessma to upload and exchange files of any size on a secure platform. This product reinforces GlobeCast’s status as a full-fledged service provider, bringing value on top of pure transport solutions.

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