GlobeCast’s World TV Expands Content Aggregation Business with Verizon FiOS TV

NEW YORK, 20 August 2008 – World TV, a division of GlobeCast, announced today that its content and rights aggregation business has expanded, with the initial launch of 14 of its international channels on Verizon FiOS TV.

GlobeCast and World TV are providing Verizon, America’s fastest-growing television service provider, with rights, content aggregation, encoding and encryption as well as fiber delivery (see list of provided channels below). Verizon delivers FiOS TV over the nation’s most advanced fiber-optic network straight to customers’ homes and businesses.

This agreement is proof of World TV’s success as a source of international content for all types of television platforms in North America. World TV has access to multicultural content from five continents – including over 200 channels currently offered to Direct-to-Home viewers via Intelsat’s Galaxy-25 satellite in the United States.

Currently in discussion with several other major cable operators, telcos and broadband TV providers in North America, World TV draws on the broadcast expertise of GlobeCast, which is a subsidiary of France Telecom with 18 offices worldwide. World TV also has its own team of broadcast experts –located in New York, Washington D.C., Sunrise, Florida and Los Angeles.

APPENDIX: LIST OF CHANNELS BEING PROVIDED

Channels added to Verizon FIOS platform

§ RTR Planeta – Russian

§ KISB x 3 channels – Korean

§ Kuwait and MBT – Arabic

§ CTN and TVK – Cambodian

§ BN and NTV – Balkan

§ Public TV of Armenia – Armenian

§ Pro TV and RSC1 – Romanian

§ RTPi – Portuguese

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 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 as well as its 18 offices in Europe, North and Latin America, the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Australia.

Press Contacts:

GlobeCast:

Tracey Milham tracey {at} ing-media(.)com +44 207 247 8334
Alexandra Weber alexandra.weber {at} globecast(.)com + 33 5595 2604

Anna Kornerup anna.kornerup {at} globecast(.)com + 1 212 373 5143

Verizon:

Heather Wilner heather.b.wilner {at} verizon(.)com +1 212 321 8333

Vanessa Ching

Senior Manager, Marketing Communications – Asia

GlobeCast Asia

600 North Bridge Road #13-02/05 Parkview Square
188778 Singapore

T : 65.6325.4222

F : 65.6227.9782

vanessa.ching {at} globecast(.)com
www.globecast.com