GlobeCast launches DW-TV ASIA+ on new satellite platform for Asia-Pacific Viewers

Deutsche Welle’s second channel in Asia is first to join GlobeCast’s new MCPC platform on AsiaSat 3S
Hong Kong, 18 March 2009 – GlobeCast announced today that it has launched its second MCPC platform on the AsiaSat 3S satellite. Leading European broadcaster Deutsche Welle is the new transponder’s first client.
The new C-band platform on AsiaSat 3S, located at 105.5° E with a footprint covering the Middle East to East Asia, Australia and New Zealand, is a premium broadcast platform for the Asia-Pacific region reaching a potential audience of over 95 million households.

DW-TV ASIA+, Deutsche Welle’s new second free-to-air Asian channel, broadcasts a variety of lifestyle, cultural, arts and in-depth business and politics programmes around-the-clock with 18 hours of programming in English. The new channel complements DW-TV’s feed on GlobeCast’s existing AsiaSat 3S MCPC platform.

From GlobeCast’s point of presence in Frankfurt, DW-TV ASIA+ is delivered via GlobeCast’s international RIBU fibre network to the company’s Hong Kong teleport for uplink to AsiaSat 3 and distribution to the entire Asian-Pacific region.

Press Contact:

Vanessa Ching vanessa.ching {at} globecast(.)com +65 6325 4222

About GlobeCast:

GlobeCast (www.globecast.com): a subsidiary of France Telecom, is a 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. Top-tier broadcasters and content providers of all sizes turn to GlobeCast for 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.