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  • Zee Network enters Australia on PanGlobal TV

    MUMBAI: Zee Network has signed a multi-year agreement with the Sydney-based PanGlobal TV to bring its five-channel offering to the South Asian population in Australia and New Zealand. The programming bouquet will be delivered on the PanGlobal TV platform via PanAmSat’s PAS-8 Pacific Ocean Region satellite.
     
     

    Zee Network will offer five channels, Zee TV, Zee Cinema, Zee News, Zee Muzic and Zee Smile on PanGlobal TV.

    PanGlobal TV is a joint marketing alliance between PanAmSat and GlobeCast Australia delivering DTH multi-ethnic programming that reaches tens of thousands across the Australian continent. It is one of nine DTH platforms that PanAmSat supports around the globe, states an official release.
     
     

    “In one short year, PanGlobal TV signed deals with the top names in multi-ethnic programming. Now, with Zee Network joining our DTH platform, we can offer viewers an even wider array of global fare,” PanAmSat VP Asia Pacific David Ball said. “The addition of such a highly-regarded customer as Zee Network to our programming roster is an ideal way to celebrate our one-year anniversary.”

    “Zee Telefilms Limited is very pleased to announce this relationship with GlobeCast Australia,” said Zee Tele international business president Dheeraj Kapuria. “With this extension, Zee Network continues with its efforts to reach out to South Asian Diaspora across the globe. Through these channels, we will be bringing Indian culture and Bollywood into the homes of 45,000 South Asian families in Australia and New Zealand.”

    PanGlobal TV offers 24 different channels of multi-ethnic programming, including Zee Network, to viewers across Australia. The line up includes NHK World Premium, MySAT, the Arabic Pay TV service which carries ART, LBC, Al Jazeera, ART Movies, Future TV, MBC and Noursat. It also features Horizon World Plus TV Pty Ltd which distributes a bouquet of five Russian television channels: ORT (Channel 1), RTVi, Teleklub/Detski Mir, Nashe Kino and RTR Planeta. It also hosts TV Plus which offers Serbian services Pink Plus, ExtraTV, BN and BHTV1, the release adds.

  • Panamsat opens DTH platform in Australia

    Panamsat opens DTH platform in Australia

    MUMBAI: Satellite operator Panamsat has announced that its subsidiary, Panamsat Asia has acquired some business assets from the receivers of Tarbs World TV Australia.

    Tarbs is an Australian pay TV provider.

    As per the agreement Panamsat will acquire Tarbs’ subscriber list, intellectual property and subscriber-installed equipment. Panamsat has announced that PanGlobal TV has opened for business as Australias new multi-ethnic DTH platform.

    Panamsat VP Asia Pacific David Ball said, “The assets we have obtained will help facilitate the growth of the PanGlobal TV platform by assisting our channel partners to reach the ethnic TV audience in Australia. PanGlobal TV is up and running offering Arabic, Serbian and Russian channels and is capable of reaching all of the homes formerly served by Tarbs. Additional channels are planning to join the platform shortly.”

    PanGlobal TV is hosted on the PAS-8 Pacific Ocean Region satellite. MySat, the Arabic Pay TV service, offers several networks through PanGlobal TV including Al Jazeera. Horizon World Plus TV is distributing a bouquet of four Russian television channels on the Panamsat platform.

    PanGlobal TV is a joint marketing alliance between Panamsat and GlobeCast Australia, which offers a range of transmission services to international broadcasters who wish to reach Australias diverse multi-cultural communities. The service transmits digital television channel signals from either GlobeCast Australias Sydney teleport or the PanAmSat Napa Valley, California teleport to the PAS-8 Ku-band Australia beam. The teleports offer digital encoding, signal processing and transport services in addition to the uplink service to the satellite.