GlobeCast Provides TV Azteca with World Cup International Transmission
Satellite transmission leader GlobeCast announced today that it is providing project management, uplink, digital turnaround, encryption, and space segment for TV Azteca's coverage of the 2002 FIFA World Cup, according to Robert Behar, president and chief executive officer of GlobeCast America.
GlobeCast - a France Telecom subsidiary - is the world's largest provider of satellite transmission and production services for professional broadcast, enterprise media and Internet content delivery.
From the International Broadcast Center (IBC) in Korea, GlobeCast is providing TV Azteca, a leading Mexican television network, with a rooftop uplink and a full-time 15-megabit channel on Intelsat 701 for backhaul to America. GlobeCast's international teleport in Los Angeles is managing signal turnaround to Mexico on Telstar 5.
Additionally, GlobeCast is providing an 8-megabit return channel from Los Angeles to the IBC for network monitoring of the feed. GlobeCast's project management team is supplying all transmission equipment as well as necessary licenses and permits in Korea.
Futbol de Primera (La Radio de Mundial) is broadcasting the 2002 FIFA World Cup via GlobeCast's WorldTV platform on Telstar 5. The Hispanic all-soccer radio channel is distributing the games in Spanish exclusively to over 100 affiliated radio stations as well as to direct-to-home WorldTV listeners across America. GlobeCast is providing signal pick-up in New York and transmission onto Futbol de Primera's WorldTV channel on Telstar 5.
GlobeCast is the world's largest provider of satellite transmission and production services for broadcast, enterprise and Internet delivery. Services include TV channel distribution; program origination; Internet backbone, streaming, file transfers and content multicasting; studio production and post production; business television; direct broadcast satellite; language conversion; satellite newsgathering; sports programming backhaul; special events mobile production, and audio distribution.
The company operates 15 teleports and 18 sales and technical support centers in the world's leading media markets throughout Europe, America, Asia, Australia, the Middle East and Africa, offering complete domestic and global satellite delivery.
For more information please contact:
Robert Marking
Vice President, Communications
T: 1 212 885 8732
E: rmarking@globecastna.com
GlobeCast - a France Telecom subsidiary - is the world's largest provider of satellite transmission and production services for professional broadcast, enterprise media and Internet content delivery.
From the International Broadcast Center (IBC) in Korea, GlobeCast is providing TV Azteca, a leading Mexican television network, with a rooftop uplink and a full-time 15-megabit channel on Intelsat 701 for backhaul to America. GlobeCast's international teleport in Los Angeles is managing signal turnaround to Mexico on Telstar 5.
Additionally, GlobeCast is providing an 8-megabit return channel from Los Angeles to the IBC for network monitoring of the feed. GlobeCast's project management team is supplying all transmission equipment as well as necessary licenses and permits in Korea.
Futbol de Primera (La Radio de Mundial) is broadcasting the 2002 FIFA World Cup via GlobeCast's WorldTV platform on Telstar 5. The Hispanic all-soccer radio channel is distributing the games in Spanish exclusively to over 100 affiliated radio stations as well as to direct-to-home WorldTV listeners across America. GlobeCast is providing signal pick-up in New York and transmission onto Futbol de Primera's WorldTV channel on Telstar 5.
GlobeCast is the world's largest provider of satellite transmission and production services for broadcast, enterprise and Internet delivery. Services include TV channel distribution; program origination; Internet backbone, streaming, file transfers and content multicasting; studio production and post production; business television; direct broadcast satellite; language conversion; satellite newsgathering; sports programming backhaul; special events mobile production, and audio distribution.
The company operates 15 teleports and 18 sales and technical support centers in the world's leading media markets throughout Europe, America, Asia, Australia, the Middle East and Africa, offering complete domestic and global satellite delivery.
For more information please contact:
Robert Marking
Vice President, Communications
T: 1 212 885 8732
E: rmarking@globecastna.com