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Double win for Arqiva
09.42 Europe/London, January 5, 2012 By Julian Clover
Arqiva has won a five-year contract to distribute France 24 in the UK; the media services company has also announced the extension of its EPG data contract with Freesat.
Arqiva will provide multiplexing, uplinking and satellite services to deliver France 24’s English language news channel to BSkyB and Freesat, as well as the broadcaster’s hotel network.
The contract came into force on November 1. The English language feed is delivered over fibre using Arqiva’s facilities in France. It is then uplinked onto Arqiva’s Eurobird 1 satellite capacity through one of its international teleports.
France 24 distribution director David Couret said, “France 24 broadcasts extensive live prime-time content so it is crucial that our broadcast chain is as robust and reliable as possible. Arqiva is widely recognised as the UK broadcast specialist so we are pleased to be able to utilise their expertise in distributing our content into this essential market.”
Separately, Arqiva has renewed its contract for the delivery of EPG data to the Freesat platform. It will provide dual and redundant multiplexing, uplink and satellite capacity on Eurobird 1 will ensure the constant availability of the essential EPG data to over 2 million Freesat receivers across the UK.
09.42 Europe/London, January 5, 2012 By Julian Clover
Arqiva has won a five-year contract to distribute France 24 in the UK; the media services company has also announced the extension of its EPG data contract with Freesat.
Arqiva will provide multiplexing, uplinking and satellite services to deliver France 24’s English language news channel to BSkyB and Freesat, as well as the broadcaster’s hotel network.
The contract came into force on November 1. The English language feed is delivered over fibre using Arqiva’s facilities in France. It is then uplinked onto Arqiva’s Eurobird 1 satellite capacity through one of its international teleports.
France 24 distribution director David Couret said, “France 24 broadcasts extensive live prime-time content so it is crucial that our broadcast chain is as robust and reliable as possible. Arqiva is widely recognised as the UK broadcast specialist so we are pleased to be able to utilise their expertise in distributing our content into this essential market.”
Separately, Arqiva has renewed its contract for the delivery of EPG data to the Freesat platform. It will provide dual and redundant multiplexing, uplink and satellite capacity on Eurobird 1 will ensure the constant availability of the essential EPG data to over 2 million Freesat receivers across the UK.