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>Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 11:41:50 -0500
>From: Victor Aulestia <[log in to unmask]>
>To: Language Lab <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: DW New Service
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The Deutsche Welle organization will inagurate a new German TV Program
beginning May 1, 02. The new service requires a digital receiver and
subscription card ($15/month). The service will be available in domsat
T5 and GE1.
I am purchasing the system from OSS for $550 (www.ossat.com/German.htm).
I am sure that my German faculty and students are going to be very happy
with this new service.
Victor Aulestia
German TV: Deutsche Welle Signs Contract with GlobeCast
Director-General Erik Bettermann: "Launch in the U.S.A will take place
on
March 1, 2002".
Deutsche Welle (DW) has decided to start broadcasting German TV, the new
German-Ianguage television program for overseas viewers in the United
States via the GlobeCast DTH World Television Platform on Telstar 5 and
GE 1. The contract regulating the leasing of the platform was signed by
DW Director-General Erik Bettermann and GlobeCast Senior Vice President
Alain Baget on December 7, 2001, in Cologne.
At the signing ceremony Director-General Erik Bettermann said "the
contract assures the
launch of best-of programming from the ARD, ZDF and DW on the American
pay-tv market beginning March 1, 2002". The decision in favour of
GlobeCast was based on a solid market analysis and careful consideration
of the opportunities and risks. Globecast (which is based in Paris)
describes itself as the world's largest provider of satellite
transmission services for broadcasters.
"We are convinced that with GlobeCast and a soon to be named
distribution and marketing agency we can attract all the people
interested in German-language TV in the United States to German TV",
Bettermann added. Subscribers to German TV will also be able to access
DW-radio's German language broadcasts in stereo quality.
"As one of the world's most prestigious broadcast organizations,
Deutsche Welle's
selection of GlobeCast for distribution of such a prestigious program as
German TV in
North America is confirmation in the faith placed in our company's
strategic competence in the US", said GlobeCast Senior Vice-President,
Alain Baget. By offering attractive
programs from abroad including, for example, Euronews GlobeCast was
broadening the
diversity's of TV programming available to American audiences. German TV
offered the best programs from public broadcasters in Germany and was at
the same time demonstrating the high quality of European TV productions.
"We are confident that other broadcasters will follow in DW's
footsteps", Mr Baget added.
The agreement signed by DW and GlobeCast paves the way for transmi5sions
via the Ku-band satellite Telstar 5 for direct reception and the C-band
GE-l satellite for cable feeds. In addition, the agreement also puts
GlobeCast in charge of subscription services and the distribution of DVB
decoders for reception.
=>Tagesschau$E3und =>heute journal$E3 sind die Nachrichten,
die ganz Deutschland sieht.
Dazu rund um die Uhr das
=>Journal von DW-tv$E3: Deutsche
Nachrichten, die die Welt
sieht.
Ob in den Magazinen =>Panorama$E3
und =>Frontal 21$E3, oder
beim Talk =>Christiansen$E3 und
=>Kerner$E3: Bei uns erfahren
Sie alles, worüber Deutschland
spricht.
Für die Kleinen großes
Programm: =>Löwenzahn$E3 und =>1, 2
oder 3$E3 $F6 unterhaltsam und
lehrreich! Für die ganze Familie
=>Wetten dass$E3 oder
=>Musikantenstadl$E3. Unterhaltung für
ein Millionen-Publikum.
=>Marienhof$E3 oder =>Bülowbogen$E3
$F6 Serien, die ans Herz
gehen. =>Rosamunde Pilcher$E3
oder =>Tatort$E3 - Unsere
TV-Movies sind Tagesgespräch.
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