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In the Philippines, it is cable distribution company Cable Boss
which has done a deal with TechTV to represent the channel in the
territory and has placed it on the second largest cable platform,
Destiny Cable. In Indonesia, the largest cable operator Kabelvision
has agreed to carry the channel, while in the Maldives it is Maldives
Electronic Services and J-Sat Communications Maldives which have
signed on.
Its programming sales efforts have also borne fruit, the international
channel announced. Its sales deal with Japan's BB Factory for daily
satellite-delivered episodes of Tech Live was re-initialled while
Spain's Sogecable, YLE Finland, Tango TV Luxembourg, Studio U7 Russia
and even Eagle TV in Mongolia have agreed to pick up its content,
said TechTV's new senior vice-president of worldwide distribution,
Peter Gochis. While Finland YLE is to broadcast episodes of felony-focused
CyberCrime, computer-animated Eye Drops and gadget show Fresh Gear,
Russia's Studio U7 licensed episodes of Eye Drops and CyberCrime.
Tango TV in Luxembourg has picked up TechTV World, Eagle TV in Mongolia
will run Zip File International and Spain's Sogecable has licensed
the one-off Tech of Shrek.
Gochis recently took over from Tom Grams, who is now focusing on
programme strategy in the new post of vice-president of programming.
Gochis also announced deals for TechTV's news programming with airline
carriers in Asia, Scandinavia and in the US. among the airlines
coming on board include: Singapore Airlines, Cathay Pacific, Malaysia
Airlines, SAS, Finn Air and Northwest.
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