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Globecast
to distribute China’s CCTV French channel
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(10 November 2008 5:00 pm)
MUMBAI: Chinese broadcaster CCTV has selected Globecast, subsidiary of France
Telecom, for distribution of its French language channel CCTV-F in the European
market.
GlobeCast receives
CCTV-F’s signal at its technical operation facility in Paris, where it is
encoded and multiplexed for uplink. GlobeCast is also providing monitoring services
to CCTV-F.
CCTV-F
features news, tourism and educational programmes as well as Chinese performance
art. Catered to an international audience, the programmes carry French subtitles
with some news programmes hosted by French-speaking journalists.
