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MUMBAI:
MGM Networks has announced new deals with cable and satellite
operators across Eastern Europe in Servia, Albanuia and Macedonia.
The
MGM Channel is already carried across the former USSR, Poland,
Hungary, Romania, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Bulgaria.
MGM
Networks executive VP Vruce Tuchman says, “We are thrilled
to announce the further expansion of our presence in Eastern
Europe with the recent launches of The MGM Channel into the
new markets of Serbia, Albania and Macedonia.
“We’ve lined up well over a dozen major cable and
satellite operators across these three countries, and are
excited to have these new clients join the ranks of the vast
base of top notch platforms that carry The MGM Channel across
Eastern Europe. While only a few markets in this region now
remain untapped for us, we are very excited about the prospects
for continued rapid subscriber growth across these burgeoning
multichannel television landscapes, as well as our future
expansion opportunities.”
The
MGM Channel in Serbia has launched across several platforms
in the country, including major cable operators such as Kopernikus
Technology and KDS Novi Sud, as well as the IPTV platform
of the county’s dominant telephone company, Telekom Serbia.
In
Serbia, MGM Channel will also be broadcast with Serbian subtitles
utilizing the country’s Cyrillic alphabet. Taking advantage
of recent advances in subtitling technology that allow for
both cost and technologically effective deployment, The MGM
Channel was the first international cable/satellite channel
to bring local audiences subtitling in the local Cyrillic
script.
In
Albania, the country’s largest multichannel platform,
Digitalb, launched MGM Channel last month on the Digitalb
DTH service, while in Macedonia, the country’s largest
cable operator, Cabletel, has also recently launched the MGM
Channel. Plans to launch the MGM Channel on additional platforms
and systems across the entire region are currently in progress.
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