19 August 2008

World TV,  has expanded, with the initial launch of 14 of its international channels on Verizon FiOS TV.

World TV is providing Verizon, America’s fastest-growing television service provider, with rights, content aggregation, encoding and encryption as well as fiber delivery (see list of provided channels below). Verizon delivers FiOS TV over the nation’s most advanced fiber-optic network straight to customers’ homes and businesses.

This agreement is proof of World TV’s success as a source of international content for all types of television platforms in North America. World TV has access to multicultural content from five continents – including over 200 channels currently offered to Direct-to-Home viewers via Intelsat’s Galaxy-25 satellite in the United States.

Currently in discussion with several other major cable operators, telcos and broadband TV providers in North America, World TV draws on the broadcast expertise of GlobeCast, which is a subsidiary of France Telecom with 18 offices worldwide. World TV also has its own team of broadcast experts –located in New York, Washington D.C., Sunrise, Florida and Los Angeles.

APPENDIX: LIST OF CHANNELS BEING PROVIDED

Channels added to Verizon FIOS platform RTR Planeta – Russian KISB x 3 channels – Korean Kuwait and MBT – Arabic CTN and TVK – Cambodian BN and NTV – Balkan Public TV of Armenia – Armenian Pro TV and RSC1 – Romanian RTPi - Portuguese