RRSat Inks Deal With Fox
International Channels to
Enable Broadcasts Expansion
to Africa
8
July 2013
RRsat has signed a long-term
agreement with Fox
International Channels
(FIC), 21st
Century Fox's international
multi-media business, to
support broadcast of its
French channels throughout
Africa. FIC,
which operates more than 300
channels globally, reaching
over 1.6 billion viewers
worldwide, is now expanding
its content reach to the
African continent with the
RRsat's Global Network and
MEASAT Satellite Systems
Sdn. Bhd.'s ("MEASAT")
AFRICASAT-1a satellite.
RRsat is supporting FIC's
extended African content
reach with the launch of
some of its main factual TV
brands: National Geographic
Channel,
Nat
Geo Wild and
the travelling channel
Voyage via the new RRsat
C-Band platform on
AFRICASAT-1a to viewers
throughout the continent.
"We are very satisfied for
having RRsat's support in
broadcasting some of our
factual flagship TV channels
across
Africa, which
will let us deliver our
content to viewers all over
the continent, reaching a
greater number of
subscribers and making
possible the increase of
distribution,", said Tim
Joyce Vice President of
Broadcast Operations Europe.
"The factual channels
branded by National
Geographic and Voyage are an
absolute reference inside
the FIC's brands bouquet
that will be very well
welcomed by all audiences."
"RRsat welcomes the
opportunity to work with Fox
International Channels, one
of the most successful media
companies in the world, and
to support Fox's strategic
decision to distribute its
flagship national geographic
channels throughout
Africa," said
Lior
Rival, Chief
Commercial Officer of RRsat.
"RRsat's MCPC platform on
AFRICASAT-1a enables our
customers to efficiently and
cost effectively distribute
content at the highest
quality to householders and
cable head ends in every
country in
Africa."