Extreme Sports is 17th Chello Zone channel feed played out by Arqiva



20 May

Arqiva has begun a five-year contract for playout of Chello Zone's Extreme Sports Channel on the UK Sky platform. The 3Mb/s high-adrenalin channel is ingested at Arqiva's Chalfont Grove facility and uplinked onto an Arqiva transponder on the Eurobird satellite. Extreme Sports Channel is the seventeenth Chello Zone (formerly Zonemedia) channel feed to be fully played out by Arqiva, with full playout services also provided for the popular Zone Horror and Zone Reality channels on the UK Sky platform. Arqiva also plays out Chello Zone's heavily subscribed Zone Romantica channels in Europe.

Dermott Short, CEO of Chello Zone, said: "Over our 10-year relationship with Arqiva we have consistently found them to be a highly reliable and customer-focused company, large enough and flexible enough to meet our growing requirements. Arqiva is a trusted supplier and a valued technology partner for our expanding business."

John Bozza, director of sales for Arqiva's Satellite Media Solutions division, added: "We are delighted that Chello Zone continue to show such confidence in our services and are excited to be adding a seventeenth Chello Zone channel to our playout portfolio. As a major international broadcaster with an ever-growing subscriber base, Chello Zone demands exceptionally high levels of technology and service which we are pleased to be able to deliver. We very much look forward to continuing and further growing this valuable partnership."