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RTG TV coming to
Israel, UAE and Africa
Award-winning international
documentary channel Russian
Travel Guide TV, broadcasting
24/7 in English, Turkish and
Russian on Russian history,
culture, cuisine and nature, is
increasing its audience with
recent launches on cable
networks in Israel, the UAE,
Poland and Hungary.
In Israel, RTG TV gains access
to HOT's 900,000 subscribers
that constitute about 60% of the
multi-channel TV market share.
In the UAE, RTG TV is partnering
with Dubai-based Emirates
Integrated Telecommunications
Co (Du).
Further widening its target
audience, RTG TV has also been
carried throughout the African
continent in test transmissons,
free-to-air in English on two
beams of Amos 5 at 17 ° E.
The channel has won over
audiences with its premium
content produced in-house by
RTG TV.
Dubai Sports on ARABSAT
Satellite operator ARABSAT is
partnering with Dubai Media Inc.
to carry six free-to-air sports
channels to broadcast live from
the 2012 Olympics in London.
Rashed Al Amiri, Director of
Dubai Sports Channel, said that
the channel's viewers across the
five continents will be able to
enjoy a variety of sports
including basketball, handball,
gymnastics and other competitions
during the London Games. Dubai
Sports Channel is available on
Arabsat Badr – 4 on 12130 MHz.
In July a new Mauritanian
bouquet launched on ARABSAT
Badr–5, 26° degrees East, on the
Nouakchott platform. This
represents a significant step in
the development of the
infrastructure of TV satellite
broadcast in Mauritania as
governmental and private
Mauritanian channels will be
part of one bouquet which
viewers in Mauritania and the
Arab world will be able to watch
on one frequency in all parts of
the Middle East, North Africa and
large parts of Europe and Asia.
ARABSAT carries over 450 TV
FTA channels, 35 HD channels,
four pay-TV networks and 160
IN BRIEF
ABC LIVE IN FIJI
Radio Australia, the
international radio and
multiplatform service of the
Australian Broadcasting
Corporation, is now available
24 hours a day in Fiji, via
locally based transmitters in
Suva, Nadi and Labassa on
106.6FM and in Ba on
106.4FM.
Radio Australia's CEO Mike
McCluskey said people in Fiji
have access to Radio
Australia’s news and talk
content and to some of the
best radio content produced
by the ABC. Radio Australia
also has FM services in 11
Pacific and five South-East
Asia locations.
DTH FOR BRAZIL
Brazilian pay-TV operator
Super i Telecom is launching
a national DTH service. The
company currently offers pay-
TV and triple play. According
to regulator Anatel, Super i
has around 3,000 cable
subscribers and over 5,000
MMDS subscribers in Espiritu
Santo and Minas Gerais
states. The reason for the
DTH launch is to make up for
declining MMDS numbers;
the satellite service will be
offered nationally through
fanchises. The package will
include local channels as
well as pay-TV channels
Telecine, PFC Futebol Clube
and Premiere Combate.
NEWSCHOICE
When Al Arabiya launched
its new TV channel Al
Hadath, Al Arabiya General
Manager Abdulrahman Al
Rashed said the fact that the
audience in the region has a
great interest in current
affairs – both regional and
worldwide – compelled the
group to offer an additional
news service.
Al Hadath is managed by the
same experienced Al
Arabiya team and the viewer
now has the choice between
watching hard news or the
regular Al Arabiya
programming which
includes business news and
talk shows.
radio stations reaching tens of
millions of homes in more than
100 countries across the globe.
ARABSAT is the only satellite
operator in the MENA region
offering the full spectrum of
broadcast, telecommunications
and broadband services. Its CEO
is Khalid bin Ahmed Balkheyour
(below).
AJE on
Foxtel
As a result of Al Jazeera English
launching on Australia’s leading
pay-TV platform Foxtel, AJE is
now able to reach an additional
1.6m Australian households,
taking its total reach across the
country to over 2.3m.
Globally, AJE is available in
over 260m households across
130 countries. The channel’s in-
depth approach to international
stories has won it a string of
awards in the last year.
Welcoming the new Foxtel
viewers, AJE Managing Director
Al Anstey commented that
Australians have been among
the keenest visitors to AJE's
website over the years – a clear
indication that there is an
appetite in the country for
compelling international news
and programmes.
With a dedicated team of
journalists reporting from the
channel’s Sydney bureau, AJE
has consistently led the way in
bringing Australian stories to the
global news agenda.
The channel’s weekly current
affairs programme 101 East has
been recognised for tackling
issues that impact on everyday
life in Australia and across Asia.
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NHK’s new Twinscam
Twinscam, a camera developed
by Japanese public broadcaster
NHK, is used for the inter-
national feed of synchronised
swimming at the London
Olympics.
Twinscam combines images
shot by two separate cameras
set above and below the water to
produce an image that looks as if
it had been shot by a single, half-
submerged lens. It produces a
single realistic image with
smooth zoom and pans, even in
live broadcasts, revealing all the
underwater effort of the athlete.