Miami, 24 June 2002 – Satellite transmission leader GlobeCast announced today that for the second consecutive year, it is providing Outdoor Life Network (OLN) with over 100 hours of live satellite delivery and playout from the Tour de France, July 6-28, 2002, according to Robert Behar, president and chief executive officer of GlobeCast America.
GlobeCast – a France Telecom subsidiary – is the world’s largest provider of satellite transmission and production services for professional broadcast, enterprise media and Internet content delivery. For more than 10 years, the company has been a leading supplier of mobile satellite broadcasting from the Tour de France through its owned-and-operated teleports and production units in France.
At each stage of the 3,300-kilometer race, GlobeCast is supplying OLN with a dedicated SNG vehicle – owned and operated by GlobeCast – tape playout, Ku-Band uplink capabilities and two control operators. GlobeCast is backhauling the daily broadcasts via an 18-MHz channel on NSSK, an SCPC solution that allows OLN to uplink directly to capacity for one-hop transatlantic delivery.
The leader in adventure television, Outdoor Life Network (OLN) offers original and exclusive programming targeted to the nation’s growing number of outdoor enthusiasts. The leading source for television coverage of series and specials celebrating outdoor adventure and leisure recreation, the 24-hour cable network also has exclusive rights to a variety of marquee sporting events.
GlobeCast is the world’s largest provider of satellite transmission and production services for broadcast, enterprise and Internet delivery. Services include TV channel distribution; program origination; Internet backbone, streaming, file transfer and content multicasting; studio production and post production; business television; direct broadcast satellite; language conversion; satellite newsgathering; sports programming backhaul; special events mobile production, and audio distribution. The company operates 15 teleports and 18 sales and technical support centers in the world’s leading media markets throughout Europe, America, Asia, Australia, the Middle East and Africa. For more information, contact Robert Marking at 1 212 885 8732.
For more details contact:
Robert Marking
Vice President, Communications
T: 1 212 885 8732
rmarking@globecastna.com
Ruben Romeu
Press & Communications Manager
T: 1 305 863 1159
rromeu@globecastna.com