Croatian Public Broadcaster HRT Chooses GlobeCast WorldTV for Direct-to-Home Satellite Distribution to Australia and the Americas

PARIS, 17 November 2003 - GlobeCast, the world's leading satellite service provider, announced today that it is distributing Picture of Croatia and Voice of Croatia via its GlobeCast WorldTV direct-to-home satellite platforms in North America (Telstar 5) and Australia (Optus B3), as well as on NSS 806 in Latin America. Picture of Croatia and Voice of Croatia are digital networks produced by Croatian public broadcaster HRT (Hrvatska Radio Televizija).

GlobeCast - a subsidiary of France Telecom - is the world's leading satellite services company, operating a global network of satellite distribution platforms for broadcast and advanced content delivery. GlobeCast WorldTV is the fastest growing community of international television and radio channels on DTH satellite, available via Telstar 5 in North America and Optus B3/C1 in Australia.

HRT is benefiting from GlobeCast's global presence and reach with a seamless, end-to-end solution involving both satellite and fiber and including transmission, turnaround, multiplexing, standards conversion and space capacity. GlobeCast receives HRT's feed at its Paris technical operations center and provides uplink to NSS 806 for broadcast to Latin America and turnaround to North America at its Miami Gateway. GlobeCast then delivers HRT's signal across its ATM fiber network to the company's Los Angeles teleport for transmission onto GlobeCast WorldTV on Telstar 5, as well as turnaround to GlobeCast's Sydney teleport on Intelsat 180 for distribution to the GlobeCast WorldTV platform on Optus B3 in Australia and New Zealand.

GlobeCast also supplies HRT with complete DTH Call Center Services in North America and Australia. This includes subscriber management and retailing of a private-label MPEG2-DVB receiver and antenna package, as well as technical assistance, billing and recovery. GlobeCast currently manages subscriber services for numerous channels on GlobeCast WorldTV, including EuroNews, GERMAN TV and TV Polonia, among others.

Picture of Croatia and Voice of Croatia are the satellite television and radio broadcast stations of HRT (Hrvatska Radiotelevizja), the national public broadcaster of the Republic of Croatia. Produced in the Croatian city of Zagreb, they offer Croatian-language programming that covers the history, culture, entertainment and news of Croatia as well as the rest of the world. HRT has been part of the GlobeCast WorldTV platform in North America since 2001.

GlobeCast (www.globecast.com) - a France Telecom subsidiary - is the world's leading satellite services company, operating a global network of satellite distribution platforms for broadcast and advanced content delivery. The company is present on five continents, accessible through 15 teleports and technical operation centers in the world's leading media hubs.




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