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November 7th, 2008

Chinese' CCTV Parlez-Vouz Francais With GlobeCast


Chinese broadcaster CCTV has selected GlobeCast to distribute its French language channel CCTV-F to the European market. CCTV-F features news, tourism and educational programs as well as Chinese performance art. Designed for an international audience, the programs carry French subtitles with some news hosted by French-speaking journalists. GlobeCast receives CCTV-F’s signal at its technical operation facility in Paris, where it is encoded and multiplexed for uplink. GlobeCast is also providing monitoring services to CCTV-F. The channel will share a neighborhood with broadcasters such as France 24, Russia Today, Al Jazeera English and NHK World TV.