PanAmSat Asia Acquires Some Assets of TARB; Launches PanGlobal TV in Australia 

SYDNEY, Jan. 20/Satnews Daily/ ¾ PanAmSat Corp. announced on Wednesday its subsidiary, PanAmSat Asia Pty. Ltd., had acquired certain business assets from the receivers of TARBS World TV Australia Pty. Ltd. (TARBS).  PanAmSat said among those acquired assets were the subscriber list, intellectual property, and subscriber-installed equipment of TARBS, an Australian pay TV provider. 

PanAmSat also announced that PanGlobal TV had opened for business as Australia’s new multi-ethnic Direct-To-Home (DTH) platform.

“The assets we have obtained will help facilitate the growth of the PanGlobal TV platform by assisting our channel partners to reach the ethnic TV audience in Australia,” David Ball, vice president, Asia-Pacific said. PanGlobal TV is offering Arabic, Serbian and Russian channels and is capable of reaching all of the homes formerly served by TARBS.  PanGlobal TV said additional channels are planning to join the platform shortly.       

PanGlobal TV is hosted on the PAS-8 Pacific Ocean Region satellite. MySAT, the Arabic Pay TV service, offers the following networks through PanGlobal TV: ART, LBC, Al Jazeera, ART Movies, Future TV, MBC and Noursat. Horizon World Plus TV Pty. Ltd is distributing a bouquet of four Russian television channels on the PanGlobal TV platform in Australia. They are: RTVi, Teleklub/Detski Mir, Nashe Kino and RTR Planeta.  TV Plus offers Serbian services Pink TV, BN and BK Sat.

PanGlobal TV is a joint marketing alliance between PanAmSat and GlobeCast Australia, which offers a range of transmission services to international broadcasters who wish to reach Australia’s diverse multi-cultural communities.  The service transmits digital television channel signals from either GlobeCast Australia’s Sydney teleport or the PanAmSat Napa Valley, California, teleport to the PAS-8 Ku-band Australia beam.

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