GlobeCast Airs Entertainment Channel W9 on TPS Satellite Television Bouquet in France

PARIS, June 7, 2005/Satnews Daily/ — GlobeCast has begun broadcast of French music and entertainment channel W9 on its channel distribution platform on Hot Bird. The platform is operated in partnership with satellite television provider TPS and gives W9 access to a potential audience of 1.3 million digital TPS subscribers throughout France.

GlobeCast's said its solution for W9 includes fiber connectivity from the broadcaster's control room to GlobeCast and TPS' platform gateway outside Paris, as well as uplink, encryption and space capacity on the Hot Bird Satellite at 13ºE. 

In joining this coveted platform, W9 joins other prestigious channels distributed by GlobeCast on its platform with TPS, such as EuroNews, Pink TV, Cartoon network Boomerang, Russian broadcaster RTR Planeta and Chinese channel CCTV9.

Part of French entertainment group M6, the channel today known as W9 was launched in March 1998 under the name M6 Music. W9 is a French-language entertainment channel where music, fiction, cinema and general entertainment come together.

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