GlobeCast has signed a new five-year deal with Showtime Arabia to provide content management and delivery services for 13 of their global channels. Services will range from multiplexing, uplink, and aggregation to playout from 1’s central London Technical Operations Centre. Dubai-based Showtime Arabia already had a three-year working relationship with GlobeCast and has now expanded that relationship to include playout services in addition to transport. The feeds for 13 of Showtime Arabia’s international channels are received via satellite and fiber at GlobeCast’s Technical Operations Centre in Central London for aggregation and multiplexing. These operations are then followed by fiber delivery to GlobeCast’s Brookmans Park facility, where it is uplinked to the Nilesat-102 satellite, located at 7° W. GlobeCast’s recently-upgraded Content Management Suite in central London offers playout and signal transport under the same roof, adding value to the company’s broadcast offering. GlobeCast’s playout services, including opt-out, time delay and cover-up, will be used by up to seven of Showtime’s channels.