Globecast to distribute China’s CCTV French channel

Globecast to distribute China’s CCTV French channel

MUMBAI: Chinese broadcaster CCTV has selected Globecast, subsidiary of France Telecom, for distribution of its French language channel CCTV-F in the European market.

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.

 
CCTV-F features news, tourism and educational programmes as well as Chinese performance art. Catered to an international audience, the programmes carry French subtitles with some news programmes hosted by French-speaking journalists.