Intelsat
Partners with BT
to Support
Content
Distribution for
BBC World
Services across
Three Continents
1 June
2015
BT has renewed
and expanded
services on
three Intelsat
satellites,
spanning the
Asia-Pacific,
Africa and Latin
America
regions.
Under the new
multi-year,
multi-transponder
agreement, BT
will leverage
capacity from
three of
Intelsat’s
leading
satellite
neighborhoods to
distribute
programming for
BBC World
Service, a
premier provider
of global news
and content. BT
will have access
to Intelsat’s
teleport
facility in
Napa, California
along with the
company’s
terrestrial
network,
IntelsatOne®.
The three
satellite video
neighborhoods,
Intelsat 10-02
located at 1°W,
Intelsat 805 at
55.5°W
and Intelsat 19
at 166.0°E,
combined with
BT’s service
offerings, will
allow BBC World
Service to
increase its
channel line-up
and continue
access to
millions of
listeners and
viewers
throughout Asia
Pacific, Africa
and the
Americas.
“Intelsat and BT
have a long and
proven track
record of
leveraging each
other’s
technical
strengths to
help advance our
customers’
business and
growth
objectives,”
said Mark
Wilson-Dunn,
Vice President
BT Media &
Broadcast. “The
high quality,
resiliency and
flexibility of
Intelsat’s
global satellite
solutions,
combined with
the power of its
regional video
neighborhoods,
make Intelsat
the ideal
partner to
support BBC
World Service’s
global
programming
needs.”
Nigel Fry, Head
of Distribution,
BBC World
Service, added,
“In today’s
information age,
our viewers want
fast-breaking,
high quality and
reliable content
at all times
regardless of
location. By
partnering with
BT and Intelsat,
we know that we
will receive a
seamless,
integrated
solution and
distribution
platforms that
enable us to
reliably reach
our audience
around the
world.”
“BBC World
Service has very
specific
requirements as
it relates to
its global
programming
needs, including
optimizing its
distribution and
overall
operational
efficiency. By
combining our
distribution
network with
BT’s service
offerings, we
created a
solution that
provides BBC
World Service
with
international
distribution
that serves its
global audience,
and supports its
growth
objectives,” said
Kurt Riegelman,
Intelsat’s
Senior Vice
President,
Global Sales and
Marketing. “BBC
World Service
premier content
contributes to
the nearly 5,500
SD and HD
channels
distributed
across our fleet
and can be
accessed by tens
of millions of
viewers across
Africa,
Asia-Pacific and
Latin America
through our
media
neighborhoods.”
