Bright
Lights Media
Selects
Globecast
and MEASAT
for Media
Management,
Playout and
Distribution
Services
17 June 2015
Globecast
has been
selected by
Bright
Lights Media
to provide a
comprehensive
suite of
services for
the launch
of ‘Simply
Money’, a
new High
Definition
pay-TV
channel in
Southeast
Asia.
Producing
locally
relevant
high-quality
personal
finance-lifestyle
content,
Simply Money
will also
acquire
premium
world class
programming
from around
the world,
carefully
selected for
viewers in
Southeast
Asia.
Globecast is
supplying
Simply Money
with an
end-to-end
media
management
solution
from its
media centre
in
Mediapolis,
Singapore.
The solution
includes
fully
managed
playout,
content
preparation
and quality
control.
Globecast is
also
providing
regulatory
compliance
review and
editing to
ensure that
content is
compliant
with
regulatory
requirements
for
distribution
across
Southeast
Asia.
The HD
channel is
being
carried on
the MEASAT-3
satellite,
the premier
satellite
for HD
channel
distribution
across the
wider Asia
Pacific
region.
MEASAT-3 is
co-located
with MEASAT-3a
and MEASAT-3b
at 91.5°E,
creating
Asia’s most
vibrant and
robust video
hotslot.
Simply Money
launches
first in the
Philippines
with plans
to roll out
more widely
across
Southeast
Asia in the
coming
months.
Anshuman
Misra, CEO
of Bright
Lights Media
says, “We
are very
pleased to
engage with
Globecast,
using a
range of its
services to
ensure both
high-quality
output as
well as a
cost-effective
result.
Globecast
has a clear
understanding
of what we
are trying
to achieve
and has
helped us to
develop our
content
management
and playout
and
distribution
plans.”
Yew Weng Soo,
Managing
Director of
Globecast
Asia, says,
“This deal
reinforces
Globecast’s
position as
the complete
media
services
company with
our highly
evolved
global
expertise
across the
content and
channel
preparation
sectors.
This sits
alongside
our
long-established
playout and
distribution
services and
we’re very
pleased that
Simply Money
has selected
us.”
Jarod Lopez,
Vice
President –
Broadcast
Sales,
MEASAT,
says, “We
are pleased
to partner
with
Globecast in
the
distribution
of Simply
Money, which
further
strengthens
MEASAT’s HD
bouquet at
91.5°E. The
91.5°E video
hotslot
leads Asia
with more
than 60
distributed
HD
channels.”
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