Prime Minister Vlado Buckovski put into operation Wednesday the Macedonian satellite teleport centre located in the Macedonian Radio Television building.<br /><br />Over ten channels from Serbia and Montenegro, Greece, Bulgaria, Albania and Bosnia and Herzegovina will be gathered and distributed through the Macedonian centre.<br /><br />Centre will provide to all media and production companies to be present both in Europe and other continents as well.<br /><br />"The construction of this Center is a step forward in Government's efforts to include Macedonia in the countries that have the most sophisticated technological equipment for electronic communications", Minister of Transport and Communications Xhemali Mehazi said at the opening ceremony.<br /><br />Installation of Macedonian satellite teleport centre is a result of the agreement signed between Ministry of Transport and Communications and TARBS Group in accordance with MRTV and Macedonian Broadcasting.<br /><br />Through sophisticated installed equipment, Macedonia will be included in the countries that receive and regularly send signals realising intensive broadcasting.<br /><br />In accordance with the agreement, after five years the equipment remains as a donation in the property to Ministry of Transport and Communications. The amount of the installed equipment costs over US$ 2 million.<br /><br />TARBS Group is multiethnic satellite provider for national and privately owned television channels of around 50 countries worldwide. TARBS uses chain of satellites for global distribution of signals. The Group, which operates the satellite teleport centres in Australia, Germany, the US, Israel, Egypt, Philippines and Greece, takes the responsibility if interest exists in Macedonia to continue the cooperation and to increase the investment to several million dollars.<br /> <br /> <small>[ 28. July 2005, 01:35 PM: Message edited by: LISKI iTV ]</small>