Wanted: $30m for ethnic pay-TV plan<br />Jane Schulze<br />January 18, 2005<br />FORMER Foxtel chief executive Jim Blomfield is trying to raise $30 million to launch a new ethnic satellite pay-TV service called i-view early this year.<br /><br />According to documents seen by The Australian, i-view plans to offer 32 non-English channels across eight ethnic language groups and a small number of English language channels. <br /><br />Mr Blomfield, who was sacked from Foxtel in 2001, has teamed with Hong Kong pay-TV group exTV and plans to uplink the channels from exTV's broadcast centre in Hong Kong to PanAmSat's PAS 8 satellite for distribution in Australia and New Zealand. <br /><br />Before returning to Australia recently, Mr Blomfield spent 18 months helping to build exTV for TVB, one of Hong Kong's major free-to-air broadcasters. <br /><br />The two companies have now formed a strategic relationship to manage the delivery of i-view's channels out of Hong Kong. <br /><br />The service is seeking to fill the gap left by Mike Boulos's Television & Radio Broadcast Services (TARBS), which was placed in administration by PanAmSat, its satellite distributor, in July last year. <br /><br />Since then, Mr Boulos has started another pay-TV group, United Broadcasting International, from TARBS' Pyrmont offices in Sydney. <br /><br />Mr Boulos has managed to keep the building because it was not owned by TARBS but was his personal investment. <br /><br />Another group of ethnic TV channels, previously part of Sydney community TV station Channel 31, last month launched a free-to-air satellite service called the Australian Multicultural TV network. <br /><br />The $30 million being sought by i-view is expected to cover the cost of set-top boxes, transponder space on PAS 8 and initial marketing material. I-view wants to acquire the rights to Croatian channel HRT and market it as part of a three-channel Croatian package. The English language channels, which have yet to be revealed, are expected to target the 55-plus and youth audiences. <br /><br /><br />SOURCE http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11970007%255E7582,00.html

Welcome.

pfft...its stupid isnt already UBI n TV+ enough! plust others ALREADY IN THE MARKET!

Hope they bring some Farsi(Iranian) channels.

Hope they bring some Farsi(Iranian) channels.

30 Million will buy nothing, It shows you what a disgrunted employee will do.<br />One day one disgrunted Irdeto employee will release the algorithm for Irdeto 2

leave the croation channel HRT alone <img border="0" title="" alt="[Mad]" src="images/icons/default/mad.gif" /> my uncle enjoys that channel wat they trying to do get rights to globecast FTA channels <img border="0" title="" alt="[Mad]" src="images/icons/default/mad.gif" />

your uncle speaks croation? Wow!

yes one my aunties is married to a coation guy which is my uncle <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/default/grin.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/default/grin.gif" /> <br /><br />which i have setup a sat for to watch the globecast channels HRT <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="images/icons/default/wink.gif" /><br /> <br /> <small>[ 18. January 2005, 05:23 PM: Message edited by: -.Lazer.- ]</small>

Does anyone know the webpages I would like to see what they are going to offer.

Read it again!<br /><br />They need money for it to happen...

Yes and they need to convince the investors on how they can compete with TV+ and UBI..

If this just a dream who they hell Tvchile is dealing.

Panamsat opens DTH platform in Australia<br /><br />MUMBAI: Satellite operator Panamsat has announced that its subsidiary, Panamsat Asia has acquired some business assets from the receivers of Tarbs World TV Australia.<br /><br />Tarbs is an Australian pay TV provider.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />As per the agreement Panamsat will acquire Tarbs' subscriber list, intellectual property and subscriber-installed equipment. Panamsat has announced that PanGlobal TV has opened for business as Australia’s new multi-ethnic DTH platform. <br /><br />Panamsat VP Asia Pacific David Ball said, "The assets we have obtained will help facilitate the growth of the PanGlobal TV platform by assisting our channel partners to reach the ethnic TV audience in Australia. PanGlobal TV is up and running offering Arabic, Serbian and Russian channels and is capable of reaching all of the homes formerly served by Tarbs. Additional channels are planning to join the platform shortly."<br /> <br />PanGlobal TV is hosted on the PAS-8 Pacific Ocean Region satellite. MySat, the Arabic Pay TV service, offers several networks through PanGlobal TV including Al Jazeera. Horizon World Plus TV is distributing a bouquet of four Russian television channels on the Panamsat platform.<br /><br />PanGlobal TV is a joint marketing alliance between Panamsat and GlobeCast Australia, which offers a range of transmission services to international broadcasters who wish to reach Australia’s diverse multi-cultural communities. The service transmits digital television channel signals from either GlobeCast Australia’s Sydney teleport or the PanAmSat Napa Valley, California teleport to the PAS-8 Ku-band Australia beam. The teleports offer digital encoding, signal processing and transport services in addition to the uplink service to the satellite.<br /><br />http://www.indiantelevision.com/headlines/y2k5/jan/jan193.htm

Not a good release a major error it should be "TARBS" is a former Australian PAY TV supplier

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Originally posted by reuder:<br /><strong> Wanted: $30m for ethnic pay-TV plan<br />Jane Schulze<br />January 18, 2005<br />FORMER Foxtel chief executive Jim Blomfield is trying to raise $30 million to launch a new ethnic satellite pay-TV service called i-view early this year.<br /><br />According to documents seen by The Australian, i-view plans to offer 32 non-English channels across eight ethnic language groups and a small number of English language channels. <br /><br />Mr Blomfield, who was sacked from Foxtel in 2001, has teamed with Hong Kong pay-TV group exTV and plans to uplink the channels from exTV's broadcast centre in Hong Kong to PanAmSat's PAS 8 satellite for distribution in Australia and New Zealand. <br /><br />Before returning to Australia recently, Mr Blomfield spent 18 months helping to build exTV for TVB, one of Hong Kong's major free-to-air broadcasters. <br /><br />The two companies have now formed a strategic relationship to manage the delivery of i-view's channels out of Hong Kong. <br /><br />The service is seeking to fill the gap left by Mike Boulos's Television & Radio Broadcast Services (TARBS), which was placed in administration by PanAmSat, its satellite distributor, in July last year. <br /><br />Since then, Mr Boulos has started another pay-TV group, United Broadcasting International, from TARBS' Pyrmont offices in Sydney. <br /><br />Mr Boulos has managed to keep the building because it was not owned by TARBS but was his personal investment. <br /><br />Another group of ethnic TV channels, previously part of Sydney community TV station Channel 31, last month launched a free-to-air satellite service called the Australian Multicultural TV network. <br /><br />The $30 million being sought by i-view is expected to cover the cost of set-top boxes, transponder space on PAS 8 and initial marketing material. I-view wants to acquire the rights to Croatian channel HRT and market it as part of a three-channel Croatian package. The English language channels, which have yet to be revealed, are expected to target the 55-plus and youth audiences. <br /><br /><br />SOURCE http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11970007%255E7582,00.html </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Does that mean we will now have another moderator<br />forced on us by this company to join the shit shoveling with UBI amd TV Plus <img border="0" title="" alt="[Confused]" src="images/icons/default/confused.gif" /> <br />It them will be a threesome. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/default/smile.gif" />

As long as there's 2 women involved <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/default/grin.gif" />

DONT FORGET IPTR NEW COME BABY ON B3

Hope i_veiw would bring Some Farsi Channels that can be watched. IPTR!!!!!?????