GlobeCast and Japan International Broadcasting Inc. announce that NHK World HD has launched today on the Sky and Freesat platforms in the UK. GlobeCast provides re-encoding, uplink and capacity on Eurobird 1, bringing the channel to a new community of over ten million Sky subscribers, and over a million Freesat viewers.
Available on Sky EPG channel 507, NHK World HD is a 24/7 English language channel produced by Japan International Broadcasting (JIB) and NHK, Japan’s public broadcaster, fed live from Tokyo.
The NHK WORLD HD feed is downlinked in France at GlobeCast’s Bercenay and Sainte Assise teleports, and sent via fibre on GlobeCast’s backbone network (GCBN) to the London operations centre, where the video is re-encoded and AC3 audio is added. The channel is then uplinked to the Eurobird 1 satellite for the Sky platform.
GlobeCast already provides turnaround and satellite capacity for NHK WORLD TV in standard-definition format, as well as delivering NHK WORLD in HD on a number of IP platforms in Europe.
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