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RRsat Chosen By Kidsco To Transmit
Channel Over Australia
RRsat
November 9, 2009
RRsat to provide comprehensive
playout and turnaround services to expanding KidsCo Channel Contract
includes provision of services to additional geographies in the
future
RE’EM.
RRsat Global Communications
Network Ltd. (NASDAQ: RRST), a rapidly growing provider of
comprehensive content management and global distribution services to
the television and radio broadcasting industries, announced today
that it has been chosen by KidsCo, a joint venture channel owned by
leading media companies NBC Universal, Corus Entertainment Inc. (Nelvana)
and Cookie Jar Group, to provide playout to Australia. |
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RRsat will be providing
comprehensive playout and uplink services, as well as distributing
the channel to the Foxtel DBS platform in Australia via the Asiasat
5 satellite. KidsCo also has the option to leverage RRsat’s Global
Network to provide additional playout to Western Europe, Eastern
Europe, Latin America and Asia in the future.
Mr. Paul Robinson, Managing Director of KidsCo commented: “KidsCo
needed an innovative flexible partner for playout to Australia and
we chose RRsat because they proved themselves to be very customer
focused and dedicated to finding high quality business solutions.”
"We are very excited that KidsCo has chosen RRsat as part of its
international expansion strategy, targeting prime new geographies,
reaching millions of new households and potential viewers,”
commented Mr. Lior Rival, Vice President, Sales and Marketing of
RRsat. “We look forward to further expanding the channel’s coverage
in the future, taking it to new regions and countries in Europe,
Middle East, Asia and South America, further leveraging the advanced
RRsat Global Network.”
About KidsCo
KidsCo is the fourth global
children’s television network. Launched in September 2007, KidsCo is
a joint venture channel owned by leading media companies NBC
Universal, Corus Entertainment Inc. (Nelvana) and Cookie Jar Group.
KidsCo’s global distribution plan, launching linear, VOD, SVOD and
IPTV channels been rolled out in prime territories around the world,
including Germany, France, Portugal, Spain, Romania, Ukraine, the
Middle East, Hungary, Russia, Turkey, Poland, Singapore, the
Philippines, South Korea, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Thailand,
Cambodia, Hong Kong and countries across sub-Saharan Africa
About RRsat Global Communications Network
RRsat Global Communications
Network Ltd. (NASDAQ: RRST) provides global, comprehensive, content
management and distribution services to the rapidly expanding
television and radio broadcasting industries. Through its
proprietary "RRsat Global Network," composed of satellite and
terrestrial fiber optic transmission capacity and the public
Internet, RRsat is able to offer high-quality and flexible global
distribution services for content providers. RRsat's comprehensive
content management services include producing and playing out TV
content as well as providing satellite newsgathering services (SNG).
RRsat concurrently provide these services to more than 500
television and radio channels, covering more than 150 countries.
Visit the company's website www.RRsat.com for more information.
Safe Harbor Statement
This press release contains forward looking statements within the
meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended,
including statements regarding (i) the growth of our
business and the television and radio broadcasting industries, (ii)
our expectation to expand our client base and sell additional
services to our existing client base, (iii) our ability to
successfully integrate the teleports we acquired, (iv) our ability
to develop and commercialize the RRsat Global Internet TV
service, (v) our expectation to extend the average length of our
contracts in the future, and (vi) our ability to report future
successes. These forward-looking statements involve known and
unknown risks and uncertainties and are based on current
expectations, assumptions, estimates and projections about the
companies and the industry as of the date of this press release. The
company undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking
statements to reflect subsequent occurring events or circumstances,
or to changes in its expectations, except as may be required by law.
Forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties
that may cause actual results to differ materially from those
contemplated by the forward-looking statements, including the risks
indicated in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission
(SEC). For more details, please refer to our SEC filings and the
amendments thereto, including our Annual Report on Form 20-F for the
year ended December 31, 2008 and our Current Reports on Form 6-K. |
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