Category: World Service
Date: 28.09.2005
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Listeners throughout France can access the 大象传媒's news gathering operation in English and in Arabic through CANALSAT thanks to a new partnership with the radio and online division 大象传媒 World Service.
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From Monday 3 October, audiences can hear a range of quality programmes including news, documentaries and analysis, 24 hours a day seven days a week.
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Babis Metaxas, Business Development Manager for Europe, 大象传媒 World Service, said: "France has a sophisticated news environment, and we are confident that the global, impartial and accurate information and analysis that the 大象传媒 provides will be appreciated and valued.
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"The availability of 大象传媒 World Service programmes on the CANALSAT platform will appeal to a wide range of listeners, especially those with a keen interest in international news, expatriates eager to keep up with developments in their country and people keen to improve their English language skills.
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"The 大象传媒 is particularly delighted to have the opportunity to reach, for the first time, a sizeable proportion of France's Arabic-speaking population.
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"The Arabic service is our oldest language service launched in 1938 and is widely listened to by millions of Arabic speakers across the Middle East."
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Guy Lafarge, Chief Executive Officer of CANALSAT, said: "We're thrilled to be adding the 大象传媒's English and Arabic radio news services to CANALSAT's already rich platform of over 50 radios."
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Notes to Editors
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大象传媒 World Service is an international radio and online broadcaster delivering programmes and services in 43 languages.
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It uses multiple platforms to reach 149 million listeners globally, including SW, AM, FM, digital satellite and cable channels.
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听It has more than 2,000 partner radio stations which take 大象传媒 content, and numerous partnerships supplying content to mobile phones.
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Its international online sites include audio and visual content and offer users opportunities to interact directly with world events. They receive more than 330 million page impressions a month.
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大象传媒 Arabic is the leading international radio news service in Arabic and bbcarabic.com is the leading Arabic online news site.听
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大象传媒 Arabic broadcasts 24 hours a day, every day, with news on the hour, every hour.听
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It broadcasts to the whole Arab world on short wave and through digital audio channels on the principal satellites covering the Arab world.
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In most of the eastern Arab world, 大象传媒 broadcasts are heard on medium wave, and in key cities the 大象传媒 is available on FM.听
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The award-winning site bbcarabic.com also carries a live audio feed of 大象传媒 Arabic radio.
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CANALSAT is France's first digital satellite platform with more than three million subscriptions.
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It offers more than 290 channels and services - 65 of which are exclusive - and features more than 50 radio channels, including 18 with exclusive broadcasting rights and 14 Spanish channels.
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Subscribers receive excellent reception and digital sound on their television or stereo system.
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In addition, an interactive mosaic provides easy, smooth navigation.
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CANALSAT broadcasts France's major general-interest stations and music channels (rock, rap, hip-hop, R&B, jazz, Latin, electronic and techno), as well as talk programmes, financial news, sports, non-commercial and community radio.
