World Television

28.10.05

World Television Launches Expanded British Satellite News Service

World Television, the corporate communications, news production, webcasting and event management company, is pleased to announce the launch of a new expanded British Satellite News (BSN) service following the renewal of its contract with the UK Government’s Foreign & Commonwealth office (FCO).

The contract, worth approximately £1.5m p.a., will run for three years from October 2005 with a further two year extension option period.

In response to demand from broadcasters for more content, World Television has built on the existing offering by increasing output by 50 per cent Monday to Thursday and by introducing an in-depth, ten-minute feature every Friday focussing on specific news-related subjects.

A newly redeveloped website (www.bsn.org.uk) is available in both English and Arabic and provides an enhanced offering featuring streaming video. This will enable programme producers to select stories by viewing them at their desktops alongside script information and other related reports.

BSN is currently used by over 450 broadcasters across Europe, Africa, the Middle East and South East Asia. The new service will strive to achieve greater penetration in core areas such as the Arabic speaking regions.

Steve Garvey, CEO, World Television Group said: “I am delighted BSN has decided to extend their service offering and am confident that, through the combination of increased output and the application of World Television’s technologies, BSN will build on its significant successes to date. BSN is designed to serve broadcasters’ needs and World Television will continue to innovate our offering to ensure it does so.”

BSN Editor Mike Nolan said, “We are enormously proud to be continuing with the BSN service. It is now becoming a prime source of news and information about Britain to many broadcasters and we are confident of recruiting even more television stations to the service.”