A&E History: 3 Launches, 1 Week.In the span of seven days, A&E Television Networks announced the launching of three History-branded channels: one each in Israel Israel, in the Bible Israel (ĭz`rēəl, ĭz`rāəl) [as understood by Hebrews,=he strives with God], according to the book of Genesis, name given to Jacob as eponymous ancestor of the Hebrews, the chosen people of God. , Turkey and China. The History Channel can now be viewed in Israel courtesy of the Jerusalem-based Tel-Ad Broadcasting. Tel-Ad and A&E joined forces to place The History Channel (or "Arutz Hahistoria" in Hebrew) on the YES DBS (Direct Broadcast Satellite) A one-way TV broadcast service from a communications satellite to a small round or oval dish antenna no larger than 20" in diameter. platform last month and make it available to some 500,000 subscribers. In Turkey, a deal was brokered with Istanbul-based Merkez Sistem Filmcilik for a half-day's worth of History programming on Star Digital, a digital platform that reaches approximately 100,000 subs. And three hours of The History Channel can be viewed daily on China's Sun Television, a cable and satellite platform. The primetime offering premiered August 8 with a party showcasing the Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. Philharmonic and several Chinese Chinese, subfamily of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages (see Sino-Tibetan languages), which is also sometimes grouped with the Tai, or Thai, languages in a Sinitic subfamily of the Sino-Tibetan language stock. celebrities. |
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