New Skies' Latin American Video Neighborhood Expands with Addition of Brazilian Religious Channel.LAS VEGAS Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. -- New Skies welcomes Rede Cancao Nova to its Latin American video community on NSS-806. The religious broadcaster launches its international channel on NSS-806 reaching Portuguese-speaking audiences across Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. and Europe. New Skies Satellites , an SES GLOBAL company (Euronext Paris Euronext Paris is France's securities market, formerly known as the Paris Bourse, which merged with the Amsterdam and Brussels exchanges in September 2000 to form Euronext NV, which is the second largest exchange in Europe behind the London Stock Exchange. :SESG SESG Systems Engineering Steering Group SESG Software Engineering Support Group SESG System Engineering Sub-Group ) (LuxX:SESG), today announced that Rede Cancao Nova, the Brazilian Catholic broadcaster, has chosen its NSS-806 Latin American satellite to distribute its free-to-air international channel to cable operators, radio and television affiliates and the general public across Latin America and Europe. "New Skies is pleased to welcome Cancao Nova to our Latin American video neighborhood on NSS-806," said Jurandir Pitsch, New Skies' senior sales director of Latin America and the Caribbean. "Cancao Nova's decision to choose NSS-806 reconfirms the satellite's role as Latin America's most attractive platform for video distribution and further strengthens New Skies' position in supporting spiritual and ethnic broadcasters in reaching new audiences outside of their domestic markets. With its global fleet and mediaport network, New Skies offers religious and ethnic broadcasters a compelling satellite solution for all of their program distribution needs." Cancao Nova targets the Portuguese-speaking community in Europe and Latin America and is broadcast 24 hours a day. The channel's mission is to spread its message through the use of mass media and to that effect Cancao Nova operates a number of radio channels and a domestic television channel in Brazil. "New Skies operates one of the leading video neighborhoods in Latin America; joining NSS-806 marks a major step in the development of our channel which seeks to reach out to the Catholic community throughout the world. NSS-806's widespread coverage allows us to expand to new viewers across Latin America and Europe," said Wellington Silva Jardim Silva Jardim is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro. Its population was 23,222 (2005) and its area is 938 km².[1] References 1. ^ IBGE - [1] , President of Rede Cancao Nova. "We selected the satellite for its high penetration of cable headends, as well as for its superb, high-powered coverage." About the NSS-806 Video Neighborhood NSS-806 is located at 319.5 degrees east, which provides an excellent look angle into Latin American markets while also reaching the Iberian peninsula Iberian Peninsula, c.230,400 sq mi (596,740 sq km), SW Europe, separated from the rest of Europe by the Pyrenees. Comprising Spain and Portugal, it is washed on the N and W by the Atlantic Ocean and on the S and E by the Mediterranean Sea; the Strait of Gibraltar , the Canary Islands Canary Islands, Span. Islas Canarias, group of seven islands (1990 pop. 1,589,403), 2,808 sq mi (7,273 sq km), autonomous region of Spain, in the Atlantic Ocean off Western Sahara. They constitute two provinces of Spain. Santa Cruz de Tenerife (1990 pop. , Western Europe and much of Eastern Europe. New Skies' NSS-806 is the platform of choice for many of the region's national broadcasters and cable programmers, as well as a number international entertainment companies. NSS-806's video neighborhood includes ESPN Brasil, Fox, MGM MGM in full Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. U.S. corporation and film studio. It was formed when the film distributor Marcus Loew, who bought Metro Pictures in 1920, merged it with the Goldwyn production company in 1924 and with Louis B. Mayer Pictures in 1925. , Universal, Eurovision (EBU EBU European Broadcasting Union EBU English Bridge Union EBU Enterprise Backup Utility (Oracle 7) EBU European Boxing Union EBU European Board of Urology EBU Electronic Business Unit EBU Equivalent Billing Unit EBU Engine Build Unit ), thus forming one of the largest video communities in Latin America. NSS-806 carries more than 120 channels and reaches a community of over 3,500 cable headends and 14 million households in South, Central and North America. About Rede Cancao Nova Father Jonas Abib founded the Cancao Nova community in 1978 in Lorena City, Brazil; and is part of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal Charismatic Catholicism, also known as Catholic Charismatic Renewal is a movement within the Catholic Church which is very similar to the Pentecostal and Evangelical movements. with the mission to evangelize e·van·gel·ize v. e·van·gel·ized, e·van·gel·iz·ing, e·van·gel·iz·es v.tr. 1. To preach the gospel to. 2. To convert to Christianity. v.intr. To preach the gospel. through social communication. The community uses mass media, as a modern version of the pulpit, and music (in Portuguese Cancao Nova means New Music), as the pillars of Rede Cancao Nova. Rede Cancao Nova operates a complex of studios, AM, FM, MW and SW radio channels as well as a national and an international television channel with a significant presence in Portugal (Fatima). Further information is available at www.cancaonova.net About New Skies Satellites New Skies Satellites is an SES GLOBAL company (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange The Luxembourg Stock Exchange (French: Bourse de Luxembourg) is a stock exchange based in Luxembourg City, in southern Luxembourg. : SESG) offering satellite communication services to a range of customers including telecommunications providers, broadcasters, corporations and governments around the world. New Skies owns and operates a global fleet of five satellites in orbit, with an additional spacecraft under construction (NSS-8) and ground facilities around the world. Headquartered in The Hague, the company has offices in Hong Kong, New Delhi, Sao Paulo, Singapore, Sydney and Washington, D.C. In addition to New Skies, SES GLOBAL wholly owns market-leading satellite operators SES ASTRA in Europe and SES AMERICOM in the United States and also holds strategic participations in AsiaSat in Asia, Star One in Latin America, SES Sirius in Europe, Ciel in Canada and Quetzsat in Mexico. SES GLOBAL provides outstanding satellite communications solutions via a combined fleet of 43 satellites across the globe. Further information on New Skies is available at www.newskies.com and on SES GLOBAL at www.ses-global.com |
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