WRN at the IBC

Representatives of the WRN Commercial and Technical Teams will be attending this year's International Broadcasting Convention in Amsterdam.

Taking place between the 10th - 15th September at the RAI Centre in Amsterdam, the annual IBC is the leading international forum for the electronic media industry. Consisting of over 1,000 exhibitors and combining a highly respected and peer reviewed conference with an exhibition that demonstrates state of the art media technology, IBC is the event not to be missed for anyone involved in the world of content, creation, management and delivery.

If you would like to meet with the WRN Team at the IBC, contact Sales on [email protected].

For more information about the IBC visit www.ibc.org

FM for Israel, Jordan & the Palestinian Territories

WRN is excited about this joint venture by Israelis and Palestinians which allows broadcasters to reach over five million people in areas around Israel and the Palestinian West Bank, and parts of Jordan. Since first establishing a relationship with the station, WRN has launched four major international broadcasters on the FM network. WRN's collaboration offers broadcasters the opportunity to reach a wide spectrum of audiences, in one of the world's best known areas, in a variety of languages.

The station is a project originally sponsored by the European Union to promote peace in the region and is licensed by the Palestinian authority with an agreement to co-ordinate frequency usage with the Israeli authorities.

For more information on how to access this relay, please contact the WRN Sales Team at [email protected]

Sirius 4 Satellite for Africa

Sirius 4 is a platform covering the majority of Africa. Launched in 2007 and with a planned 15 year lifetime, Sirius 4 satellite has six transponders, some of which are already contracted to provide DTH bouquets - mainly in South Africa and Nigeria. There are also a growing number of religious neighbourhoods, making the satellite an attractive proposition for Christian clients. Sirius 4 also presents broadcasters with a low cost opportunity to reach Africa - hitherto very difficult to access via ku band capacity.

It is located at 4.8° East and uses Ku which can be received with 90cm dishes.

For more information on Sirius 4, please contact the WRN Sales team at [email protected].

Radio Guangdong Celebrates 60th Anniversary

For many years, in collaboration with WRN, the English service of Radio Guangdong has been instrumental in bringing news and views from this Southern Chinese province to a worldwide audience. The colourful, informative shows feature film stars and celebrities from the region, as well as people from outside of China who have decided to make Guangzhou their home.

This year, Radio Guangdong, along with the rest of China, celebrated the Peoples' Republic of China's 60th anniversary. In recognition of this, WRN focused an entire week of special mini feature programmes from Radio Guangdong throughout the week of September 26th - October 3rd, bringing more of the Cantonese sounds and flavours to audiences around the world.

Competitions were run to encourage listener feedback by email and were extremely successful, with comments from listeners as far flung as Germany, India, Ireland, New York, Malaysia, South Africa, and Ethiopia, amongst others. Perhaps the last word should go to this listener, from Trinidad:

"I wish to express my great appreciation to WRN for bringing Radio Guangdong and a slice of China each week to its worldwide listeners. It is indeed quite refreshing to hear domestic news and features from this southerly Chinese province of Guangzhou. How interesting it is to hear foreigners and locals alike speak on their fondness for living in this part of China with its various customs, unique cuisine, musical delights and other attractions to savour. Congratulations to Radio Guangdong for keeping us informed weekly on their part of the World! I hope soon they can be heard daily!"

IMG SW transmissions

When IMG came to WRN at very short notice to ask if it could provide Short Wave services to transmit Premiere League football match commentary into China, we were only too pleased to be able to help. Within 24 hours of the initial request, WRN was able to arrange for the transmitters to be in place and the first match of twelve, Manchester City versus Arsenal, was broadcast on the 12th September. Further matches continue to be broadcast at weekends up until the end of October.

IMG is the world's premier and most diversified sports, entertainment and media enterprise and is the largest independent sports producer in the world and a global leader in multi-genre production.

If you are thinking of using Short Wave services for transmission to any part of the world, please contact [email protected] as we have specialist expertise in this area.

WRN can launch you onto Sky Italia

This month WRN successfully launched the Word Network on Italy's premiere DTH platform Sky Italia, on EPG 823. WRN provided consultancy to liaise with Sky Italia and handled all aspects of the launch in providing general guidance, technical information and advice.

SKY Italia is an Italian digital satellite television platform owned by News Corporation which launched on 31 July 2003. It is similar in many ways to BSkyB's Sky Digital in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and like that network it is a major sports broadcaster. WRN also previously launched the Word Network on BSkyB's platform on EPG 591.

WRN can provide consultancy on platform launches and provide a full turn key solution in providing satellite capacity to providing ingest and play out services. Please contact the Sales team for more information on [email protected]