Monday, December 21, 2009

FOXTEL - TV To Really Get Excited About

BBC Worldwide – a key FOXTEL subscription television accomplice – introduces two new channels in Australia. Each is different and offers arresting quality: CBeebies, the UK's amount one children's channel, presents a blithely coloured apple targeting pre-school accouchement age-old six and under. The approach provides an alternate ambiance area accouchement are encouraged to apprentice through play.

The programming emphasises educational ball and is accurate by the amount BBC values, ensuring it's trustworthy, reliable and informative. In Australia, CBeebies will be advertising-free and accommodate a safe ambiance for accouchement presented by Aussie hosts to accompany bounded flavour and relevance.

Showcasing award-winning documentary and book programs, BBC Knowledge brings the apple to the awning with colour, passion, sensitivity, candour and depth. On BBC Knowledge, facts are fabricated alluring with the channel's programming proving the accuracy can be added absorbing than fiction. The approach brings audiences ball for the academician with absorbing experts and above programming. BBC Knowledge is a arresting hypothesis for the endlessly curious.

The approach provides 5 key programming strands enabling simple viewing: The World delves and explores new cultures about the world; Science & Technology explores new frontiers from amplitude to motoring; People explores aspects of the animal anatomy and mind; The Past brings actual events, places and humans aback to life, and; Business offers invaluable admonition to advice break on top of today's arduous business world.

Channel 111 is a accepted entertainment channel produced by FOXTEL and based from the Melbourne studios area FOXTEL manages the Comedy Channel.

FOXTEL Chief Executive Kim Williams AM said: "Since its inception, FOXTEL has led television artefact and affairs innovation, and launched abounding cogent channels for Australian viewers. CBeebies, BBC Knowledge and Channel 111 add to FOXTEL’s programming abyss and across accouterment valuable, beginning programming for our subscribers.

"FOXTEL is admiring to action these three superb channels as allotment of absolute FOXTEL subscriber packages abacus even greater amount to our service.

"CBeebies and BBC Knowledge were appear beforehand this year, and now FOXTEL is able to accommodate these channels advanced of the planned 2009 schedule, architecture on our subscriber's acceptance to BBC Worldwide's outstanding portfolio of all-around channels."

Channel 111 will cover accepted ball programming, produced by FOXTEL's Owned and Operated Group and will be offered as allotment of the Get Started package.

CBeebies will be allotment of the My Playtime package, and a abundant accession to the children's channels on FOXTEL including Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, Boomerang, Disney Channel, Disney Playhouse and Nick Jr. Programming highlights cover the much-loved 3rd & Bird, The Fimbles, Jackanory Junior, and Charlie & Lola.

BBC Knowledge will be accessible as allotment of the My World package and a accompaniment to the absolute documentary and absolute channels that cover National Geographic Channel, Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, Discovery Science, The History Channel and Crime & Investigation Network. November programming highlights cover Dan Cruickshank's Adventures in Architecture, Top Gear Polar Special and The Gunpowder Plot – both with Richard Hammond – and Tribal Wives.

BBC Worldwide Channels Australasia General Manager, Tony Iffland said: "Our accord with FOXTEL allows Australian admirers to acceptance an all-encompassing archive of aberrant above programming from BBC Worldwide.

"Following the barrage of BBC HD in mid-2008 as allotment of the accepted FOXTEL HD+ service, CBeebies and BBC Knowledge will aggrandize the BBC's Australasian portfolio to 5 channels – UKTV, BBC HD, CBeebies, BBC Knowledge and BBC World News."

BBC Worldwide affected abounding buying and administration ascendancy of UKTV on July 1, 2008. Its Channels business is based in North Ryde and works carefully with its North Sydney HQ.

About FOXTEL
FOXTEL is Australia's arch cable television provider and is affiliated to added than 1.5 actor homes on cable and digital through retail and broad distribution. FOXTEL strives to ensure subscribers acquisition TV they ambition to watch every time they about-face on through accumulation of added than 100 channels accoutrement news, sport, accepted entertainment, movies, documentaries, music and children's programming. FOXTEL is endemic by Telstra Corporation Ltd (50%), The News Corporation Ltd (25%), and Consolidated Media Holdings Limited (25%).

About BBC Worldwide
BBC Worldwide Limited is the capital bartering arm and a wholly endemic accessory of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). The aggregation exists to maximise the amount of the BBC's assets for the account of the licence payer and advance in accessible account programming in acknowledgment for rights. The aggregation has seven amount businesses: BBC Worldwide Channels, BBC Worldwide Content & Production, BBC Worldwide Digital Media, BBC Worldwide Global Brands, BBC Worldwide Sales & Distribution, BBC Magazines and BBC Home Entertainment. In 2007/08, BBC Worldwide generated profits of £117.7million on sales of £916.3million.

About BBC Worldwide Channels
BBC Worldwide Channels is the UK's amount one all-embracing television approach anchorperson in agreement of reach. Its portfolio of 29 channels spans the globe, extensive audiences in 285 actor different homes in over 100 countries about the world.

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