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[Via Satellite 11-03-2016] Euronews, an international news channel in Europe, has contracted Globecast to bring its new HD channel to viewers across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. The channel’s launch in HD on Nov. 1 from Eutelsat’s Hot Bird video neighborhood follows the announcement by Eutelsat and Globecast at IBC 2016 to drive HD growth at Eutelsat’s most popular broadcast location.

Euronews covers world news and broadcasts in SD, 24 hours a day, seven days a week in 13 languages: Arabic, English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish and Ukrainian. Globecast has an ongoing relationship with the channel, distributing the SD variant. The new HD version of Euronews in English is encoded in MPEG-4 DVB S2 in a new Hot Bird platform designed to host premium international news and information channels.

“We recognize that the time is right for us to launch our HD offering. We are now able to bring premium news HD content to existing viewers, including premium hotels targeting business travellers and high-end tourists from all over the world, hospitality organizations, cable and IPTV operators as well as home viewers,” said François Schmitt, COO at Euronews.