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To: Stoctrash who wrote (32624)	4/23/1998 3:32:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

Egypt's DTH satelites............................... flatoday.com For April 23, 1998 Egypt set to launch its first satellite Copyright c 1998, The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast or re-distributed directly or re-directly. CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Nilesat, the Arab world's first broadcast satellite, will be launched next Tuesday to carry Egyptian television and radio programs from North Africa to the Persian Gulf. The state-run Egyptian Satellite Co. already has rented out spare channels to the ART Arabic-language network and the Showtime Group and is expected to sign a contract soon with Libyan Television, officials said. Philippe Berterottiere, director of marketing for Arianespace, which will launch the satellite, told reporters Wednesday that the French-built satellite "will further Egypt's very comprehensive plan for developing its media capabilities." Much of the programing on the 21 channels reserved for Egypt will come from the modern Media Production City that the government has built outside Cairo. "We expect them to talk about a second satellite quite soon," Berterottiere added. The Arab world already has access to three Arabsats, owned by the 22 members of the Cairo-headquartered Arab League. But the Arabsats, in operation since the mid-1980s, have been reserved mainly for telephone and data transmission.