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To: BillyG who wrote (34307)	7/15/1998 8:55:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

Another INTELSAT headend............................... newsalert.com Teleglobe announcement/contract Reuters Story - July 15, 1998 15:53 Jump to first matched termFull text of press release from Canadian Corporate News) JULY 15, 1998 Teleglobe Awarded Contract to Transport Foreign Language Programming from Six Different Nations MCLEAN, VIRGINIA-- Contract Awarded by EABC, Largest North American Provider of Foreign Language, Ethnic Programming Teleglobe, one of the world's leading international telecommunications carriers, has been chosen by the Ethnic-American Broadcasting Company (EABC), North America's largest provider of foreign language programming, to facilitate the delivery of international sports, news and entertainment television shows from six different nations to EABC's master control center in the United States. Ethnic programming is carried 24 hours a day over Teleglobe's overseas fiber optic cable and satellite network, then repackaged and distributed by EABC to its nationwide subscribers. "Teleglobe is proud to transport such a large volume of programming for EABC. With program channels originating in China, the Middle East, Singapore and the Ukraine, our extensive digital MPEG-2 based broadcast network facilitates EABC's requirements for transmission from a variety of Ocean Regions," said Sean J.W. Sullivan, executive director, broadcast sales, Teleglobe USA Inc. "Our intercontinental network is able to collect these channels from around the globe and deliver them to a single transmission destination for Direct to Home distribution in the United States." Through Teleglobe's INTELSAT signatory status, as well as its new high-speed Millennium(sm) ATM broadcast network, Teleglobe is able to offer highest quality, low-cost transmission from the far reaches of world, with the rapid turnaround demanded by the fast-paced broadcast environment. Launched in January of 1998, Teleglobe's Millennium service is a technological breakthrough which sends video formatted in the MPEG-2 4:2:2 standard for high definition and digital TV over a bandwidth-efficient undersea ATM fiber optic backbone between Europe and North America.