{"id":84862,"date":"2011-05-10T19:47:33","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T11:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/globecast-jib-launch-nhk-world-hd-on-eurobird-1\/"},"modified":"2011-05-10T19:47:33","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T11:47:33","slug":"globecast-jib-launch-nhk-world-hd-on-eurobird-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/globecast-jib-launch-nhk-world-hd-on-eurobird-1\/","title":{"rendered":"GlobeCast, JIB Launch NHK World HD on Eurobird 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[05-10-11] <b>GlobeCast<\/b> and <b>Japan International Broadcasting<\/b>&nbsp;(JIB) have launched NHK World HD on the <b>Sky<\/b> and <b>Freesat<\/b> platforms in the United Kingdom, the companies announced May 9.<br \/>\nGlobeCast is providing the re-encoding, uplink, and capacity on <b>Eutelsat\u2019s<\/b> Eurobird 1 to deliver the channel to more than 10 million Sky subscribers and 1 million Freesat viewers.<br \/>\nThe NHK World HD feed is downlinked in France at GlobeCast\u2019s Bercenay and Sainte Assise teleports, and sent via fiber on GlobeCast\u2019s backbone network to the London operations center, where the video is re-encoded and AC3 audio is added. The channel is then uplinked to the Eurobird 1 satellite for the Sky platform.<br \/>\n\u201cThe live video coverage of the earthquake and tsunami which hit Eastern Japan on March 11 displayed the power of HD television extensively. Now we are able to make this state of the art technology and powerful English language news coverage available to the television viewers in the United Kingdom through our partnership between GlobeCast,\u201d JIB CEO Hatsuhisa Takashima said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[05-10-11] GlobeCast and Japan International Broadcasting&nbsp;(JIB) have launched NHK World HD on the Sky and Freesat platforms in the United Kingdom, the companies announced May 9. GlobeCast is providing the re-encoding, uplink, and capacity on Eutelsat\u2019s Eurobird 1 to deliver the channel to more than 10 million Sky subscribers and 1 million Freesat viewers. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84862"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}