GlobeCast Delivers ESPN Classic to the UK via Satellite

[BGonaSTICK]

ESPN Inc, the world’s leading multinational, multimedia sports entertainment company, has struck a deal with GlobeCast – a global content management and delivery company - to deliver ESPN Classic, the company’s first UK-dedicated sports channel, to the Sky Digital platform. Launched this week using GlobeCast’s capacity on the Eurobird satellite , ESPN Classic is devoted entirely to the greatest moments and legends of sport with a mix of all-time classic highlights, matches, movies, interviews, profiles and documentaries.

GlobeCast’s solution for ESPN includes connectivity from the broadcaster’s playout facility in West London to GlobeCast, where the feed is encoded, multiplexed then sent to GlobeCast’s Brookmans Park teleport for uplink to the Sky Digital platform using GlobeCast’s Eurobird capacity. ESPN Classic is available 24 hours a day on Sky’s EPG channel 442.

GlobeCast has an established relationship with ESPN Classic, providing a content and delivery services for the channel’s existing French, Italian and European feeds via Astra at 19.2ºE, Hotbird at 13ºE and Sirius 2 4.8ºE respectively.