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| Written by Natallia | |
| Thursday, 17 July 2008 | |
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Next July 18th at 1800 hours Minsk time (1700 hours Warsaw time, GMT +2) BELSAT TV will begin broadcasting into Belarus via the Sirius satellite. It will all start with a live broadcast of the Basovishcha Belarusian Music Festival, which has been taking place annually in Gródek near Białystok, Poland, for the past 14 years. This year for the first time viewers in Belarus will be able to watch the festival prize winners’ concert “live”.
The Belsat TV test signal may be launched on the Sirius satellite already prior to that date. The channel will be accessible on 5 degrees East orbit position, Horizontal polarization, 12379.6 MHz frequency. It is also available via the current Astra 1Kr satellite – 19.2 degrees East, Horizontal polarization, 10773 MHz frequency. Sirius is the most popular TV satellite in Belarus – nearly 50% of all dishes are directed towards it. According to a representative study conducted in Belarus, eight to ten percent of Belarusian households have satellite dishes and their number is growing at the annual rate of 20%. On July 18th, jointly with the start of broadcasts via the Sirius satellite, Belsat TV will offer a new programme line-up. There will be six hours of daily programming rather than three hours of programming broadcast twice. Belsat will offer new appealing shows and films. Every day after the main edition of the Obektiv news programme broadcast live at 9:00 PM, viewers will be able to watch Belsat’s best in-house productions: current event shows, documentaries and feature reports. There will be two new programmes produced in collaboration with Deutsche Welle: European Journal and Euromaxxx. Weekends at Belsat TV will have no repeats but diversified original programming for the whole family - from high-quality world cinema (Amelia, Motorcycle Diaries, Mulholland Drive, Taxi), through weekly wrap-ups of current events (Press Express, Obektiv – Special Edition), entertainment and cultural shows (Zapalnichka hit parade, cultural Kukhnia, satirical Zhaltukha) to documentary films and feature reports. The collaboration with Lithuanian public television will continue (Forum current event show), and the Week with Radio Svoboda produced in cooperation with Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty will start in August. BELSAT TV is a satellite channel broadcasting in Belarusian. Created by Belarusians for Belarusians, Belsat programmes are produced in Warsaw, Bialystok and Vilnius as well as in Minsk and other Belarusian cities. The channel operates in response to the demand expressed by the democratic community in Belarus. The Belsat TV project, financed from the start by the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is financially and organizationally assisted by the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Lithuanian public television. The on-going training of Belsat journalists is co-financed by the governments of the United Kingdom and Ireland. Talks are in progress to get training and programming support from the U.S.A., Canada, Sweden and the Netherlands. The channel has also applied for European Union subsidies. For more information contact: Beata PaklepaDeputy Director BELSAT TV TVP S.A., ul. J.P. Woronicza 17 00-999 Warszawa mobile: 0 605 605 631, tel.:+ 48 22 387 69 07 This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it |
