Globecast
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| Industry | Telecommunications, Broadcasting |
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| Headquarters | Issy les Moulineaux, France |
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Key people
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Christian Pinon, Olivier Barberot, Philippe Bernard |
| Products | Media processing and transmission services for television broadcasters and content owners |
| Parent | Orange S.A. |
| Subsidiaries | Nétia |
| Website | www.globecast.com |
Globecast is a service company for the radio, television and media industry, providing solutions for media and content management, aggregation, formatting, processing, transmission and distribution. These contents are feeding various television and radio platforms: direct-broadcast satellite (DBS), digital terrestrial television (DTT), cable TV, IPTV, TV for internet connected screens (OTT TV), digital signage networks, cinema theaters (DCP and live events delivery). Globecast is a key player in this industry, serving the needs for top 100 television broadcasters in the world.
Globecast has an established presence in Europe, America, Asia, Africa, Middle-East and Australia, through nineteen points of presence, among them twelve satellite telecommunication teleports and technical operation centers, all of them linked via an international terrestrial telecommunication network.
The company is fully owned by Orange. It is currently led by Philippe Bernard (previous CEO was Olivier Barberot; and before him Christian Pinon, Alain Baget).
In 2013, Globecast changed its visual identity (logo) and its name lost the uppercase C (former writing was GlobeCast).
The DEA is composed by the TDF (TéléDiffusion de France) company and Direction des Transmissions Audiovisuelles (DTA). DTA will then become known as GlobeCast.
The DEA also covers:
The technical operation center of GlobeCast in Paris (France), located at 61 rue des Archives, was long time known as SERTE. This name is still used sometimes by television professionals, even outside France, because it was used for many years. This technical center is a major routing node for television and radio feeds.
The SERTE acronym used to refer to: Service d'Exploitation Radio Télévision Extérieur (in English, Foreign radio and television operation center).
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