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GLOBECAST AUSTRALIA GIVES AN OLYMPIC PERFORMANCE The Vancouver Winter Olympics were beamed to the world via the resources of GlobeCast Australia, in both HD and SD, on multiple simultaneous channels. GlobeCast Australia, in consultation with Olympic Broadcast Services and Sky New Zealand, crafted a s  olution that would deliver Sky NZ’s unilateral needs, whilst establishing a successful platform for onward distribution to Europe, Asia and the Americas – to more than 50 takers in all, major broadcasters such as ESPN, European Broadcasting Union and Asia Broadcasting Union members, and to sports agencies such as IMG.“This is the single biggest overseas deployment for global event delivery by GlobeCast Australia,” according to GlobeCast Australia Chief Executive Mike Lattin. “Whilst we work daily with major global broadcasters and events, it was quite humbling to be entrusted with an event that occurs once every 4 years and requires 24/7 transmission to every corner of the globe for two full weeks,” he said. “To our specific key clients in the Asia Pacific, such as Sky New Zealand, we were proud to deliver a first-class coverage.” GlobeCast Australia was moving an Olympic News Channel feed non-stop as well as live coverage of the various events. In all, it was an 8 channel multiplex. Project Director for the bid and delivery was GCA Commercial Director Andrew Nealon whilst the Project Managers were DSNG Director Greg Littrich - on location with a team of GlobeCast Australia engineers in Vancouver - and Operations Manager Peter Doueihi in the GlobeCast Australia Broadcast Centre in Sydney. The team put in place two completely diverse fibre routes from Vancouver to Sydney, one with SingTel and one with TATA. In addition, the teleport, fibre and satellite resources of GlobeCast Australia were employed. And a specific lease was taken on AsiaSat5 to supplement GlobeCast Australia’s permanent lease on AS5. The incoming fibre signals were being turned in the broadcast centre to AS5 and back to the northern hemisphere on fibre.Because of the company’s enviable sporting pedigree, Project Director Andrew Nealon had the vision to put together the global delivery solution for the Winter Olympics. Read more.
V8 2010 SEASON ROARS TO LIFE  GlobeCast Australia’s satellite engineers and its GlobeCam miniature camera unit are both in the Middle East for the launch of the V8 Series 2010. With rock superstar Pink as the ambassador for the series for the next three years, and with Team Vodafone racing Holden instead of Ford, leaving only three teams to run Fords, it’s a whole new race in 2010! The annual series kicks off with two rounds from the Middle East, the first is a debut race in Abu Dhabi and the second is a return to Bahrain the last weekend of February; before the cars, drivers and the GlobeCast Australia teams head back down under for the first Australian event, in Adelaide in March. Race One, the Abu Dhabi event runs from February 18 to 20, and the series will once again culminate with a weekend of racing at Sydney’s Olympic Park Homebush street circuit, the first weekend in December. V8 Supercars screen live on Australia’s Seven Network, New Zealand’s TV3, and to networks in Europe, the Middle East and America, via GlobeCast Australia’s global fibre and satellite network. WE’RE TACKLING MORE IN HIGH DEFINITION It’s Super 14 time ... fourteen teams, three countries of origin, millions of viewers internationally and for the first time in 2010 more than half the action is in High Definition with GlobeCast Australia. Super 14 is the only sporting tournament in the world that is played across so many different time zones, around Au  stralia, in New Zealand and South Africa. But viewer interest in the showdowns extends further, as far as Europe and the Middle East. In 2010, from Friday February 12 when teams run on to fields in Auckland, Perth and Bleomfontein, GlobeCast Australia will be moving the action live around the Globe with between 50 and 60% of the games in HD. Client networks through until May include BskyB, Sky New Zealand, Fox Sports, Fiji TV, JSports Japan, MNet South Africa, Sky Italia and the Australia Network across Asia to India. Rugby isn’t the only sport drawing on our HD resources, with AFL for FOX Sports also scheduled in February and March. Elsewhere, our SD fleet is covering everything from NBL and golf – both the Australian Women’s Open and the Ladies Masters – to Ironman events in the surf; along with Superbikes, V8 and Formula One motor racing, and thoroughbred horse racing.HELPING HAND TO TROPFEST 2010  GlobeCast Australia successfully delivered Tropfest 2010 live via satellite to audiences around Australia. This year, all films featured a dice. Movie Extra Tropfest is the largest short film festival in the world and Australia’s most prestigious, contributing to enhancing talent and creativity in the film and TV industry .. it’s launched more than a dozen stellar careers since actor and director John Polson conceived it 18 years ago. Nationally, more than 150,000 people gathered at free events to watch the 16 finalist films live on big screens on Sunday February 21, from Cairns in the north to Hobart in the south, Adelaide, Canberra, Melbourne, Surfers and Brisbane.In 2009, for the first time, Movie Extra conducted a live television broadcast of the event as part of their naming rights sponsorship of the Australian events. GlobeCast Australia delivered that live TV signal as well for the 2010 events. This partnership brings the festival to more than 1 million subscribers live at home and at unofficial sites including pubs, clubs and community centres around the country.
IMPORTANT BUSINESS EVENTS, LIVE The biggest Australian companies trust GlobeCast Australia with their important live events.
TAKING AUSTRALIA TO THE WORLD GlobeCast Australia engineers and equipment will be on location throughout November and December for one of the biggest live reality television show broadcasts in the world. The team will deploy to work on the ninth season of Granada’s “I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here” for Britain’s ITV. Satellite uplink infrastructure will be installed in the rainforests of northern New South Wales, with connectivity to GlobeCast Australia’s international network of fibre and satellites.GlobeCast Australia was also on location in Costa Rica earlier this year, as Granada produced a season of the show for America’s NBC, and the team has also previously worked on the German version, “Ich Bin Ein Star”. It’s just one example of several major broadcasts recently which showcased Australian locations and events for global audiences. In September, GlobeCast Australia delivered the Australian leg of the World Rally Championships to international a WE’RE BIG ON THE BIG SCREEN GlobeCast Australia is leading global delivery of major events, live on to cinema screens. Key broa
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PACIFIC ISLANDS MEET A SUCCESS GlobeCast Australia was appointed by the Australian Government as Satellite Services provider for this year’s Pacific Islands Forum. Key politicians and media from more than a dozen Pacific nations attended the forum in Cairns in August. GlobeCast Australia was the exclusive provider for satellite uplink and distribution. Clients included all Australian networks, Sky News Australia, New Zealand’s TV3 and TVNZ, and Media Niugini. Coverage was also distributed across the region on the Australia Network news bulletins. The Forum’s membership has increased from the original seven founding members (Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, Nauru, New Zealand, Tonga and Samoa) to also include the Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Niue, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu and Vanuatu, New Caledonia and French Polynesia. Current Forum Observers include the Commonwealth (2006) and the Asia Development Bank (2006). Fiji was suspended earlier this year. GlobeCast Australia was also the Government appointed Host Broadcaster of APEC in 2007.
THANKS FOR THE BOOKINGS! GlobeCast Australia has just processed its 100,000th booking in ScheduALL. So thank you to our valued clients! The milestone Booking #100,000 was reached in early June, 2009. Rapid growth in global demand for high-end content distribution has seen GlobeCast Australia quadruple its annual bookings volume. Read More (In Picture - Rini Chandra, Renee Bulbert & Louise Hawthorne)
SATMAGAZINE: GLOBECAST AUSTRALIA CASE STUDY GlobeCast Australia’s Broadcast Centre in Sydney, which is a 24/7/365 upgraded Teleport and Master Control, is a global junction OUR SURGICAL PRECISION IS GLOBAL
BEST JOB IN THE WORLD
Global distribution of Tourism Queensland’s Best Job in the World Campaign was the exclusive responsibility of GlobeCast Australia. Inner Sanctum Media partnered with GlobeCast Australia and Reuters to manage the intense worldwide media interest on behalf of Tourism Queensland, as the 16 finalists went through a week of assessment in early May. Arguably the most successful tourism promotion ever, it received over 34,000 applications from just about every country. There were daily domestic and international pool feeds as well as live and tape unilateral needs for broadcasters from visiting countries including France, Germany, Japan, New Zealand and Canada. Read More
A SUMMER OF TENNIS  The biggest sporting events this Summer are brought to you by GlobeCast Australia, including a bumper January 2010 of Tennis. This January’s slate of tennis is bigger than any GlobeCast Australia has tackled before. From Perth to Brisbane, from Adelaide to Sydney and Melbourne, in all there will be 40 days of live tennis television coverage delivered nationally and internationally. Across Australia, broadcasts will be delivered to the Seven Network and FOX Sports. Events include the Hopman Cup in Perth, the World Tennis Challenge in Adelaide, the Medibank International in Sydney, the Brisbane International, and to crown the month, the Australian Open in Melbourne. The Tennis Bonanza follows daily delivery of marquee sporting events including two of the most globally recognised golf tournaments in November and December 2009: the Masters Golf from Melbourne starring Tiger Woods (for Chief Entertainment’s global distribution) and the prestigious Australian Open from Sydney for Network Ten.
GlobeCast Australia has announced a major contract with The World Games in Taiwan in July, 2009. GlobeCast Australia’s live, miniature camera unit, GlobeCam, will transmit pictures from the Air Sports competition, with the best parachutists from around the world competing. Miniature cameras will be on skydivers’ helmets and on two helicopters, to capture breath-taking action as it occurs. The GlobeCam team will remotely switch the cameras from the ground. Read More GlobeCam Page | |
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tt, Louise Hawthorne and Renee Bulbert works to customise solutions to assist client needs, during both times of crisis and normal operational schedules. Our state of the art 24/7 Master Control and Teleport in Sydney’s CBD monitors full time channels and scheduled transmissions, moving around one million hours of content each year. Patrick Coyle and the Master Control team ensure bookings needs are met with personalised service no matter what the time. GlobeCast Australia also operates Australia’s largest fleet of DSNG vehicles to service client needs - whether news, events or sports - with 10 units and internationally skilled engineers earning the respect and gratitude of clients. When the world needs to know, GlobeCast Australia is helping its clients reach the world. 
that enables the connection of broadcasters and events from across the globe. This year, GlobeCast’s Teleport and Master Control are receiving major enhancements and re-designs. This is being accomplished to assist increased business expansion and to offer even higher levels of service to clients. The Master Control is increasing in size by 100 percent to ensure GlobeCast Australia continues to “reach the world.” In fact, GlobeCast Australia in June processed its 100,000th booking in its electronic booking system, ScheduALL. 
GlobeCast Australia beamed live surgeries from six countries to an international convention in Far North Queensland in June. Over three days, eminent surgeons were gathered in Cairns. The state of the art conference was programming up to three live surgeries every day from June 21 to 23. Conference delegates could ask questions while viewing the operations live. The operations were live from hospitals in Berlin in Germany, Riyadh in Saudi Arabia, Kochi in India, Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, Seoul in South Korea, Okayama in Japan and the Children’s Hospital in Melbourne. 
