RRSat Signs Deal With 21st Century Fox's International Channels

RRsat Global Communications Network Ltd. RRST, a leading provider of comprehensive digital content management and global distribution services to the television and radio broadcasting industry, announced today that it has signed a long-term agreement with Fox International Channels (FIC), 21st Century Fox's international multi-media business, to support broadcast of its French channels throughout Africa. FIC, which operates more than 300 channels globally, reaching over 1.6 billion viewers worldwide, is now expanding its content reach to the African continent with the RRsat's Global Network and MEASAT Satellite Systems Sdn. Bhd.'s ("MEASAT") AFRICASAT-1a satellite. RRsat is supporting FIC's extended African content reach with the launch of some of its main factual TV brands: National Geographic Channel, Nat Geo Wild and the travelling channel Voyage via the new RRsat C-Band platform on AFRICASAT-1a to viewers throughout the continent. See full press release