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Media Gateway adds 5 Russian channels to its content portfolio Media Gateway, the leading international digital rights content aggregator for premium content, today announced a deal with global Russian satellite television group RTV International to distribute the company's five Russian television channels, Russian music videos, and film library of nearly 900 Russian-language movies. United Arab Emirates: Saturday, August 05 - 2006 RTVi's television package currently includes five channels - RTVI, Nashe Kino, Detskiy Mir and RTVI-M. The deal, brokered by London-based Inter TV Ltd., the European and CIS distribution operations of RTVI, will see Media Gateway delivering premium Russian programming and television channels via digital multimedia distribution platforms such as IPTV, broadband, mobile phones, and Video On Demand to Russian audiences in Europe, Australia, the Middle East, and India. 'There are more than 45 million Russian-speakers spread all around the globe, and nearly half of those live outside the former Soviet republics. Through devices such as mobile phones and the Internet, we're now able to offer them their favorite Russian TV series, talk-shows, movies, cartoons, and music videos where they want, when they want, via the latest media distribution channels,' said Karri Zaremba, Chief Executive Officer of Media Gateway. Michael Borshchevsky, Managing Director of Inter TV, said, 'Our goal is to offer Russian-speaking people throughout the world an independent source of information and entertainment programming in their native language. Through partnering with Media Gateway, we can ensure we maximize our reach to Russian-speaking people in the most technologically advanced ways available to consumers today.' Related Information: About Media Gateway Media Gateway is the leading international Content Clearing House for digital media license rights of regional and international TV, film, music, radio and games content. Media Gateway ensures these rights are fully exploited by securing alternative modes of distribution, with a focus on live signal streaming or server-based video on demand play-out via IPTV, PC Broadband, Video on Demand, Mobile Telephony, and PDAs. About RTVI RTV International or RTVI is the first Russian Language independent television channel, broadcasted via satellite. Formerly known as NTV International, it is now the most recognizable and popular Russian language television channel in the world. NTV International and later RTVi as a successor (since the end of 2002) have collected the most well-known names in Russian media-business, Journalists, producers and presenters. RTVI continues best traditions of the new Russian independent media institution. At the moment RTVI is the only Russian-language TV in the world that is not under the Kremlin control. For more information, visit: http://www.rtvi.ru/english.html. Print Date: Saturday, August 05 - 2006 - 14:20:54 GMT+4 -- Members of the ZESTMedia list exchange news and views about the media in Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Maldives and Bhutan. Write to [email protected] If you got this mail as a forward, subscribe to ZESTMedia by sending a blank mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR, if you have a Yahoo! ID, by visiting http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTMedia/join/ Get all ZESTMedia mails sent out in a span of 24 hours in a single mail. Subscribe to the daily digest version by sending a blank mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], OR, if you have a Yahoo! Id, change your settings at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTMedia/join/ theZESTcommunity------------------------------------------------- ZESTCurrent: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCurrent/ ZESTEconomics: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTEconomics/ ZESTGlobal: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTGlobal/ ZESTMedia: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTMedia/ ZESTPoets: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTPoets/ ZESTCaste: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/ ZESTAlternative: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTAlternative/ TalkZEST: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkZEST/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTMedia/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
