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Euronews strengthens in Oceania

Pascale Paoli Lebailly ©RapidTVNews | 09-09-2008

Euronews is expanding its presence in Oceania, signing new distribution agreements in New Zealand, where it launched on September 1, and in Australia.

In New Zealand, Euronews now reaches one million homes and  is broadcast in English on channels Stratos TV and Triangle TV, in the morning and in the evening.

Stratos is a national channel available free of charge on both the Sky TV and Freeview platforms. Triangle is a regional terrestrial television broadcaster in Auckland and Wellington.

Since September 4, Euronews has also been broadcast via Australian TransACT’s cable broadband network, that covers capital city Canberra.

Last June , the channel also joined UBI World TV, a multi-lingual and multi-cultural satellite platform broadcasting in languages other than English to 40,000 subscribers.

Before that, Euronews was already distributed on Australian ethinc minority satellite platform SelecTV as well as on Canal Satellite New Caledonia.

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