Globecast

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 and Middle-East, 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). Autumn 1996: in France, activities of France Telecom in the broadcast industry are split between two new entities: Division Multimedia (DMM) and Division des Entreprises Audiovisuelles (DEA). 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 "Audiovisuel International" (AVI) marketing department of France Telecom Réseaux & Services Internationaux (FTRSI); the shares of the following companies: 100% of Maxat (UK), 40% of Keystone (USA) and 20% of TIBA (Argentina); the services of Direction des Opérations of TDF; three operation centers of FTRSI, TDF and the Direction des réseaux Nationaux (DRN); the "delegation of the image service", which purpose was the promotion of the Telecom 2 satellite.