New 116 channels television service for Haiti by Thomson Video Networks

A new license-holding company, Digital Satellite System (DSS), will operate the service under the brand name NUtv, and the decision to specify an advanced technical solution from Thomson Video Networks for the head end allows DSS to overcome the challenges of bringing a high-quality service to the whole nation. NUtv will offer 116 channels. Each of these channels will carry dual audio.

"This kind of project, 116 channels television service in Haiti, could not have been conceived until very recently, but with Thomson Video Networks' new technological developments, together with highly skilled and experienced integration services from BIG, Haiti can now benefit from a terrestrial television service that is among the most advanced in the world," said Mark Renfroe, Thomson Video Networks' vice president and managing director for the Americas. The station which will be of great help as it will improve the education sector. It will also raise DSS revenues. International advertising is substituted by local advertising on 20 of the channels, with automated triggering and local logo insertion.

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