Arqiva Announces Contract for Chello Zone Channel Feed Playout

Arqiva, a provider of network solutions at the heart of the broadcast and mobile communications industry, has announced that it has begun a five-year contract for playout of Chello Zone's Extreme Sports Channel on the UK Sky platform.
The 3Mb/s high-adrenalin channel is ingested at Arqiva's Chalfont Grove facility and uplinked onto an Arqiva transporter on the Eurobird satellite. Extreme Sports Channel is the seventeenth Chello Zone (formerly Zonemedia) channel feed to be fully played out by Arqiva, with full playout services also provided for the popular Zone Horror and Zone Reality channels on the UK Sky platform.
Arqiva also plays out Chello Zone's heavily subscribed Zone Romantica channels in Europe.
Dermott Short, CEO of Chello Zone, said: "Over our ten year relationship with Arqiva we have consistently found them to be a highly reliable and customer focused company, large enough and flexible enough to meet our growing requirements. Arqiva is a trusted supplier and a valued technology partner for our expanding business."
John Bozza, Director of Sales at Arqiva's Satellite Media Solutions division, added: "We are delighted that Chello Zone continue to show such confidence in our services and are excited to be adding a seventeenth Chello Zone channel to our playout portfoilo. As a major international broadcaster with an ever-growing subscriber base, Chello Zone demands exceptionally high levels of technology and service, which we are pleased to be able to deliver. We very much look forward to continuing and further growing this valuable partnership."
The Extreme Sports Channel is available on Sky Channel 419 and Virgin Media channel 527.
Arqiva provides much of the infrastructure behind television, radio and wireless communications in the UK and has a growing presence in Ireland, mainland Europe and the USA.
The company has its headquarters in Hampshire, with other major UK offices in London, Buckinghamshire and Yorkshire, and major customers include ITV, Channel 4, Five, the BBC, BSkyB and Classic FM.
Further information is available at: www.arqiva.com.
Chello Zone is a business of Chellomedia and is a leading international broadcaster, distributor and representative of thematic television channels. The company has 18 offices and studios throughout Europe, Asia and Latin America.
Further information is available at: www.zonemedia.net.
(KMcA/JM)