TS News - Fox Kids Launched In Latin America

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• Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 09:07:58 +0900
• From owner-ts-news@tele-satellit.com Sun Feb 9 19: 15:10 1997

TELE-satellit News, 10 February 1997

Fox Kids Launched In Latin America
  NEW YORK, New York, USA, 97/02/10 (TS) -- Fox Television has launched its
children's TV network, Fox Kids Network, in Latin America. Fox Kids Network
Worldwide has joined Canal Fox on PanAmSat's PAS-3 Atlantic Ocean Region
satellite,

  The new PAS-3 service consists of one digital channel on the satellite's
C-band Pan-American beam, which covers virtually all of Latin America and
the Caribbean. The Fox Kids signal is being transmitted to PAS-3 from
PanAmSat's Global Operations Center in Atlanta, Ga.  The channel joins a
PAS-3 programmer lineup that includes, along with Canal Fox, the BBC, CCTV,
Discovery, ESPN, HBO, Viacom and The Weather Channel.

  "With its PAS-3 service, Fox Kids joins its sister channel in being able
to access the vast majority of cable households in Latin America," said
David P. Berman, PanAmSat's senior vice president, broadcast sales.  "Fox
Kids is a terrific addition to the PAS-3 lineup, further enhancing the
diversity of quality television programming on the satellite."

  The Fox Kids service for Latin America will consist of popular Fox
programming offered in Spanish, English and Portuguese.

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