• Annual contract of 350 hours of live motor sports
• Content delivered from Australia, the United States and Europe
• Use of Arqiva teleports in Paris-Boulogne and Washington

Paris: Arqiva has today announced a new contract with Motors TV, the international motor sports TV channel, to support its live broadcasts of worldwide sports competitions from February to December 2008.  During that period, Arqiva will be delivering 350 hours of international sports events to the Television Playout Centre in Paris.

Arqiva will be downlinking programmes at its facilities in France from various European satellites and will then relay them to Motors TV's playout centre via a dedicated fibre link.

Programmes coming from Australia will be relayed entirely via fibre to the Arqiva teleport in Paris-Boulogne for delivery to the Motors TV playout centre.

The satellite antennas of Arqiva's teleport in Washington will be downlinking programmes broadcast over the US region which will then be relayed via trans-Atlantic fibre to Arqiva in Paris and onwards to Motors TV.

"Arqiva is delighted to have won this contract which involves various Arqiva teleports around the world and demonstrates the performance, the extent and the competitiveness of its services on a large international scale," says Denis Chambon, general manager of Arqiva in France.

Arqiva will contribute to the broadcasting of a number of international competitions, most notably the American Le Mans Series (ALMS), l'Enduropale in Touquet, V8 Supercars, Andros Trophy and Mondial Superbike, DTM, Motocross MX 1 et 2.

"To broadcast live competitions taking place all over the world, Motors TV needed a sophisticated infrastructure involving facilities in many countries. Arqiva perfectly satisfied these particularly demanding requirements," said Stéphane Monteux, technical director of Motors TV.

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