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Zone Vision have launched a new 24-hour, seven-day-a-week, basic-tier movie channel in Latin America in October 2001. Featuring the best in European cinema, Europa, Europa will be available on DTH and cable platforms to 3 million subscribers in 52 Latin American and Caribbean countries, including Argentina, Brazil, Columbia, Cuba, Mexico and Jamaica...

Europa Europa

30th Nov 1999 - AMSTERDAM

UPCtv and Zone Vision launch new channel: Reality TV

UPCtv announced today that Reality TV, a special interest channel from UPCtv and Zone Vision, will be launched across fifteen countries from December 1st. As real life TV grows in popularity and success, Reality TV tunes into a previously untapped television channel concept combining real life events with quality documentaries, bringing the viewer closer to the action. Reality TV is a joint venture between UPCtv and Zone Vision, a London-based thematic channel producer and distributor.

The channel will be available on UPC's own networks from 1st December 1999 in the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria and Norway between now and the end of the year, to a total subscriber base of 2.4 million, and will roll out to additional European countries during 2000.

It will also be available in Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, CIS, Baltic Republics, Romania and the former Yugoslavia to over 1.1 million subscribers. Reality TV is the seventh Zone Vision channel, with Romantica (June 1998), Telewizje Miejskie (July 1998), Le Cinema (March 1999), E! Entertainment (April 1999), Midnight Blue (June 1999) and Fantastic TV (October 1999) already available to cable subscribers in Europe.

Chris Wronski, President and CEO of Zone Vision, remarked: "Real life material and non-scripted programming is now a major element in television schedules across the world. Reality TV draws together the most popular and highly rated programmes and we are delighted that we can bring the channel, together with UPCtv, to the public. "

About Zone Vision: In addition to the imminent launch of Reality TV, Zone Vision currently broadcasts six other channels making the company one of the leading broadcasters of thematic channels in Europe. The recent acquisition of a strategic share holding in Quest TV added a further channel to the company's roster. Zone Vision's channels are now available in over 13 million homes and its broadcasting activities are complemented by international programme syndication, satellite channel representation services plus language localisation and production services.

With headquarters in London, Zone Vision is represented by regional offices in Warsaw, Bucharest, Moscow, Budapest, Prague, Sofia, Zagreb, Jerusalem and Kiev, employing over 250 specialist personnel, with advanced plans for further expansion into a number of Western European countries. Since 1991 Zone Vision Group has developed a pre-eminent market position as a distributor and broadcaster of international satellite television channels and programmes - in addition to serving as an advisor on television broadcasting in Central and Eastern Europe. Zone Vision is rapidly expanding new business opportunities such as internet services, media sales as well as provision of state-of-the-art, pan-European, post-production facilities and language versioning studios.