New Skies’ Latin American video neighborhood
expands with addition of Brazilian religious channel

 

New Skies welcomes Rede Canção Nova to its Latin American video community on NSS-806. The religious broadcaster launches its international channel on NSS-806 reaching Portuguese-speaking audiences across Latin America and Europe.

 

LAS VEGAS, April 26, 2006 – New Skies Satellites , an SES GLOBAL company (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock exchange: SESG), today announced that Rede Canção Nova, the Brazilian Catholic broadcaster, has chosen its NSS-806 Latin American satellite to distribute its free-to-air international channel to cable operators, radio and television affiliates and the general public across Latin America and Europe.

“New Skies is pleased to welcome Canção Nova to our Latin American video neighborhood on NSS-806,” said Jurandir Pitsch, New Skies’ senior sales director of Latin America and the Caribbean.  “Canção Nova’s decision to choose NSS-806 reconfirms the satellite’s role as Latin America’s most attractive platform for video distribution and further strengthens New Skies’ position in supporting spiritual and ethnic broadcasters in reaching new audiences outside of their domestic markets. With its global fleet and mediaport network, New Skies offers religious and ethnic broadcasters a compelling satellite solution for all of their program distribution needs.”

Canção Nova targets the Portuguese-speaking community in Europe and Latin America and is broadcast 24 hours a day. The channel’s mission is to spread its message through the use of mass media and to that effect Canção Nova operates a number of radio channels and a domestic television channel in Brazil.

"New Skies operates one of the leading video neighborhoods in Latin America; joining NSS-806 marks a major step in the development of our channel which seeks to reach out to the Catholic community throughout the world. NSS-806’s widespread coverage allows us to expand to new viewers across Latin America and Europe," said Wellington Silva Jardim,

President of Rede Canção Nova. “We selected the satellite for its high penetration of cable headends, as well as for its superb, high-powered coverage.”

About the NSS-806 Video Neighborhood
NSS-806 is located at 319.5 degrees east, which provides an excellent look angle into Latin American markets while also reaching the Iberian peninsula, the Canary Islands, Western Europe and much of Eastern Europe. New Skies’ NSS-806 is the platform of choice for many of the region’s national broadcasters and cable programmers, as well as a number international entertainment companies. NSS-806’s video neighborhood includes ESPN Brasil, Fox, MGM, Universal, Eurovision (EBU), thus forming one of the largest video communities in Latin America. NSS-806 carries more than 120 channels and reaches a community of over 3,500 cable headends and 14 million households in South, Central and North America.

About Rede Canção Nova
Father Jonas Abib founded the Canção Nova community in 1978 in Lorena City, Brazil; and is part of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal with the mission to evangelize through social communication. The community uses mass media, as a modern version of the pulpit, and music (in Portuguese Canção Nova means New Music), as the pillars of Rede Canção Nova. Rede Canção Nova operates a complex of studios, AM, FM, MW and SW radio channels as well as a national and an international television channel with a significant presence in Portugal (Fátima).  Further information is available at www.cancaonova.net

About New Skies Satellites
New Skies Satellites is an SES GLOBAL company (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG) offering satellite communication services to a range of customers including telecommunications providers, broadcasters, corporations and governments around the world. New Skies owns and operates a global fleet of five satellites in orbit, with an additional spacecraft under construction (NSS-8) and ground facilities around the world. Headquartered in The Hague, the company has offices in Hong Kong, New Delhi, Sao Paulo, Singapore, Sydney and Washington, D.C. In addition to New Skies, SES GLOBAL wholly owns market-leading satellite operators SES ASTRA in Europe and SES AMERICOM in the United States and also holds strategic participations in AsiaSat in Asia, Star One in Latin America, SES Sirius in Europe, Ciel in Canada and Quetzsat in Mexico. SES GLOBAL provides outstanding satellite communications solutions via a combined fleet of 43 satellites across the globe. Further information on New Skies is available at www.newskies.com and on SES GLOBAL at www.ses-global.com

For further information, please contact:

Shereen Hanafi
Corporate Communications, New Skies Satellites
Telephone: +31703381976
Mobile: +31611310183 
shanafi@newskies.com