Broadcast Services

GCA offers both long-term contracts, and occasional services, across the full spectrum of transmission requirements, working with the world's leading broadcasters in our region and internationally.

Long-term clients include BSkyB, Sky New Zealand, ESPN, NBC, MTV, CNN and NHK. GCA works with all of Australia’s free to air networks, the nation’s major pay TV platform FOXTEL, and individual pay TV channels.

GCA is working to add internet delivery solutions as media companies include more broadcast content on their online digital platforms.

Content Distribution

GlobeCast Australia provides live and recorded content distribution services to most of the sporting codes in Australia including Australian Rugby Union, Australian Rugby League, Cricket Australia, Football Federation Australia, Horse Racing, Australian V8 Super Cars, Golf, Tennis and more  utilising capacity on Optus D2 and AsiaSat 5 satellites .

DSNG

GlobeCast Australia’s 10-truck fleet is the largest in Australia, NZ and the Pacific Islands, all equipped with fully redundant uplinks (C-Band and Ku-Band) and capable of single and multi-channel transmission. Our fleet covers all sporting codes and news stories in Australia and NZ. The fleet includes two portable flyaway uplinks for flexibility and reliability, including six state-of-the-art HD units. All highly skilled technical crews have extensive broadcast experience.

Digital Teleport and MCR

Our MCR operates 24 hours a day, providing fully automated and tailor-made solutions, tape play-out and associated services and service restoration as required.  The MCR also provides an around-the-clock helpline for bookings and activations. GlobeCast Australia has 14 C/KU band satellite transmit / receive antenna’s covering the Australasian and Pacific regions.

Business TV

Services includes full-time channels, scheduled programs or ad hoc feeds via permanent connectivity, fixed infrastructure or temporary installations at CBD or remote locations. Our clients range across Mining, Medical, Finance, Tourism, Technology, Manufacturing, Retail, Fashion and Entertainment. Corporate clients are finding GCA to be a cost effective and high impact way to communicate both internally and externally to customers, suppliers, shareholders and other audiences.

Mobile TV

TV on mobiles is a fast-growing broadcast area. GlobeCast Australia is the provider of a nine channel bouquet for Hutchison’s 3G ‘3’ Mobile Network across Australia.

GlobeCam

GCA is a world-class specialist in live, miniature camera technology through our Australian-made “GlobeCam” service.

Our client Fox Sports deployed GlobeCam over the 2012/13 Australian cricket season to give their viewers new and exciting perspectives on play. Our mini-cameras were mounted on umpires’ and batsmen’s caps in the Big Bash, taking fans into the heart of the action as bouncers struck and bats flashed. Check out our GlobeCam case study.
 

GlobeCast Australia has supplied broadcast services to our multiple Sky News channels in Australia and New Zealand for many years. As we have grown, GlobeCast Australia has travelled with us and always delivered.

Angelos Frangopoulos
CEO
Australian News Channel

International Fibre and DTH Network

Fibre

The GlobeCast Australia fibre network directly connects Australia, New Zealand, the USA, and the UK. The network is fully protected and self-healing utilising SDH/SONET technology.

The company is a member of the GlobeCast worldwide group with access to the proprietary fibre network connecting the world's leading media and business hubs across Europe, the USA and Asia.

GlobeCast Australia has an international association with Pacific Television (PAC TV) enabling connectivity and availability to 24/7 Teleports in Los Angeles, London and New York.

GCA has full time bi-directional connectivity to BT Tower London and the LA Switch with low latency guaranteed; and connectivity to all major Australian and New Zealand broadcasters.

DTH

GCA offers global coverage through advanced MCPC platforms. With fixed leased transponders and alliances with major carriers, we offer full-time and occasional transmission solutions. GCA operates its own leases on Optus satellites, and has arrangements with all other key international satellite providers, including Intelsat.

GCA’s DTH platforms deliver more than 63 channels across Optus D2 and Optus D3. We aggregate programming for Australia’s largest pay TV service FOXTEL (including CCTV, AL Jazeera and Setanta Sports). We also have carriage agreements with IntelSat to carry channels  on IntelSat IS19. GCA distributes linear ethnic channels on Optus D2 into Australian and NZ homes from countries as diverse as India, Holland, and Croatia.

GCA offers total broadcast solutions including global backhaul, uplink, downlink, encoding, multiplexing, encryption, time-delay, local play-out, 24/7 monitoring, IP monitoring and SMS Services. Solutions are tailor made to suit individual client requirements. Radio channels are also transmitted as DTH services.GCA launched Australia’s first MPEG4 DTH service in October 2012. GCA’s Optus D2 service uses the latest Thompson MPEG4/MPEG2 encoders.
 

GlobeCast Australia is a key long-term supplier to Foxtel. They deliver Hollywood content to Foxtel via fibre from LA to Sydney, they are critical to our disaster recovery, and they uplink satellite channels to the Foxtel platform. They are always reliable and they innovate with us as the television world changes.

Peter Tonagh
Chief Operating Officer
Foxtel