UBI World TV
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| Type | Private |
| Founded | 2004 |
| Headquarters | Pyrmont, Australia  |
| Area served | Australia, New Zealand, Oceania, Asia Pacific and Africa |
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Products | Direct Broadcast Satellite |
| Owner | United Broadcasting International Pty Ltd |
| Website | http://www.ubiworldtv.com |
UBI WORLD TV is an Australian digital satellite pay television service that broadcasts predominantly ethnic (and mainly non-English) channels. It launched in late 2004 and currently boasts over 80 channels in its lineup from over 20 countries in over 12 languages.
UBI WORLD TV provides essential entertainment and information services to non-English speakers throughout Australia.
UBI WORLD TV specialises in providing ethnic Australians with the highest rating and most respected TV channels from their homeland, showing news, current affairs, sport, drama series, movies and general entertainment in their own language.
UBI World TV is owned by Mike and Regina Boulos, who also owned TARBS World TV which went into receivership in July 2004.
UBI World TV Currently Broadcasts TV and Radio Channels to Australia via the Optus D2 satellite using 6 Transponders broadcasting 80 TV Channels and 40 Radio Channels from around the World. UBI World TV also broadcast via the Telstar 10 Satellite which currently broadcasts over the South Africa and Asia-Pacific Region broadcasting 26 TV Channels and 26 Radio Channels from around the World.
On the 9th of May 2008 UBI World TV launched Setanta Sports Australia onto there platform
[edit] Channels
UBI World TV Currently offers programming that caters to the following ethnicities:
- English (Qatar, England)
- Arabic (Egypt, Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria and UAE)
- Balkan (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Montenegro and soon Serbia)
- Greek (Greece and Cyprus)
- Persian (Iran and USA)
- Portuguese (Portugal and Brazil)
- Spanish (Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Spain, Chile and Various other South American countries)
- Turkish
- Community & Free-To-Air Channels (Kurdistan, Greece, Australia, Italian and Egypt)
[edit] Channel List
| No. | Channel Name | Language | Notes |
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| 2 | Al Jazeera English | English | |
| 3 | Setanta Sports | English | |
| 11 | Alpha Australia | Greek | |
| 12 | Mega Cosmos | Greek | |
| 13 | MAD WORLD | Greek | |
| 14 | Star International | Greek | |
| 15 | Alter Globe | Greek | |
| 18 | RIK Sat | Greek | |
| 19 | ERT World | Greek | Free-to-air |
| 20 | 4E TV | Greek | |
| 30 | ANA (Arabic Network of Australia) | Arabic | |
| 31 | Al Youm | Arabic | |
| 32 | Arabic Series (Al-Mousalsalat) | Arabic | |
| 33 | Nile Drama | Arabic | |
| 34 | Nile Variety | Arabic | |
| 35 | Cinema 1 | Arabic | |
| 36 | Rotana Cinema | Arabic | |
| 37 | Rotana Zaman | Arabic | |
| 38 | Show Shasha | Arabic | |
| 39 | Al Nile | Arabic | |
| 40 | Mazzika Zoom | Arabic | |
| 41 | Rotana Music | Arabic | |
| 42 | Rotana Tarab | Arabic | |
| 43 | Al Masriyah (ESC 1) | Arabic | |
| 44 | Dubai TV | Arabic | |
| 45 | Syria Satellite Channel | Arabic | |
| 46 | Jordan Satellite Channel | Arabic | |
| 47 | Tele Liban | Arabic | |
| 48 | New TV | Arabic | |
| 49 | Heya TV | Arabic | |
| 50 | Al Mehwar | Arabic | |
| 51 | Infinity TV | Arabic | |
| 52 | Al Sharqiya | Arabic | |
| 53 | Al Iraqiya | Arabic | |
| 54 | Al Baghdadia | Arabic | |
| 55 | Sat 7 | Arabic | |
| 56 | Al Majd Space Channel | Arabic | |
| 57 | Dubai Sports | Arabic | |
| 58 | Al Nas TV | Arabic | |
| 60 | Vizyon | Turkish | |
| 61 | ATV Avrupa | Turkish | |
| 62 | D-Yesilcam | Turkish | |
| 63 | Euro D | Turkish | |
| 64 | Euro Star | Turkish | |
| 65 | NTV Türkiye | Turkish | |
| 67 | Kral TV | Turkish | |
| 68 | Kanal 7 International | Turkish | |
| 69 | Samanyolu TV Avrupa | Turkish | |
| 70 | TRT International | Turkish | |
| 80 | BOM (Best of Macedonia) | Macedonian | |
| 81 | MKTV Sat | Macedonian | |
| 82 | K-15 | Macedonian | |
| 83 | NTV Hayat Sat | Bosnian | |
| 84 | BHT1 | Bosnian | |
| 85 | RTCG (TVCG Sat) | Montenegro | |
| 86 | Planeta TV | Bulgarian | |
| 99 | Canal del Futbol Premium | Chile | |
| 100 | TL Novelas | Spanish | |
| 101 | Ritmoson Latino | Spanish | |
| 102 | TV Colombia | Colombia | |
| 103 | TVE (Television Espanola) | Spain | |
| 104 | De Pelicula | Spanish | |
| 106 | Telefe International | Argentina | |
| 107 | Canal de las Estrellas (Galavision) | Mexico | |
| 108 | Chilevision | Chile | |
| 109 | Latinoamerica Television | Spanish | |
| 110 | RTP International | Portuguese | |
| 111 | SIC International | Portuguese | |
| 112 | TV Globo | Brazilian | |
| 120 | Pars TV | Persian USA | |
| 121 | Tapesh TV | Persian USA | |
| 122 | Jame Jam | Persian Iran | |
| 150 | SCTV (Satellite Community Television) | Sebian, Turkish, Arabic, Bosnian, Macedonia, Chinese, Hebrew | Free-to-air |
| 151 | Kurdistan TV | Kurdish | Free-to-air |
| 152 | Aghapy TV | Arabic | Free-to-air |
| 153 | ITN | Italian / Telepace | Free-to-air |
[edit] External links
- Official site (English)
