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Company: News & Press - 2007 |
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September 24 , 2007 |
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Contacts Pilot Productions: |
Maria Ishak
T: +44 (0)20 8962 9583
E: maria@pilot.co.uk |
Helen Roberts
T:+44(0)20 8962 9592
E: eileen@pilot.co.uk |
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PIONEERING PILOT LAUNCHES INTO BROADBAND WORLD |
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Pilot Productions, the producer of the highly acclaimed Globe Trekker series, has launched a new broadband channel www.GlobeTrekkerChannel.tv.
Supported by the platform Narrowstep, GlobeTrekkerChannel.tv features Pilot’s extensive archive of travel and lifestyle programming, TV show trailers, exclusive behind the scenes interviews and music downloads of soundtracks featured in the shows, all accessible on a pay-per-view basis. |
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Pilot has also created a half hour broadband schedule. Refreshed monthly, this consists of two to three minute segments sourced from the company’s library and runs throughout the day.
"We are looking at a number of other initiatives to make a visit to GlobeTrekkerChannel.tv a unique experience available only on broadband." Quoted managing director Ian Cross. "Broadband is a great environment to try new things, whether they be formats or ideas, and GlobeTrekkerChannel.tv may be the forum to develop some of the travel TV series of the future."
This new venture is also an extension of the company’s established adventure travel portal, www.pilotguides.com, which generates average monthly traffic of 110,000 unique users, 350,000 page views, and has 30,000 registered users.
"We hope that GlobeTrekkerChannel.tv will become the gateway to a number of new media partnerships, and relationships with the travel industry. We are already generating considerable revenue from Pilotguides.com through advertising and product sales and we hope that we can achieve the same results with GlobeTrekkerChannel.tv." added Cross.
As well as encoding its catalogue for the web, Pilot is also looking at embedding its content on different broadband platforms and therefore increasing its audience reach.
The line up of shows thus currently available on GlobeTrekkerChannel.tv is culled from Pilot’s extensive library which contains over 350 hours of programming. This includes the award-winning series Globe Trekker, which transports viewers to unforgettable destinations around the world; Treks in a Wild World, the show that combines ecology, anthropology, and history with outdoor pursuits in remote places; Planet Food, a global guide to food cultures; the shopping and travel show, Bazaar, and Adventure Golf – a guide to the ultimate golfing getaways. |
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ABOUT PILOT PRODUCTIONS: |
Since its founding in 1990, Pilot Productions has established itself as a highly successful producer with an international reputation for its innovative and award-winning factual programming. Headquartered in London, with offices in Los Angeles and Singapore, Pilot Productions is developing, producing and distributing a diverse range of new programming including history, lifestyle and food-based series. |
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