'Horizon' 24-Hour Armenian TV Launched via Satellite

WATERTOWN, MA--After years of research and planning, Horizon 24-Hour Armenian Television was recently launched on satellite, making its 24-hour programming available to Armenian-American audiences all over the continental US.

The Globecast Telestar 5 International Satellite broadcast system also features 15 Arabic language programs from the Middle East, 13 Persian-language programs, as well as Russian, Georgian, French, and other European channels, such as EuroNews--an all-news channel broadcast in seven languages.

Horizon 24-Hour Armenian TV is the largest and most diversified media corporation in the United States and the worldwide Armenian community. The network offers Armenian-Americans across North America an exciting lineup of diverse Armenian language programming from the Diaspora and Armenia.

Horizon Armenian 24-Hour TV is an extension of Asbarez News & Publishing Inc., the publisher of the daily bilingual newspaper Asbarez, which will celebrate its 95th anniversary in October 2003.

The service also includes live audio broadcasts of AYP-FM, an audio channel that delivers music and news updates 24-hours a day in Armenian. Concentrating on comprehensive news service, the channel produces nearly 80 percent of the programs that it broadcasts, including political and current affairs programs as well as cultural, social, family entertainment, drama series, and documentaries.

Horizon 24-Hour Armenian TV also offers an assortment of movies, music, talk shows, children's shows, as well as other lifestyle programs that are uniquely Armenian.

Designed to reflect of the needs and interests of the Armenian-American community, Horizon 24-Hour Armenian TV is committed to delivering superior standards of programming. The network produces a variety of programs developed exclusively in its studios. With certain programming in English, as well as those with English subtitles, it draws an audience that includes second- and third-generation Armenian-Americans.

In addition, Horizon 24-Hour Armenian TV is the leading Armenian news source covering world news from the Armenian perspective. The network has an unrivaled supply of news footage from around the world through its exclusive correspondents in Armenia, Artsakh, the Diaspora, as well as television news agencies such as APTN, Reuters TV, and local news agencies. This ensures complete, up-to-the-minute, reliable news coverage worldwide, nationwide, and from Armenia, Artsakh, and Javakhk.

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