- UBI World TV
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name = UBI World TV
type = Private
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foundation =2004
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location_city = Pyrmont
location_country = Australia flagicon|Australia
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area_served = Australia, New Zealand, Oceania, Asia Pacific and Africa
industry =Telecommunications
products =Direct Broadcast Satellite
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owner = United Broadcasting International Pty Ltd
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homepage = http://www.ubiworldtv.com
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footnotes =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
In June 2008 UBI launched their Pinoy ( Filipino ) package along with EuroNews broadcasting in 8 different languages.
=Channels= UBI World TV Currently offers programming that caters to the following ethnicities:
* English (Qatar, England, France)
* Arabic (Egypt, Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria and UAE)
* Balkan (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Montenegro)
* Filipino
* 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, Greek, Australia, Italian and Egyptian)Channel List
External links
* [http://www.ubiworldtv.com Official site] en icon
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