Phoenix Satellite Television Thursday announced that two of its
channels have aroused tremendous interest among Chinese communities
in the San Francisco Bay Area since they were carried by Comcast
Cable system earlier this year.
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The Phoenix programmings, North America Chinese Channel and
InfoNews Channel, are part of the six-channel package called Dragon
Pack, specifically catering to local Chinese-speaking communities,
Phoenix TV and Comcast officials said.
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They added that the inclusion of Phoenix TV into the Comcast
package is conducive to meeting the need of Chinese communities for
high quality Chinese television programming, and will also help
promote better understanding of Chinese culture and cultural
exchanges between Chinese and mainstream Americans.
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Xiaoyong Wu, CEO of Phoenix TV (U.S.) Inc., said his company's
objective has always been to bring all the Chinese across the world
together through television.
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"Most Chinese feel that they can associate themselves with our
channel, because we really care about issues concerning China and
Chinese, and we report on the issues in an objective and timely
way," said Wu.
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Phoenix U.S. service has become the most influential
Chinese-language TV service in the United States, Canada and South
America, with more than 200,000 subscribers in the areas, since its
launch in 2000, he said.
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With its new partnership with Comcast in the San Francisco area,
Phoenix TV now could provide its programmings to customers through
local cable systems in all the three U.S. metropolitan areas with
relatively large Chinese communities, including Los Angeles and New
York.
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Lorena Hernandez, Comcast's Bay Area director of communications,
said the Dragon Pack, which combines most-loved programs for
Chinese coming from China's mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan, is the
ideal program package sought after by the cable service provider
for a long time.
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The package is part of Comcast's on-going commitment to customers
to bring value by expanding its already extensive diverse
programming line-up, as well as part of its commitment to helping
the area's diverse population to reach for their communities around
the world, she said.
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Comcast is the biggest cable television and communications service
provider in the Bay Area, with more than 24 million cable
customers, 12 million high-speed Internet customers and 3 million
voice customers.
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The company is principally involved in the development, management
and operation of broadband cable systems and in the delivery of
programming content.?
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(Xinhua News Agency September 22, 2007)