PanAmSat estimates that some 10,000 hours of video transmission time will be utilized. The company said it was offering both rights holders and non-rights holders unparalleled global reach, first-class production and transmissions facilities and the ability to uplink live directly from remote locations throughout Australia via mobile transmission units.

"Our global resources in conjunction with the collective expertise of our onsite special events staff will ensure that hundreds of millions of viewers around the world are able to experience the excitement of the Sydney Games," said Michael Antonovich, PanAmSat's senior vice president, broadcast services.

"Our broadcast services team is currently organizing services for diverse customer requirements, but whether a broadcaster is a rights holder or a non-rights holder, whether they need 3 MHz or 54 MHz of satellite capacity, for ten minutes, ten hours or 30 days, they can turn to PanAmSat to deliver the coverage."

To deliver coverage to broadcasters and programmers throughout the Asia-Pacific region, the Americas and Europe, PanAmSat's services for the Sydney Games employ nearly 50 satellite paths and more than 20 transponders across five spacecraft.

PanAmSat is working with Australia's Telstra, the official telecommunications partner of the Sydney Games, to offer rights-holders integrated services, as well as connectivity to their extensive national fiber-optic network.

Official rights holders have the option of uplinking to either PanAmSat's PAS-2 or PAS-8 Pacific Ocean Region satellites directly from the International Broadcast Center (IBC) or from Telstra's Oxford Falls teleport.

In a collaborative effort with Nine Network Australia, one of the world's premiere news and sports producers, PanAmSat will also support the production and distribution needs of non-rights holders and occasional use customers.

PanAmSat's Napa and Fillmore, Calif. teleport facilities will serve as critical retransmission points for the onward delivery of live coverage from Sydney to sites throughout the Americas and in Europe.

The high-power Galaxy IVR satellite, with a footprint that provides blanket coverage of North America, will provide turnaround services to Mexico and PanAmSat's Galaxy 3D network via the Fillmore teleport.

In order to accommodate the Organizaci�n de la Televisi�n Iberoamericana, the Latin American broadcast union representing more than 20 countries, the Napa teleport will provide seamless signal turnarounds to PAS-3 and the recently launched PAS-9 for multilateral distribution.

PanAmSat's Broadcast Services Department has teamed with dozens of leading broadcasters and programmers to deliver millions of hours of live coverage of the world's premier sporting and special events as well as breaking news to audiences around the world. Past events include the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain; the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillihammer, Norway; the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Ga.; the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan; the 1998 World Cup tournament in Paris, France; the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Canada; and the 2000 Millennium celebrations.

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