UN TELEVISION SERIES 'WORLD CHRONICLE' TO BE BROADCAST ON INTERNATIONAL CHANNEL
Press Release
PI/997
UN TELEVISION SERIES 'WORLD CHRONICLE' TO BE BROADCAST ON INTERNATIONAL CHANNEL
19970409 The United Nations television series World Chronicle will now be broadcast weekly on the International Channel at 7:30 a.m. Sunday, beginning 13 April.World Chronicle, an unedited 30-minute programme, was started in l980 and can now be seen in seven countries on 16 television stations. Guests have included such personalities as: Secretaries-General; Nelson Mandela; actors Roger Moore, Anthony Quinn and Peter Ustinov, goodwill ambassadors for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF); United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata; and experts on the environment, economic and social development, children and refugees.
Launched in July 1990, the International Channel is a basic cable television channel that provides multi-language programming to more than 7 million subscribers across the United States and Latin America. It is a service of Encore Media Corporation (EMC), a joint venture of JJS Communications, Inc. and Liberty Media Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Telecommunications Inc. (TCI). EMC is the largest provider of cable- and satellite-delivered television channels in the United States, currently counting more than 25 million paying customers.
For further information on World Chronicle and other United Nations audio-visual programmes, please contact the Audio-Visual Promotion and Distribution Unit, Media Division, Room S-0805A; telephone: (212) 963- 6982/6939; fax: (212) 963-6869; e-mail: audio-visual@un.org.
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