UN TELEVISION SERIES 'WORLD CHRONICLE' TO BE BROADCAST ON INTERNATIONAL CHANNEL
Press Release
PI/997/Rev.1*
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, produced by the Department of Public Information (DPI), 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, DPI, Room S-0805A; telephone: (212) 963- 6982/6939; fax: (212) 963-6869; e-mail: audio-visual@un.org.
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