Malicak aims to provide 25 overseas TV programs<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): PT Matahari Lintas Cakrawala (Malicak), is
\nlooking for more foreign broadcasters for agency cooperation,
\nsays a spokesman for the company.<\/p>\n
Malicak provides decoders for the subscription of overseas
\ntelevision broadcasting.<\/p>\n
Rachmat Santoso said over the weekend that his company aims to
\nincrease the number of overseas television stations cooperating
\nin the channeling of their broadcasting from five to 25 by the
\nmiddle of 1996.<\/p>\n
Malicak, a subsidiary of Indovision Group, is currently
\nchanneling five television programs, including the documentary
\nand science channel, Discovery, Entertainment Sport Program
\nNetwork (ESPN) International, Home Box Office (HBO), Cable News
\nNetwork (CNN) International and TNT & Cartoon Network.<\/p>\n
Rachmat says access to those five programs will be scrambled
\nas of Dec. 15, three months later than planned.<\/p>\n
Rachmat said Malicak is presently negotiating with MTV, a New
\nYork-based around-the-clock music cable network, and STAR TV of
\nHong Kong.<\/p>\n
Subscribers need to own a parabola antenna, a receiver and
\ndecoder as well as pay subscription fees in order to have their
\ntelevision sets channeled to the foreign broadcasters' programs.<\/p>\n
\"We will increase subscription fees from US$410 to $500 per
\nmonth,\" Rachmat said, adding that decoders are sold at Rp 4.35
\nmillion ($1,995) each.<\/p>\n
Malicak already provides decoders for 15,000 individual
\nsubscribers and 15,000 hotel rooms, he said.<\/p>\n
Malicak is owned by businessmen Peter F. Gontha, Henry Pribadi
\nand Bambang Trihatmodjo, and a number of private companies.<\/p>\n
The company expects to increase the number of its subscribers
\nto 100,000 within the next two years.(icn)<\/p>",
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