Globecast Teleport at Brookmans Park in the UK
Globecast Teleport at Brookmans Park in the UK
Globecast is a Broadcasting company serving the media industry with facilities on five continents. It runs two main facilities in the UK, a teleport uplink facility with over the 50 Earth Station Antennas at the Globecast Teleport at Brookmans Park in Hatfield, north of London and the play-out center that is collocated with UK news provider ITN.
The facility in London includes a MCR for ad hoc circuits and the media management facility. The center was used to run 12 playout channels, but now plays out 24 channels with a mix of movies, shopping channels and sport.
The company is fully owned by Orange S.A., formerly France Télécom S.A. that rebranded to Orange on July 1st, 2013.
The Brookmans Park Radio Station, situated on the A1000 road between Potters Bar and Hatfield in Hertfordshire, played a crucial part in the history of broadcasting in Great Britain.
It was the first purpose-built twin transmitter station in the world capable of broadcasting two radio programs simultaneously when it was completed in October 1929.
It also played a part in the early development of television broadcasting. Today Brookmans Park is home to Global Teleports (UK) Teleport.
Licensed for Permanent Earth station (PES) and VSAT network (VSAT) with OFCOM, Global Teleports offers satellite coverage over the Atlantic and Indian oceans.
Located in the north field is our primary antenna 9.5m Ku band dish pointing to 22deg west for services in SES-4. The Teleport has planning permission for a further three large antennas within our demised area of the north field.