Carnival Cruise Ship to Host First-Ever Live Digital Radio Broadcast ViaMTN/C-Band Technology
MIAMI, Jan. 6 -- In early January 1998, Carnival Cruise Lines'
Inspiration will host Capital Radio UK for a one-week cruise. While cruising,
radio station personalities will be broadcasting live for 4 hours per day.
The broadcast is made possible because Carnival ships employ the advanced
digital telecommunications capabilities of Maritime Telecommunications
Network's (MTN) C-Band Satellite systems. MTN is the only maritime
telecommunications company to provide this type of service via C-Band.
Radio Personalities can broadcast live while the ship is at sea or in port,
allowing the show to be aired during its regularly scheduled time slot.
Capital Radio listeners in Europe will also be able to "call in" to the
announcers during the broadcast for complete interaction. "It will be no
different than if the show was broadcast from the UK studio," said Richard
Hadsall, Vice President Operations of MTN.
MTN provides both live video and radio broadcast capability from its cruise
line customers' vessels. "Before MTN installed its telecommunications
services on Carnival's ships, broadcasts were taped on the ship then played
later when the ship reached port or sent via telephone line which has low
voice quality. Now radio and television stations can share the cruise
experience, live, real time, with their audience, meaning no more delayed
broadcasts," said Doug Falk, President of MTN.
Maritime Telecommunications Network, Inc. is the major provider of C-Band
voice, fax and data communications to the cruise industry, the U.S. Navy, and
to offshore oil and gas platforms around the world. Through its Earth Station
in Holmdel, NJ, it also provides international satellite voice and data
services. ICG Satellite Services, Inc. is a division of ICG Communications,
Inc., headquartered in suburban Denver, CO (Nasdaq: ICGX).

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