Goa set for second regional news channel


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Rebecca Hawkes

| 19 April 2016




World Link News is planning to launch a Goa-wide satellite news channel by the end of May, ahead of the launch of a sister channel for the whole of India later this year.



“We will launch the Goa regional channel in a month’s time and the national one will take us three months more at least. The channel will focus on hardcore reporting on each and every aspect,” editor-in-chief Sachin Borker told Indiantelevision.com.

The company is also hoping to reach Goan expatriates now living in the Gulf States with its channel, which will carry Konkani, Marathi and Hindi bulletins. At launch the service will be distributed on the major direct-to-home (DTH) satellite platforms and World Link News is also discussing carriage terms with cable operators, Borker said.

The channel will be transmitted via the Intelsat 20 satellite located in geosynchronous orbit at 68.5° East.