Finalists announced for the Eutelsat TV Awards 05!

Paris, 9 September 2015 -Diversity, imagination, courage, creativity and exceptional quality - these are some of the features characterising the channels now shortlisted by an international jury for a prestigious Eutelsat TV Award.

The Eutelsat TV Awards jury, chaired by award-winning RAI journalist Duilio Giammaria, and assembling media experts from diverse markets, met in Paris from 4 to 5 September to assess the quality, innovation and creativity of over 100 channels from 27 countries that entered this year's competition. The judges had a challenging time finalising the shortlist from an outstanding and record array of entries. The winning channels in eight thematic categories will be honoured at a ceremony in Rome on October 30. Awards will also be bestowed for Best Programme.

All participating channels in the Eutelsat TV Awards are now entitled to compete for the People's Choice Award that will go to the channel generating most votes by the viewing public. Voting opens on September 10 until October 12 via channel websites as well as eutelsattvawards.com and other popular sites including broadbandtvnews.com, millecanali.it and produ.com.

Childrens

Cinema

duck tv Slovak Republic FilmBox Arthouse United States

Fix&Foxi Germany Nollywood TV France

TVP ABC Poland Stopklatka TV Poland

Culture / Documentary

Fiction / General Entertainment

365 Days Russia Sundance Channel United States

France France Sky Atlantic Italy

TVP Kultura Poland iROKO PLUS Nigeria

Lifestyle

Music

TRACE Sport Stars France C Music TV UK

myzen.tv France DJAZZ.tv Netherlands

iFilm English Iran Classica Germany

News

Sports

FRANCE 24 France beIN SPORTS Qatar

i24News Luxembourg Super Tennis Italy

Rai News 24 Italy PXTV Mexico

Best programme

1992 (Sky Atlantic) Italy

The answer of grandchildren (Shant TV) Armenia

Mexico during the age of ice (XE IPN Canal Once) Mexico

Inside IS - War in the name of Allah (Spiegel TV Wissen) Germany

Balkan route (Al Jazeera Balkans) Bosnia & Herzegovina

The jury: Jerzy Barski, TV-Sat Magazine (Poland), Fr d ric Vaulpr , Eurodata TV (France), Robert Briel, Broadband TV News, Sergey Buntman, Echo of Moscow (Russia), Alessandra Comazzi, La Stampa (Italy), Paolo Dalla Chiara, Pentastudio (Italy), Richard Izarra, Produ (USA), Giacomo Mazzone, EBU, Tayfun Atay, Cumhuriyet / Okan University(Turkey), Reem Nouss, Executive producer / TV consultant(UK). Jury chairman: Duilio Giammaria, Rai (Italy). Technical expert: Mauro Roffi, Millecanali (Italy).

About Eutelsat Communications

Established in 1977, Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL, ISIN code: FR0010221234) is one of the worlds leading and most experienced operators of communications satellites. The company provides capacity on 38 satellites to clients that include broadcasters and broadcasting associations, pay-TV operators, video, data and Internet service providers, enterprises and government agencies. Eutelsat's satellites provide ubiquitous coverage of Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia-Pacific and the Americas, enabling video, data, broadband and government communications to be established irrespective of a user's location. Headquartered in Paris, with offices and teleports around the globe, Eutelsat represents a workforce of 1,000 men and women from 37 countries who are experts in their fields and work with clients to deliver the highest quality of service.

For more about Eutelsat please visit www.eutelsat.com

Press

Vanessa O'Connor Tel: 33 1 53 98 37 91 voconnor@eutelsat.com

Marie-Sophie Ecuer Tel: 33 1 53 98 37 91 mecuer@eutelsat.com

Organisation

Pentastudio Tel. 39 0444 543 133 tvevents@pentastudio.it

About Eutelsat Communications

Established in 1977, Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL, ISIN code: FR0010221234) is one of the worlds leading and most experienced operators of communications satellites. The company provides capacity on 38 satellites to clients that include broadcasters and broadcasting associations, pay-TV operators, video, data and Internet service providers, enterprises and government agencies.

Eutelsat's satellites provide ubiquitous coverage of Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia-Pacific and the Americas, enabling video, data, broadband and government communications to be established irrespective of a user's location.

Headquartered in Paris, with offices and teleports around the globe, Eutelsat represents a workforce of 1,000 men and women from 37 countries who are experts in their fields and work with clients to deliver the highest quality of service.

For more about Eutelsat please visit www.eutelsat.com

Press

Vanessa O'Connor Tel: 33 1 53 98 37 91 voconnor@eutelsat.com

Marie-Sophie Ecuer Tel: 33 1 53 98 37 91 mecuer@eutelsat.com

Investors and analysts

Joanna Darlington Tel. : 33 1 53 98 35 30 jdarlington@eutelsat.com

C dric Pugni Tel. : 33 1 53 98 35 30 cpugni@eutelsat.com

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