{"id":1552,"date":"2016-03-14T12:37:13","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T16:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvmiddleeastafrica\/english-language-spi-international-channels-launch-uae\/"},"modified":"2016-03-14T13:13:08","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T17:13:08","slug":"english-language-spi-international-channels-launch-in-uae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvmiddleeastafrica\/english-language-spi-international-channels-launch-in-uae\/","title":{"rendered":"English-Language SPI International Channels Launch in UAE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WARSAW: SPI International has inked a deal that will see seven of its English-language channels become available via\u00a0du TV in the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<p>Under the agreement with UAE-based telecommunications service provider du, its home-service subscribers will have access to SPI\u2019s channels such as the general movie channel FilmBox; FilmBox Arthouse, featuring independent films; the sports channels FightBox HD and Fast\u2019nFunBox HD; the documentary channel Fast\u2019nFunBox HD; the fashion channel FashionBox HD; and the independent music channel 360TuneBox HD.<\/p>\n<p>SPI\u2019s channels are part of du\u2019s English Premium-TV package, which includes a selection\u00a0of Western-oriented channels in the English language.<\/p>\n<p>Fahad Al Hassawi, the chief commercial officer at du, said: \u201cOur efforts are to bring a variety of television content to our home customers. Our agreement with SPI marks yet another step in this direction. We are certain that our customers will enjoy the several new TV channels that we will be adding to our portfolio.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are glad to see our channel distribution footprint expand in the UAE,\u201d added Murat Muratoglu, the sales director for MENA at SPI International\/Filmbox. \u201cOur recent agreement with du is important for SPI\u2019s growth in MENA. We are excited to partner with such a prominent player in Dubai and to deliver top entertainment content to du customers while catering to a wide range of viewers\u2019 interests.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WARSAW: SPI International has inked a deal that will see seven of its English-language channels become available via du TV in the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":477,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[146,147,148,149,150,101,142,102,151],"class_list":["post-1552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-top-stories","tag-360tunebox-hd","tag-du-tv","tag-fashionbox-hd","tag-fastnfunbox-hd","tag-fightbox-hd","tag-filmbox","tag-filmbox-arthouse","tag-spi-international","tag-spi-internationalfilmbox"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>English-Language SPI International Channels Launch in UAE - 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