Caribbean Satellite Television Network
OUR STORY
Mr. Selby Browne, CSTN Chairman, CEO
Production Truck - Hasley Crawford Stadium, Port of Spain (2000)
The Caribbean Satellite Television Network (CSTN) was registered in the BVI in 2004 to become the first Caribbean company to offer digital satellite broadcasting.
This innovation has been the hallmark of initial satellite broadcast initiatives of world sports events during the period 1998 to 2003 by the Caribbean Sports TV Network, culminating in its presence in over 26 countries throughout the Caribbean. During this period CSTN provided television entertainment through its associate broadcasters, to a population of approximately 42 million in the Pan Caribbean Territory and the adjacent northern countries of the South American mainland.
This was done through joint ventures, franchises and negotiated co-broadcast agreements throughout the Caribbean. This operation included subscriber-management services and digital satellite television platforms broadcasting video and audio channels on an event basis.
Mr. Selby Browne, CSTN Chairman and CEO pursued his vision to develop the Network based on the collective statistics of the region, with some 10 million sets and cable penetration of at minimum 20%. According to Mr. Browne, the average GDP per capita was attractive and the advertising television-spend significant. In addition, the opportunity existed for providing a service to the Caribbean Diaspora globally.
In 1999 the Caribbean Sports Television Network a private corporation was established and registered in Tortola British Virgin Islands. In that year CSTN signed the agreement with the ISMM Group Company - ISL Television for the largest television product the FIFA World Cup 2002 and several other important FIFA Events in addition to the broadcast rights for Events owned by other World Governing Bodies, which included IAAF and FINA. The Caribbean Sports Television Network carefully embarked on the establishment of Regional Sports Television for the Pan Caribbean Territory.
CSTN Overview
The establishment of the Caribbean Satellite Television Network includes the digital satellite television platforms broadcasting several video and audio channels and data channels, which will be the first interactive television offerings on the Caribbean. In addition, interactive services like TV-Mail and TV-Shopping will also be available in the Caribbean.
CSTN's technological roll-out originally planned for 2010, will a decade later, include the launch of data and satellite channels over the Pan Caribbean Territory. An added benefit will be the Caribbeanisation of channels where local stations and languages are accommodated in the countries where CSTN is broadcasting.
CSTN Coverage
In October 2000, CSTN installed and commissioned its remote 4.5 Satellite Teleport on the island of St. Lucia. Today, CSTN will organize for the content to be distributed via satellite and/or fibre optic networks from sports, entertainment and other events in the Caribbean and globally to the CTSN associates throughout the Pan Caribbean Territory. The CSTN content will be distributed to TVRO dishes and/or fibre optic at individual national television stations and cable head-ends in the Caribbean and globally.
In the past CSTN distribution via satellite to terrestrial and cable head-ends throughout the Pan CaribbeanTerritory, global events of World Governing Sport Bodies which included:
The CSTN Pan Caribbean Territory includes the following countries: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Bonaire, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, French Guyana, Grenada, Guyana, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Puerto Rico, Saba, Saint Marteen, St. Barts, St. Eustatius, St. Lucia, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Martin, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Surinam, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos and the US Virgin Islands.
CSTN Administrative Office - Located at #30 Picton Street, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago in (1999)
CSTN Sport Marketing Inc. will facilitate the development of Intra-Caribbean Sport as follows:
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Pan Regional Advertising Sponsorship, Marketing and Promotion for Sports Events.
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Intra-Caribbean Sports Television, Marketing and Promotion.
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Caribbean Sports Events for the International or global market.
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Providing host broadcast services for Sports Events throughout the Caribbean
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Athletes Representation and an annual Caribbean Sport and Entertainment Awards Ceremony.
CSTN Satellite Services Limited - Located at HTS Building, Morne Fortune, Castries, St. Lucia in (2000)
