{"id":480873,"date":"2020-04-23T03:02:01","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T03:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/?p=480873"},"modified":"2020-04-23T03:02:01","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T03:02:01","slug":"freecasts-selecttv-adds-rt-the-hope-channel-and-more-networks-from-the-european-television-guild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/freecasts-selecttv-adds-rt-the-hope-channel-and-more-networks-from-the-european-television-guild_480873.html","title":{"rendered":"FreeCast\u2019s SelectTV Adds RT, The Hope Channel, and More Networks from the European Television Guild"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:right; width:250px; padding:8px 10px 10px 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/uploads\/1587579424.jpeg\" style=\"border:none !important;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29\" title=\"FreeCast&rsquo;s SelectTV Adds RT, The Hope Channel, and More Networks from the European Television Guild\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/uploads\/1587579424.jpeg\" alt=\"FreeCast&rsquo;s SelectTV Adds RT, The Hope Channel, and More Networks from the European Television Guild\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" style=\"padding:0px 0px 10px 10px; border:0 solid !important;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"quotes\">\n<div>This is the big advantage of online distribution. A service like ours can cater very effectively to specialized channels, in a way that big cable and satellite providers or even broadcast TV cannot. <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-style:italic; padding:8px 0px;\">The Hope Channel, RT, and their Spanish language counterparts join several other ETG channels within FreeCast\u2019s SmartGuide.<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/freecast.com\" target=\"_blank\">FreeCast<\/a> is pleased to announce the addition of several channels to the company&rsquo;s <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/smartguide.tv\" target=\"_blank\">SmartGuide<\/a> thanks to an expanded partnership with the European Television Guild. The channels, including The Hope Channel, Esperanza TV, RT (formerly Russia Today), RT en Espa&ntilde;ol, RT Documentary, and SonLife Broadcasting are now available on the company&rsquo;s flagship SelectTV service and other television systems powered by the company&rsquo;s SmartGuide.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Hope Channel and Esperanza TV are distributed to millions of faith-based audiences through online distribution platforms, cable, broadcast, and satellite platforms globally. RT is an award winning global, round-the-clock news network of eight TV channels, broadcasting news, current affairs, and documentaries. RT has a total weekly audience of 100 million viewers in 47 of the 100+ countries where RT broadcasts are available.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/eurotvguild.com\" target=\"_blank\">European Television Guild<\/a> is a leading voice in the television and OTT spaces, providing consulting service to clients around the world and publishing <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/rapidtvnews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Rapid TV News<\/a>, an industry news outlet that FreeCast has been a long-time consumer of and contributor to.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">CEO William Mobley of FreeCast talked about the role that his company can play in distributing these types of networks to new audiences: &ldquo;This is really the big advantage of online distribution. A service like ours can cater very effectively to specialized channels, in a way that big cable and satellite providers or even broadcast TV cannot. So from religious networks to international and foreign language programming, our platform is fantastic for connecting the right viewers with the right content.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><span style='font-size:18px !important;'>Media Contact<\/span><br \/><strong>Company Name:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/companyname\/freecast.com_7036.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">FreeCast Inc.<\/a><br \/><strong>Contact Person:<\/strong> Tyler Shears<br \/><strong>Email:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/email_contact_us.php?pr=freecasts-selecttv-adds-rt-the-hope-channel-and-more-networks-from-the-european-television-guild\" rel=\"nofollow\">Send Email<\/a><br \/><strong>Phone:<\/strong> (407) 374-1607<br \/><strong>Address:<\/strong>6901 TPC Drive  Suite 200 <br \/><strong>City:<\/strong> Orlando<br \/><strong>State:<\/strong> Florida<br \/><strong>Country:<\/strong> United States<br \/><strong>Website:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/freecast.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/freecast.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><object type=\"text\/html\" data=\"https:\/\/freecast.com\" style=\"width:900px; height:400px;\"><\/object><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/press_stat.php?pr=freecasts-selecttv-adds-rt-the-hope-channel-and-more-networks-from-the-european-television-guild\" alt=\"\" width=\"1px\" height=\"1px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the big advantage of online distribution. A service like ours can cater very effectively to specialized channels, in a way that big cable and satellite providers or even broadcast TV cannot. The Hope Channel, RT, and their Spanish &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/freecasts-selecttv-adds-rt-the-hope-channel-and-more-networks-from-the-european-television-guild_480873.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433,419,411,403,404],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-480873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Arts-Entertainment","category-Media-Communications","category-Technology","category-UK","category-US"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}