Globecast announced Aug. 29 it would deliver National Geographic France HD from Italy to France’s Canalsat through an agreement with the channel’s parent company, Fox International Channels Italy.

Globecast is providing Fox with an end-to-end service, including delivery of National Geographic France HD from the Sky Italia headquarters in Milan via fiber-routing to Canalsat’s headquarters outside Paris. In addition, Globecast will provide all HD encoding and decoding equipment.

Globecast has assisted transmission of National Geographic France since 2004 and Fox Life France since 2005, both in standard definition.