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English Club TV takes the first step into the Swiss market with Swisscom
From 16 October 2018 onwards, the educational channel English Club TV has been available for Swisscom TV customers.English Club TV is the comprehensive collection of high-quality educational content as well as the greatest movies of all time with subtitles and pre-teaching section.
According to the report made by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office, English is the most frequently learned second language. As stated in the report, appx. 19% of people speak English at work, 35% of all people aged 25 and above learn English intensely and about 40% of the population use it every day.
Andrew Semchenko, the CEO of English Club TV Group, says:
“I have no doubts that English Club TV will foster Swiss viewers’ interest in learning English and will be the source of inspiration to children, youngsters and adults who just take their first steps to be good at English. I’d like to invite our viewers to visit our website (www.english-club.tv/channels/schedule) to get information on our viewing schedule, educational shows, daily movies and interactive programmes for kids. Hope it brings our viewers in Switzerland one step closer to perfect English.”
Swisscom, Switzerland’s leading telecoms company and one of its leading IT companies, is headquartered in Ittigen, close to the capital city Berne. Outside Switzerland, Swisscom has a presence on the Italian market in the guise of Fastweb. About 20,000 employees generated sales of CHF 8.7 billion in the first nine months of 2018. It is 51% Confederation-owned and is one of Switzerland’s most sustainable and innovative companies. 1.5 million customers use fully cloud-based Swisscom TV. Swisscom TV has radically changed the way we watch TV with a range of technological innovations. For more details, go to swisscom.com/tv.
The English Club TV Group is a group of production, edutainment and distribution companies that operates worldwide in the field of English language education. The English Club TV Group is a family of brands such as the educational channels English Club TV, English Club TV HD and the online service English Club TV ON-THE-GO. For more information visit www.english-club.tv
English Club TV is a unique educational channel for those who want to learn and improve their English. The English Club TV Channel is available via Astra 4A, Measat 3A and Intelsat 11 satellites which cover the European, Asian, African, North and South America continents. Every day more than 30,000,000 subscribers of more than 400 operators watch English Club TV in 100 + countries around the world. English Club TV content is available through OTT, VOD, DTH, IPTV and mobile platforms.
