Hispasat Partners with ATRESMEDIA Foundation in Broadcasting FAN3 Channel to Hospitalized Kids
Madrid, Spain, Jan. 31, 2019 — Hispasat, the Spanish telecommunications-based satellite operator, has renewed its agreement with the ATRESMEDIA Foundation to collaborate in broadcasting the FAN3 television channel via satellite, dedicated to hospitalized children. The initiative forms part of the Foundation's “Humanizing Children’s Hospitals” Program.
The Spanish operator is helping to broadcast the channel to more than 180 hospitals from all the autonomous communities which currently benefit from this initiative. This way, children in hospitals can access 13 hours of uninterrupted, commercial-free programming, free of charge, from Mondays to Sundays from 9:00 a.m. until 10:00 p.m. All its contents are supervised by the Spanish Paediatric Association (AEP) and the Official Association of Psychologists (COP).
FAN3 is the first television channel designed specifically for hospitalized children. The channel brings together entertainment contents–series, animated shows- with informative pieces that help children understand the processes they are experiencing and to become familiar with their disease and the hospital environment, in a pleasant manner tailored to their language.
The agreement forms part of Hispasat's Corporate Social Responsibility policy and its commitment to help people and communities to develop. At the same time, the project helps to provide healthcare information for these children.
The company actively participates in various initiatives that can contribute to helping people with special needs or in vulnerable situations, such as hospitalized children.
For Elena Pisonero, president of Hispasat “it is a source of pride for us that satellite technology can form part of a project like this, bringing multimedia contents to hospitalized children that help them to have fun, learn and lead a normal daily life to the extent possible, taking their circumstances into account”.
For the director of the ATRESMEDIA Foundation, Carmen Bieger, “it is a privilege to rely on a partner like Hispasat. Thanks to their support, the hospitals can enjoy FAN3 programming and help the time in the hospital be as pleasant and entertaining as possible for the kids and their family members.”
Hispasat is comprised of companies that have a presence in Spain as well as in Latin America, where its Brazilian affiliate HISPAMAR is based Hispasat is a world leader in content distribution in Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries and its satellite fleet is used by important direct-to- home television (DTH) and high-definition television (HDTV) digital platforms. Hispasat also provides satellite broadband and connectivity services, which include broadband access, mobility and the backhaul networks, in addition to other added value solutions for governments, companies and telecommunication operators in America, Europe and North Africa. Hispasat is one of the world's largest companies in its sector in terms of revenue, and the main communications bridge between Europe and the Americas.
Since 2005, the ATRESMEDIA Foundation has worked on behalf of children and young teenagers, concerned about their rights and promoting values and principles. The Foundation also dedicates special attention to hospitalized children through its Humanizing Children’s Hospitals Program. Its goal is to make pediatric hospitals a more pleasant space for children, by developing actions dedicated both to educate as well as to entertain the children and to raise awareness among all the actors involved in pediatric hospitalization. Since 2005, it has broadcast FAN3, the first television channel specifically designed for hospitalized children. The Foundation presently works with more than 200 pediatric centers across Spain and has started up the Humanization of Children’s Hospital Index (IHHI), an innovative tool capable of measuring these levels in hospitals.
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