DA VINCI LEARNING LAUNCHES IN TAIWAN Berlin, 10 January 2014 – From 1 January 2014, the TV channel Da Vinci Learning is available in Taiwan via CNS, the local cable system operator, adding valuable CNS subscribers to its current 15 million from across the globe who are already taking part in the unique fun educational experience. Da Vinci Learning offers high-quality knowledge programming with awarded educational series and documentaries for kids and adults. Even the most complex subjects become understandable with this TV channel, covering a broad range of topics – from physics and chemistry to history and nature. With its “no violence” policy, Da Vinci Learning creates a safe environment for younger viewers and aspires to be a useful educational tool. The channel will be available via cable, adding subscribers in Taiwan to its current 15 million across CEE, the CIS, Asian and African countries. Ferdinand Habsburg, the channel’s Managing Director, is pleased to see the channel enter another vibrant market, “inviting families in Taiwan to a unique life-long learning adventure. Passing the message that “learning can be fun” onto future generations is very important. It is rewarding to be able to feed the appetite for knowledge as well as turn watching television into a meaningful experience.” More information: Tina Parazajda, PR manager at Da Vinci Media GmbH T: +49 (0) 30 40 50 46 8 30 E: tparazajda@davincitv.net W: www.da-vinci-learning.com ; www.kids.da-vinci-learning.com Da Vinci Learning is one of the educational TV brands owned and operated by Da Vinci Media GmbH, based in Berlin, Germany. It is an independent media company dedicated to providing education via television. Besides Da Vinci Learning, it offers Da Vinci U, a TV channel that brings higher education into the household through lectures by engaging teachers, philosophers and academics from the world’s leading academic and scientific institutions. More: www.da-vinci-learning.com. Information about CNS With more than 1 million of cable television (CATV) subscribers, MBK Partners is the major share holder of Taiwan’s most advanced Multiple System Operator (MSO): CNS, with operations in concentrated regions within northern and southern Taiwan. CNS vision is to upgrade and transform Taiwan’s cable television industry into a state of art fully digitalized and interactive media environment. It also devotes itself into development of value added
services such as: broadband networking, FTTx and etc, hence becoming the core player of the digital home. More: www.cns.net.tw