23.5 E: Astra deals with clients from Albania and Moldova

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23.5 E: Astra deals with clients from Albania and Moldova
Luxembourg satellite operator SES Astra, the Astra satellite fleet operator, is with other clients on the use of satellite capacity on ASTRA 3B at the orbital position 23.5 ° E. Soon would be there to find programs in Albania and Moldova.

On Wednesday 9 February 2011 in Warsaw held a meeting with the press ASTRA Central Eastern Europe. The conference was attended Ornass-Martin Kubacki, Vice President & Chief Regional Officer of the company. SES Astra has 9 offices in Europe and Africa and is a leading satellite operator in Europe. Currently operates 17 satellites in six orbital positions over Europe and the ever expanding fleet of new satellites.

Currently, 125 million households are receiving signals from the Astra satellites, which generally spreads around 2600 radio stations, television programs and interactive services. SES Astra employs over 800 people from 25 countries.

SES Astra provides television and radio broadcasting (digital TV and Radio stations, HDTV , 3DTV , the distribution of DVB-T and IPTV programs, videos, DTC, SNG and all services related to satellite broadcasting: encryption, multiplexing, playout. The company also provides two-way access broadband Internet ASTRA2Connect.

Major European 19.2 ° E receives over 97 million households in Europe. Key clients include companies in Germany, ARD, ZDF, ProSiebenSat.1, Germany Sky, RTL Group, in France: Canal +, France Televisions, Digital Plus in Spain, the Benelux countries, Canal Digitaal, NOS, RTL Group, TV Vlaanderen, TVP in Poland. Other pan-European clients include Viacom, Turner, Discovery and Bloomberg.

Key clients who offer their programs at the orbital position 23.5 ° E Kabel Deutschland (Němdcko), CS Link , Skylink (Czech Republic, Slovakia), Canal Digitaal, Roos, TV Vlaanderen (Benelux), Viacom, Turner, Discovery and Bloomberg.

ASTRA Polska , based in Warsaw was founded in 1998. More ASTRA CEE was established in 2003 in Vienna, in November 2003 was moved to Warsaw. In January 2009, the two companies merged. The company also operates an office in Bucharest. It employs 12 people speaking 10 different languages. Astra CEE headquartered in Warsaw, is for 15 countries: Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Albania and Moldova.

The year 2010 was crucial for the Astra in the CEE region. There has been a dynamic growth markets of Central Europe, especially in the Czech and Slovak Republics, and also in Romania and Bulgaria.

In December 2010 the media company CME , which operates in six countries of Central and Eastern Europe, has signed a contract with SES ASTRA transponder capacity on the Astra satellite at 31.5 ° E position for the dissemination of programs for the Romanian and Bulgarian market - PRO TV, Acasa TV , PRO Cinema, PRO TV International, Sport.ro. MTV Romania and bTV, TV Action, TV Sports, TV Comedy Cinema and TV.

In January, the Astra has signed another contract - with the Bulgarian DTH operator BG Satellite , which will use three transponders on the satellite Astra 23.5 ° E for the provision of programs in Bulgaria. Satellite BG packet will contain more than 70 programs, including HD channels. There will also be a major public and commercial stations.

At 23.5 ° E run from Friday last week, technical tests of DVB-S2 multiplex Italian programs. Interestingly, the multiplex has only one program with high video bit rate, which during the test varies from 10 to 14.5 Mbit / s standard definition compression format to use MPEG-2 audio quality 384 kbit / s. More here . According to information from the press conference is the satellite operator with three new partners about the possibility of capacity utilization at 23.5 ° E. One customer is from Albania and one from Moldova. Recall that a distribution partner ASTRA2Connect in Albania is over, who may decide to launch DTH platform.

According to information satkurier.pl

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September 2, 2011