Eutelsat Communications has announced the signing of a long-term contract with Airfield Media Group for satellite capacity at the Hot Bird™ video neighbourhood and associated ground services. The new capacity will be used to broadcast the five Belgian French-language channels in the new TéléSAT, pay-TV platform, comprising RTBF La Une and La Deux, RTL-TVi, Club RTL and Plug TV.
In addition to capacity at the Hot Bird™ neighbourhood, the contract covers provision of contribution links, multiplexing and uplinking of the five TéléSAT channels from Eutelsat’s Rambouillet teleport in France. The service is scheduled to launch in December. Direct-to-home satellite reception will be available throughout Belgium with MPEG 4 decoders (MPEG 2 compatible) using Nagravision’s Mediaguard 3 encryption system.
(Source: Eutelsat)
