{"id":58934,"date":"2020-10-01T22:33:05","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T14:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/azam-tv-completes-migration-of-video-platform-to-eutelsat-7c\/"},"modified":"2020-10-01T22:33:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T14:33:05","slug":"azam-tv-completes-migration-of-video-platform-to-eutelsat-7c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/azam-tv-completes-migration-of-video-platform-to-eutelsat-7c\/","title":{"rendered":"Azam TV Completes Migration of Video Platform to EUTELSAT 7C"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>African Pay-TV operator <strong>Azam TV<\/strong> has completed migrating its video platform from the EUTELSAT 7B to EUTELSAT 7C satellite, and also signed a multi-year extension of its contract with incremental capacity commitment. Azam said in a Wednesday announcement will use EUTELSAT 7C to distribute about 120 channels in a mix of standard and high definition across its footprint covering Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, Kenya, and Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>EUTELSAT 7C, which is in the 7 degrees East orbital position, was launched in June 2019 by Arianespace and entered commercial service in January.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eutelsat<\/strong> Deputy Regional Vice President, Sub Saharan Africa, Patrice Paquot commented on the deal: \u201cWe are honored to continue to partner with Azam, one of our anchor customers at the 7 degrees East position as it successfully expands it broadcast offer. 7 degrees East has become a new DTH hotspot for Sub-Saharan Africa and a key Pay-TV neighbourhood for Eastern Africa with some of the fastest growth rates in the region.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>African Pay-TV operator Azam TV has completed migrating its video platform from the EUTELSAT 7B to EUTELSAT 7C satellite, and also signed a multi-year extension of its contract with incremental capacity commitment. Azam said in a Wednesday announcement will use EUTELSAT 7C to distribute about 120 channels in a mix of standard and high definition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58934"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}