{"id":58993,"date":"2020-09-21T21:00:36","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T13:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/azam-tv-migrates-video-platform-to-eutelsat-7c-satellite-extends-contract\/"},"modified":"2020-09-21T21:00:36","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T13:00:36","slug":"azam-tv-migrates-video-platform-to-eutelsat-7c-satellite-extends-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/azam-tv-migrates-video-platform-to-eutelsat-7c-satellite-extends-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Azam TV Migrates Video Platform to Eutelsat 7C Satellite, Extends Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eutelsat Communications<\/strong> revealed on Monday that Azam TV migrated its video platform from the EUTELSAT 7B satellite to the EUTELSAT 7C satellite, with a multi-year extension of the existing contract and an incremental capacity commitment.<\/p>\n<p>Azam is an African pay-TV operator, and will leverage Eutelsat 7 C to distribute about 120 channels in a mix of standard and high definition across Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, Kenya and Rwanda. Earlier this year, EUTELSAT 7C entered commercial service.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the deal, Eutelsat Deputy Regional Vice President, Sub Saharan Africa Patrice Paquot said: \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 Direct-to-Home (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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eutelsat Communications revealed on Monday that Azam TV migrated its video platform from the EUTELSAT 7B satellite to the EUTELSAT 7C satellite, with a multi-year extension of the existing contract and an incremental capacity commitment. Azam is an African pay-TV operator, and will leverage Eutelsat 7 C to distribute about 120 channels in a mix [&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-58993","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\/58993"}],"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=58993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58993\/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=58993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}