{"id":59398,"date":"2020-07-14T17:12:33","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T09:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ses-launches-free-to-air-satellite-channel-to-fight-spread-of-covid-19\/"},"modified":"2020-07-14T17:12:33","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T09:12:33","slug":"ses-launches-free-to-air-satellite-channel-to-fight-spread-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ses-launches-free-to-air-satellite-channel-to-fight-spread-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"SES Launches Free-To-Air Satellite Channel to Fight Spread of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>SES<\/strong> launched a Free-to-Air (FTA) satellite channel delivering reliable, informative content about COVID-19. The channel \u2013 Fight COVID-19 \u2013 broadcasts content that is aimed at providing underserved and rural communities with critical information about how to limit the spread of the virus.<\/p>\n<p>The content is provided by organizations such as <strong>UNICEF<\/strong> and <strong>AFP<\/strong> as well as global edtech social enterprise <strong>Potential.com<\/strong>. The content aims to impartially inform TV viewers about identifying COVID-19 symptoms, the recovery process, and how to manage the effects of a global pandemic and social distancing, such as managing a household, children, or mental health. SES said it welcomes additional content providers from international and regional organizations to contribute to the COVID-19 channel.<\/p>\n<p>The channel is broadcast free-to-air from SES\u2019s satellite fleet and is available in the following regions: ASTRA 4A at 5 degrees East for Sub-Saharan Africa and Ukraine; ASTRA 2F at 28.2 degrees East for West Africa; NSS-12 at 57 degrees East for Ethiopia and adjacent countries; and SES-9 at 108.2 degrees East for the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur lives have been disrupted by COVID-19 in the last few months, and unfortunately, it doesn\u2019t seem to be going away anytime soon. Through the global reach of satellite, we are in a position to contribute our resources wisely to help provide important information to vulnerable communities,\u201d said Steve Collar, CEO of SES. \u201cWe have been really fortunate to be able to collaborate with UNICEF, AFP and Potential.com who are willing to contribute their content for this good cause. Together, we hope to reach a wide group of audiences with reliable and trustworthy content and do our part in helping slow the spread of COVID-19.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SES launched a Free-to-Air (FTA) satellite channel delivering reliable, informative content about COVID-19. The channel \u2013 Fight COVID-19 \u2013 broadcasts content that is aimed at providing underserved and rural communities with critical information about how to limit the spread of the virus. The content is provided by organizations such as UNICEF and AFP as well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59399,"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-59398","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\/59398"}],"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=59398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}