{"id":68150,"date":"2017-05-31T23:18:11","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T15:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/eutelsat-sbt-boost-digital-tv-rollout-in-burkina-faso\/"},"modified":"2017-05-31T23:18:11","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T15:18:11","slug":"eutelsat-sbt-boost-digital-tv-rollout-in-burkina-faso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/eutelsat-sbt-boost-digital-tv-rollout-in-burkina-faso\/","title":{"rendered":"Eutelsat, SBT Boost Digital TV Rollout in Burkina Faso"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eutelsat Communications<\/strong> announced a multi-year agreement for satellite capacity with <strong>Societe Burkinabe de Telediffusion<\/strong> (SBT), the public agency deploying Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) channels across Burkina Faso. According to SBT, the new contract is a major step in the drive to accelerate analogue switch-off in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Capacity leased on Eutelsat 3B already delivers approximately 20 channels to 35 digital terrestrial transmitting towers deployed throughout Burkina Faso, enabling homes equipped with a digital decoder and a compatible TV set to access digital content.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to favoring Eutelsat 3B for nationwide Free-to-Air (FTA) broadcasting, SBT has partnered with public broadcaster <strong>RTB<\/strong> to expand availability of public service content to Burkinabe residents and embassies in a broader footprint. Capacity on Eutelsat 16A is extending access to RTB in Africa and on Eutelsat 9B in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur objective is to ensure DTT delivery to 98 percent of our territory by the end of 2017,\u201d said SBT General Manager Kadidia Savadogo.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eutelsat Communications announced a multi-year agreement for satellite capacity with Societe Burkinabe de Telediffusion (SBT), the public agency deploying Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) channels across Burkina Faso. According to SBT, the new contract is a major step in the drive to accelerate analogue switch-off in the country. Capacity leased on Eutelsat 3B already delivers approximately [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68151,"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-68150","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\/68150"}],"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=68150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}