{"id":68536,"date":"2017-03-23T18:23:08","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T10:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/eutelsats-sat-tv-app-expands-to-include-free-to-air-channels\/"},"modified":"2017-03-23T18:23:08","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T10:23:08","slug":"eutelsats-sat-tv-app-expands-to-include-free-to-air-channels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/eutelsats-sat-tv-app-expands-to-include-free-to-air-channels\/","title":{"rendered":"Eutelsat\u2019s Sat.tv App Expands to Include Free-to-Air Channels"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eutelsat Communications<\/strong> announced that&nbsp;Sat.tv<strong><em>,<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;its mobile program guide, is expanding to include Free-to-Air (FTA) channels broadcasting from its 7\/8 degrees west neighborhood.&nbsp;Sat.tv&nbsp;was launched in April 2016, targeting the 65 million homes equipped for Direct-to-Home (DTH) reception from Eutelsat\u2019s Hotbird neighborhood. The app has already registered almost 1 million downloads and is now available to the more than 52 million DTH-equipped homes in the Middle East and North Africa that receive FTA channels from 7\/8 degrees west.<\/p>\n<p>Sat.tv&nbsp;now gives viewers in the Middle East and North Africa the opportunity to browse through the program schedules of around 400 free-to-air channels, with options to search by time, channel or type of content. According to Intelsat, viewers benefit from a user-friendly program guide interface available in five languages (Arabic, English, French, Italian, Russian) and can access program details in up to 40 languages.<\/p>\n<p>Eutelsat said Sat.tv&nbsp;has already seen strong take-up in Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Iran, with users particularly drawn by the option to select preferred content in one click and to receive personalized recommendations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eutelsat Communications announced that&nbsp;Sat.tv,&nbsp;its mobile program guide, is expanding to include Free-to-Air (FTA) channels broadcasting from its 7\/8 degrees west neighborhood.&nbsp;Sat.tv&nbsp;was launched in April 2016, targeting the 65 million homes equipped for Direct-to-Home (DTH) reception from Eutelsat\u2019s Hotbird neighborhood. The app has already registered almost 1 million downloads and is now available to the more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59661,"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-68536","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\/68536"}],"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=68536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}