{"id":68542,"date":"2017-03-22T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T15:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/eurovision-asiasat-extend-partnership-to-deliver-content-to-asia-pacific\/"},"modified":"2017-03-22T23:59:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T15:59:00","slug":"eurovision-asiasat-extend-partnership-to-deliver-content-to-asia-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/eurovision-asiasat-extend-partnership-to-deliver-content-to-asia-pacific\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurovision, AsiaSat Extend Partnership to Deliver Content to Asia-Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eurovision<\/strong>, the operational arm of the <strong>European Broadcasting Union<\/strong> (EBU), and <strong>Asia Satellite Telecommunications<\/strong> (AsiaSat) have announced an expansion of their partnership for use of multiple C-band transponders on AsiaSat 5 and a teleport service from AsiaSat\u2019s Tai Po earth station in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>The C-band transponders will be used for occasional live sports and news transmissions in the Asia-Pacific region, and will also support permanent TV channel distribution in Asia for EBU members and customers.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_146327\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-146327\" style=\"width: 232px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-146327 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/AsiaSat-5.preview-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"AsiaSat 5\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/AsiaSat-5.preview-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/AsiaSat-5.preview-155x200.jpg 155w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/AsiaSat-5.preview.jpg 495w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-146327\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">AsiaSat 5 Satellite prior to launch. Photo: ILS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Eurovision and AsiaSat have partnered together since 1999 to deliver sports events to broadcasters holding the rights in the Asia-Pacific region, including major football leagues and tournaments. The collaboration has recently expanded to 4K transmissions of major events successfully delivered to the international broadcasting community.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, AsiaSat\u2019s space and ground facilities have been a key part of the Eurovision Global Network. Connecting AsiaSat\u2019s Tai Po earth station in Hong Kong to the Eurovision Fiber Network (FiNE) allows Eurovision to provide enhanced value-added services, including equipment hosting, turnaround and uplink services to EBU Members and customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eurovision, the operational arm of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), and Asia Satellite Telecommunications (AsiaSat) have announced an expansion of their partnership for use of multiple C-band transponders on AsiaSat 5 and a teleport service from AsiaSat\u2019s Tai Po earth station in Hong Kong. The C-band transponders will be used for occasional live sports and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57100,"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-68542","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\/68542"}],"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=68542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}