{"id":71319,"date":"2016-04-18T17:45:07","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T09:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacecom-and-encompass-to-create-new-european-tv-distribution-platform\/"},"modified":"2016-04-18T17:45:07","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T09:45:07","slug":"spacecom-and-encompass-to-create-new-european-tv-distribution-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacecom-and-encompass-to-create-new-european-tv-distribution-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Spacecom and Encompass To Create New European TV Distribution Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 04-18-2016] <b>Spacecom<\/b>, operator of the Amos satellite fleet, and <b>Encompass Digital Media<\/b>, announced a new joint European TV distribution platform. The joint service will be distributed throughout the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region over the Amos 6 satellite\u2019s Ku Pan-European beam from its 4 degrees west orbital position.<\/p>\n<p>Encompass and Spacecom\u2019s shared initiative will provide channels and other content providers with a comprehensive solution for all playout, uplink and European space segments, for a full range of media distribution services over the satellite. Spacecom has partnered with Satellite Mediaport Services, located in Rugby, U.K., to provide uplink services for the platform.<\/p>\n<p>Amos 6 is scheduled to launch during the third quarter of this year. The satellite has 39 Ku-band segments and 24 Ka-band beams and will be larger than Amos 2 and Amos 3 combined. Amos 6 will incorporate new technologies such as High Throughput Ka-band spot beams for improved broadband Internet access, covering Europe and Africa; as well as Ku-band technologies for new and existing clients. Facebook has selected the satellite\u2019s Ka-band beams to be the satellite backbone of its initiative to bring broadband Internet to Sub Sahara Africa with <b>Eutelsat<\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 04-18-2016] Spacecom, operator of the Amos satellite fleet, and Encompass Digital Media, announced a new joint European TV distribution platform. The joint service will be distributed throughout the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region over the Amos 6 satellite\u2019s Ku Pan-European beam from its 4 degrees west orbital position. Encompass and Spacecom\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69165,"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-71319","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\/71319"}],"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=71319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}