{"id":71567,"date":"2016-03-22T18:08:21","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T10:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/sony-pictures-networks-india-buys-transponder-on-asiasat-7\/"},"modified":"2016-03-22T18:08:21","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T10:08:21","slug":"sony-pictures-networks-india-buys-transponder-on-asiasat-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/sony-pictures-networks-india-buys-transponder-on-asiasat-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony Pictures Networks India Buys Transponder on AsiaSat 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 03-22-2016] <b>AsiaSat<\/b> has reached a multi-year lease agreement with <b>Sony Pictures Networks India<\/b> (SPN) for a C-band transponder on AsiaSat 7. The company will use capacity from the AsiaSat 7 satellite to increase the number of Standard Definition (SD) and High Definition (HD) television services in India. SPN will start broadcasting a new bouquet of SD and HD channels to Indian cable and pay-TV networks using the satellite beginning in April.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we continue to expand our TV channel offerings, availability of transponder space is a critical requirement. Our partnership with AsiaSat enables us to expand our reach into the Indian sub-continent delivering quality programming to our diverse audiences,\u201d said Humsa Dhir, SVP and head of public relations and corporate communications, Sony Pictures Networks India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 03-22-2016] AsiaSat has reached a multi-year lease agreement with Sony Pictures Networks India (SPN) for a C-band transponder on AsiaSat 7. The company will use capacity from the AsiaSat 7 satellite to increase the number of Standard Definition (SD) and High Definition (HD) television services in India. SPN will start broadcasting a new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71569,"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-71567","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\/71567"}],"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=71567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}