{"id":79611,"date":"2013-10-22T18:17:50","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T10:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacecoms-amos-5-wins-3-6-million-broadcast-contract-in-east-africa\/"},"modified":"2013-10-22T18:17:50","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T10:17:50","slug":"spacecoms-amos-5-wins-3-6-million-broadcast-contract-in-east-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacecoms-amos-5-wins-3-6-million-broadcast-contract-in-east-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Spacecom\u2019s Amos 5 Wins $3.6 Million Broadcast Contract in East Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 10-22-13] <b>Spacecom\u2019s<\/b> Amos 5 at 17 degrees east has won another broadcast deal in East Africa. Under the new $3.6-million contract, Spacecom will provide analog to digital migration broadcast services to an East African Digital Terrestrial Transmission (DTT) and Direct To Home (DTH) operator.<\/p>\n<p>The operator\u2019s DTT distribution and DTH signal to the region, composed of dozens of channels focusing on local and international content including news, sports, entertainment and family programming, will be transmitted on Amos 5\u2019s Ku-band (Ku-3).<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Spacecom announced an East African digital migration broadcast project worth $5.9 million. \u201cThese two wins prove that the satellite\u2019s position, signal strength and resources meet the needs of our East African customers. We are proud to be a part of the region\u2019s move to digital broadcasting. This deal is another milestone for Amos 5 at 17 degrees east as it becomes a major player in the East African broadcast market,\u201d said Eyal Copitt, senior vice president of sales for Africa, Asia and marketing at Spacecom.<\/p>\n<p>Amos 5 was designed and built specifically for the African market with a pan-African C-band beam and three Ku-bands that cover the continent and provide connectivity to Europe and the Middle East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 10-22-13] Spacecom\u2019s Amos 5 at 17 degrees east has won another broadcast deal in East Africa. Under the new $3.6-million contract, Spacecom will provide analog to digital migration broadcast services to an East African Digital Terrestrial Transmission (DTT) and Direct To Home (DTH) operator. The operator\u2019s DTT distribution and DTH signal to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79613,"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-79611","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\/79611"}],"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=79611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}