{"id":79989,"date":"2013-09-24T01:19:51","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T17:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/startimes-to-expand-tv-reach-in-africa-with-ses-5\/"},"modified":"2013-09-24T01:19:51","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T17:19:51","slug":"startimes-to-expand-tv-reach-in-africa-with-ses-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/startimes-to-expand-tv-reach-in-africa-with-ses-5\/","title":{"rendered":"StarTimes to Expand TV Reach In Africa with SES 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 09-23-13]<b> StarTimes Communication Network Technology<\/b>, a technology provider and network operator in China, has signed a 10-year contract on<b> SES\u2019<\/b> SES<b> <\/b>5 satellite at 5 degrees east to expand its media footprint in Africa and deliver direct-to-home (DTH) broadcast services across the continent. StarTimes, which has more than 2.6 million digital terrestrial television (DTT) subscribers, also acquired SES\u2019 20 percent shareholding in South African pay-TV operator <b>TopTV<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>The contract will see StarTimes use four transponders as of October 2013 and a fifth transponder from February 2014 to grow their DTH subscribers in Africa. The Chinese broadcaster will continue to broadcast TopTV on SES 5 by using three of the newly-contracted SES transponders that were formerly leased by <b>ODM<\/b>. The other two out of the five SES transponders contracted by StarTimes will be used to complement their DTT offering in remote and non-urban areas and grow their pay-TV business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 09-23-13] StarTimes Communication Network Technology, a technology provider and network operator in China, has signed a 10-year contract on SES\u2019 SES 5 satellite at 5 degrees east to expand its media footprint in Africa and deliver direct-to-home (DTH) broadcast services across the continent. StarTimes, which has more than 2.6 million digital terrestrial television [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70021,"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-79989","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\/79989"}],"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=79989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}