{"id":80604,"date":"2013-07-25T01:15:16","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T17:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ses-signs-15-year-contract-with-platco-digital\/"},"modified":"2013-07-25T01:15:16","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T17:15:16","slug":"ses-signs-15-year-contract-with-platco-digital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ses-signs-15-year-contract-with-platco-digital\/","title":{"rendered":"SES Signs 15-year Contract with Platco Digital"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"150\" cellspacing=\"2\" cellpadding=\"6\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" margin=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"169\" align=\"left\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/map4-13-south-africa-large.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\nA contract for two transponders will allow the Direct-to-Home transmission of a new TV  channel platform by Platco Digital to audiences in South Africa\u2019s urban  and remote areas.<br \/>\nImage credit: CDC\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>[Satellite TODAY 07-24-13] SES announced it has signed a 15-year contract with <b>Platco Digital<\/b>, a sister company of the South African independent broadcaster <b>e.tv<\/b>. Under the contract, Platco will use SES capacity to broadcast a new free-to-air service in South Africa, with future expansion plans.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The contract for two transponders, with an option for additional capacity in 2014, will allow the Direct-to-Home (DTH) transmission of a new TV channel platform by Platco Digital to audiences in South Africa\u2019s urban and remote areas. SES will provide the satellite capacity on the SES 5 satellite at 5 degrees east, one of the company\u2019s flagship orbital slots, which supports customers developing the Digital DTH TV markets in Africa.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Platco Digital and e.tv are owned by <b>Sabido Investments (Pty) Limited<\/b>, a South African media group with holdings in a variety of broadcasting, content, production and distribution businesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A contract for two transponders will allow the Direct-to-Home transmission of a new TV channel platform by Platco Digital to audiences in South Africa\u2019s urban and remote areas. Image credit: CDC [Satellite TODAY 07-24-13] SES announced it has signed a 15-year contract with Platco Digital, a sister company of the South African independent broadcaster e.tv. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-80604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80604"}],"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=80604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}