{"id":82727,"date":"2012-07-27T19:22:45","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T11:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ses-inks-two-broadcast-capacity-lease-extensions-in-france-u-k\/"},"modified":"2012-07-27T19:22:45","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T11:22:45","slug":"ses-inks-two-broadcast-capacity-lease-extensions-in-france-u-k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ses-inks-two-broadcast-capacity-lease-extensions-in-france-u-k\/","title":{"rendered":"SES Inks Two Broadcast Capacity Lease Extensions in France, U.K."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[07-27-12] <b>SES<\/b> signed a long-term extension of its framework agreement with French pay-TV operator <b>Groupe Canal Plus<\/b> for the entire capacity of 24 transponders on the SES fleet at the 19.2 degrees East orbital slot, SES announced July 26.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;Canal Plus recently contracted its 24th transponder on the ASTRA Satellite System in order to further enlarge its HD line-up. The transponder was previously utilized in the German market.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;Separately, SESannounced that it signed a long-term renewal with U.K. public service broadcaster <b>Channel 5<\/b> for one transponder that it is using on the Astra Satellite System at 28.2 degrees East. Channel 5 is available through both pay-TV platform Sky and the free-TV platform Freesat.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cSince our launch in the late 1990s we\u2019ve enjoyed a very successful relationship with SES, based on the company\u2019s unrivalled back-up facilities together with its excellent technical expertise, which are all crucial broadcasting requirements,\u201d Channel 5 Director of Operations Paul Dunthorne said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[07-27-12] SES signed a long-term extension of its framework agreement with French pay-TV operator Groupe Canal Plus for the entire capacity of 24 transponders on the SES fleet at the 19.2 degrees East orbital slot, SES announced July 26. &nbsp; &nbsp;Canal Plus recently contracted its 24th transponder on the ASTRA Satellite System in order to [&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-82727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82727"}],"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=82727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}