{"id":83586,"date":"2012-02-02T21:21:32","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T13:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ses-leases-additional-astra-capacity-to-luxembourgs-m7-group\/"},"modified":"2012-02-02T21:21:32","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T13:21:32","slug":"ses-leases-additional-astra-capacity-to-luxembourgs-m7-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ses-leases-additional-astra-capacity-to-luxembourgs-m7-group\/","title":{"rendered":"SES Leases Additional Astra Capacity to Luxembourg\u2019s M7 Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[02-02-12] <b>SES<\/b> has signed a new capacity and uplink agreement with Luxembourg-based satellite television provider <b>M7 Group<\/b>, which will use capacity on SES\u2019 Astra satellite at the 19.2 degrees East orbital position, the operator announced Feb. 1.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;M7 Group will use the newly contracted capacity for the direct-to-home (DTH) distribution of French-language HD channels for the Belgian market. M7 Group currently utilizes four transponders on the Astra satellite at 19.2 degrees East and eight transponders on Astra\u2019s 23.5 degrees East spacecraft.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cWith the rapidly increasing sales of HD screens, broadcasting in HD is becoming a must in a highly competitive market like Belgium. We are therefore very pleased with the addition of the new HD channels on Astra 19.2 degrees East, since this will greatly improve our proposition for satellite viewers in French-speaking Belgium,\u201d M7 Group COO Hans Troelstra said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[02-02-12] SES has signed a new capacity and uplink agreement with Luxembourg-based satellite television provider M7 Group, which will use capacity on SES\u2019 Astra satellite at the 19.2 degrees East orbital position, the operator announced Feb. 1. &nbsp; &nbsp;M7 Group will use the newly contracted capacity for the direct-to-home (DTH) distribution of French-language HD channels [&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-83586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83586"}],"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=83586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}