{"id":83920,"date":"2011-11-22T22:45:40","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T14:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ses-leases-astra-capacity-to-luxembourgs-m7-group\/"},"modified":"2011-11-22T22:45:40","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T14:45:40","slug":"ses-leases-astra-capacity-to-luxembourgs-m7-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ses-leases-astra-capacity-to-luxembourgs-m7-group\/","title":{"rendered":"SES Leases Astra Capacity to Luxembourg\u2019s M7 Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[11-22-11] FSS operator <b>SES<\/b> signed a capacity and uplink agreement with Luxembourg-based satellite television provider <b>M7 Group<\/b> to distribute its content from the Astra 19.2 degrees East orbital position, SES announced Nov. 21.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;The contracted capacity will be used for DTH distribution of French-speaking channels for the Belgian market, including the RTBF channels La Une and La Deux and RTL Group channels RTL TVi, RTL Club and Plug RTL.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;M7 Group said the channels would be included in the offering of its satellite television brand T\u00e9l\u00e9SAT and that it plans to expand the offering at 19.2 degrees East by the addition of the RTBF channel La Trois starting in January.<br \/>\nM7 Group currently utilizes four transponders at Astra 19.2 degrees East and eight transponders at Astra 23.5 degrees East.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cWe are very happy with this new capacity agreement for Belgium. The excellent channel neighborhood and the high-quality distribution via 19.2 degrees East are of key importance for serving the French speaking DTH market in Belgium. Moreover, the agreement allows us to further expand our line-up in the near future. SES has proved to be a very valuable and professional partner for our expansion into existing and new markets,\u201d M7 Group COO Hans Troelstra said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[11-22-11] FSS operator SES signed a capacity and uplink agreement with Luxembourg-based satellite television provider M7 Group to distribute its content from the Astra 19.2 degrees East orbital position, SES announced Nov. 21. &nbsp; &nbsp;The contracted capacity will be used for DTH distribution of French-speaking channels for the Belgian market, including the RTBF channels La [&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-83920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83920"}],"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=83920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}