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  • Afghanistan’s Shamshad TV joins Asiasat 2

    Afghanistan’s Shamshad TV joins Asiasat 2

    MUMBAI: Asian satellite communicatsion service provider Asiasat has announced that it has signed a deal with Shamshad TV of Afghanistan.

    The deal is a lease agreement for the use of C-band capacity on Asiasat 2 to distribute the channel to all broadcast networks across Afghanistan and countries in Central Asia, the Middle East, South Asia and other parts of Asia.

    Shamshad TV has commenced free-to-air broadcasting on Asiasat 2, offering programming in English, Dari and Pashto languages 24 hours a day of content including news, entertainment and
    educational programmes.

    Shamshad TV president Fazel Karim Fazel says, “Following the launch of terrestrial broadcast across our country earlier this year, we are very excited to put our service on Asiasat 2 satellite that further extends our coverage area to both urban and rural areas of Afghanistan, and brings our services abroad, serving overseas audience in more 50 countries and regions across the Asia Pacific. We trust that Asiasat 2’s well established penetration across Asia and Australasia would give us the best audience access and tremendously increase our local and overseas viewership”.

    Asiasat CEO Peter Jackson says, “We are very pleased to welcome Shamshad TV, our first broadcast customer from Afghanistan, on board Asiasat 2. With the addition of this new channel onto Asiasat 2’s exciting line up of international programming, the satellite has firmly established itself as Asia’s most popular multilingual and multicultural platform for broadcast services across the region”

    Shamshad TV is available on Asiasat 2 in C-band with the following reception parameters:
    Transponder: 4A
    Frequency: 3790.75 MHz
    Polarisation: Vertical
    Modulation: QPSK
    Symbol Rate: 2.444 Msym/sec
    FEC: 3/4
    About Shamshad TV
    Shamshad TV was launched early this year from Kabul. The channel provides educational, news, and entertainment programmes in English, Dari and Pashto languages. Its production studio and broadcast station are located in Kabul and provide digital terrestrial transmission and satellite transmission to both urban and rural areas of Afghanistan as well as other countries in Central Asia, South Asia and the Middle East.

  • Brunei’s RTB International using Asiasat to expand presence across Asia

    Brunei’s RTB International using Asiasat to expand presence across Asia

    MUMBAI: Asian satellite operator Asiasat and Brinei’s pubcaster Radio Television Brunei (RTB) gave signed a lease agreement.
    This is for the use of C-band capacity on Asiasat 2 for free to air distribution of the ‘RTB International’ channel, serving viewers in Asia, Australasia and the Middle East.

    RTB International has commenced broadcasting on Asiasat 2. It offers programming in Malay and English languages 24 hours a day on a range of content including news, current affairs, religious, dramas, musicals, game shows, documentaries, sports, magazines and educational programmes.

    “We are very excited to expand our broadcast service to the whole of Asia, and further to the Middle East and Australasia via Asiasat 2. We have been using Asiasat 2 for the Asiavision daily television news exchange service with many other Asian broadcasters for the last few years.

    RTB director Lim Sam Lee says, “We are very satisfied with Asiasat 2’s service and we found it a very popular satellite among Asia’s leading broadcasters. Our launch of service on Asiasat 2 would enhance our capability to access more viewers across the Asia Pacific region and to introduce to international audiences the socio-economic and cultural development in Brunei Darussalam”.

    Asia CEO Peter Jackson says, “We are very pleased to have RTB International on Asiasat 2. The introduction of this channel further strengthens Asiasat 2’s Asian content offerings. This, along with the other television programming from the Middle East, Europe and the US affirms Asiasat 2’s position of being Asia’s most comprehensive and popular broadcast platform for international broadcasting”.

    RTB International will be available on AsiaSat 2 in C-band with the following reception parameters:

    Transponder: 5B
    Frequency: 3786.5 MHz
    Polarisation: Horizontal
    Modulation: QPSK
    Symbol Rate: 6.00 Msym/sec
    FEC: 7/8