Satellite television by region
Furthermore, maintaining a cable network is expensive due to the need to cover larger and more sparsely populated areas though there are some terrestrial pay-TV and MMDS services.
GBS was the operator behind GTV, a popular, if niche Direct to Home (DTH) satellite Pay-TV service present in 22 African markets.
Traditionally DStv Africa satellite on Eutelsat 36C/D had held a large market share in Nigeria's Satellite television sector but several companies, HiTV, MyTV, Trend TV, ACTV, Consat, Daarsat, Metrodigital, Montage cable network and StarTimes DTT, a Chinese company which launched in 2009 has managed to reach about 800,000 households in October 2011.
In October 2004, Quebec Judge Danièle Côté ruled Canada's Radiocommunication Act to be in direct violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, in so far as it bans reception of unlicensed foreign television services.
[10] A Supreme Court of Canada decision in the case of Bell ExpressVu v. Richard Rex, made on 26 April 2002, confirms that provisions in the Radiocommunication Act forbid the illegal decoding of satellite television programming.
Some would claim that this is probably due to a combination of increasingly aggressive police enforcement and an unfavourable exchange rate between the Canadian and U.S. currencies.
Bell underwent a period of phasing out satellite receivers in urban areas, replacing it with IPTV transmitted over regular telephone lines.
The TV transponder units are designed to sufficiently amplify transmitted signals to enable reception by small, 40 or 60 cm home-use parabolic antennas.
It currently holds exclusive rights from the Malaysian government to offer satellite television broadcasting services in the country through the year 2017.
Its main metropolitan rival was Optus Vision, while rural areas are served by Austar, both of which just rebroadcast Foxtel as of 2005.
In 2006 SelecTV began operating, aiming at providing comparatively low cost packages and catering to specialised market segments.
In Europe, DBS satellite services are found mainly on SES Astra and Eutelsat Hotbird fleets.
Sky Group, owned by Comcast, operates with his subsidiaries in the United Kingdom, in the Republic of Ireland, in Italy, in Germany, in Austria and in Switzerland.
For example, in Germany, with many free-to-air TV-stations, DBS market share is almost 40%, and in Belgium and the Netherlands, it's only about 7%, due to the widespread cable networks with exclusive content.
From about Lyon south through France and all of Spain Portugal and Morocco there are many English Language TV channels on Arabsat and Nilesat.
However, the most common operator Movistar Plus+, broadcast via Astra 1KR and lately push their clients to use their own fiber internet network, if it's available.
In May 2008, a free-to-air satellite service from the BBC and ITV was launched under the brand name Freesat, carrying a variety of channels, including some content in HD formats.
Comcast, the largest cable TV provider in the US, outbid 21st Century Fox and its backer, Disney, on 22 September 2018, in an auction for control of Sky UK.
Its shareholders have until 11 October 2018, to accept or reject the offer.The first Soviet communication satellite, called Molniya (Молния, or "Lightning"), was launched in 1965.
The Communist party considered propaganda as the very important task, and the only allowed (later two) TV channel of the central government had to be delivered to regions on a huge territory, and, if possible, abroad.
The system consisted of three highly elliptical Molniya satellites, Moscow-based ground uplink facilities and about 20 downlink stations, located in cities and towns of remote regions of Siberia and the Far East.
By 1976, Soviet engineers developed a relatively simple and inexpensive system of satellite television (especially for Central and Northern Siberia).
Modern Russian satellite broadcasting services based on powerful geostationary buses such as Gals, Ekspress, USP and Eutelsat which provide a large quantity of free-to-air television channels to millions of householders.
It broadcasts a pack of TV channels in the European part of Russia and most of Siberian, Ural and Far East regions.
There are 12 federal channels including "Pervy", "Rossiya", "NTV", "STS", "Bibigon" and others in the free "Basic" pack.
[15] In 1995, Eutelsat satellite transmitted four Turkish TV channel TRT int, atv, TGRT or Interstar.
These two satellites were renamed Thor 1 and Sirius 1, moved to new positions and started broadcasting services intended for people in the Nordic region.
The competition between Viasat and Canal Digital has caused some homes in Scandinavia to have to buy two set-top boxes and have two subscriptions to get the full range of channels.
One of the pioneers of free-to-air digital satellite television is considered to be MBC, which began broadcasting in C band through Arabsat and is the first network in the world to offer a free-to-air Western based English language movie channel to the Middle East audience via its spinoff channel MBC 2.
Nourmina Channel is the first satellite channel owned by a Jordanian national of the private sector, which broadcasts on Nile Sat reluctantly 12303H, which covers all the Arab countries, Africa and most parts of Europe - The first digital DTH pay-TV network to provide Indian Entertainment was Orbit Satellite Television and Radio Network broadcasting via Eurobird 2 (Ku band).
