The Commission gave the green light to start on February 6.
Event is significant for the development of all Russian television, particularly for channels RTR. Signals holding air channels and channels of digital television package, which includes "Science 2.0," "My Planet", "Fight Club", "Dress", "History", "Country", "Russian Romance" and many others will spread from the satellite. ABS-2 will take the orbital position 75 ° E, which is unique to the territory of Russia. Broadcasting only from this point allows the spacecraft by one to cover the maximum area from Kaliningrad to Sakhalin as well as CIS and Baltic countries.
"An important factor - a modern satellite. Lifetime spacecraft on average 15 years, and we understand how today rapidly evolving technology, and what was true 10 years ago, today "the last century" - said General Director of the distributor of "Digital Television" RTR "Signal Media" Mikhail Kovalchuk. - Another important point that will boost pay-TV market, the satellite will be the first in the history of non-terrestrial TV bring high-definition television (HD) on the entire territory of the Russian Federation (now the majority of satellites cover the European part of Russia, not allowing for the Urals receive modern TV) . "
RTR of HD channels that are available on the ABS-2 satellite - Russia HD and Sport 1 HD, and in a short time and the Russian educational channel IQ HD. According to Kovalchuk, all channels RTR will be collected on a single transponder that simplify pay-TV operators receiving and relaying RTR off-air channels in the network.
