Official: Dubai TV and Dubai Sports Join AsiaSat 5

[mmadhankumar]

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE​

Asia’s leading satellite operator Asia Satellite Telecommunications Co. Ltd. (AsiaSat) is pleased to announce that Dubai Media Incorporated (DMI) has signed a contract to broadcast two free-to-air satellite channels, ‘Dubai TV’ and ‘Dubai Sports’ throughout the Asia-Pacific region on AsiaSat 5.

Dubai TV, the state TV channel of the Emirate of Dubai, broadcasts events and activities taking place in Dubai and in the UAE along with local news, financial programmes and Arabic family dramas to a wide global audience. The Dubai Sports Channel is dedicated to featuring major tournaments such as the Dubai World Cup, Dubai Open Tennis, World Powerboat Championship, the UAE Football League and other important world sporting events and sports documentaries.

“AsiaSat 5 is well known as the leading distribution platform for Middle Eastern programming, as it offers the greatest choice of Arabic content for Arab communities in Asia and Australasia. We are excited to join AsiaSat 5 to further expand our viewership and international reach through its unprecedented coverage across a vast area from Turkey and Egypt in the west to Australia and New Zealand in the east allowing instantaneous access to pay TV platforms, terrestrial networks, hotel networks, embassies and individual homes across Asia,” said His Excellency Mr. Ahmad Al Shaikh, Managing Director of Dubai Media Incorporated.

“With the addition of Dubai TV and Dubai Sports channels to our existing impressive bouquet of over 40 Middle Eastern TV and radio programmes on AsiaSat 5, we expand our commitment to providing the best and most comprehensive Middle Eastern entertainment to the Arabic-speaking communities across the Asia-Pacific region,” said William Wade, President and CEO of AsiaSat.



Dubai TV and Dubai Sports are now available on AsiaSat 5 in C-band with the following reception parameters:

Orbital Location : 100.5 degrees East
Transponder : C1V
Frequency : 3660 MHz
Polarisation : Vertical
Modulation : QPSK
Symbol Rate : 27.5 Msym/sec
FEC : 3/4

 

[Bapun]

Thats great move. Will it be FTA?

 

[Gssran]

So now availble on two Sat, Asiasat & Intelsat.

 

[Bapun]

Well they will it remove IntelSat after moving it to AsiaSat. I guess becuase generally when IntelSat channel moves to Insat then also they remove that ch. from IntelSsat.

 

[Gssran]

No Admin it's added recently on Intelsat, so I think it's not going to remove.

 

[Vikram]

On Asiasat For Asia-Pacific region And Intelsat For Europe, Africa & Middle East .