SAT-7 Channels Increase Arab Audiences
Two years after the start of SAT-7’s broadcasts on the Nilesat satellite system, two of its Arabic channels transferred last weekend to a new, purpose built satellite that has just been deployed at the Nilesat orbital slot, 7 degrees East.
Both the SAT-7 ARABIC and SAT-7 KIDS channels have benefitted from this changeover and have now completed the migration from the old Atlantic Bird 4A satellite to the new Atlantic Bird 7 (AB7) satellite, which has a much better coverage of the Arab World - including, for the first time, parts of North Africa (Morocco and Western Algeria) that previously only had access to SAT-7 PLUS (Combining the best programming from the SAT-7 ARABIC and SAT-7 KIDS channels but on the Hotbird Satellite System).
Some existing viewers of the SAT-7 ARABIC and SAT-7 KIDS channels with older receivers will need to manually retune the frequency coordinates for their dishes. Those with newer receivers will have been switched automatically to the new satellite.
SAT-7 PLUS, the network’s Hotbird satellite channel, will continue serving all of the Middle East, North Africa (and also greater Europe) with its “best of” programming from the SAT-7 ARABIC and KIDS channels.
The deployment of this new satellite positions SAT-7’s Arabic-language channels to better “make God’s love visible” across the whole region, employing as it does the two most popular satellite platforms – Nilesat and Hotbird.
The new coordinates for SAT-7 ARABIC and SAT-7 KIDS, effective 23 October 2011 are: Atlantic Bird 7 at 7 degrees East, Frequency: 11,355 GHz, Vertical, 27.5 MSym/sec, FEC 5/6.
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