Transponder News for Satellite TV on 22 October 2020

 

Al Yah 1 52.5° E
GünAz TV left 12073 V (vopros)

Türksat 4A 42 ° E
363 TV appeared on 12034 V DVB-S/QPSK MPEG-2 27500 5/6, Open (sinand)

Eutelsat 16A 16° E
New frequency for Sport 4 HD Albania: 11157.00MHz, pol. H SR:45000 FEC:3/5 SID:3000 PID:1028[MPEG-4]/1029 English,1030 English – Conax. (sinand)
Sport 3 HD Albania encoded in Conax at 11157.00MHz, pol. H SR:45000 FEC:3/5 SID:2950 PID:2782[MPEG-4] /2783 English,2784 English (sinand)

Hot Bird 13 13° E
Fox Big Bang Theory ушёл с 11862.00MHz, pol.H DVB-S

Eutelsat 9B 9 ° E
Better 2 HD goes openly on 11900 H DVB-S2/8PSK HEVC 27500 2/3
Mediaset Extra has left 12466.00MHz, pol.V DVB-S2 SID:30 PID:8051/8052 Italian (sinand)

 

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Change in the cost of the package National Xtra TV
Dear users!
With 1 November 2020 year, due to the increase in royalties to the copyright holders of popular Ukrainian TV channels, the cost of the package of the National satellite television Xtra TV will change from 80 UAH / month. before 99 UAH / month.
Prices for other Xtra TV packages, including Ukrainian national channels, at the moment managed to keep unchanged.
thank you for understanding!
Xtra TV team

SpaceX postponed the next launch of Starlink satellites
The next launch of a batch of SpaceX Starlink microsatellites has been postponed to 22 October, In 12:14 local time (19:14 MSK). According to the plan, the launch was supposed to take place 21 October. The reason for the transfer is not specified.
In total, so far it has been produced 13 launches, in total launched into space 773 satellite, including test. Last launch passed 19 October.
Starlink is a low-orbit satellite constellation project to provide Internet traffic. It assumes to use the Ku-band to transmit a signal from the satellite to the subscriber terminal and the Ka-band to transmit information from the ground teleport to the satellite..
Initially, the project planned to launch about 12 thousand satellites. However, in October 2019 of the year, SpaceX has asked the FCC (FCC) launch permission 30 thousand microsatellites.

Swiss Operator Selects Hotbird Satellites for New DTH Platform
The Swiss company Kabelio AG has entered into a multi-year contract with the Eutelsat operator to use the Hotbird satellite capacities for the operation of a new DTH direct broadcast satellite service. This agreement will allow Kabelio to provide access to its platform not only in Switzerland, but also throughout Europe.
The Kabelio offer includes both Swiss, and international TV channels, including 34 channel in HD resolution, as entertaining, and sports, News, as well as educational. The new DTH platform also broadcasts several free TV channels in various European languages., Eutelsat said in a statement.
“We are delighted to welcome Kabelio aboard Hotbird and support the launch of the new platform in Europe. This agreement highlights Hotbird's unrivaled satellite coverage, and the resilience of the European television landscape ", - commented on the beginning of cooperation, Vice-President of Eutelsat Apostolos Triantafillou.
Kabelio CEO Damir Krilcic added, that the new DTH platform will offer subscribers the opportunity to watch TV channels, which were not previously available via satellite broadcast.

4ever Music HD, EU Music HD and NIKI Kids HD complete FTA broadcast
The Ukrainian company Vianet Rudolf Kirnos has completed the public (FTA) broadcast your channels 4ever Music HD and EU Music HD, as well as NIKI Junior HD and NIKI Kids HD on the Eutelsat 9B satellite (9°E).
Rudolf Kirnos' package was broadcast by FTA in multiplex from Eutelsat 9B satellite for several months (9°E) in the beam to Northern Europe, Baltics and Ukraine.
Children's channels are currently broadcast via the same satellite, but they use the capacity of the operator of the Ukrainian paid platform Xtra TV, and music stations are not currently available via satellite.
The company's music and children's stations are designed exclusively for the needs of Pay TV. Therefore, the coding or completion of the free broadcast was only a matter of time.
The operator's family of thematic channels should be expanded with the new channel 4ever Theater, which is aimed at theater and musical lovers.
Technical parameters – 4ever Music HD, EU Music HD, Niki Kids HD, Niki Junior HD (broadcast finished):
Eutelsat 9B (9°E), frequency 12,226 GHz, Pol. V, SR 27500, FEC 5/6, DVB-S2/8PSK, FTA
Current technical parameters – NIKI Kids HD и NIKI Junior HD:
Eutelsat 9B (9°E)
TP. NB2 (12,149 GHz, Pol. V, SR: 27500, FEC: 5/6; DVB-S2/8PSK)
Kodirovanie: Verimatrix (Betacrypt)

freeSAT disables SD version of stations 29.10.2020
In the coming weeks group M7 (Canal + Luxembourg) will make changes to the software offer of the freeSAT satellite platform in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Instead of the original SD versions of programs, he will offer customers technically better HD versions.. Thus, clients will not lose any of the programs and, Vice versa, get better quality programs in those packages, in which they were not originally provided.
The key date for the changes will be Thursday, 29 October 2020 g., when most SD FreeSAT programs are disabled (excluding SD ČT stations), which are broadcast simultaneously with the HD version. 9 November 2020 the SD version of Czech TV programs will also end.

 

Apple Music Launches Music Videos TV Channel
Another confirmation of the fact, that it is too early to write off classical music television. Apple Music TV is a new project from Apple and free 24/7 live streaming of popular music videos. True, for now only for US residents, but we can assume, that in the future the channel will become available to all users of the platform.
This is reported by The Verge in its note.. Its author brings to the attention of readers, that channel viewing will be available on the viewing tabs in the Apple Music app and in the Apple TV app. He further states, that “Apple Music TV is interesting, what seems like a direct shot at YouTube dominance in music video. The new channel will premiere the video at noon Eastern European time every Friday "...", can Apple supplant YouTube (RIP to MTV), but interesting to watch, how is she (company - OBOB.TV) trying something new ”.
After this news, readers left their comments.. It seemed to us, that they will be curious to you:
D3vP0ll: "Finally, I can watch music videos without ads. This is MTV's comeback ! Thank you, Apple! YouTube needs a shot in the hand. "
KidAKidB: “YouTube is still a much better service for watching music videos., since you can watch them as you wish, and not watch that, what they impose on you to watch on a television channel ".
Murdinthor123: “MTV also has a music channel on PlutoTV. So it hasn't died yet. ".
MasterSushi: “How soon reality shows will be added to the mix of clips (a hint of the main MTV programs - OBOB.TV), and then they will make Apple TV Music channel 2 for music videos, and then after a while they will do the same with him?”
Echo_One: “Imagine all the children, who will watch Apple Music TV - they never knew, what is MTV or VH1 before reality show ... But in general, every "new" phone / social media makes me feel old. But I'm not old ... "