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Home2US Communications Inc. also offers several ethnic channels on SES 1 at 101° W, as well as other free and pay-TV channels. Many religious broadcasters reach the DTH and distribution markets with unencrypted DVB-S television and radio channels on Galaxy 19. These channels are available as part of the Glorystar Satellite Service.
The satellite communications portion of the C band is highly associated with television receive-only satellite reception systems, commonly called "big dish" systems, since small receiving antennas are not optimal for C band. Typical antenna sizes on C-band-capable systems range from 6 to 12 feet (1.8 to 3.5 meters) on consumer satellite dishes ...
[citation needed] As of 2009, there are 23 C-band satellites and 38 K u /K a band satellites. [17] There were over 150 channels for people who want to receive subscription channels on a C-band dish via Motorola's 4DTV equipment via two vendors Satellite Receivers Ltd (SRL) and Skyvision Archived January 13, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. The ...
It provides services in the C band and K u band. The clients for Galaxy 19 include the previous clients for Galaxy 25. Expanded services include higher-powered C-band and K u band transponders as well as new, high-power K a band service. As of August 2017, Galaxy 19 broadcast 172 free-to-air channels for North American televisions, from a ...
In Brazil the main FTA satellite is the Star One D2, it holds approximately C-band analog channels (1985-2024), including all major networks like TV Globo (feed SP1 digital HDTV), SBT (feed nacional digital HDTV), Record (feed nacional digital HDTV), Record News (feed nacional digital HDTV), RFTV (feed nacional digital HDTV), RedeTV!, Band ...
Broadcast and Telecommunications Satellite C-band: Africa, Central Asia, the Middle East and Europe, Ku-band: Central Asia and Europe 7 February 2013, Ariane 5 ECA: 2014-09-11 49.0°E: 50.5°E NSS-5: Lockheed Martin AS-7000 Netherlands SES: Comsat: Americas, Africa, Europe, Atlantic Ocean: 23 September 1997 Ariane-42L: Hybrid C-band/Ku-band ...
A Viewsat Xtreme FTA receiver. A free-to-air or FTA Receiver is a satellite television receiver designed to receive unencrypted broadcasts. Modern decoders are typically compliant with the MPEG-4/DVB-S2 standard and formerly the MPEG-2/DVB-S standard, while older FTA receivers relied on analog satellite transmissions which have declined rapidly in recent years.
NSS-9 is a communications satellite owned by SES World Skies. It is an all C-band satellite intended as a replacement for NSS-5 , and has three beams with 44 active C-band transponders. NSS-9 was built by Orbital Sciences Corporation and launched February 12, 2009 aboard Ariane 5 flight V-187.