Satelio

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Satelio
Industry Pay television
FoundedJuly 2013;11 years ago (2013-07)
Headquarters,
Area served
Sub-Saharan Africa (Africa excluding North Africa)
Products Satellite television
OwnerDeutscher Televisionsklub Betriebs GmbH
Website www.satelio.tv

Satelio is a pay-tv service for German-language television in Southern Africa (especially Namibia as well in South Africa (unter the Deukom label), other African countries (Nigeria since October 1, 2015) [1] and the Middle East. Satelio is provided by Deutscher Televisionsklub Betriebs GmbH based in Ismaning, Germany.

Contents

Distribution

Satelio broadcast its offer via the Amos-5 satellite (from 2 December 2013 [2] to early June 2014 via Intelsat 20). Due to the failure of Amos-5 on November 21, 2015, [3] the move to the Astra 4A satellite at 5° east was announced on November 23, 2015 [4] and completed on November 24, 2015.

In Namibia, the broadcast takes place via the general broadcasting license of Hitradio Namibia, [5] in Nigeria via ACTV. [1]

Channels

TV

The five English-language sport channels ST Sports Premium HD, ST World Football HD, ST Sports Arena, ST Sports Life and ST Sports Focus are offered in cooperation with the South African pay-tv company StarSat since September 1, 2016 and are subject to a surcharge. Among other things, Satelio offers the transmission of live coverage of Bundesliga football matches with this sports package. [6]

Radio

Encryption

Panaccess is used as conditional access system.

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References

  1. 1 2 Satelio - vereinbart Vertriebspartnerschaft mit ACTV in Nigeria!. Satelio, 1 October 2015 Archived 2015-10-03 at the Wayback Machine
  2. Mantel, Uwe (2 December 2013). "Satelio bringt deutsche Sender nach Afrika & Nahost". dwdl.de. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
  3. Info Zeitpunkt 20:45 Uhr 21.Nov. 2015, AMOS-5 kann nicht mehr kontaktiert werden!. Satelio, 21 November 2015
  4. Ein neues Zuhause im All. Allgemeine Zeitung, 24 November 2015 Archived 2015-11-24 at the Wayback Machine
  5. Satelio: Eine "fantastische Ergänzung". Allgemeine Zeitung, 6 December 2013 Archived 2013-12-11 at the Wayback Machine retrieved 16 January 2014.
  6. "StarSat Sports on Satelio". www.satelio.tv. Retrieved 7 November 2017.