Hotbird

This new platform joins other RRsat platforms on satellites such as Hotbird, Thaicom, Hispasat and Amos, which combined, broadcast over 50 religious channels globally such as: 3ABN, Daystar Television Network, GOD TV, Over-the-Top of the Internet

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The BBC, for example, launched its Persian-language channel in 2009 and beamed it from the "Hotbird" satellite of Paris-based Eutelsat Communications SA, which is a satellite that large numbers of rooftop dishes in Iran are pointed at to receive free Persian channels.

In Skies Over Iran, a Battle for Control of Satellite TV Paul Sonne 2011

For its TV channel, the BBC rented a frequency on Eutelsat's Hotbird, the most popular satellite in Iran for TV watchers.

In Skies Over Iran, a Battle for Control of Satellite TV Paul Sonne 2011

Today, BBC Persian still wants to restore service on the more popular Hotbird but is continually thwarted by jamming.

In Skies Over Iran, a Battle for Control of Satellite TV Paul Sonne 2011

Because the jamming was causing collateral damage to neighboring channels on Hotbird, the BBC reluctantly agreed to a request from a satellite-space middleman to move to another Eutelsat satellite, called W3A.

In Skies Over Iran, a Battle for Control of Satellite TV Paul Sonne 2011

Most are fixed antennas, and young Iraqis already know from looking at them which satellite they're aimed at: Nilesat, for family programming and American movies, is bigger with the older generation; teenagers like Hotbird.

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"We also use RRsat for our service on Hotbird 6 and IS 10, and believe the new RRsat platform will have special benefit to millions of viewers in the Americas."

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"Signals on the Nilesat platform were cut, and frequencies on the Arabsat and Hotbird platforms were disrupted continually forcing millions of viewers across the Arab world to change satellite frequencies throughout the day," Al Jazeera said in a statement, referring to a few of the geostationary satellites broadcasting across the region.

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The news channel, which says it can reach 220 million households in more than 100 countries, had asked viewers to switch to Arabsat and Hotbird satellites after saying Egypt's satellite Nilesat had cut off its signal.

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Michael Scheuer will be in conversation at the Hay Festival, whose title sponsor is The Telegraph, with television journalist Nik Gowing, whose coverage of the aftermath of the September 11th 2001 attacks won the 2002 Hotbird Award.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011