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ITV signs 10 year carriage deal with SES


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ITV signs 10 year carriage deal with SES
Posted on Wednesday, 14th March 2001, at 4:40 am by Iain Chapman
SES and ITV have this morning announced a 10 year carriage deal, which sees ITV leasing 3 transponders on Astra 2D

ITV will use this three transponder to broadcast 16 regional versions of it's network. The 16 versions are made up of 14 ITV regions, along with seperate services for HTV Wales and West, and Border Scotland and England.

The agreement between ITV and Astra also includes options for ITV to commit to additional capacity for other ITV projects.

Commercial and Marketing Director of SES, Yves Elsen said: "This is exciting news for the 4.7 million ASTRA digital satellite homes in the UK. Given ITV's emphasis on regional programming, this decision to launch on ASTRA highlights the important role satellite can play in delivering local as well as pan-European services. We believe that ITV's programming pedigree will further accelerate the demand for digital satellite services in Britain."

Kate Stross, ITV Finance and Development Director, said: "We are delighted to have concluded this agreement with SES. This is an important first step towards ITV broadcasting on satellite."

digiNEWS has not seen any mention in any of the press releases as to whether this capacity will also include ITV2 from the start. It is also not clear whether ITV still needs to secure an agreement with BSkyB for encryption of it's service.
 

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