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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