{"id":177377,"date":"2016-08-29T14:55:31","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T12:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=177377"},"modified":"2016-08-29T14:56:29","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T12:56:29","slug":"dstvs-new-satellite-will-let-it-launch-more-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/177377-dstvs-new-satellite-will-let-it-launch-more-services.html","title":{"rendered":"DStv&#8217;s new satellite will let it launch more services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Intelsat recently\u00a0announced the <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/177137-dstv-gets-more-satellite-capacity.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>successful launch<\/strong><\/a> of\u00a0Intelsat 36, a satellite which will act as a backup to DStv&#8217;s current\u00a0IS20 satellite.<\/p>\n<p>The new satellite will also\u00a0give DStv more capacity and allow it to launch more services, said MultiChoice.<\/p>\n<p>MultiChoice has\u00a0acquired signal from the satellite, which will be handed over to it\u00a0in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Once the satellite is handed over to us, we\u2019ll make further announcements about what our customers can expect. Watch this space,&#8221; said MultiChoice.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Spengler, CEO\u00a0of Intelsat, said\u00a0Intelsat 36 will enable MultiChoice to &#8220;extend high-definition channels throughout the region&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are proud to once again partner with MultiChoice as they continue to deliver high-quality services to their customers throughout sub-Saharan Africa,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on DStv<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/177093-top-30-tv-shows-on-dstv.html\">Top 30 TV shows on DStv<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/176401-dstv-to-open-disney-channel-to-more-subscribers.html\">DStv to open Disney Channel to more subscribers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intelsat recently announced the successful launch of Intelsat 36, a satellite which will act as a backup to DStv&#8217;s current IS20 satellite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":120242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[85,35,475],"class_list":["post-177377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-dstv","tag-headline","tag-multichoice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177379,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177377\/revisions\/177379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}