{"id":2094,"date":"2007-11-29T07:11:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-29T05:11:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-11-29T07:11:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-29T05:11:00","slug":"pay-tv-satellite-successfully-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/2094-pay-tv-satellite-successfully-launched.html","title":{"rendered":"Pay TV satellite successfully launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The SES satellite which will deliver On Digital Media&#39;s (0DM) broadcast channels to South Africa and later to Sub-Saharan Africa has been successfully launched, according to On Digital Media.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;SES Astra will provide state-of-the-art services to ODM from the SIRIUS 4 satellite,&quot; said Steve Rich, Vice President of SES Astra, ODM&#39;s technology partner.<\/p>\n<p>Rich added that the SIRIUS 4 satellite will be located at 5&deg; East, its orbital position for delivering broadcast and broadband services across Europe, as well as transmitting High Definition Television (HDTV) channels.<\/p>\n<p>According to Vino Govender, Director of ODM, SES ASTRA is developing a video neighbourhood over Africa and will use the SIRIUS 4 bandwidth to deliver free-to-air and subscription television to broadcasters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=95815\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SES satellite which will deliver On Digital Media&#8217;s (0DM) broadcast channels to South Africa and later to Sub-Saharan Africa has been successfully launched<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}