Satellite TV Free To Air Stations For Africa.

Free-To-Air channels are available on most KU band decoders in Africa and Europe. If you have a digital satellite receiver connected to a KU Band satellite dish orientated towards PAS 7 or PAS 10, then it is most likely that you are able to receive the Free-To-Air channels.

From small beginnings with a broadcast footprint covering Windhoek, Rehoboth and Okahandja, One Africa Television, with a high level of support from local, regional and global brands, has grown to become Namibia?s most popular commercial free-to-air TV station. One Africa Television is provides a free-to-air analogue broadcast, requiring only a standard television set and antenna for access, and relies only on advertising income, as it receives no state subsidies, license fees or subscription fees.

The channel will replace the existing SABC Africa satellite television service whose broadcasting contract expires in March 2008. The new channel will be available on Sentech's relatively unknown VIVID satellite platform. It will be free to air, but users will need to buy a special decoder. The PAS10 footprint used will cover Sub-Saharan Africa from Nigeria to South Africa, according to Sentech's product manager of signal distribution, Miranda Abrahams.

Digital Satellite Television (also known as DStv) is MultiChoice's multi-channel digital satellite TV service in Africa, launched in 1995. In South Africa and neighbouring countries, it broadcasts on Ku band, which only requires a small satellite dish, while several other countries in the rest of Africa receive broadcasts via both Ku band and C-Band which requires a larger 1.2m dish. Subscribers in South Africa also receive the South African Broadcasting Corporation's three terrestrial channels, SABC1, 2 and 3 and the privately owned free-to-air terrestrial channel e.tv. These are not available to subscribers elsewhere, for rights reasons, although they receive the SABC Africa channel.

The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) provides three television channels: SABC1, 2 and 3. SABC 1 and 2 broadcast programmes in all the languages of South Africa, including English, Afrikaans and Xhosa. SABC3 broadcasts only in English, and includes many current award-winning American and British shows. Privately owned free-to-air e-TV broadcasts a bright and entertaining mix of local and international programming. M-Net, a pay station, shows some good movies and chat shows while satellite channels are provided by DSTV throughout South Africa. Most hotels, guest lodges, and backpacker?s hostels provide DSTV.

Finally: all of the Thai TV channels are now available in clear Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) on the Thaicom 2 / 3 satellites. Seems that the last missing Thai TV channel, known as Thai TV-3, was made available in DVB sometime during the last month. H sr: 6392 for crystal clear Thai drama series.

Since the advent of democracy in 1994, South Africans have seen a number of new television channels introduced by both the SABC and other private operators. Both the SABC and MNet broadcast across Africa.

Sports TV Uganda Limited is a privately owned television station, broadcasting sports programs from around the world, as a part of Setanta Africa Sports Network. The station is set to broadcast 24/7 and is free to air.

ITV, BBC ONEand BBC TWO programmes are available with the Astra 2 system. These and all the other free-to-air channels can be received by any standard digital satellite receiver and large (90cm+) satellite dish.

In 1966 the SABC also established an external service, known as Radio RSA, which broadcast in English, Swahili, French, Portuguese, Dutch and German. It is now known as Channel Africa.

Australia's newest television station, National Indigenous TV launched yesterday in Alice Springs and Sydney, with a charter to reflect the culture of Australia's indigenous people. Initially, NITV will broadcast via the Optus Aurora remote satellite television service and commercial broadcaster Imparja's spare channel, but has future plans to become a third national broadcaster, via pay television operators and channel "A", which the Australian government plans to auction off at some point in the future.

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It was the first private Arab satellite TV station that aimed primarily at a pan-Arab audience. It offered news and entertainment, and soon other investors started to imitate its success. In 1994 two other groups of Saudi investors established two other Arab satellite companies, the Arab Radio and Television Network (ART) and Orbit. MBC, like most of the others, was a free-to-air broadcaster that carried advertising to cover at least part of its costs, but ART and Orbit are fee-based broadcasters that used a coded system accessible only to subscribers. During the next three years, two groups of Lebanese private investors started the satellite stations named Future and Lebanese Broadcasting Company, respectively, and Syrian private investors started Arab News Network.

South Africa has by far the largest television audience in Africa. There are more than four million licensed television households. The SABC's national television network comprises four full-spectrum free-to-air channels, two satellite pay-TV channels aimed at audiences in Africa, and Bop-TV, which the SABC runs on behalf of the State. News bulletins are broadcast in all 11 official languages.

Consequently the SABC now comprises of a public and a public commercial division. The public radio division has 11 full spectrum sound services, a regional sound service KFM, a community sound service X-K FM, Lotus FM, Radio 2000, as well as two full spectrum multilingual channels SABC 1 and SABC 2. The public commercial arm comprises of three sound services 5 FM, Metro FM and Good Hope FM and one television channel SABC 3. The service also operates SABC Africa, which is a pay television channel accessible on the DSTV digital satellite platform.

RTR Planeta (RTR Planet) is new on 4000 Horizontal, 28125, 3/4. The service is an international Russian-language channel which was created for the promotion of Russian culture worldwide by Russia's largest broadcasting company, RTR. RTR, operates two national television channels ("Russia and "Kultura"), 89 regional television stations, in addition to RTR Planeta. RTR Planeta commenced broadcasts in 2002 and rebroadcasts to an international audience programmes produced by the RTR and 'Kultura' national channels. Other programs include general entertainment including Russian drama, soap operas and music television. 4000 Horizontal, 28125, 3/4.

Formed in 1995, MultiChoice Africa became the first African company on the continent to offer digital satellite broadcasting. Services include 55 video and 48 audio channels operating 24 hours a day.

Copy the link into your browser (removing the starting underscore _); at the link, scroll down looking for SABC ID 2101. When you get there copy down the figures; later, when you have worked out how your receiver operates, you will have to enter the right figures into your receiver.