| MUMBAI:
Asian satellite communicatsion service provider Asiasat has announced that it
has signed a deal with Shamshad TV of Afghanistan. The deal is a lease agreement
for the use of C-band capacity on Asiasat 2 to distribute the channel to all broadcast
networks across Afghanistan and countries in Central Asia, the Middle East, South
Asia and other parts of Asia. Shamshad TV has commenced
free-to-air broadcasting on Asiasat 2, offering programming in English, Dari and
Pashto languages 24 hours a day of content including news, entertainment and
educational programmes.
Shamshad TV president Fazel Karim Fazel says,
“Following the launch of terrestrial broadcast across our country earlier
this year, we are very excited to put our service on Asiasat 2 satellite that
further extends our coverage area to both urban and rural areas of Afghanistan,
and brings our services abroad, serving overseas audience in more 50 countries
and regions across the Asia Pacific. We trust that Asiasat 2's well established
penetration across Asia and Australasia would give us the best audience access
and tremendously increase our local and overseas viewership”. Asiasat CEO Peter Jackson
says, “We are very pleased to welcome Shamshad TV, our first broadcast customer
from Afghanistan, on
board Asiasat 2. With the addition of this new channel
onto Asiasat 2’s exciting line up of
international programming, the satellite
has firmly established itself as Asia's most popular
multilingual and multicultural
platform for broadcast services across the region”
.
Shamshad TV
is available on Asiasat 2 in C-band with the following reception parameters:
Transponder: 4A
Frequency: 3790.75 MHz
Polarisation: Vertical
Modulation:
QPSK
Symbol Rate: 2.444 Msym/sec
FEC: 3/4
About Shamshad TV
Shamshad
TV was launched early this year from Kabul. The channel provides educational,
news, and entertainment programmes in English, Dari and Pashto languages. Its
production studio and broadcast station are located in Kabul and provide digital
terrestrial transmission and satellite transmission to both urban and rural areas
of Afghanistan as well as other countries in Central Asia, South Asia and the
Middle East. | 
