Companies to deliver live broadcasts to football fans in the
Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific regions
LUXEMBOURG--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 9, 2016--
Intelsat (NYSE: I), operator of the world’s first Globalized Network,
powered by its leading satellite backbone, announced today that Arqiva
has extended its relationship with Intelsat to distribute premium sports
content to viewers in the Americas, Europe and the Asia Pacific region
via multiple Intelsat satellites.
Under a multi-year agreement, Arqiva is using services on Intelsat 34
and Intelsat 20 to broadcast content to millions of sports fans located
in the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific regions.
“Intelsat’s premier video neighborhoods on Intelsat 20 and Intelsat 34
allow us to seamlessly and cost efficiently reach millions of sports
fans outside of the UK,” said David Crawford, Managing Director of
Arqiva Satellite and Media. “The combination of our distribution network
and Intelsat’s satellite solutions makes it possible to view premium
sports content worldwide, making Arqiva a trusted partner of choice to
our customers.”
Jean-Philippe Gillet, Intelsat’s Regional Vice President, EMEA Sales
said: “The renewal of this multi-satellite service to our longtime
customer Arqiva is evidence that our Intelsat 20 and Intelsat 34
satellites offer maximum cable headend penetration, maximizing the
potential audience for sports programming around the world. Intelsat’s
Globalized Network has the reach and reliability that Arqiva needs.”
The Intelsat 20 satellite, located at 68.5°E, hosts the region’s premier
cable neighborhood that serves as a transcontinental hotspot from
Europe, with a particularly high viewership in India. Launched in 2015,
Intelsat 34, orbiting at 304.5°E, is one of Intelsat’s three satellites
hosting pan-regional video distribution neighborhoods in Latin America,
complementing Intelsat 11 and Intelsat 21. Intelsat 34 includes a C-band
payload which delivers media distribution services to Latin American
cable systems for blue chip media powerhouses including Fox Sports and
HBOLA.
Intelsat will be exhibiting at the 2016 IBC Conference in Amsterdam, The
Netherlands, from September 9-13, 2016. You can visit Intelsat at the
Intelsat Stand located at Hall 1, C71 for more information about
Intelsat’s media services and Globalized Network solutions.
About Intelsat
Intelsat S.A. (NYSE: I) operates the world’s first Globalized Network,
delivering high-quality, cost-effective video and broadband services
anywhere in the world. Intelsat’s Globalized Network combines the
world’s largest satellite backbone with terrestrial infrastructure,
managed services and an open, interoperable architecture to enable
customers to drive revenue and reach through a new generation of network
services. Thousands of organizations serving billions of people
worldwide rely on Intelsat to provide ubiquitous broadband connectivity,
multi-format video broadcasting, secure satellite communications and
seamless mobility services. The end result is an entirely new world, one
that allows us to envision the impossible, connect without boundaries
and transform the ways in which we live. For more information, visit www.intelsat.com.
About Arqiva
Arqiva is a leading UK communications infrastructure and media services
provider dedicated to connecting people wherever they are through the
delivery of TV, radio, mobile, WiFi and the Internet of Things (IoT). We
are an independent provider of telecom towers, with over 8,000 sites
across Great Britain, and are also the only supplier of national
terrestrial television and radio broadcasting services in the UK. Our
advanced networks support the exponential growth of connected devices
and the ever-increasing demand for data from smartphones to tablets,
connected TVs, smart meters, cars and medical devices.
Customers include major UK and international broadcasters such as the
BBC, ITV, Sky Plc., Turner Broadcasting, the independent radio groups,
major telco providers – including the UK's four mobile network operators
– and retail, leisure, energy and water companies.
For more information, news and insights from Arqiva, please visit the
website at: www.arqiva.com.
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Source: Intelsat
Intelsat
Michele Loguidice
Director, Investor Relations and
Corporate Communications
+1 703-559-7372
michele.loguidice@intelsat.com
