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  2. Satellite television - Wikipedia

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    Satellite television. A number of satellite dishes. Satellite television is a service that delivers television programming to viewers by relaying it from a communications satellite orbiting the Earth directly to the viewer's location. [1] The signals are received via an outdoor parabolic antenna commonly referred to as a satellite dish and a ...

  3. Astra (satellite) - Wikipedia

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    Astra is the brand name for a number of geostationary communication satellites, both individually and as a group, which are owned and operated by SES, a global satellite operator based in Betzdorf, in eastern Luxembourg. The name is also used to describe the pan-European broadcasting system provided by these satellites, the channels carried on ...

  4. History of television - Wikipedia

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    History of television. Family watching TV, 1958. The concept of television is the work of many individuals in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The first practical transmissions of moving images over a radio system used mechanical rotating perforated disks to scan a scene into a time-varying signal that could be reconstructed at a ...

  5. List of satellite television companies - Wikipedia

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    GOtv [8] KAFTAN TV. Kwese TV - discontinued its DTH operation in 2019 [9] Metro Digital. Montage Cable Network [10] Also commenced operations in 2014 but is no longer in operations. Mytv [11] OurTV [12] Play Consat. Sairtek is a top broadcast service provider in lagos Nigeria, sairtek provides free to air broadcasting, live streaming, satellite ...

  6. High-throughput satellite - Wikipedia

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    High-throughput satellite ( HTS) is a communications satellite that provides more throughput than a classic FSS satellite (at least twice, though usually by a factor of 20 or more [1]) for the same amount of allocated orbital spectrum, thus significantly reducing cost-per-bit. [2] ViaSat-1 and EchoStar XVII (also known as Jupiter-1 [3]) do ...

  7. Astro (company) - Wikipedia

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    Website. www .astro .com .my. All-Asian Satellite Television and Radio Operator, doing business as Astro (stylized in lowercase title ), is a Malaysian satellite television, streaming television and IPTV provider. Astro is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Astro Malaysia Holdings Berhad and is operated by MEASAT Broadcast Network Systems Sdn. Bhd.

  8. Satellite television by region - Wikipedia

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    Tanzania. Azam TV, DStv, StarTimes, Zuku, Continental, Agape (Ting), and DiGitek are the satellite television service provider in Tanzania, East Africa. They offer a range of satellite TV channels and packages to subscribers, including sports, entertainment, news, and more.

  9. ZAP (satellite television) - Wikipedia

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    www.ZAP.co.mz. ZAP is a digital satellite television provider mainly for Portuguese -speaking countries in sub-Saharan Africa. ZAP launched in Angola in 2010, providing a subscription based TV service covering the sub-Saharan countries to south of Angola. ZAP operates from the Eutelsat W7 satellite, placed over Africa at 36,0 degrees East ...