Arabsat offers TV5 Monde channels across MENA
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Rebecca Hawkes
| 02 July 2017

TV5 Monde is making two channels available free-to-air across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) on Arabsat’s DVB-S2 satellite platform.

TV5 Monde Maghreb Orient HD and TV5 Monde Style HD will be added to the HD TV platform, which is broadcast from Arabsat’s BADR-4 satellite located at 26 degrees East.

“Arabsat continues to be the supporting pillar of the HD movement in the Middle East & North Africa. Indeed, we rely on our international partners like TV5 Monde to offer Arabsat’s audience modern viewing experience, in terms of best true HD quality and exclusivity on board of Arabsat satellites. Our new free-to-air DVB-S2 platform gives us a great opportunity to bring more premium content of HD channels – exclusively – to Arabsat viewers,” said Khalid Balkheyour, president and CEO, Arabsat. “Meanwhile, our customers of worldwide international and regional TV brands will find Arabsat new free-to-air launched DVB-S2 platform as the ultimate solution to expand their businesses and broadcast more HD channels over MENA, yet, with a reliable cost-efficient solution.”

Yves Bigot, CEO, TV5Monde added: “By upgrading to DVBS 2 and reconfiguring TV5Monde Maghreb-Orient HD and TV5Monde Style HD on the same satellite, Badr 4, on the same multiplex, Arabsat, one of the oldest TV5Monde’s satellite partners, is contributing to offer to our viewers the best experience they could have in the Maghr and Middle East areas”.

From 3 July, Arabsat’s DVB-S2 platform will carry TV5 Monde Maghreb Orient HD, TV5 Monde Style HD, BBC World News HD, France 24 Arabic HD, France 24 English HD, TRT World HD, and Medi1-TV HD. France 24 French HD is also set to join the platform soon, said Arabsat in a statement.