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Satellites and Television for Asia: Global Actors on a Continental Stage"
by Amos Owen Thomas
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Figure 1: Major global-multinational satellites and their television channels
| Satellite | Intel 511 | Intel 704 | Pas-2 | Pas-4 | Rimsat 1 & 2 |
| Launched | 1985 | 1994 | 1994 | 1995 | 1993/4 |
| Transponders |
26 C-band 6 Ku-band |
26 C-band 10 Ku-band |
16 C-band 16 Ku-band |
16 C-band 24 Ku-band |
7 C-band 1 Ku-band |
| Footprint |
Australasia, SE & NE Asia |
SE, NE, S and W Asia |
Oceania, China, Australasia | Indian Ocean, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australasia | S Asia and Indochina |
| TV Channels |
TVNZ USIA ESPN Int'l Deutsche Welle Ch.10 (Aust) Ch. 7 (Aust) Ch. 9 (Aust) ABC (Aust) NHK (Jap) RFO Tahiti Tokyo Bícast Systems World Net Ch. 7 (Thai) Pacific Skylink |
Canal France USIA Srishti (Ind) Orbit (3 ch.) Turner ASE TV Eenadu (India) World Net NHK (Jap) |
ABS-CBN Phl Country Music ESPN Asia Discovery CTN (HK) ANBC TNT/Cartoon MTV Asia NHK (Jap) KDD (Jap) NBC CCTV TCS (Sgp) ABN |
BBC World CNN Int'l ESPN Disney Doordarshan SABC (S. Af) TNT/Cartoon MTV Asia Jain TV (Ind) M-Net (S. Af) Sony Entmt CCTV Home TV ABN Liberty/TCI |
TaiwanTV SunTV (Ind) UdayaTV-Ind Asianet (Ind) Raj TV Music Asia Vi Jay TV EMTV (PNG) |
Sources: Nielsen SRG “Satellite guide to Asia 1995”; Cable Satellite Asia “Asian Channel Guide” Nov.-Dec. 1996; Asiaweek (1994) “Skywatch: what's up and what's going up,” Oct. 19; Cooperman (1995); TelevisionAsia Guide to satellite & cable 1996; The Asiaweek Satellite Chart, Asiaweek, Nov.8, 1996.
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