Digitalb platform extends to 2020

TIRANA, Jan. 10 – DigitAlb, Albania’s leading pay-TV platform, said it had secured its satellite resources for digital broadcasting with Eutelsat Communications until June 2020, extending for an extra three years its contract with Eutelsat for five transponders on satellites operating at its 16 degrees East video neighborhood
Launched in December 2004, the DigitAlb pay-TV platform broadcasts a variety of Albanian and international channels, and closely cooperates with the sports package, SuperSport Albania for coverage of premium football and basketball games as well as Grand Prix races. High-Definition is a strong element, with the Premium HD package comprising eight HD channels, in addition to 54 premium channels and five SuperSport channels.
Digitalb has more than 300,000 Direct-to-Home subscribers both in Albania and across Europe, and reaches a further 100,000 homes via Albania’s Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) network, which retransmits channels delivered to towers by DigitAlb’s Eutelsat capacity.
Eutelsat Communications has a capacity commercialized on 27 satellites that provide coverage over the entire European continent, as well as the Middle East, Africa, India and significant parts of Asia and the Americas. At 30 September 2010, Eutelsat’s satellites were broadcasting more than 3,700 television channels.