....M7 Group, the Luxembourg-based satellite television provider, for distribution via ASTRA’s 19.2 degrees East orbital position. This newly contracted capacity will be used for the DTH distribution of the HD versions of La Une and RTL TVi, the leading French speaking channels for the Belgian market. The channels will be included in the TéléSAT offering, the M7 Group owned satellite television bouquet for French speaking Belgium that started on ASTRA 19.2 degrees East in November last year. In January 2012, M7 Group already added RTBF’s third channel “La Trois” to its TéléSAT offering on ASTRA.
M7 Group provides DTH services to more than three million homes in The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Austria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia using the brand names CanalDigitaal, TV Vlaanderen, TéléSAT, AustriaSat, Skylink and CS Link. To serve the various European markets, M7 Group currently uses four transponders at ASTRA 19.2 degrees East and eight transponders at ASTRA 23.5 degrees East.