[SatBroadcasting)tm)] DigitAlb, Albania's leading pay-TV platform today announced it has secured its satellite resources for digital broadcasting with Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) to June 2020.

The Company has extended 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. HD is a strong element, with the Premium HD package comprising eight HD channels, in addition to 54 premium channels and five SuperSport channels. The platform has more than 300,000 DTH subscribers in Albania and across Europe, and reaches an additional 100,000 homes via Albania's Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) network, which retransmits channels delivered to towers by DigitAlb's Eutelsat capacity.