[SatNews] A capacity deal will results in HD sports getting to consumers throughout this area of the world...

Home to Latin America’s premium programming, SES WORLD SKIES, a division of SES S.A. (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG), has signed a new capacity deal with ESPN Brazil to deliver HD sports content from around the world to homes across the region. As part of the strategic agreement, ESPN Brazil is using 18MHz of C-band capacity on SES WORLD SKIES’ NSS-806 satellite to distribute one HD and one SD sports channels to cable television transmission stations throughout Latin America. ESPN Brazil now delivers three key channels into Latin America over a combined 27MHz of capacity on NSS-806. ESPN Brazil’s programming will seamlessly move to the advanced SES-6 satellite, which is scheduled for launch in 2013.