The new 24/7 broadcaster will use Satlink’s comprehensive satellite and fibre distribution network to deliver its multi-lingual channels across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia, as well as providing other services including: Production, Satellite News Gathering (SNG), Occasional Use coordination, fibres to the UN buildings in New York, to Gaza and Ramallah as well as content monitoring.

The i24 News channels launched on July 17th, 201, and are broadcasting live news reports throughout the day alongside interviews and analysis. Broadcasting three different channels in three languages; English, French and Arabic, SatLink is providing ground services and satellite capacity to Asia on AsiaSat 5 over DVB-S2, to Europe & the Middle East on Hotbird 13 degrees East on Ku-band and Canal + bouquet on Astra 19.2 degrees East on Ku-band, and the CanalSat Afrique bouquet to North Africa on SES 4 on Ku-band.

As a new player in the market, i24 needed a satellite communications partner that was able to support them in delivering fast, reliable news from the Middle East to a global audience. i24 News will also be taking advantage of SatLink’s Content Monitoring solution, a service, which monitors all of the news feeds in the Middle East in Arabic, Farsi and English and provides reports and analysis direct to i24 of all of the current news emerging from the region. In addition, SatLink’s Occasional Use (OU) services will enable the swift and cost effective delivery of bundled, end-to-end solutions including production, SNG'S, OU satellite capacity, global fibre optic network, streaming and added value services.

i24 News channel will be joining SatLink’s growing bouquet of broadcast & transmission suite of services for leading international news broadcasters and agencies such as Thomson Reuters, AP, France 24, and euronews.