Changes to Satellite Distribution in Europe and the Middle East
During the next year or so World Service programme distribution is changing position on some satellites.
The first change, taking place during August, will affect the audience that listen and watch World Service programmes from the Hotbird satellite. The affected services are Arabic TV, Arabic Radio and two of the World Service English radio streams to Europe and the Middle East.
The New Hotbird frequency starts on the 5 August 2014 and the existing Hotbird frequency will cease on 5 September. Tuning details are shown below.
Satellite Eutelsat Hotbird 13D
Satellite Orbital Position 13° East
Transponder Number 130
Space Segment Downlink Centre Frequency 11.117GHz
Space Segment Downlink Polarisation Vertical
Forward Error Correction (FEC) 3/4
Symbol rate 27.5Msymbol/s
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Arabic TV SID 14616
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Arabic Radio SID 14617
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ English (Europe) SID 14618
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ English (Middle East) SID 14619
About ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ World Service
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ World Service is an international news service available on radio, television and online. It provides impartial news reports and analysis in and .
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ World Service aims to inspire and illuminate the lives of its audience by bringing the world together, making connections and helping listeners to make sense of the world.
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ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ World Service has been funded by the Licence Fee since 1 April, 2014.
This was agreed as part of the UK government's . Previously, the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ World Service was funded by a Grant-in-Aid from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
How ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ World Service is Run
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ World Service is part of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ World Service Group headed by Peter Horrocks.
The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ World Service Group includes the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ World Service, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Global News Ltd (which comprises the and ), and (the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s international development charity).
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