[Satellite Today 04-20-09] Fox Pan American Sports, a Spanish-language sports programming venture, signed a multi-year contract with Intelsat for capacity on its IS-805 satellite to distribute the high-definition (HD) version of the program to Latin American markets, Intelsat announced April 16.
    Intelsat’s IS-805 satellite, located at 55.5 degrees West, will deliver Fox Sports in Latin America and Fox Sports en Español to 37 million households throughout the Americas. 
    "Sports continue to lead in the proliferation of HD, and we are now witnessing a growing demand for such HD programming in Latin America. We will continue to build our HD neighborhoods in order to ensure efficient, high value distribution for our customers, meeting their business growth objectives," Carmen Gonzalez-Sanfeliu, Intelsat’s vice president of Latin America and Caribbean markets, said in a statement.