RRsat’s Emek HaEla Teleport features more than 80 satellite dishes ranging from 2.4 to 32m diameter, providing uplink and downlink facilities from 108 degrees east to 37.5 degrees west. Image credit: RRsat

 [Satellite TODAY 7-8-13] Israel-based RRsat Global Communications Network, a provider of digital content management and global distribution services to the television and radio broadcasting industry, has signed a long-term agreement with Fox International Channels (FIC), 21st Century Fox’s international multi-media business. Under the contract, RRSat will support broadcast of FIC’s French channels throughout Africa.

     FIC, which operates more than 300 channels globally reaching more than 1.6 billion viewers worldwide, is now expanding its scope to the African continent with the MEASAT Satellite Systems’ AfricaSat 1a satellite.

     RRsat is supporting FIC’s extended African content reach with the launch of some of its main factual TV brands: National Geographic Channel, Nat Geo Wild and the travelling channel Voyage via the new RRsat C-Band platform on AfricaSat 1a to viewers throughout the continent.

     “RRsat’s MCPC platform on AfricaSat 1a enables our customers to efficiently and cost effectively distribute content at the highest quality to householders and cable head ends in every country in Africa,” said Lior Rival, chief commercial officer of RRsat.