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AsiaSat has extended an Occasional Use (OU) service agreement with Globecast. As a longtime customer of AsiaSat, Globecast’s affiliates in Asia, Europe and from around the world use the C- and Ku-band capacity across AsiaSat’s fleet for the distribution of news content and sports events for their clients.

AsiaSat-5 serves the entire Asia-Pacific in a single beam, and the service provides Globecast coverage of live sports including the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) soccer events, golf tournaments, Asian Beach Games, Baseball World Cup as well as broadcasting live news events such as the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit.

AsiaSat has maintained a close partnership with Globecast for more than 15 years, with AsiaSat-5 providing a primarily High Definition (HD) delivery of OU service to its customers, alongside transmission solutions from Globecast such as its one-stop service that offers global coverage for Satellite Newsgathering (SNG) and turnaround capabilities for TV distribution service.