Belgrade, capital of Serbia. Photo: Wikimedia.

SES announced that, together with its long-term partner Telekom Serbia, it will carry six TV channels and one radio station for Serbian public broadcaster RTS across Europe. The six RTS channels, RTS Satelit, RTS Zivot, RTS Drama, RTS Kolo, RTS Trezor, RTS Muzika and one radio station, Radio Beograd, will be transmitted to cable network headends in Europe and will be available to several million Serbian expats across the region via a dedicated smart card that can be integrated into the viewers’ set-top box.

Telekom Serbia, a Serbian telecommunications company headquartered in Belgrade, will provide all ground services including satellite uplink, encoding and scrambling, and will rely on SES’ capacity on one of its Astra satellites positioned at 5 degrees east.

Along with a number of other companies in the region including Telenor, Telekom Serbia is a founder of the Digital Serbia Initiative, which aims to complete digitalization of Serbia in industry and education and also improve the existing framework for digital innovation.