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SES has signed a new broadcast deal in Germany. It has extended its partnership with RTL Deutschland which will see SES deliver a wide range of TV channels to audiences across Germany and Austria until the end of the decade. RTL Deutschland’s TV offering will also continue to be available on HD+, SES’s HD satellite TV platform in Germany. SES announced the deal, July 16.

The agreement, which covers the distribution of SD, HD and UHD TV channels via SES’s prime TV neighborhood at 19.2 degrees East, will help ensure that viewers across the region can access channels, including RTL, VOX, ntv, NITRO, SUPER RTL, TOGGO plus, RTLup, VOXup, RTLZWEI and the RTL UHD event channel. In addition to satellite capacity, SES will now provide uplinking services for RTL Deutschland’s TV channels directly from its facilities in Munich, Germany and Betzdorf, Luxembourg.

“SES has been an important partner in delivering RTL Deutschland’s linear programming for many years now. We are very pleased to continue and expand this excellent partnership with a long-term agreement. Thanks to SES’s satellites at 19.2 degrees East, we are also able to regularly bring attractive content to our viewers in the highest image quality with our UHD event channel,” Andre Prahl, chief distribution officer of RTL Deutschland, said in a statement.