[Satellite Today – 5-8-08] SES Astra signed a capacity deal with Czech pay-TV platform CS Link, SES Astra announced May 8. 
    CS Link, one of the largest pay-TV platforms in the Czech Republic with 400,000 customers, is taking a third transponder at SES Astra’s orbital position at 23.5° East. CS Link transmits 25 TV and 11 radio programs, and the new capacity will be used to broadcast an enhanced program package.
    “We chose the Astra satellite system because of its attractive neighborhood of renowned broadcasters and its excellent market reach in the Czech Republic and other European countries,” Leos Pohl, chairman of the Czech Digital Group, which operates CS Link, said in a statement. “With this new capacity we are able to further enhance the attractiveness of the CS Link platform.”