[Satellite Today – 6-17-08] SES New Skies has announced its second major capacity deal in 24 hours with a DTH service in Asia. The company said June 17 that it has signed a capacity deal with Chinese Satellite Communications Inc. (CSTV) to provide transponder capacity on the NSS-6 satellite for their A-Sky-Net DTH satellite television service.
    This service is targeting the Australian region. CSTV’s A-Sky-Net DTH service currently offers a comprehensive mix of Chinese channels geared to cater to a wide range of ethnic Chinese viewers and will initially utilize a full transponder. The DTH package will be uplinked from Taiwan and can be received throughout Australia.
Taiwan based CSTV provides more than 50 channels of DTH service via various satellites to cover viewers in metropolitan and remote areas within the Asia-Pacific region. Besides its core DTH service, CSTV also engages in the business of satellite uplink services, channel distribution, web based television and development of new media technologies and content platforms, etc.