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Three Pakistani Channels Join AsiaSat 3S
Hong Kong, 26 September 2013 – Asia’s leading satellite operator, Asia Satellite Telecommunications Co. Ltd. (AsiaSat) today announced that LEO Television Network of Pakistan has commenced distributing three television channels on AsiaSat 3S. The services include multilingual Pakistani filmy channel ‘FILMAZIA’; Urdu language, South Asian movie channel ‘film WORLD’ and Pashto and Urdu-language infotainment channel ‘ARUJ TV’.
‘FILMAZIA’, started in 2005, offers a large collection of Pakistani films in all regional languages including national Urdu, movie soundtracks and celebrity interviews. ‘film WORLD’ is a pay movies channel dedicated to providing the best of South Asian cinema to local viewers in Pakistan. ‘ARUJ TV’, an infotainment channel designed specially for Pashtun people, offers a wide variety of premium content, from news, drama, movies, and talk shows to social and cultural programmes.
“We are excited to make this major move to expand our reach and access new audience. AsiaSat 3S offers the most attractive premium video neighborhood in Asia and is widely regarded as Asia’s most popular broadcast platform for the South Asian community. Partnering with AsiaSat has put ourselves in a strategically advantageous position to grow our penetration and expand our services across the region,” said Muhammad Abid, Chief Executive Officer, LEO Television Network.
“We are very pleased that LEO Television Network selected AsiaSat for further expansion of its viewership in the Asia Pacific. We see an increasing interest from premium broadcasters in Asia to capture a wider audience by moving to a satellite that offers instant access to the widest range of pay TV networks for their local and overseas target markets,” said William Wade, President and Chief Executive Officer of AsiaSat.
# # # About LEO Television Network LEO Television Network is operated under LEO Communications (Pvt.) Ltd. Founded in May 1996, LEO Communications was initially involved in CATV equipment and accessories business. It entered into channel distribution business in 2000 by representing leading foreign satellite channels. In 2001, LEO Communications started providing installation and maintenance services to CATV operators all over Pakistan. In 2005, LEO Communications launched Pakistan’s first 24x7 encrypted and pay Lollywood film channel ‘FILMAZIA’, ‘FILMAX’ in 2007, ‘film WORLD’ in 2009 and now ARUJ TV. For more information, please visit http://www.leocommunications.com
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About AsiaSat 3S AsiaSat 3S is a Boeing 601HP satellite launched in 1999, with 28 C-band and 16 Ku-band transponders. Its C-band footprint covers over 50 countries and regions in Asia, the Middle East, Australasia and the Commonwealth of Independent States. The Ku-band coverage consists of two high powered fixed beams serving East Asia and South Asia, as well as an in-orbit steerable beam currently positioned over Australia.
About AsiaSat Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat), the leading regional satellite operator in Asia, serves over two-thirds of the world's population with its four satellites, AsiaSat 3S at 105.5ºE, AsiaSat 4 at 122ºE, AsiaSat 5 at 100.5ºE and AsiaSat 7. The AsiaSat satellite fleet provides services to both the broadcast and telecommunications industries. Over 450 television and radio channels are now delivered by the company's satellites offering access to over 710 million TV households across the Asia-Pacific region. AsiaSat also provides telecommunications operators and end users services such as voice networks, private VSAT networks and broadband multimedia. AsiaSat’s latest satellites, AsiaSat 6 and AsiaSat 8, are planned to be launched in the first half of 2014. It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Asia Satellite Telecommunications Holdings Limited, a company listed on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (Stock Code: 1135). For more information, please visit www.asiasat.com
Media Inquiries:
Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited Sabrina Cubbon, VP, Sales and Marketing Winnie Pang, Manager, Corporate Affairs Tel : (852) 2500 0899 Tel : (852) 2500 0880 Mobile : (852) 9097 1210 Email : [email protected] Email: [email protected]
LEO Television Network Muhammad Shahbaz Tel: (92) 321 499 4063 Email: [email protected]
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