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NTV-Mir left Astra 5B (31.5 gr. E.), remaining for Europe only on Hotbird

Author: admin Date: 02.08.20225 comments

The last Russian news channel has completed open uncoded broadcasting from the Astra 5B satellite (31.5 degrees E.). From August 1 this year. on this satellite, the NTV-Mir channel stopped broadcasting, broadcasting here in clear form at a frequency of 12.070 GHz, polarization: horizontal, flow rate: 30000, error correction factor 3/4; DVB-S2/8PSK.

This transponder, operated by the global Luxembourg provider SES Astra, no longer transmits any unencrypted TV channels at all. However, it continues to broadcast several coded channels intended for Russia, in particular, the popular Dozhd TV channel broadcasting from Riga.

As for the NTV Mir TV channel, it still continues uncoded broadcasting on the most popular European satellite Hotbird 13 gr. E. (frequency 11034 GHz, polarization: vertical). And this is the only broadcast still left by a Russian pro-government TV channel on any European satellite.

Earlier, European satellites, including satellites owned by the global French operator Eutelsat (the same Hotbird satellite), and satellites owned by SES Astra, left due to sanctions imposed by the European Union due to the Ukrainian events that began on February 24, a number of Russian TV channels, including the international version of the Rossiya 1 TV channel (RTR) and the Rossiya 24 channel, as well as the RT Simonyan TV channels.

A number of Russian TV channels left the European satellites themselves after the events of February 24. Thus, the international version of the First TV Channel left the Hotbird satellite, which, as far as is known, fell only under US sanctions, but not the EU. And from the mentioned position 31.5 gr. E. The international versions of Russian TV channels, which have not yet fallen under Western sanctions at all, have left: Peretz, Ren TV, STS, Domashny and Channel 5, which broadcast here in the clear.

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