News
P
CTV (Productora y
Comercializadora
de Televisión), Latin
America’s largest television
programming distributor,
will be able to increase its
viewership by distributing
its TV channels to cable
SES Video
boost for
PCTV
networks in Central and
South America via SES’s
key orbital position at 47.5
degrees East, following a
multi-year agreement with
SES.
Under the agreement,
PCTV will lease satellite
capacity and leverage
SES’s high cable head-end
penetration in Latin America
to deliver some of its most
popular TV channels to
cable providers, including
TVC Networks, Pánico, Cine
Mexicano, Video Rola, and
Platino.
The TV channels are
distributed by SES’s recently-
launched satellite SES-14,
located at 47.5 degrees East,
with commercial services
initiated in September 2018.
Until then, the TV content
was transmitted by NSS-806,
then operating from that
orbital slot.
SES-14 is a hybrid satellite
with Ku-band and C-band
wide beams as well as Ku-
4 LATAM Briefing
band high throughput spot
beams. The C-band payload
was designed to expand the
reach of SES’s expanding
video neighbourhood at
47.5 degrees East. Thanks
to an SES-backed antenna
programme, which led
to the installation of
satellite antennas at Pay
TV distribution hubs
throughout Latin America,
SES now reaches 25 million
TV homes via this key orbital
slot with 98 per cent cable
penetration.
“Thanks to SES’s high
cable penetration in the
region, more cable systems
will be able to bring our TV
content to their subscribers,
thus allowing us to grow our
audience from Guatemala to
Argentina,” said Alejandro
Tanaka, PCTV director. “SES-
14 provides ideal coverage
for video delivery across
Latin America, and we are
very happy to leverage
its footprint to gain more
viewers.”
“We are very excited
to deliver such attractive
content to cable providers
via our Latin American
video neighbourhood,”
said Jurandir Pitsch, vice
president, sales and
market development
for Latin America and
The TV channels
are distributed
by SES’s recently-
launched satellite
SES-14
Caribbean, SES Video.
“This agreement with
PCTV demonstrates that
the development of our
key orbital position has
started to bear fruit as it’s
increasingly becoming the
go-to video distribution
platform for channels and
content programmers. We
look forward to hosting
additional popular content
via our growing video
neighbourhood.”
Insight TV on SES Ultra
HD Platform
L
eading 4K UHD
broadcaster and producer
of native UHD HDR
content Insight TV has announced
its foray into Latin America
through SES’s Latin American
Ultra HD platform.
Insight TV’s 4K UHD
content, covering action sports,
entertainment, and lifestyle,
is available on a 24/7 basis in
English, Spanish and Portuguese
to all cable, IPTV and DTH
providers who are working with
SES in Mexico, Central America,
the Caribbean and South America.
for Ultra HD content doesn’t
cease and has reached a critical
mass since the World Cup. We
are dedicated to helping industry
players satisfy this demand as
our satellites are the optimal way
to deliver Ultra HD content to
large audiences, and our platform
the ideal solution for Pay-TV
operators and channels to get
started in the region.”
“Insight TV is excited to
bring its immersive and exciting
action sports, entertainment
and lifestyle specials and series
to viewers across Latin America
“We are delighted
to have the Ultra
HD channel on our
Latin American
UHD platform.”
Launched in April 2018,
SES’s new Ultra HD platform
is an all-in-one package of pre-
configured Ultra HD content,
reception equipment, and satellite
distribution hosted on SES-14
that will enable quick and easy
Ultra HD deployments throughout
Latin America. Viewers may now
enjoy Insight TV’s action-packed,
original series including Chasing
Monsters: El Nino, Road to
Gymkhana, Surf Girls, The F2
Freestylers and more.
“We have been partners with
Insight TV since 2015,” advised
Steve Corda, vice president, media
platform North America at SES
Video. “From launching Ultra
HD channels in Europe via SES
satellites, to joining SES’s North
American Ultra HD platform to
grow its audience beyond Europe
in 2016, we are delighted to have
the Ultra HD channel on our Latin
American UHD platform so it can
expand further.”
“In Latin America, demand
and South America via SES’s
Ultra HD platform,” said Robert
Gold, VP for Americas of Insight
TV. “Building on the incredible
growth we have experienced
in Europe, North America and
Asia, this new distribution
platform gives Insight TV
a strong foothold in all of
Latin America and enables
us to deliver award-winning
programming to millions of new
4K viewers.”
As with SES’s North America
Ultra HD solution, the SES
Latin America UHD platform is
an end-to-end delivery system
and is distributed over SES-14
at 47.5 degrees West. SES-14
provides delivery throughout
Latin America and is home to
SES’s leading Latin American
pay-TV neighbourhood. SES is
the leader in delivering HD and
Ultra HD channels worldwide.
In Latin America, it carries over
900 channels, of which almost
400 are in HD and Ultra HD.