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FTA-Nash said:
I guess it also has something to do with cost. If you lease a TP with very high symbol-rate (e.g. 27500) you may pay more compared to, say 2200. It is also cheaper to lease a TP on C-Band compared to Ku-Band.

Have you ever wondered what it costs to lease Transponder time?

The part of a communications satellite that is "for sale" is the transponder, which broadcasts signals. Transponders are transmitter/receiver devices. Early satellites had single transponders, but by year 2012 some satellites have two dozen or more Transponders (leased full-time or occasionally). For instance, the Eutelsat 7 West-A satellite hosts over 600 TV channels in 49 Ku-band Transponders.

The cost of leasing varies, depending on variables such as the time of day, frequency, power, duration of lease contract, orbital position, and type of satellite (i.e., whether C, Ku or Ka-band). In recent years, the rate for domestic C-band channels ranged from $200 to $600 per hour, or $55,000 to $230,000 per month. Leasing a higher frequency, Ku-band transponder ranged between $250 to $800 per hour, or $150,000 to $210,000 per month.

The more popular a satellite is, the higher the demand for its limited TPs and, most likely, the higher the leasing cost per hour. For instance, the lucrative 7West or 8West position! Or the fully-booked 36 East!

A satellite costs $300 million to build, launch. If it operates 15 transponders, over 10 years the cost is then $2 million per annum per transponder.

One transponder may be leased and used to provide a high power 34 Mbit/s outlink carrier (hub to remotes) at a cost of $2,000,000 per annum.

One quarter of another transponder may be leased to provide a low power high sensitivity return link capacity (remotes to hub) at a cost of $500,000 per annum

Satellite bandwidth / airtime leasing is big business! Company A may lease a Ku-band transponder for 10 years from a popular Ku-band satellite for $2,000,000 per annum, then sub-lease on hourly basis to as many TV channels (Direct-to-Home) as possible; say up to 30 channels on an MPEG4, DVB-S2 TP.


Assuming each TP is leased for $2,000,000 per annum, Viewsat needs to raise at least $8,000,000 per annum excluding any profits!

An year with 365 days has (365 X 24) = 8760 Hours.
If each of the four TPs hosted only one TV channel, the TV station would have to pay:
$2,000,000 per annum / 8760 Hours = $228 per Hour.
To retain / maintain the four TPs, Viewsat would have to earn $8,000,000 / 8760 = $913 per hour to remain in business!

The more the channels hosted the better, both in terms of competitive charge per hour per Channel, and profits made. In a zero-profit or break-even situation, each of the 60 TV channels would pay $913 / 60 = $15 per hour.

However, to make commercial sense, and safeguard a situation where 56 of the 60 TV stations gradually left and only one Station per TP remained; each station should pay anything between $228 and $250, depending on whatever is negotiated in the contract.
Here we are talking of profits before tax (and other expenses) of around ($228 minus $15 per hour) X 8760 Hours = $1,865,880 per annum! Suppose the four TPs operated at full capacity? . Wow .!

Now, suppose Family TV leases a TP on their own on Intelsat 20?
He needs to pay at least $2,000,000 per annum, or $166,167 per month (equivalent to KSh.170 million per annum; and KSh.14 million per month)!

Suppose he now invites 9 of his friends and they fundraise to form a Kenyan Mux?
Each of the ten stations will raise at least KSh.1.4 million / month. This is equivalent to a paltry KSh.1,400,000 / (30*24 Hours) = KSh.1945 per hour (or $23 / Hour).

Now, suppose 30 local stations were involved? With this kind of mathematics, it should build a business case why all the local stations should gang up to launch a Kenyan Ku-band Mux!
Just food for thought.

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Here is a copy and paste of part of a TP leasing process in contract language:

(1). The term of this lease will be 11 years. Access-TV will lease from
Triumph one C-band transponder (the "Transponder") from 12:01 a.m. Eastern Time
commencing on January 1, 1995 through 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on December 31,
2006.

(2). Access-TV will lease from Triumph a transponder on the Hughes
Communications Galaxy VII satellite, which Triumph has leased from Hughes
Communications Galaxy, Inc. ("HCG"), expected to be Transponder 16. The lease
rate for this transponder shall be US$145,000.00 per month until December 31,
1998, when the rate will increase to US$155,000.00 per month until the end of
the contract.

Reference: www.satsig.net ; http://www.viewsat.eu ; Intelsat 20 at 68.5°E - LyngSat ; http://www.satelliteguys.us ; Northern Sky Research, http://www.nsr.com
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Thanks FTA-Nash for this detailed information. I really appreciate it.
 
I just had to share this Ad (Warning) that I saw On Saturday Nation (March 22, 2014, page 15). It seems to me like our National Broadcaster, KBC and its subsidiary, Signet are on the receiving end.


China International Communications Co Ltd. (CCIC) is exclusively authorized by the TV stations/channels listed at the bottom of this statement (Great Wall TV package) to provide the Great Wall TV package of television channels in Kenya. The programming transmitted on these channels is copyrighted and any use of the programming materials without the express permission of CCIC is strictly prohibited.

CCIC authorizes several companies (the Authorized Providers) to broadcast the Great Wall TV package in Kenya. These Authorized Providers currently include the following: Multichoice (DSTV), ZUKU, LiveCom Limited and Startimes. Any distribution or sale of any Great Wall TV package channels or of any CCTV programming by anyone other than these Authorized Providers constitutes piracy, and is illegal. CCIC will take all necessary steps to hold all infringers liable for their unauthorized distribution, sale, exploitation or use of the Great Wall TV package or of any CCTV programming, and for the distribution, sale or use of any CCTV programming, and for the distribution, sale or use of devices enabling such infringement.

The Ad (Warning) ends with the logos of some of the channels including
CCTV
CCTV NEWS
CCTV 9 Documentary
CCTV 4
Star world
BTV
among others (you know I Cannot read Mandarin)


It seems like the programming of Africa Live on KBC and the availability of CCTV on the Signet Platforms illegal.


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FTA-Nash said:
I guess it also has something to do with cost. If you lease a TP with very high symbol-rate (e.g. 27500) you may pay more compared to, say 2200. It is also cheaper to lease a TP on C-Band compared to Ku-Band.

Have you ever wondered what it costs to lease Transponder time?

The part of a communications satellite that is "for sale" is the transponder, which broadcasts signals. Transponders are transmitter/receiver devices. Early satellites had single transponders, but by year 2012 some satellites have two dozen or more Transponders (leased full-time or occasionally). For instance, the Eutelsat 7 West-A satellite hosts over 600 TV channels in 49 Ku-band Transponders.

The cost of leasing varies, depending on variables such as the time of day, frequency, power, duration of lease contract, orbital position, and type of satellite (i.e., whether C, Ku or Ka-band). In recent years, the rate for domestic C-band channels ranged from $200 to $600 per hour, or $55,000 to $230,000 per month. Leasing a higher frequency, Ku-band transponder ranged between $250 to $800 per hour, or $150,000 to $210,000 per month.

The more popular a satellite is, the higher the demand for its limited TPs and, most likely, the higher the leasing cost per hour. For instance, the lucrative 7West or 8West position! Or the fully-booked 36 East!

A satellite costs $300 million to build, launch. If it operates 15 transponders, over 10 years the cost is then $2 million per annum per transponder.

One transponder may be leased and used to provide a high power 34 Mbit/s outlink carrier (hub to remotes) at a cost of $2,000,000 per annum.

One quarter of another transponder may be leased to provide a low power high sensitivity return link capacity (remotes to hub) at a cost of $500,000 per annum

Satellite bandwidth / airtime leasing is big business! Company A may lease a Ku-band transponder for 10 years from a popular Ku-band satellite for $2,000,000 per annum, then sub-lease on hourly basis to as many TV channels (Direct-to-Home) as possible; say up to 30 channels on an MPEG4, DVB-S2 TP.


Assuming each TP is leased for $2,000,000 per annum, Viewsat needs to raise at least $8,000,000 per annum excluding any profits!

An year with 365 days has (365 X 24) = 8760 Hours.
If each of the four TPs hosted only one TV channel, the TV station would have to pay:
$2,000,000 per annum / 8760 Hours = $228 per Hour.
To retain / maintain the four TPs, Viewsat would have to earn $8,000,000 / 8760 = $913 per hour to remain in business!

The more the channels hosted the better, both in terms of competitive charge per hour per Channel, and profits made. In a zero-profit or break-even situation, each of the 60 TV channels would pay $913 / 60 = $15 per hour.

However, to make commercial sense, and safeguard a situation where 56 of the 60 TV stations gradually left and only one Station per TP remained; each station should pay anything between $228 and $250, depending on whatever is negotiated in the contract.
Here we are talking of profits before tax (and other expenses) of around ($228 minus $15 per hour) X 8760 Hours = $1,865,880 per annum! Suppose the four TPs operated at full capacity? . Wow .!

Now, suppose Family TV leases a TP on their own on Intelsat 20?
He needs to pay at least $2,000,000 per annum, or $166,167 per month (equivalent to KSh.170 million per annum; and KSh.14 million per month)!

Suppose he now invites 9 of his friends and they fundraise to form a Kenyan Mux?
Each of the ten stations will raise at least KSh.1.4 million / month. This is equivalent to a paltry KSh.1,400,000 / (30*24 Hours) = KSh.1945 per hour (or $23 / Hour).

Now, suppose 30 local stations were involved? With this kind of mathematics, it should build a business case why all the local stations should gang up to launch a Kenyan Ku-band Mux!
Just food for thought.

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Here is a copy and paste of part of a TP leasing process in contract language:

(1). The term of this lease will be 11 years. Access-TV will lease from
Triumph one C-band transponder (the "Transponder") from 12:01 a.m. Eastern Time
commencing on January 1, 1995 through 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on December 31,
2006.

(2). Access-TV will lease from Triumph a transponder on the Hughes
Communications Galaxy VII satellite, which Triumph has leased from Hughes
Communications Galaxy, Inc. ("HCG"), expected to be Transponder 16. The lease
rate for this transponder shall be US$145,000.00 per month until December 31,
1998, when the rate will increase to US$155,000.00 per month until the end of
the contract.

Reference: www.satsig.net ; http://www.viewsat.eu ; Intelsat 20 at 68.5°E - LyngSat ; http://www.satelliteguys.us ; Northern Sky Research, http://www.nsr.com
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great article free to air nash.
 
not surprised ,interestingly a famous Chinese Terrestrial pay TV has beeen viloating copyright with impunity by including some other countries TV stations in their bouquets regardless of rights and coverage restriction.
 
I am using HM-900s sat box. somebody has given me Cline for a trial of one day and then if i like it i will pay him. I dont know how to upload that Cline into the box, i was wondering if you can help.

many thanks


jabiriali
 
Hi Guys.... The new plug in and firmware are for HD MEDIA hm 9001s decoder holders..... Enjoy the unscramble channels!!!


jabiriali
 
Im wondering whether it is possible to nail birds beyond 90°e in kenya i.e 160° e. I am curious
 
Update me on stable signal that will assist as me to nab 10.0'E using 6ft dish and supermax c-band lnb for kenyan mux.....my location is voi.
 
ljumuso said:
Im wondering whether it is possible to nail birds beyond 90°e in kenya i.e 160° e. I am curious
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My broda as per my understang 90 is beynd subsahara coz 90 asia sat yani its chaines sat. I once nailed irib on 88.5 sm month back last year 2013 so beynd 90 its imbosible 2 mi .
 
kungu1 said:
All about Satellite tv, both FTA free to air and paytv available in Kenya and Africa in general.

Sat gear in use plus more....
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I have e normal Dstv satellite dish what decoder do I need to buy to get e max fta expirience?, is the dish gud enough?
 
FTA-Nash said:
I guess it also has something to do with cost. If you lease a TP with very high symbol-rate (e.g. 27500) you may pay more compared to, say 2200. It is also cheaper to lease a TP on C-Band compared to Ku-Band.

Have you ever wondered what it costs to lease Transponder time?

The part of a communications satellite that is "for sale" is the transponder, which broadcasts signals. Transponders are transmitter/receiver devices. Early satellites had single transponders, but by year 2012 some satellites have two dozen or more Transponders (leased full-time or occasionally). For instance, the Eutelsat 7 West-A satellite hosts over 600 TV channels in 49 Ku-band Transponders.

The cost of leasing varies, depending on variables such as the time of day, frequency, power, duration of lease contract, orbital position, and type of satellite (i.e., whether C, Ku or Ka-band). In recent years, the rate for domestic C-band channels ranged from $200 to $600 per hour, or $55,000 to $230,000 per month. Leasing a higher frequency, Ku-band transponder ranged between $250 to $800 per hour, or $150,000 to $210,000 per month.

The more popular a satellite is, the higher the demand for its limited TPs and, most likely, the higher the leasing cost per hour. For instance, the lucrative 7West or 8West position! Or the "fully-booked" 36 East!

A satellite costs $300 million to build, launch. If it operates 15 transponders, over 10 years the cost is then $2 million per annum per transponder.

One transponder may be leased and used to provide a high power 34 Mbit/s outlink carrier (hub to remotes) at a cost of $2,000,000 per annum.

One quarter of another transponder may be leased to provide a low power high sensitivity return link capacity (remotes to hub) at a cost of $500,000 per annum

Satellite bandwidth / airtime leasing is big business! Company "A" may lease a Ku-band transponder for 10 years from a popular Ku-band satellite for $2,000,000 per annum, then sub-lease on hourly basis to as many TV channels (Direct-to-Home) as possible; say up to 30 channels on an MPEG4, DVB-S2 TP.


An year with 365 days has (365 X 24) = 8760 Hours.
If each of the four TPs hosted only one TV channel, the TV station would have to pay:
$2,000,000 per annum / 8760 Hours = $228 per Hour.
To retain / maintain the four TPs, Viewsat would have to earn $8,000,000 / 8760 = $913 per hour to remain in business!

The more the channels hosted the better, both in terms of competitive charge per hour per Channel, and profits made. In a "zero-profit" or ‘break-even' situation, each of the 60 TV channels would pay $913 / 60 = $15 per hour.

However, to make commercial sense, and safeguard a situation where 56 of the 60 TV stations gradually left and only one Station per TP remained; each station should pay anything between $228 and $250, depending on whatever is negotiated in the contract.
Here we are talking of profits before tax (and other expenses) of around ($228 minus $15 per hour) X 8760 Hours = $1,865,880 per annum! Suppose the four TPs operated at full capacity? …. Wow ….!

Now, suppose Family TV leases a TP on their own on Intelsat 20?
He needs to pay at least $2,000,000 per annum, or $166,167 per month (equivalent to KSh.170 million per annum; and KSh.14 million per month)!

Suppose he now invites 9 of his friends and they fundraise to form a "Kenyan Mux"?
Each of the ten stations will raise at least KSh.1.4 million / month. This is equivalent to a paltry KSh.1,400,000 / (30*24 Hours) = KSh.1945 per hour (or $23 / Hour).

Now, suppose 30 local stations were involved? With this kind of mathematics, it should build a business case why all the local stations should gang up to launch a Kenyan Ku-band Mux!
Just food for thought.

-------------------------------------------------

Here is a copy and paste of part of a TP leasing process in contract language:

(1). The term of this lease will be 11 years. Access-TV will lease from
Triumph one C-band transponder (the "Transponder") from 12:01 a.m. Eastern Time
commencing on January 1, 1995 through 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on December 31,
2006.

(2). Access-TV will lease from Triumph a transponder on the Hughes
Communications Galaxy VII satellite, which Triumph has leased from Hughes
Communications Galaxy, Inc. ("HCG"), expected to be Transponder 16. The lease
rate for this transponder shall be US$145,000.00 per month until December 31,
1998, when the rate will increase to US$155,000.00 per month until the end of
the contract.

Reference: www.satsig.net ; http://www.viewsat.eu ; Intelsat 20 at 68.5°E - LyngSat ; http://www.satelliteguys.us ; Northern Sky Research, http://www.nsr.com
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Nice piece!.. like I said earlier in this forum usually it doesn't make economical sense for broadcasters to set up their own satellite based distributions systems because of costs. Its expensive and in the end not viable. Unless the Media House company is making huge profits .

Outsourcing satellite services to companies like Aldean or Jamii Telcom who have long term-space agreement with satellite companies like Intelsat or Eutelsat is sustainable and makes money sense.

A while back Aldean Kenya,( an isreali based with earth station in Kenya) used to uplink signals on behalf of KBC,K24 and Family to Intelsat 802 at 33. This was at a pocket friendly rates, but it apears deal collapsed.

and Just a reminder what we sat enthusiasts pick from NSS12,intelsat 902, Eutelsat 5 West A are usally not mean for direct to home (DTH) consumption but for the broadcasters internal use.

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I recall I once did a proposal for an FM station based in Nairobi for distribution services to other parts of Kenya and the media house I had approached was going to charge me only 100k a month for lease of mono audio channel to be up-linked alongside TV.

Anyway these locals companies need to start cutting down costs to stay in business.. they need to shut down their individual up-link stations and come together. Digital Migration is going to seriously eat into their profits unless they think fast.
 
kimyazo said:
I have e normal Dstv satellite dish what decoder do I need to buy to get e max fta expirience?, is the dish gud enough?
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Hi, Whats your location ? You need to buy the Strong SRT 4922 HD decoder, it will allow you to view both Standard and High definition Channels available on Eutelsat 7 west . If you are in Nairobi Region,Central, Northern Kenya a 90 cm Dish Size will get you Movie Channels, Sport Channels, Lifestyle channels and so much more..click here to see the Channels > https://www.jamiiforums.com/tech-ga...satellite-world-and-sat-gear.html#post5540247
 
kassych said:
Hi, Whats your location ? You need to buy the Strong SRT 4922 HD decoder, it will allow you to view both Standard and High definition Channels available on Eutelsat 7 west . If you are in Nairobi Region,Central, Northern Kenya a 90 cm Dish Size will get you Movie Channels, Sport Channels, Lifestyle channels and so much more..click here to see the Channels > https://www.jamiiforums.com/tech-ga...satellite-world-and-sat-gear.html#post5540247
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hi, I'm in nakuru, I'm so new to this so kindly guide me, do I need to change e dish location n stuff n how much is the decoder?, also id love to watch local n tz channels, saidia
 
The channels that beIN had promised to secure, are all currently unsecured on some receivers. What is happening?
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Members,

I would like to inform you that you will soon be having your own Kenyan Mux on a satellite very soon. Although you might not know it, and I did not want to to reveal it, this site is behind such a move and none other than Wakilongo was the unsolicited advisor to the media fraternity.

I want to share with you a letter I wrote to all the media owners in Kenya on January 3, 2014 which later I was invited to give a small talk to the technicians despite my novelty to science. Here is the email in its original form, that might soon transform hunting to the newbies:



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Hello Kenyan Media Owners,

I greet you and happy New Year.


I am a Kenyan consumer of your product and I am interested in the ongoing push and pull on the digital migration platform.


I am encouraged by your steadfastness in ensuring that I am privileged to receive your products without being subjected to paying monthly fees.


However, as matters stand now, I am beginning to feel that your good fight might be lost because the same feelings tell me that some mandarins close to the government want to benefit directly from this migration.


You realize that the CCK is not only interested in having me pay for receiving your product, but you will equally have to pay around 130,000 Ksh for every megabyte that will carried by the so-called carriers. This will not be small cash and you had better start looking for alternatives.




This having been said, I wanted to put a humble suggestion in your stable. I do not know whether you have ever heard of Free To Air Satellite TV. So far, Tanzania, Congo, South Africa and the Arab world have achieved FTA satellite TV without bothering about Digital migration.


What is FTA satellite TV? This is when media players in a given region converge and agree to put their signal on a certain satellite that is accessible in their region and makes it Free To Air, in that somebody would only require an FTA decoder and a satellite dish to access the signals.





I can talk about the Arab experience. All major and minor broadcasters in the arab region have put their signal on Arabsat and Nilesat and every arab home has a satellite dish facing either Nilesat or arabsat.




What you need to do as media owners is identify a satellite service provider that will give you a transponder (space) to carry your collective signal and pen an agreement. It is so cheap you will laugh. My suggestion is that you should target popular satellites like the ones carrying DSTV or Zuku and lease space on them. This way, existing Zuku/DSTV clients will not have to buy the dish but will only get an FTA decoder and plug and play.


This way, you will have flexibility and once the idea chatches on, then many people will be buying this equipment to watch your channels. Once this is settled, continue pressing with the FTA battle with CCK but as matters stand now, once the analogue signals are switched off, then you are blacked out.


I could go on and on, but the idea I have given you has succeeded elsewhere and it is time you tried it here too.


Regards,


Sam



All this advice is because we have such a forum. We are actually drivers although we might not know it!


 
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