{"id":281867,"date":"2019-07-18T06:29:16","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T10:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiTWh0dHBzOi8vYWR2YW5jZWQtdGVsZXZpc2lvbi5jb20vMjAxOS8wNy8xOC9zZXMtYW5kLWV1dGVsc2F0LWluLWV0aGlvcGlhLXNwYXQv0gEA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-10-12T13:53:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T17:53:01","slug":"ses-eutelsat-ethiopia-broadcaster-capacity-spat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/281867","title":{"rendered":"SES and Eutelsat both claim multi-year deals with Ethiopian broadcasters for satellite TV capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Satellite operators SES and Eutelsat each announced multi-year capacity contracts with the Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation and the Association of Ethiopian Broadcasters, creating overlapping claims that Advanced Television said could end in a breach-of-contract dispute.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"size-large wp-image-837666\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ses-astra-communications-satellite.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"An SES Astra communications satellite model\" \/><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>An SES Astra communications satellite model (Piotrus, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0) [file photo]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Eutelsat said in February 2019 it had signed for video capacity on Eutelsat 8 West B. SES later announced its own multi-year deal with the same Ethiopian partners and stressed a \u201cmigration agreement\u201d with the Association of Ethiopian Broadcasters. Statements attributed to AEB chief executive Amman Fissehazion appeared in both announcements.<\/p>\n<p>Eutelsat said its contract remained \u201cactive.\u201d Industry observers quoted by Advanced Television doubted Ethiopia needed a near-doubling of capacity and expected the claims to be tested in court or renegotiation. The spat sits beside Ethiopia\u2019s wider shift of domestic TV channels onto foreign satellite platforms.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/advanced-television.com\/2019\/07\/18\/ses-and-eutelsat-in-ethiopia-spat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Advanced Television<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satellite operators SES and Eutelsat each announced multi-year capacity contracts with the Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation and the Association of Ethiopian Broadcasters, creating overlapping claims that Advanced Television said could end in a breach-of-contract dispute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":837666,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7911,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ses-astra-communications-satellite.jpg?fit=1280%2C960&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1bkf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281867"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":837687,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281867\/revisions\/837687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}