EUROPE

Eutelsat is Europe’s most long-standing satellite operator, with over 30 years’ broadcasting experience.

13º East, home to our high-powered HOTBIRD satellites, is the EMEA region’s prime broadcast neighbourhood, delivering 900 TV channels and reaching a total of 162 million homes. In Europe alone, the neighbourhood reaches over 130 million homes and feeds almost all cable networks.

9º East offers regional beams for cost-effective broadcasting and dual reception with the HOTBIRD satellites.

16º East is Central and Eastern Europe’s leading neighbourhood reaching over 12 million homes.

28° East is the UK and Ireland’s leading broadcast position reaching almost 18 million homes.

Our high-powered HOTBIRD satellites at 13° East form EMEA's prime broadcast neighbourhood for TV channels wanting to reach large audiences.

The HOTBIRD video neighbourhood delivers 900 TV channels to 162 million TV homes. In Europe alone, it reaches 130 million homes, including almost all cable networks. It is host to 7 premium platforms, over 600 pay-TV channels, 300 free-to-air channels, 500 HDTV channels and 12 UHD channels. In addition to broadcasting television services, the neighbourhood provides 500 radio stations and multimedia services.

Two new satellites, HOTBIRD 13F and HOTBIRD 13G have now entered service at 13° East, bringing advanced features to the orbital position, including in-orbit redundancy, uplink signal protection and resilience.

EUTELSAT 9B offers regional beams for cost-effective broadcasting and dual reception via HOTBIRD.

A pan-European footprint delivers a wide coverage for channels seeking maximum reach into satellite homes and to terrestrial headends.

Five regional footprints address high-growth digital TV markets in Germany, Greece, Italy, and the Nordics with the Baltics and Ukraine.

This regional footprint model enables pay-TV platforms and national DTT programmes to efficiently address linguistic markets and in parallel leverage reception from the HOTBIRD neighbourhood.

Reaching an audience of over 12 million homes, EUTELSAT 16A is a leading video neighbourhood for Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), delivering over 600 TV channels, in a wide range of languages, to over 12 million homes.

High-power footprints of Central and Eastern Europe support digital video broadcasting markets, with extensive coverage of the CEE region and stretching across to western Europe to reach expat communities.

Serving BSkyB and other broadcasters, the EUTELSAT 28E, 28F and 28G satellites reach 17.9 million digital satellite homes in the United Kingdom and Ireland, from 28° East.