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China Central Television will soon adjust the transmission and coverage of Intelsat-10 or Satellite IS-10 (EL68.5) of CCTV International to meet the need of its global development strategy of multi-lingual programming.
Satellite IS-10 will stop transmitting signals of CCTV-4 and CCTV/F on February 1, 2010.
For the two channel's subscribers, please adjust the satellite specification accordingly.
(See Table 1)
Satellite |
Beam & Band |
Orbit of Satellite |
Downlink Frequency (MHz) |
Polari- zation |
Symbol Rate (Ms/S) |
FEC |
Channel | |
Asia |
Chinasat-6B |
Asia Pacific (C band) |
EL115.5° |
4115.5 |
H |
23.437 |
3/4 |
CCTV-4/9/E/F /Arabic /Russian |
Europe |
Hotbird |
Europe Beam (Ku-band) |
EL 13° |
12149 |
V |
27.5 |
3/4 |
CCTV-4 |
11034 |
V |
27.5 |
3/4 |
CCTV-9 | ||||
Astra-1M |
EL19.2° |
11538 |
V |
22.0 |
5/6 |
CCTV-9/F | ||
Eurobird-9A |
EL9° |
11996 |
V |
27.5 |
3/4 |
CCTV-4/E /Arabic /Russian | ||
Africa |
See the adjustment of satellite specification in Africa |
CCTV-9 will continue using satellite IS-10, but there will be some changes to the satellite specifications.
(See Table2)
Satellite IS-10 |
Downlink Frequency (MHz) |
Symbol Rate (Ms/S) |
FEC |
Before Adjustment |
4087.25 |
9.375 |
3/4 |
After Adjustment |
4064 |
19.85 |
7/8 |
For CCTV subscribers, please make the relevant adjustments to receive CCTV programs.
Editor: Zhang Pengfei | Source: CCTV.com