TéléSAT

TéléSAT Numérique

Type	Pay TV, broadband and phone
Country	Belgium and Luxembourg
Availability	Satellite
Founded	19 January 2009 by Kurt Pauwels
Slogan	Vous allez adorer la télé par satellite
Broadcast area	Belgium and Luxembourg
Parent	M7 Group S.A.[1]
Group	TéléSAT Luxembourg Canal Digitaal TV Vlaanderen Austriasat AustriaSat Magyarország CS Link Skylink Kabelkiosk
Official website	www.telesat.be www.telesat.lu

TéléSAT Numérique, commonly known as TéléSAT, is a Belgian satellite subscription television company aimed at the French-speaking community, also offering a triple play solution (satellite television, Internet, and landline telephone). It is available to residents in Belgium or Luxembourg.

Its parent company is the M7 Group S.A. which is also the parent company of Canal Digitaal in the Netherlands, TV Vlaanderen also in Belgium but aimed at the Flemish speaking community, Austriasat in Austria, AustriaSat Magyarország in Hungary, CS Link in the Czech Republic and Skylink in Slovakia

In 2010 the operator added the possibility to add a selection of Flemish stations to a client's subscription by adding the option "Espace TV Vlaanderen" at an additional monthly cost but which requires a triple LNB or motorised satellite dish.

Packages

As of the 27th of March 2015 the company offers a choice of three packages to be used in conjunction with either bought or rented DVB-S2 Set-top boxes (STB) to receive MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 services (backwards compatible with DVB-S technology) and all of which include a built-in smartcard reader which uses the Nagravision version 3 "Merlin" encryption to protect the transmissions.

Basic light
The Basic light packages offers 27 TV Stations of which 6 are broadcast in High Definition and 1 is an Adult TV station) and also 8 of the Belgian French speaking national radio stations.

Basic
The Basic packages offers 55 TV Stations of which 12 are broadcast in High Definition and 2 are an Adult TV stations) and 8 of the Belgian French speaking national radio stations and 5 of the Belgian Dutch speaking national radio stations.

Basic+
The Basic+ packages offers 73 TV Stations of which 33 are broadcast in High Definition and 3 are an Adult TV stations) and 8 of the Belgian French speaking national radio stations and 5 of the Belgian Dutch speaking national radio stations.

All subscription packages give access to all unencrypted Free-to-air (FTA) stations broadcasting from the Eutelsat Hotbird satellites at 13° East and the SES Astra 1 satellites broadcasting at 19.2° East and Astra 3B satellite at 23.5° East and Astra 2 satellites at 28.2/28.5° East however to ensure the full channel line up will require a Triple or Quad LNB, multifeed accessory or a DiSEqC or Universal Satellites Automatic Location System (USALS) motorised Satellite dish

Legend

TV stations^[3]

Radio stations

References

^{[1] [2]}

1. ↑ Press release by Eutelsat|
2. ↑ 'The free library' copy of the Press Release by Eutelsat