TVE announced in December of 2019, the new contract with Eutelsat to use Hotbird – on 13 degrees east. The schedule is to be simultaneous transmission on the current satellite Astra 1 until 1st March 2020 when the Astra transponder will be reassigned.
Viewers will be happy to know that the new frequencies will carry the 2 programmes in HD quality, for the first time.
If you have a motorised dish or a multi-satellite dish, The new Spanish transmission on Hotbird can be found on 12303 Mhz Vert s/r 27500.
If not then get in touch and I’ll work out the price of either adding an extra lnb to your dish OR moving the dish round to Hotbird.
Note: Andalucia, Aragon, Extremadura and Galicia are to stay on Astra, so the best policy would be the extra lnb.2
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So…its back to the same situation we had 10 years ago, when the only free Spanish channels were split between 2 satellites.