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BULGARIA
I. Bulgarian
TV planning satellite service via Eutelsat.
“Arrangements
for transmission of Bulgarian National Television Channel
1 by satellite should be made by the middle of this year
at the latest,” said committee of posts and
telecommunications president Antoni Slavinski. He
attended a working meeting in Paris with the management
of the European telecommunications satellite organization
(Eutelsat).
The possibility
to transmit Channel 1 by Eutelsat’s powerful Hot
Bird 1 to 5 satellites from 13 degrees east was discussed
at the meeting. The Hot Birds deliver nearly 400 TV
channels into more than 70 million cable and satellite
homes in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.
At
Eutelsat’s headquarters, the leadership of the
committee of posts and telecommunications were
familiarized with all possible technical options for
implementation of the project and the respective
rates. At first, analogue transmission will most
probably be used for the signal and the far more modern
digital options will be adopted later on, Slavinski
explained.
Bulgaria’s
participation in Eutelsat and the possibility of having a
satellite channel of its own are an absolute must, now
that almost all countries of Europe have done so,
Eutelsat director-general Giuliano Berretta told the
Bulgarian National Television correspondent in Paris.
Bulgaria joined
Eutelsat as a full member in May 1996 after the national
assembly ratified the Eutelsat convention on 8th March
1996. The Bulgarian telecommunications company has
been designated signatory to the Eutelsat operating
agreement.
BTA news agency, Sofia,
February 4, 1999
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