International Russian television channel RTR Planeta has now reached Asia following a distribution partnership between content management and delivery company GlobeCast, satellite transmissions company Satlink and leading satellite operator AsiaSat. RTR Planeta, owned by Russian state television and radio broadcasting Company RTR, provides programming that includes cultural and prime time news, sports, feature films and documentary movies.
The channel is received by Satlink from the Express 3A satellite in Tel Aviv, where it is multiplexed and uplinked onto Satlinks platform on AsiaSat 2 for Free-to-Air distribution over Asia.
GlobeCast has a long relationship with RTR Planeta, carrying it both on its platform on the Hot Bird satellite over Europe and as part of its GlobeCast WorldTV offering in the United States on Intelsat Americas 5. The AsiaSat 2 Satellite provides ideal C-band coverage of a potential 53 countries throughout Asia, the Middle East, Australasia and the C.I.S. RTR Planetas new home on this Satlink-operated platform means that the channel shares a neighborhood with TVE, RAI International, RTP and Radio France International among others.