New Skies Satellites, an SES GLOBAL company announced that Rede Canção Nova, the Brazilian Catholic broadcaster, has chosen its NSS-806 Latin American satellite to distribute its free-to-air international channel to cable operators, radio and television affiliates and the general public across Latin America and Europe.
New Skies is pleased to welcome Canção Nova to our Latin American video neighborhood on NSS-806, said Jurandir Pitsch, New Skies senior sales director of Latin America and the Caribbean. Canção Novas decision to choose NSS-806 reconfirms the satellites role as Latin Americas most attractive platform for video distribution and further strengthens New Skies position in supporting spiritual and ethnic broadcasters in reaching new audiences outside of their domestic markets. With its global fleet and mediaport network, New Skies offers religious and ethnic broadcasters a compelling satellite solution for all of their program distribution needs.
Canção Nova targets the Portuguese-speaking community in Europe and Latin America and is broadcast 24 hours a day. The channels mission is to spread its message through the use of mass media and to that effect Canção Nova operates a number of radio channels and a domestic television channel in Brazil.
“New Skies operates one of the leading video neighborhoods in Latin America; joining NSS-806 marks a major step in the development of our channel which seeks to reach out to the Catholic community throughout the world. NSS-806s widespread coverage allows us to expand to new viewers across Latin America and Europe,” said Wellington Silva Jardim, President of Rede Canção Nova. We selected the satellite for its high penetration of cable headends, as well as for its superb, high-powered coverage.
About the NSS-806 Video Neighborhood
NSS-806 is located at 319.5 degrees east, which provides an excellent look angle into Latin American markets while also reaching the Iberian Peninsula, the Canary Islands, Western Europe and much of Eastern Europe. New Skies NSS-806 is the platform of choice for many of the regions national broadcasters and cable programmers, as well as a number international entertainment companies. NSS-806s video neighborhood includes ESPN Brasil, Fox, MGM, Universal, Eurovision (EBU), thus forming one of the largest video communities in Latin America. NSS-806 carries more than 120 channels and reaches a community of over 3,500 cable headends and 14 million households in South, Central and North America.