Hot Bird

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Hot Bird Satellite Constellation

The Hot Bird satellite constellation is a group of satellites operated by Eutelsat, located at 13 degrees east (orbital position) and covering most areas of Europe, North Africa, the Middle East. The constellation transmits only digital radio and television channels, including free-to-air and encrypted channels. In addition to this, there are also some interactive services and Internet Protocol (IP) services.

The HOT BIRD satellites at the 13-degree east orbital position have been chosen by several countries to broadcast their free or paid programs, such as national series and/or specialized packages. These include all North African channels, including Moroccan public channels like DZMM, Sport Channel, 4th Channel, 6th Channel, Tamazight Channel, and Algerian channels like Canal Algérien, Canal Algérie 3, Canal Algérie 4 Amazigh, and Quranic Channel.

Hot Bird is Europe's leading broadcasting and broadcasting satellite network, with over 1100 television channels. It is managed by Eutelsat and covers more than 120 million households. The constellation positioned at 13° East consists of three satellites: Hot Bird 13B, Hot Bird 6 (also known as Hot Bird 13D), and Hot Bird 7A Eurobird 9A.

The broad beam covers all Europe, the Mediterranean basin, the Maghreb, Asia Minor, the Middle East, Pakistan, and parts of the Americas. Hot Bird is an essential satellite network due to its intercontinental broadcasting coverage and the number of households that have a satellite antenna pointing to this orbital position, receiving services broadcast from Hot Bird.

Hot Bird satellites positioned at 13° East have been chosen in many countries to broadcast free or paid programmes, such as national and/or thematic channels, specialized bouquets. For France, these are the Orange TV and BIS Télévisions bouquets that broadcast the entire TNT channel (encrypted). The old TPS package has stopped its emissions. Only a few French TNT channels broadcast in plain language, including Arte in HD and SD versions and BFM TV.

Many international television stations also broadcast from this position, such as BBC World News, CNN (in English), Al Jazeera (in Arabic) and Al Jazeera English (in English). European countries like Italy use Hot Bird to broadcast their public and private channels. In Italy, the national public broadcaster Rai 1, Rai 2, Rai 3 are in plain language