Eutelsat

Eutelsat (European Telecommunications Organization Satellite) is a Public limit company of French right whose head office is located at Paris, street of Balard. Created in 1977 as an intergovernmental organization with an aim of improving the European phone network, its principal activity consists in today managing the satellite transmission by of chains of Télévision and radio stations. In 2001, Eutelsat is automatically privatisé and becomes a Public limit company. The Eutelsat December 2nd, 2005 makes its entry with the Paris Bourse with a price of introduction of 12€ by action.
Mid 2006, it managed the diffusion of more than 2100 television channels and 970 radio operator stations of the whole world with 24 named satellites Géostationnaire S Hot Bird, Atlantic Bird, EUROBIRD, W and SESAT.

Satellites

Eutelsat has 20 satellites and rents broadcasting capacity on 4 others: TELSTAR 12, Express train-A3, Telecom 2D and Express AM22.

Regulations European and French

Each country controls its own audiovisual landscape. Moreover, the authorization given to a television channel in a country allows the diffusion of this chain on the whole of the European Union.

Eutelsat having charges some nearly a hundred to chains which do not come from a country of the European Union or a nation signatory of the directive “Television without borders” (TSF), it is at the organization of regulation of the country of the operator of the satellite, namely the SCUMS for the France, which returns this prerogative.

To continue to be diffused by Eutelsat, these chains must thus since the end of 2004 obtain a conventionality of SCUMS.

The problem of the regulation of diffusion already arose in April 1999, when the operator had to put an end to the emissions of the Radio Serb Television (RTS) following the action of NATO against the ex- Yugoslavia. One had needed a political decision to cut the diffusion of the RTS on the European territory because Eutelsat was then a European consortium governed by an intergovernmental treaty.

At the end of 2004, the interruption of the diffusion of Al Manar, a television channel of the Lebanese Hezbollah , is posed again. Indeed, this one signed initially an agreement of conventionality with SCUMS and has then enfreint its engagements. This interruption is technically more complicated to implement according to Eutelsat. Emitted in numerical mode, Al Manar belongs to a bouquet of ten Arab chains forwarded Tunis to the satellite Hot Bird Eutelsat. “To stop the chain, all the multiplexing should be stopped”, that is to say all 10 chain, explains the operator. Thing which will be made only following one decision of the court.

Montgolfier

The Eutelsat company has a Montgolfière in Paris, with the Parc Andre-Citroen ({{XVe}} district). Located in the same district that its head office, it is maintained on the ground by ropes, but it can rise in the airs, offering an air sight of Paris.

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