SES Astra and the German company of production and distribution Unitel Classica have extended his "Festival of summer Outstanding figures" across the orbital position of 19,2 ° East until the end of October.

The emission can follow for time and with one more than excellent quality in high definition openly across the frequency 11.914-H MHz (DVB-S, MPEG-4, MR. 27500, FEC 9/10). According to both companies, the strong demand and the positive reaction of the viewers have been the reasons to extend this television channel in high definition, which had to stop his contents at the end of September.

Every day at 19:00 (CET) they are expressed up to seven hours of recordings of concerts of classical music and operas in the same channel that in the rest of the day can continue a promotional Astra programming. This way, they can turn and to listen to the festivals of Bayreuth, Salzburg, to the Opera of Valencia, as well as to a documentary on the Philharmonic Band of Vienna.

Unitel Classica is preparing the international throwing of a chain of television of payment in HDTV for the lovers of the classical music and operas. The company has already Classica, a music channel in standard definition that is free in Germany and Austria across the platform Premiere. The channel also is distributed in Italy, Spain (ADSL TV) and Japan.


(SatCesc, 09/10/08)