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Demand for Educational Ghanaian TV Channel Grows Amid COVID-19
Joy Learning, the free-to-air (FTA) not-for-profit TV channel dedicated solely to Ghanaian educational content, has proven to be a critical source of learning for senior high school (SHS) pupils across the West African sub-region while schools have been closed to combat the spread of COVID-19. This is according to Abdulai Awudu, General Manager of Joy Learning, who says the channel can be accessed by TV viewers throughout the sub-region as part of the FTA direct-to-home (DTH) MultiTV platform on SES’s Astra-2F, by using a standard decoder or TV with built-in DTH tuner. “While this channel was originally created to give Ghanaian SHS students access to educational content while they were…
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SES Successfully Prices EUR 400 Million 8-Year Euro Bond
SES S.A. announced today the successful launch and pricing of a bond offering in which it has agreed to sell senior unsecured fixed rate notes due in 2028 for a total amount of EUR 400 million. The notes will bear a Coupon of 2.00% per annum and were priced at 99.445% of their nominal value. SES is rated Baa2 by Moody’s (with negative outlook) and BBB- by Standard & Poor’s (with stable outlook). Proceeds of the issuance will be used for general corporate purposes which includes the refinancing of existing debt. With this transaction, which was oversubscribed by 2.5 times, SES has taken advantage of the current attractive market conditions…
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SES unveils first TV market reception survey results in the Philippines
Satellite ranks highest in terms of satisfaction when it comes to TV service and is second-most popular TV reception mode SES currently reaches 98% of satellite TV households in the Philippines and serves over 3.5 million homes across the country SES, the leader in global content connectivity solutions over satellite, today revealed the results of its first-ever TV market reception survey in the Philippines. Out of the 3,000 residential households interviewed across the Philippines, SES unveiled that households who subscribed to satellite TV ranked highest in terms of satisfaction with their TV service. A large majority of satellite TV households were very satisfied with their TV service (76%), in…
