RCS Ghana has signed a contract with Eutelsat Communications, one of the world’s leading satellite operators with a powerful fleet of satellites, to provide quality and affordable television bouquet for Ghanaians and others on the continent.

RCS is a Satellite Provision Company that provide platform and outsource contents to television stations with the use Ku-Band capacity on Eutelsat 7B to broadcast its fast growing free-to- air DTH bouquet to over 40 countries on the African continent and beyond.

As SD and the only HD provider currently on the market, RCS is offering prices lower than what other satellite companies are providing between $6,500 and $8,000 a month.

To offset the financial constraints on TV station owners, RCS will not charge the additional $5,000 installation fee like the others but provide the service for free.

The idea was to support TV stations to keep running, since these exorbitant charg had led some stations to collapse or at the verge of collapsing.

Meanwhile, all the TV stations except Super Sport English Premier League that is even produced from England, contents broadcast to Ghanaians are in SD.

To ice the cake, households would not need to buy or change their digital box or dish to access channels on RCS platform.

In order to cater for other unforeseen market, RCS has an in-house channel in Hausa channel – Gaskia TV and hope to add more channels with rich contents to entertain, inform and educate the Ghanaian.

 Hanza Tanko, Chairman and CE of RCS Ghana told the press in Accra that there are over 500 TV channels been broadcast from 7° East, which that had become the newest DTH hotspot for Sub-Saharan region with some of the fastest growing rates.

The 7° East neighbourhood is a key orbital position for regional TV channels.

Hamza Tanko, Chairman and CEO of RCS Ghana, commented: “We are delighted to partner with Eutelsat for the broadcast of the RCS DTH bouquet, delivering exceptional content to viewers in Ghana and beyond, and enabling the broadcast of any channel in Ghana in high quality and at compelling rates.

“The 7° East position is ideal to serve the Ghanaian market and Eutelsat 7B offers consistent coverage and signal power all over Ghana as well as complete Sub-Saharan coverage of over 40 African countries.”

“We are proud to support RCS Ghana in rolling out this high quality content offering. This contract reflects the buoyancy of the Ghanaian broadcast market, the attraction of the unparalleled coverage of our 7° East neighbourhood and Eutelsat’s expertise in the African market. We look forward to a long and fruitful collaboration,” Nicolas Baravalle, Regional Vice President, Sub Saharan Africa of Eutelsat, said.

Its parent Company, Eutelsat in France, is the same company that hosts all DSTV bouquets.

RCS has the most affordable and quality services on the market today, giving customers an unprecedented two megabits of dedicated picture quality.

By Bernice Bessey