Luxembourg – Fiji TV has signed a capacity deal with Intelsat for its direct-to-home (DTH) services to customers across the Pacific Ocean region, which includes Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Vanuatu, Samoa and the Solomon Islands. Fiji TV has also renewed its video contribution requirements and capacity for its subsidiary Media Niugini Limited, which operates EMTV, Papua New Guinea’s only free-to-view channel.

Fiji TV also offers Sky Pacific, a pay-TV service uplinked from Suva, Fiji, that offers such channels as Fiji One, Discovery, CNN and BBC World. With its new MPEG-4 platform on Intelsat 19, the agreement will enable Fiji TV to add programming to its current package, providing viewers dozens of channels of compelling content.

“Fiji TV’s strategic focus has always been to expand our Pay TV business in the Pacific Ocean region,” said Tarun Patel, Group Chief Executive Officer of Fiji TV. “This agreement reaffirms our commitment to providing informative and educational content. It also provides us a reliable platform to grow our service offerings in the future.”

“DTH service is often the only medium for reaching viewers in the remote communities of the geographically dispersed Pacific Ocean region,” said Intelsat RVP of Asia-Pacific Sales Terry Bleakley. “Therefore, DTH providers and programmers seeking effective access to customers from Australia and New Zealand to the Pacific Islands continue to turn to the Intelsat 19 video neighborhood for reliable distribution.”