Guide To Watching And Listening To Ethnic Satellite TV & Radio in the UK
 by: Silas Mante

The list below is a list of popular satellites which can be received in the UK. We have also given an idea of the size of Satellite Dish needed to watch and listen to programmes from that satellite including the various languages that are broadcasted.

Satellite Dish sizes are split into North and South.

North are all towns/cities in the North of England and Scotland including the Scottish highlands.

South are all towns/cities in the South East and South of England.

Before installing a satellite dish check with your local council office on their policies on satellite dish installations. Some local councils do not allow the installation of satellite dishes above 90cm.

Satellite: Turksat 1C - 42.0°E
Dish Size: North - 1.2m, South - 80cm
Languages: Turkish

Satellite: Seasat/Eutelsat W4 - 36.0°E
Dish Size: North – 90cm, South – 70cm
Languages: Azerbaijan, Russian, Arabic, French, Italian, Kurdish

Satellite: Eurobird1 - 28.5°E
Dish Size: North – 60cm, South – 45cm
Languages: English

Satellite: Astra 2 - 28.2°E
Dish Size: North – 60cm, South – 45cm
Languages: English, Hindi, Cantonese, Punjabi

Satellite: BADR 2/3 - 26.0°E
Dish Size: North – 1.2m, South – 1m
Languages: Arabic

Satellite: Astra 3A/1D - 23.5°
Dish Size: North – 70cm, South – 60cm
Languages: German, Czech

Satellite: Astra 1B/1C/1E-1H/2C - 19.2°E
Dish Size: North – 80cm, South – 60cm
Languages: German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Hungarian

Satellite: Eutelsat W2 - 16.0°E
Dish Size: North – 70cm, South – 70cm
Languages: Albanian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Macedonian

Satellite: Hot Bird 1/2/3//6/7A - 13.0°E
Dish Size: North – 80cm, South – 80cm
Languages: Polish, Arabic, Tamil, Dutch, English, French
German, Italian, Cantonese, Russian, Hindi, Kurdish,
Serbian, Japanese, Dutch, Croatian, Farsi, Greek
Azerbaijan, Mandarin, Bengali

Satellite: Eutelsat W1 - 10.0°E
Dish Size: North – 70cm, South – 70cm
Languages: Italian, Armenia, Serbian

Satellite: Eutelsat W3 - 7.0°E
Dish Size: North – 70cm, South – 70cm
Languages: Polish, Italian, Turkish

Satellite: Sirius 2/3 - 5.0°E
Dish Size: North – 80cm, South – 80cm
Languages: Albanian, Ukrainian, Russian, Romanian

Satellite: Thor 2/3 & Intelsat 10-02 - 1.0°W
Dish Size: North 50cm, South – 45cm
Languages: Swedish, Icelandic, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian
Romanian, English, Hungarian

Satellite: Atlantic Bird 3 - 5.0°W
Dish Size: North 60cm, South – 45cm
Languages: French, Arabic, Tagalog

Satellite: Nilesat 101/102 - 7.0°W
Dish Size: North – 1.5m, South – 1.2m
Languages: Arabic

Satellite: Telecom 2D/Atlantic - 8.0°W
Dish Size: North – 80cm, South – 60cm
Languages: Arabic, Turkish, German, Italian, Croatian, Serbian

Satellite: Atlantic Bird 1 - 12.5°W
Dish Size: North – 80cm, South - 60cm
Languages: Bosnian, Italian, Turkish, Sinhala

Satellite: Telstar 12 - 15.0°W
Dish Size: North – 60cm, South – 60cm
Languages: Cantonese, Greek, Farsi, English, Azerbaijan
Hungarian, Polish

Satellite: Intelsat 901 - 18.0°W
Dish Size: North – 1.5m, South – 1.5m
Languages: English, Spanish

Satellite: PAS 9 - 58.0°W
Dish Size: North – 1.5m, South – 1.4m
Languages: Hindi, Spanish

Satellite: PAS 3R/6B - 43.1°W
Dish Size: North – 1m, South – 90cm
Languages: Spanish, English

Satellite: Hispasat 1C/1D - 30.0°W
Dish Size: North – 70cm, South – 60cm
Languages: Spain

Satellite: Telstar 12 - 15.0°W
Dish Size: North – 60cm, South – 60cm
Languages: English, Hungarian, Polish, Norwegian, Farsi, Cantonese, Greek

Satellite: NSS 7 - NSS 7 at 22.0°W
Dish Size: North – 60cm, South – 60cm
Languages: English, Italian, Arabic

Satellite: Express AM22 - 53.0°E
Dish Size: North – 80cm, South – 80cm
Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

Satellite: Amos 1/2 - 4.0°W
Dish Size: North – 2.8m, South – 2m
Languages: Hungarian, Romanian, Croatian, Bosnian, Slovakian

About The Author

Silas Mante is a Director of Mantesat, a UK based company supplying and installing Satellite TV Systems for the purpose of watching and Listening to Ethnic TV and Radio in the UK & Ireland.

More details about Mantesat can be found at: http://www.mantesat.com

You may also contact Silas on: [email protected]

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