Hot (Israel)
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| Type | Telecommunications and cable television |
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| Country | Israel |
| Availability | Throughout Israel |
| Slogan | (Free translation) There's always something [on] to love |
| Key people | Hertzel Ozer (CEO) |
| Launch date | August 18, 2003 |
| Official website | www.hot.net.il (Hebrew) |
HOT Telecommunication Systems Ltd. (TASE: HOT) is a company that provides cable television, last-mile Internet access, broadband and telecommunication services in Israel. It also provides various data transmission services and network services at different rates, services to the business sector and other ancillary services. In November 2004, HOT Telecom commenced providing domestic fixed line telephone services to residential and business subscribers.
The company’s shares are traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and is a constitute of the TA-100 Index.
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History [edit]
The company was founded on August 18, 2003 as union of the three national cable companies in Israel – Matav, Tevel, and Golden Channels that can be directly linked to the growing competition of the local satellite television provider Yes. While these companies had pursued a union since the late 1990s in order to save administrative and content purchasing costs, and especially after Yes was founded in order to annihilate it before it could grow, the Israeli government monopoly regulator had denied it[citation needed] until the time when Yes had grown at least a minimum subscriber base. The three original companies had not competed with each other since each had been regulated with specific cities and regions around the country.
Hot offers about 200 local and foreign-language channels in its digital television services. Hot also offers several 'exclusive' channels (not available from the competing Yes company) under the Hot brand name. In addition to the digital television services, Hot still provides analog television service, though plans to abandon it by 2012.
Not long after it was created, Hot began offering local telecom service using VoIP, a voice-over-internet technology, and internet access services as well. Hot is not an Internet service provider and is only permitted to offer last mile access. As of 2006[update], Hot has about 950,000 clients - 60% of these are using the digital television services, over 400,000 are using the internet services and over 100,000 are using the phone services.[1]
As of late 2005, Hot offers a wide VOD service, offering contents from almost all channels and content that is not broadcast by other companies. Hot also has a "start over" service in a few of Hot owned channels, as of 2008.
In December 2010, Hot received a license to operate an Internet service provider in the form of a child company.[2]
Prominent TV channels on HOT [edit]
| No. | Channel |
|---|---|
| 1 | HOT V.O.D |
| 2 | HOT V.O.D Young |
| 3 | HOT3 and HOT3 HD |
| 4 | HOT Family |
| 5 | HOT Zone |
| 6 | HOT Comedy Central Israel (replaced Bip) |
| 7 | HOT Israeli entertainment (בידור ישראלי) |
| 8 | Channel 8 |
| 9 | Channel 9 |
| 10 | Channel 10 |
| 11 | Channel 1 |
| 12 | HOT V.O.D Movies |
| 13 | HOT Gold |
| 14 | HOT Action |
| 15 | HOT Fun |
| 16 | HOT Drama |
| 17 | HOT Prime |
| 18 | HOT Films |
| 19 | MGM |
| 20 | HOT Weekend plans / Big Brother |
| 21 | Shopping channel |
| 22 | Channel 2 |
| 23 | Channel 23 |
| 24 | Music 24 |
| 25 | MTV Israel |
| 26 | BBC Entertainment |
| 27 | Viva |
| 28 | Viva + |
| 29 | Israeli Fashion Channel |
| 30 | Arabic Local Channel |
| 31 | Channel E! |
| 32 | The Israeli Food Channel |
| 33 | Channel 33 |
| 34 | Ego Total |
| 35 | Ego |
| 36 | The Biography Channel |
| 37 | HOT Bollywood |
| 38 | HOT Bombay |
| 39 | Karma+ |
| 40 | Home+ |
| 41 | Good Life (החיים הטובים) |
| 42 | The History Channel |
| 43 | Health Channel |
| 44 | Nat. Geo. Adventure |
| 45 | Nat. Geo. WILD |
| 46 | National Geographic |
| 47 | The Travel Channel |
| 48 | CBS Reality |
| 49 | ONE (interactive) |
| 50 | ONE |
| 51 | Eurosport |
| 52 | Eurosport 2 |
| 53 | Sport 2 |
| 54 | Sport 1 |
| 55 | Sport 5 |
| 56 | Sport 5+ |
| 57 | +5 GOLD |
| 58 | +5 LIVE |
| 59 | Sport 5i (interactive) |
| 60 | ESPN |
| 61 | Fox Sports |
| 62 | Amateur Babes |
| 63 | Playboy |
| 64 | Blue Hustler |
| 65 | Ego Games (interactive) |
| 66 | The Kaballah Channel |
| 67 | Extreme Sports Channel |
| 68 | Sky News |
| 69 | BBC World News |
| 70 | France 24 |
| 71 | Fox News |
| 72 | Channel NewsAsia |
| 73 | Daystar |
| 74 | HOT Games & HOT Active (interactive) |
| 75 | Baby |
| 76 | Hot Luli |
| 77 | HOP! |
| 78 | HOP! Yaldut israelit |
| 79 | Safari Kids |
| 80 | Arutz HaYeladim and Arutz HaYeladim Plus (interactive) |
| 81 | Logi |
| 82 | Disney Channel |
| 83 | ZOOM |
| 84 | Nickelodeon |
| 85 | Nick Jr. |
| 86 | Junior |
| 87 | HOT Music (interactive) |
| 88 | The Karaoke Channel (interactive) |
| 89 | JimJam |
| 90 | VH1 |
| 91 | VH1 Classic |
| 92 | MTV Hits |
| 93 | MTV Rocks |
| 94 | MTV Dance |
| 95 | Mezzo |
| 96 | FashionTV |
| 97 | Hidabrut |
| 98 | Mikan |
| 99 | Knesset Channel |
| 100 | Search Service (interactive) |
| 101 | Channel One Russia |
| 102 | RTR Planeta |
| 103 | RTVi |
| 104 | Nashe Kino |
| 105 | NTV Mir |
| 106 | Viva (see 27) in Russian |
| 107 | The History Channel (see 42) in Russian |
| 108 | Dom Kino (Russian) |
| 109 | CBS Drama (Russian) |
| 110 | Music Box RU (Russian) |
| 111 | Vremya Channel (Russian) |
| 112 | HOT V.O.D Russian |
| 113 | Comedy TV (Russian) |
| 114 | CTC (Russian) |
| 115 | TVCI (Russian) |
| 116 | Teleclub / Detskiy mir (Russian) |
| 117 | Karusel (Russian) |
| 118 | JimJam (see 89) (Russian) |
| 119 | Telecafe food channel (Russian) |
| 120 | Russian Travel Guide channel (Russian) |
| 121 | Fine Living |
| 122 | - |
| 123 | GTV |
| 124 | Top Secret Channel (Russian) |
| 125 | RU.TV (Russian) |
| 126 | Inter+ (Ukrainian) |
| 127 | 1+1 |
| 128 | CNBC |
| 129 | Bloomberg |
| 130 | Russia Today |
| 131 | Me-TV |
| 132 | Rotana Cinema |
| 133 | Rotana Music |
| 134 | Saudi |
| 135 | Dubai TV |
| 136 | LBC |
| 137 | Al Jazeera |
| 138 | Jordan 1 |
| 139 | MBC |
| 140 | ieTV |
| 141 | CCTV News |
| 142 | Euronews |
| 143 | France 24 |
| 144 | Guysen TV |
| 145 | TV5Monde |
| 146 | Arte |
| 147 | France 2 |
| 148 | France 3 |
| 149 | France 5 |
| 150 | - |
| 151 | Sat.1 |
| 152 | 3sat |
| 153 | RTL |
| 154 | Telefe International |
| 155 | Rai Italia |
| 156 | Mediaset Italia |
| 157 | TVE Internacional |
| 158 | TRT 1 |
| 159 | OTV |
| 160 | Eurostar |
| 161 | Zee TV |
| 162 | Duna TV |
| 163 | PRO.TV Internaţional |
| 164 | TVRi |
| 165 | Almustakbal |
| 166 | Syria TV |
| 167 | RTM1 |
| 168 | Tunis TV |
| 169 | Rusiya Al-Yaum |
| 170 | MBC 3 |
| 171 | Arabic Local Channel |
| 172-201 | - |
| 202 | Digital Account (myHOT) |
| 203-219 | - |
| 220 | Meir TV |
| 221 | Disney Games (interactive) |
| 222 | HOT Active (interactive) |
| 223-235 | - |
| 236 | HOT Weather (interactive) |
| 237 | Horoscope (interactive) |
| 238-239 | - |
| 240 | EGO Games (interactive) |
| 241-242 | - |
| 243 | HOP! Lomdim (interactive) |
| 244 | Nick School (interactive) |
| 245-300 | - |
| 301 | Galei Tsahal (audio feed) |
| 302 | Galgalatz (audio feed) |
| 303 | 88 FM (audio feed) |
| 304 | Reshet Alef (audio feed) |
| 305 | Reshet Bet (audio feed) |
| 306 | Geshet Gimel (audio feed) |
| 307 | Classical Music (audio feed) |
| 308 | Emtza Haderech (audio feed) |
| 309 | Radio Jerusalem 101 FM (audio feed) |
| 310 | ECO99fm (audio feed) |
| 311 | - |
| 312 | Radio Reka (audio feed) |
| 313 | Radio Pervoe (audio feed) |
| 314 | Radio Tel Aviv (102FM) (audio feed) |
| 315 | 103 FM (audio feed) |
| 316 | Radius (audio feed) |
| 317 | Radio Darom 101.5 FM (audio feed) |
| 318 | Radio Lev HaMedina (audio feed) |
| 319 | Radio Haifa (audio feed) |
| 320-321 | - |
| 322 | Radio Darom 101.5 (audio feed) |
| 323-399 | - |
| 400 | myHOT (interactive) (channel orders, bills, account info) |
| 401-449 | - |
| 450 | System Check |
| 451-500 | - |
| 501 | HOT V.O.D HD |
| 502-503 | - |
| 505 | HOT Zone HD |
| 506-510 | - |
| 511 | Channel 1 HD |
| 512 | - |
| 513 | HOT Gold HD |
| 514 | HOT Action HD |
| 515 | HOT Fun HD |
| 516 | HOT Drama HD |
| 517-518 | - |
| 519 | MGM HD |
| 520-525 | - |
| 526 | MTV Live HD |
| 527-536 | - |
| 537 | Bollywood HD |
| 538-544 | - |
| 545 | Nat. Geo WILD HD |
| 546 | National Geographic HD |
| 547-549 | - |
| 550 | ONE HD |
| 551 | Eurosport HD |
| 552-553 | - |
| 554 | Sport 1 HD |
| 555 | Sport 5 HD |
| 556-557 | - |
| 558 | +5 LIVE HD |
| 559-560 | - |
| 561 | Fox Sports HD |
| 562 | Penthouse HD |
| 563-594 | - |
| 595 | Mezzo Live HD |
| 596 | FashionTV HD |
| 597-646 | - |
| 647 | France 2 HD |
| 648-870 | - |
| 871 | Test Channel |
Former channels [edit]
- Xtra HOT (Signed off on January 4, 2009)
- AXN (Signed off on January 4, 2009)
- Star World
- HOT Summer
- Voom HD
- Bip (Launched in 2000, signed off on December 31, 2010)
Criticism [edit]
Hot has been criticized for refusing to provide service to certain areas of Israel, despite being bound by contract to do so. Regions especially lacking are those that are predominantly Haredi and Arab-Israeli, as well as the Arava. Hot responded that it already provided service for 95–98% of the country, and sought an official exemption from providing them to certain areas, where the decision lies with the Communications Ministry.[3]
Patients in area hospitals who wish to make use of internet services provided via HOT are charged 30 shekels a day- a figure representing slightly more than a quarter of household charge for internet service for a month.
See also [edit]
- HOT3 - The main channel of HOT, which airs both US shows and Israeli originali shows. Replaced Xtra HOT when closed in 2009.
- Xtra Hot - An exclusive Hot channel that airs US shows. It can be purchased À la carte or through a "mini pay" package of other similar channels
- Yes (Israel) - the competing satellite television provider
References [edit]
- ^ "About Hot". (Hebrew)
- ^ "HOT Gets ISP License, Refinances". Reuters. December 6, 2010. Retrieved 2010-12-19.
- ^ Ziv, Amitay (September 14, 2008). "Moving to HOT's Infrastructure". TheMarker. Retrieved 2009-05-28. (Hebrew)
External links [edit]
- Official website
- I Hate Hot - Protest site against Hot (Hebrew)
- Cable Internet - Support site (Hebrew)
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