TV Vlaanderen Digitaal
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| Type | Private |
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| Industry | Pay TV |
| Founded | 2006 |
| Headquarters | Zaventem, Belgium |
| Key people | K. Pauwels, General Director |
| Products | Direct Broadcast Satellite |
| Website | tvvlaanderen.be |
TV Vlaanderen Digitaal is a digital satellite television provider for the Flemish market, using the Astra satellites at 19.2° east and at 23.5° east.
TV Vlaanderen's customers are mostly people living in Flanders. However, as TV Vlaanderen is officially available to the whole of Belgium, TV Vlaanderen also has a lot of Flemish customers living in the French-speaking part of Belgium due to the unavailability of Dutch-language channels on cable systems in Wallonia.
Like the Dutch satellite television provider CanalDigitaal, TV Vlaanderen is owned by M7 Group S.A..
The Provision of the following free to air television channels is required by Law
In addition to the free to air television channels TV Vlaanderen also offers a number of subscription television channels such as
- National Geographic Channel
- Discovery Channel
- History Channel
- ESPN
- ESPN America
- ESPN Classic
- Eurosport
- Eurosport HD
- Eurosport 2
- Eurosport News
- ESPNews
- FOXlife
- E! Entertainment
- Cartoon Network
- Nickelodeon
- Disney Channel
And many more
[edit] Smartcard
The Flemish public and commercial broadcasts are not freely available via satellite. To receive the Flemish broadcasts a Smartcard is required to decypher the Mediaguard signal.
A standard DVB-S receiver is used, which can also receive Free-To-Air broadcasts. A DVB-S2 receiver is used for the reception of the HD channels offered by TV Vlaanderen.
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