Prime Minister Vlado Buckovski put into operation Wednesday the Macedonian satellite teleport centre located in the Macedonian Radio Television building.<br /><br />Over ten channels from Serbia and Montenegro, Greece, Bulgaria, Albania and Bosnia and Herzegovina will be gathered and distributed through the Macedonian centre.<br /><br />Centre will provide to all media and production companies to be present both in Europe and other continents as well.<br /><br />"The construction of this Center is a step forward in Government's efforts to include Macedonia in the countries that have the most sophisticated technological equipment for electronic communications", Minister of Transport and Communications Xhemali Mehazi said at the opening ceremony.<br /><br />Installation of Macedonian satellite teleport centre is a result of the agreement signed between Ministry of Transport and Communications and TARBS Group in accordance with MRTV and Macedonian Broadcasting.<br /><br />Through sophisticated installed equipment, Macedonia will be included in the countries that receive and regularly send signals realising intensive broadcasting.<br /><br />In accordance with the agreement, after five years the equipment remains as a donation in the property to Ministry of Transport and Communications. The amount of the installed equipment costs over US$ 2 million.<br /><br />TARBS Group is multiethnic satellite provider for national and privately owned television channels of around 50 countries worldwide. TARBS uses chain of satellites for global distribution of signals. The Group, which operates the satellite teleport centres in Australia, Germany, the US, Israel, Egypt, Philippines and Greece, takes the responsibility if interest exists in Macedonia to continue the cooperation and to increase the investment to several million dollars.<br /> <br /> <small>[ 28. July 2005, 01:35 PM: Message edited by: LISKI iTV ]</small>

Nick,<br /><br />Good find. As you can see TARBS Europe is still alive and working <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/default/smile.gif" /> <br /><br />Not long to go for the new packages to arrive at UBI! Balkan, Greek and many more <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/default/smile.gif" /><br /> <br /> <small>[ 28. July 2005, 02:59 PM: Message edited by: LISKI iTV ]</small>

yes i saw this news story on MKTV yesterday but didt understand it thanks for the report nick <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/default/grin.gif" />

hheheheh finally.... <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/default/smile.gif" /> lets see wat comes thru our little ku band dishes here <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="images/icons/default/wink.gif" />

http://english.people.com.cn/200507/28/eng20050728_198727.html<br /><br />bit more info <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="images/icons/default/wink.gif" />

I doubt it though that UBI will get any good Greek channels as Foxtell has cornered all the descent Greek channels.

they have 1 channel and thats it, and its not exclusive either to them..

Why, who else has it apart from Optus?

i hope OBN also comes soon been waiting a long time for its return <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/default/grin.gif" /><br /> <br /> <small>[ 29. July 2005, 01:28 AM: Message edited by: alcatron ]</small>

optus foxtel etc only have ant1 and it cost $15 on top of a basic $50 package so ppl who just want ant1 are paying $65 for 1 channel bargain NOT! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Roll Eyes]" src="images/icons/default/rolleyes.gif" />

Haaaa yes typical foxtel, Blackmail.

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Originally posted by LAZERSAT:<br /><strong> optus foxtel etc only have ant1 and it cost $15 on top of a basic $50 package so ppl who just want ant1 are paying $65 for 1 channel bargain NOT! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Roll Eyes]" src="images/icons/default/rolleyes.gif" /> </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">I think getting 30 english channels plus 1 greek channel for $65 is much better than UBI's 2 iranian channels for $60 deal.

Yes but if you get the 2 Iranian channels + english channels at a later date thats not bad. Go back to the tarbs days and see what they did when they introduced the Basic English at no extra cost.

i hope ur right Phil

I would say I'm 50% right <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/default/grin.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/default/grin.gif" /> . We will all have to wait, let UBI finish its ethnic channels B 4 worring about English channels. Remember the last Carrier gets turned on towards the end of the year <br />now I wonder what will be on that <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/default/grin.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/default/grin.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/default/grin.gif" />

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Originally posted by ShaRp:<br /><strong> </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Originally posted by LAZERSAT:<br /><strong> optus foxtel etc only have ant1 and it cost $15 on top of a basic $50 package so ppl who just want ant1 are paying $65 for 1 channel bargain NOT! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Roll Eyes]" src="images/icons/default/rolleyes.gif" /> </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">I think getting 30 english channels plus 1 greek channel for $65 is much better than UBI's 2 iranian channels for $60 deal. </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">yes thats right sharp but wat is a elderly person goin to do with all those english channels when they only understand and want ant1 and are forced to pay for the basic package and it gets no use like the remote never changes channels its always on ant1 i know alot of elderly ppl who do this

The teleport in Skopje, Macedonia won't last that much as every other thing in that country does the wrong way and the technology at MKTV SAT is about out of date.<br />Someone will stuff it up just wait and see. When it brakes down they won’t have money to fix it up as it happens there

All the equipment used in the Teleport in Skopje, Macedonia is brand new from UBI.

Liski it's Macedonia not Australia<br />People that work in that country haven't been paid for weeks. So what dose it say for the Teleport in Skopje when it brakes down no pay for the worker no fix????<br /><br />It's that simple.....

sat tech are u macedonian???<br />because only macedonians know that

No i am not macedonian, but i know someone who is macedonian, and just by what's going on in that country you can work it out

It depends who you work for. <br /><br />I've been back every year for the past 10 years and everything seems to be good if your working for the right company. I'm pretty sure MTV is one of them.

Yeah..easy said "+ English channels at a later date " - we have been waiting for Balkan package for so long -who knows how long we would have to wait for these English channels and why UBI needs to charge a full price than now for 2 channels , why don’t they start to charge a full price once these channels are introduced.<br />$60 is just way too much. I would rather get Foxtel then and have all my sports and movie channels for couple dollars extra.

Is the uplink of all the balkan channels done from the teleport in Macedonian to Telstar 10? & has anybody got photo's from this new teleport center