YAHLIVE BRINGS BALKAN TV ENTERTAINMENT TO the MENA REGION

YAHLIVE BRINGS BALKAN TV ENTERTAINMENT TO THE MENA REGION

YAHLIVE EXPANDS REGIONAL OFFERING WITH 7 NEW CHANNELS CATERING TO BOSNIAN, SERBIAN, CROATIAN, ALBANIAN, TURKISH, AND SPANISH SPEAKING COMMUNITIES

Abu Dhabi, UAE - 6 December 2016: Yahlive, the UAE based satellite broadcasting company, has further expanded its diverse offering of culturally relevant content in partnership with Adriatic Tours S.L., owners of Alpha One RTV Network. The announcement sees an expanded bouquet of channels for the Balkan diaspora residing in the Middle East and North Africa. These, along with other free-to-air channels, are available to anyone in the MENA region by pointing their dish at the Yahsat 1A satellite located at 52.5E.

The additional seven Balkan community-targeted channels include content available in several languages including Bosnian, Serbian, Croatian, Albanian, Turkish, Spanish, English and Arabic. This latest move forms part of the partnership, launched in October 2015, with Mr. Mahir Zisko, General Manager, Adriatic Tours S.L., which saw the introduction of the first Balkan TV bouquet for the Balkan community residing in Europe.

Today's announcement swiftly follows the company's latest offering - the launch of 57 Algerian channels of which 36 are exclusively available on Yahlive. Through these developments, the company has tripled its free-to-air channels in the region to over 247, 147 of which are exclusively available through Yahlive in the last three months.

Ammar Baranbo, Yahlive Chief Operating Officer said: Our expanded offerings are designed to bring tailored content to different communities; hence we broadcast channels that are culturally and socially relevant. The Balkan community, living in MENA, holds immense significance for us and we are delighted to be able to air their favourite TV channels through Yahlive.

Today, Yahlive's viewers have access to hundreds of channels in more than 12 languages. We are committed to working closely with broadcasters to ensure that we are offering more free-to-air TV channels to niche communities across our coverage area, added Ammar.

Yahlive, headquartered in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, was launched in 2011 as a joint venture between the world leading satellite operator SES, and Yahsat a pioneering UAE-based satellite operator. Yahlive has been operating a leading-edge network to broadcast free-to-air high-quality satellite television and positively impacts the lives of its viewers by remaining connected through language and content.

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Yahlive

Yahlive is a satellite broadcasting company dedicated to beaming an array of high quality TV channels to its culturally diverse viewers. Yahlive's KU Band beams over 240 channels across the fast growing and dynamic markets of the Middle East, North Africa South West Asia and Europe. Additionally, Yahlive is the number one choice for Farsi viewers in the region and provides the most sought after content to a wide range of other communities including Arabic, Kurdish, Balkan, Arabian Maghreb and Afghan.

Yahlive broadcasts in both Standard, high and Ultra High Definitions via Yahsat's Y1A satellite with powerful signal strengths allowing it to be received with 50-centimeter dishes in most of its footprint.

Yahlive, headquartered in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, was launched in 2011 as a joint venture between the world leading satellite operator SES, and Yahsat a pioneering UAE-based satellite operator wholly owned by Mubadala, one of the leading Investment Arms of Abu Dhabi.

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