The new SES-8 will provide huge additional satellite transponder capacity to Dish TV which already has 9 transponders on NSS-6. Each transponder can typically deliver 15 standard definition channels.
Dish TV CEO RC Venkateish had told the press that his company would add 5 transponders from SES-8. "We have got one transponder already allocated and this should cost us about $1.3 million as rental outgo per year," he had said.....
