Satellite Delivered Programming Licensing Available From AST
19 Oct 2009
AST are one of just 3 distributors for BBC Worldwide channels, however AST is the only distributor that has the capability of not only supplying BBC Worldwide channels, but also the antenna and associated equipment you need to receive TV channels. We also have a team of experienced engineers who can install and service your equipment.
For licensing information or details on any associated equipment requirements you might have please contact emma.lawrence@ast-uk.com
Special offer valid until end of October 2009
Buy a TVRO antenna along with a subscription to one of the BBC Worldwide channels and receive a 10% discount from the MSRP price for the antenna and get the 1st month subscription of your choice of BBC Worldwide channel absolutely free for up to 750 cabins (Terms apply).
Channel Descriptions
BBC Entertainment
Out of the ordinary TV
BBC Entertainment serves up a fabulous cocktail of gripping drama, hot comedy, family favourites, and top celebrity glamour.
Its proven mix of ratings winners, from first-run to classic, will delight and engage the whole family. Packed with award-winning talent, fantastic spectacle and the highest production values, it’s television for the discerning and the imaginative. Big, bold and wonderfully ambitious, BBC Entertainment is simply unmissable.
BBC Knowledge
Amaze your mind
BBC Knowledge is an incredible journey into the power and possibilities of factual TV. It opens captivating window on the world with award-winning, factual and non-fiction entertainment programming.
Thought-provoking and stimulating, the channel is inspired by the BBC’s rich heritage of superb factual programming. Fabulously diverse, its content ranges across science, technology, history and now adventure. A channel where truth is as entertaining as fiction and where past, present and future are brought spectacularly to life.
Our experts’ infectious charisma inspires curiosity and unlocks some of real life’s most amazing secrets. Together with our big budget production values they reveal the world in all its wonder.
BBC Lifestyle
Alive with Ideas
Brimming with vibrant, fresh and exciting programmes, BBC Lifestyle is simply a ‘must have’ channel. Its real human stories can help your viewers transform their world; from revamping their homes to invigorating their cooking and from polishing parenting skills to simply becoming healthier and happier.
Inspiring, daring and always in-the-know, this sassy and energetic channel is alive with inspirational ideas to transform lives.
CBeebies
Lighting up Little Learners
CBeebies is a brightly coloured, enchanting world where little ones learn through play. Where friends like Roly Mo, Tinky Winky and Iggle Piggle inspire young imaginations with exciting stories and endless laughter. It’s a place where play is wonderfully interactive – both on-screen and online – and where pre-schoolers’ questions about the world around them are answered in creative, energetic ways that keep them utterly enthralled.
CBeebies is designed by child development experts to the highest educational standards and mixes live action with state of the art puppetry and animation. At its heart are the traditional quality values for which British programming and the BBC brand is world-renowned.
CBeebies makes learning safe, friendly and fun.
BBC HD
Television Perfected
It’s TV like you’ve never known. Superior technical quality matched with the creative excellence of BBC storytelling.
With pictures five times sharper than standard definition and crystal clear cinematic sound, BBC HD is an extraordinary, immersive and sensory experience. You don’t just watch it; you live it. And our vast range of HD programming from stunning drama, to epic natural history, live performances and adventure, revels in this state of the art technology and exploits it to its fabulous best.
In fact, fiction, sound and vision, BBC HD is epic, vivid and completely breathtaking; it’s the best of the BBC, even better in HD.
BBC World News
Never Stop Asking
BBC World News is the BBC’s international news and current affairs TV channel, bringing you the stories that matter, in the English language, 24 hours a day. It keeps you up-to-date with global events; from breaking news and bulletins to business stories, interviews with key decision makers and debates on the hot topics which are shaping our world.
Building on the BBC’s international reputation for impartiality and accuracy, BBC World News is aimed at internationally-minded people who want to be connected to the wider world. And the channel has the experts to deliver – calling on the BBC’s 250 specialist correspondents and thousands of journalists based around the world.
BBC World News is available in over 290 million households worldwide. Stay in touch with fast-moving events. BBC World News – modern broadcasting for a challenging world.