Russia’s Orion satellite operator expresses interest in Armenian market

YEREVAN, July 14. /ARKA/. Russia’s satellite operator Orion is planning to appear at Armenia’s market, the company says in its 1H 2016 report.

In the second quarter, Orion appeared in Georgia, where it broadcasts under the brand of the local partner Super TV Ltd, and in the third quarter it intends to start TV broadcasting in Armenia and Azerbaijan.

In recent days the company also placed on record its appearance in Kazakhstan’s territory with play-out service and to rebroadcast of Russian TV channel’s programs.

The company doesn’t rule out probability of its appearance in Armenia jointly with Georgia’s Super TV.
Connection and subscription to the minimum package for final consumers in Georgia is equal to about $3.

Orion hopes to attract 20,000 customers in Georgia.  

According to the company’s report, as many as 2.87 million households are the company’s clients – this number is 3% more than the previous year’s result.  

Orion has earned 1.6 billion Russian rubles over the first six months of this year showing a five-percent year-on-year growth.

Satellite broadcasting accounts for 74 percent of the company’s income, the combined services for TV broadcasters brings another 22 percent to the company and 4 percent comes from distribution of TV channels.

The company says especially intensive was growth of income from the combined services for broadcasters, which doubled in Jan-June 2016, compared with the same period a year earlier.

It has also become known from the company’s report that the number of users of TV Card new mobile services, launched in late 2015, has grown 3.4 times since then, and that TV Card Online application for watching television via mobile sets and tablets were required by 18,000 people in the first half of this year. --0---   

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15:27 07/14/2016