SES Renews Broadcast Contract with QVC UK Shopping Network

QVC Corporate Headquarters (photo QVC)

QVC UK will continue to broadcast on SES satellites after the two companies signed a five-year contract renewal. In an announcement released April 4, SES said that the deal will see the operator carry QVC, QVC Beauty, QVC Extra and QVC Style channels over its satellites at the 28.2 degrees and 28.5 degrees East orbital slots.

As part of the agreement, both the QVC and QVC Style channels will be upgraded to HD. Moreover, SES will continue to provide ground services to QVC UK, including managed encoding and uplinking services. QVC reaches more than 200 million homes globally via its 12 broadcast networks.

“Our broadcast channels are central to our business, so we are happy to continue and expand our longstanding partnership with SES to provide reliable, high-quality broadcast to our customers across the UK and Ireland. Ensuring our customers have an immersive and engaging vCommerce shopping experience is of paramount importance and why we continue working with SES,” Simone Borkar, QVC Director of Broadcast Engineering Europe, said in a statement.