Digiturk
is a Turkish Satellite television provider, founded in 1999, with
services starting in mid-2000. They offer, both national cable TV
channels and their own channels, national radio, and music streams of
different genres. Digiturk is also the current owner of the broadcasting
rights of Turkish Super League. In addition to Turkey, they offer
service throughout Europe, mainly for members of the Turkish diaspora.
Reportedly it has over 2 million subscribers worldwide. Their service is
provided from Eutelsat W3A, positioned some 35 degrees west of the more
traditionally used Türksat; and is encrypted in Cryptoworks and Irdeto.
Digiturk
made its major breakthrough when it acquired the rights to broadcast
Turkish football league, which are subject to quite high prices since
the country has a great interest towards football. Service eventually
grew larger, and they added special channels for movies and series and
such. It became an HBO-like, since it has the resources to buy movies
earlier than cable channels, also many running/ended TV series as well.
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