Three Pakistani Channels Join AsiaSat 3S

AAsiaSat announced that LEO Television Network of Pakistan has commenced distributing three television channels on AsiaSat 3S. The services include multilingual Pakistani filmy channel ‘FILMAZIA’; Urdu language, South Asian movie channel ‘film WORLD’ and Pashto and Urdu-language infotainment channel ‘ARUJ TV’. ‘FILMAZIA’, started in 2005, offers a large collection of Pakistani films in all regional languages including national Urdu, movie soundtracks and celebrity interviews. ‘film WORLD’ is a pay movies channel dedicated to providing the best of South Asian cinema to local viewers in Pakistan. ‘ARUJ TV’, an infotainment channel designed specially for Pashtun people, offers a wide variety of premium content, from news, drama, movies, and talk shows to social and cultural programmes.

“We are excited to make this major move to expand our reach and access new audience.
AsiaSat 3S offers the most attractive premium video neighborhood in Asia and is widely
regarded as Asia’s most popular broadcast platform for the South Asian community.
Partnering with AsiaSat has put ourselves in a strategically advantageous position to grow our penetration and expand our services across the region,” said Muhammad Abid, Chief
Executive Officer, LEO Television Network.

“We are very pleased that LEO Television Network selected AsiaSat for further expansion of
its viewership in the Asia Pacific. We see an increasing interest from premium broadcasters in Asia to capture a wider audience by moving to a satellite that offers instant access to the
widest range of pay TV networks for their local and overseas target markets,” said William
Wade, President and Chief Executive Officer of AsiaSat.