A major shift has occurred in satellite broadcasting over Africa, as more than 35 TV channels simultaneously disappeared from the Amos-17 satellite at 17° East orbital position at 06:10 CET .
The affected channels include religious, music, news, and entertainment services such as Canal 7 Gospel TV , RT France , Treasure TV Cameroon , Africa Muzik , Dash News , and many others. These channels were all transmitted using the same technical parameters on Amos-17.
The frequency used was 12251 MHz (Vertical polarization) with a symbol rate of 30,000 Msps , forward error correction FEC 3/4 , and modulation scheme DVB-S2/QPSK .
At this time, no official statement has been issued by the satellite operator or any of the broadcasters regarding the cause of the outage or whether the channels have moved to another satellite.
Common Transmission Parameters
| Satellite | Amos-17 |
| Orbital Position | 17° East |
| Frequency | 12251 MHz |
| Polarization | Vertical (V) |
| Symbol Rate | 30,000 Msps |
| FEC (Forward Error Correction) | 3/4 |
| Modulation | QPSK |
| Transmission Standard | DVB-S2 |
List of Affected Channels
Below is the list of channels that ceased transmission under the above-listed parameters:
- Canal 7 Gospel TV
- Christ Revolution TV
- Racines Africa TV
- Siloe TV
- Mokadam TV
- Treasure TV Cameroon
- Life TV Cameroon
- Prosperity TV
- Africa Muzik
- Alléluia World TV
- The Temple TV
- Benie TV
- MSI (Media Sports Infos)
- R Music (R Muzik)
- Solution TV
- Conacce TV
- Collywood TV
- Home TV Cameroon
- My Righteous TV
- Espoir TV
- Divin Amour TV Cote d’Ivoire
- Dash News
- Dash Sports & Entertainment
- Repentance TV
- Sun+ TV
- Divine TV Cameroon
- God Is Able TV
- Zoe Channel
- BK TV
- Regard’Afrik TV
- Jes TV
- RT France
- NOE TV
- FY Africa (For You Africa)
