Have you ever wondered how much it costs to lease transponder air time?
I was doing a little research today and ran across an article written in 2008 relating to the satellite broadcast markets. Here is a copy and paste of information relating to transponder lease rates:
The part of a communications satellite that is "for sale" is the transponder, which broadcasts signals. Transponders are transmitter/receiver devices. Early satellites had single transponders, but by the 1990s some satellites had as many as a dozen or more (leased full-time or occasionally). The cost of leasing varies, depending on variables such as the time of day, frequency, power, duration of lease contract, orbital position, and type of satellite. In recent years, the rate for domestic analog C-band channels ranged from $200 to $600 per hour, or $55,000 to $230,000 per month. Leasing a higher frequency, Ku-band transponder ranged between $250 to $800 per hour, or $150,000 to $210,000 per month.
I tried to verify this information and ran across a contract for a transponder lease agreement between Triumph Communications, Inc. and Access TV, for Hughes Communication’/Galaxy VII.
Here is a copy and paste of part of the contract language:
1. The term of this lease will be 11 years. Access-TV will lease from
Triumph one C-band transponder (the "Transponder") from 12:01 a.m. Eastern Time
commencing on January 1, 1995 through 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on December 31,
2006.
2. Access-TV will lease from Triumph a transponder on the Hughes
Communications Galaxy VII satellite, which Triumph has leased from Hughes
Communications Galaxy, Inc. ("HCG"), expected to be Transponder 16. The lease
rate for this transponder shall be US$145,000.00 per month until December 31,
1998, when the rate will increase to US$155,000.00 per month until the end of
the contract.
I was doing a little research today and ran across an article written in 2008 relating to the satellite broadcast markets. Here is a copy and paste of information relating to transponder lease rates:
The part of a communications satellite that is "for sale" is the transponder, which broadcasts signals. Transponders are transmitter/receiver devices. Early satellites had single transponders, but by the 1990s some satellites had as many as a dozen or more (leased full-time or occasionally). The cost of leasing varies, depending on variables such as the time of day, frequency, power, duration of lease contract, orbital position, and type of satellite. In recent years, the rate for domestic analog C-band channels ranged from $200 to $600 per hour, or $55,000 to $230,000 per month. Leasing a higher frequency, Ku-band transponder ranged between $250 to $800 per hour, or $150,000 to $210,000 per month.
I tried to verify this information and ran across a contract for a transponder lease agreement between Triumph Communications, Inc. and Access TV, for Hughes Communication’/Galaxy VII.
Here is a copy and paste of part of the contract language:
1. The term of this lease will be 11 years. Access-TV will lease from
Triumph one C-band transponder (the "Transponder") from 12:01 a.m. Eastern Time
commencing on January 1, 1995 through 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on December 31,
2006.
2. Access-TV will lease from Triumph a transponder on the Hughes
Communications Galaxy VII satellite, which Triumph has leased from Hughes
Communications Galaxy, Inc. ("HCG"), expected to be Transponder 16. The lease
rate for this transponder shall be US$145,000.00 per month until December 31,
1998, when the rate will increase to US$155,000.00 per month until the end of
the contract.
