Satellite Radio

There are many UK radio stations broadcasting via Satellite to the United Kingdom, however, these are aimed at home users for playback through their televisions since these same satellites are also used for television broadcast and usually use SES’ Astra series of satellites at 28.2° east. Radio stations broadcast free-to-air via the Sky and Freesat from Sky platforms and on any DVB-S /S2 compliant satellite receiver. The Freesat platform has all the BBC’s national and regional digital radio stations as well as BBC London on the EPG as does Sky.

BBC Radio on satellite (Astra 2 at 28.2° East)
Codec: MPEG Audio layer 1/2 (mpga)
Sample rate: 48000 Hz
Bitrates vary from 96 kbps Mono – 192 kbps Joint-Stereo.

BBC World Service in Europe
The BBC World Service is also available on the following satellites:
Astra 1 at 19.2° East
BBC World Service Europe (96 kbps Mono)
Eutelsat Hotbird 13° East
BBC World Service Europe (192 kbps Joint-Stereo)
BBC World Service Middle East (192 kbps Joint-Stereo).