Eos 1

Eos 1 is the name of one satellite operated by Eos. It was formerly owned by fourtsnetworks Group where it was called fourtsnsat 1. Uplink is provided from the AHL broadcast centre in Manchester, which takes content from AHL owned centres in the Channel Islands, Aberdeen, London and Swindon.

History
In late 2006, fourtsnmedia purchased five transponders from SES-Astra to syndicate its feeds between franchises, transmitters and control rooms. On the 11th of April 2007, upgrades paid for by fourtsnmedia gave it 20 more transponders, which were used to carry more programming. The need for an even greater amount of space led fourtsnetworks to build and launch their own satellite, named fourtsnsat 1, which launched on 30 May 2007. Services on the Astra platform were discontinued on the 19th of November, 2007 after extensive testing and commissioning on the new satellite. All services were moved to the new satellite on the same day. After the merger of CarteSat and fourtsnsat to form Eos was completed, fourtsnsat1 was renamed to Eos 1 and was given to the company.

Service History
Intially the satellite only broadcast scoTV, Taff Media News Channel and a high definition version of scoTV. Franchise feeds were then added before digital channel feeds and backhaul for fourtsnmedia. To celebrate the change of name to Eos, fourtsnetworks decided to start broadcasting on unused transponders programming that had been in the pipeline for a long time, including National Replacement, UpLate, Aquidia Studios and Cable4 on Sat subscription television. Eos 1 is used as a backup for the telephone services running on Eos 2, just as Eos 2 is used as a backup for television services.

Channel Numbers
A distinct numbering system is present on Eos 1. All channel numbers are three digits, with the first digit determining the type of channel.
 * 0 - Satellite Information
 * 1 - Franchise and Digital Channel Feeds
 * 2 - scoTV News
 * 3 - Cable4 on Sat
 * 4 - National Replacement
 * 5 - scoTV Broadcast
 * 6 - Backup Broadcasting
 * 7 - Output (UpLate and Aquidia Studios)
 * 8 - CTV News and Broadcast
 * 9 - High Definition Channels