In many countries throughout the world, FTA satellite broadcast is the primary source of television programming rather than terrestrial TV stations or cable systems, etc. Such is the case in our target broadcast area of Iran, Afghanistan, and throughout the Middle East.

Although satellite dishes are banned in Iran under a 1994 law, the research center of the government media arm IRIB estimates that they are still used by up to 70% of Iranian households.

Despite being repeatedly jammed, the BBC Persian channel had a weekly audience of 7.2 million in 2011. (The top five American TV networks averaged about 6.9 million viewers each in 2017