SexySat TV is a network of two softcore

Softcore

Softcore pornography is a form of filmic or photographic pornography or erotica that is less sexually explicit than hardcore pornography. It is intended to tickle and arouse men and women. Softcore pornography depicts nude and semi-nude performers engaging in casual social nudity or non-graphic...

 televised sex line

Televised sex line

The televised sex line is a style of pornographic television programming that has developed in Europe since 2001. Broadcast live from a studio, the shows usually feature female presenters advertising a phone sex line at a premium rate, through which callers can also see the woman they are talking...

s, broadcasting on the Astra 1H, Hot Bird

Hot Bird

Hot Bird is the name of a popular family of satellites operated by Eutelsat, located at 13°E over the Equator and with a transmitting footprint over Europe, North Africa and the Middle East....

 3 satellites.

History

Sexysat was one of the first European erotic Liveshow-channels. Different sources state that it was first broadcast in 2001 (www.liveshow-tv.com) or February 2002 (de.wikipedia.org). The first programmes were on a single Hot Bird

Hot Bird

Hot Bird is the name of a popular family of satellites operated by Eutelsat, located at 13°E over the Equator and with a transmitting footprint over Europe, North Africa and the Middle East....

 satellite channel, with one female presenter taking calls in a studio

Television studio

A television studio is an installation in which a video productions take place, either for the recording of live television to video tape, or for the acquisition of raw footage for post-production. The design of a studio is similar to, and derived from, movie studios, with a few amendments for the...

 in the Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

.

According to liveshow-tv.com, the studio was moved from the Netherlands to Bratislava

Bratislava

Bratislava is the capital of Slovakia and, with a population of about 431,000, also the country's largest city. Bratislava is in southwestern Slovakia on both banks of the Danube River. Bordering Austria and Hungary, it is the only national capital that borders two independent countries.Bratislava...

, Slovakia

Slovakia

The Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south...

, on 4 August 2004. In July 2005, SexySat began broadcasting on the Astra 1H satellite, available in Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

. Since these two developments, the picture and sound quality has reduced, along with explicitness allowed on shows (fans began a petition

Petition

A petition is a request to do something, most commonly addressed to a government official or public entity. Petitions to a deity are a form of prayer....

 to oppose this). The loss in explicitness has effectively been achieved by the reduction in picture quality, because the ladies' private parts are effectively obscured by digital compression artefacts.

Format

Liveshows are broadcast live from 19:00 until 06:00, and repeats are shown during the hours in-between. Programming usually consists of a scantily clad woman, who asks viewers to call her. The ladies are mostly from the Czech Republic and neighbouring Slovakia and speak at least two foreign languages.

Satellites

• SexySat (SexySat TV 1): Astra 1H 12633 MHz, Horizontal, SR 22000 kS, FEC 5/6.

The other programme is available on Hot Bird

Hot Bird

Hot Bird is the name of a popular family of satellites operated by Eutelsat, located at 13°E over the Equator and with a transmitting footprint over Europe, North Africa and the Middle East....

 transponder

Transponder

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:

• SexySat TV 2: 12245 MHz, Horizontal, SR 27500 kS, FEC 3/4