All-Asia TV Studio
Our local church, the Kamiah SDA Church, donated the funds to help purchase the land and the construction has been completed thanks to a generous loan which now needs to be repaid.
Click here for a video of the groundbreaking ceremony.
Now, can you imagine a satellite whose signal covers nearly 60% of the entire earth’s population? It is the ABS1 Satellite. Here is a map of the coverage area (yellow is where the signal reaches):
- The yellow area shows where the TV signal can reach.
The big challenge is to find TV programs in the local languages. Please help us find them!
Here is the list of the 48 countries and their populations that are covered by this satellite:
Afghanistan 33,609,937
Azerbaijan 8,238,672
Bahrain 708,573
Bangladesh 161,300,000
Bhutan 672,425
Bulgaria 7,606,551
Cambodia 14,071,000
China Mainland 1,316,000,000
China Taiwan 22,894,384
Djibouti 496,374
Egypt 76,000,000
Eritrea 4,401,009
Ethiopia 85,237,338
Georgia 4,730,841
Hong Kong 7,041,000
India 1,100,000,000
Iran 70,495,782
Iraq 31,234,000
Israel 7,411,000
Japan 127,720,000
Kazakhstan 16,402,861
Kuwait 2,691,158
Kyrgyzstan 5,356,869
Laos 6,521,998
Lebanon 4,224,000
Macau 546,000
Moldova 3,650,000
Myanmar 55,390,000
Nepal 29,519,114
Oman 2,577,000
Pakistan 158,352,000
Palestine 3,800,000
Philippines 92,226,600
Qatar 1,652,608
Romania 21,504,442
Saudi Arabia 27,601,038
Somalia 9,558,666
Sri Lanka 20,743,000
Sudan 39,154,490
Syria 19,405,000
Tajikistan 7,349,145
Thailand 64,990,000
Turkey 73,914,000
Turkmenistan 5,110,023
Ukraine 46,179,226
United Arab Emirates 4,798,491
Uzbekistan 27,727,435
Vietnam 86,116,559
Yemen 23,013,376
Total Population Covered: 3,939,943,985
Total World Population: 6,600,000,000
Percentage Covered by this satellite: 60%
All totaling about 3,939,943,985 people. Nearly 4 billion people, including the vast majority of the world’s unreached people groups and 3 world religions – Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism. Please help!