What is "Hot Bird"?

Hot Bird is the name of a satellite that is located at 13 degrees east of south. You can point your dish in that direction and receive signals from Hot Bird just the same way as you can from Astra. 

There are a few English programmes which are not scrambled but most programmes are foreign language (sometimes English with foreign subtitles). At the same location as "Hot Bird" is another, older satellite called "Eutelsat II-F1". You will see the programs from this as if they came from "Hot Bird" but the signals tend to be weaker in the UK.