Fire disrupts OSN satellite broadcasts

Customers of Orbit Showtime Network, the UAE's largest pay-TV satellite provider, experienced an interruption to service today following a small fire at their Dubai office in the early hours of this morning.

No one was hurt in the fire, but it left the satellite company without power and affected programming on 85 channels.

According to Ellis D'Rozario, marketing director at OSN, technicians have been able to restore regular programming on 44 of the 85 channels. "These channels are back to broadcasting as per schedule," he said. "The other 41 channels are still broadcasting, just not the content that was scheduled to run at this time."

He said the power was back on and technicians were working as quickly as possible to restore the remaining channels.

An OSN call centre operator advised customers the service would be back to normal within the next two days.

Reporting by Caithlin Mercer