Last month, Press TV won the court case and resumed its satellite broadcast on SES-Astra. BLM filed a complaint against the court ruling, saying Press TV should not be allowed to hit German airwaves. But the court rejected BLM’s assertion and ruled in favor of the international news channel.

Press TV says the German government seeks to silence the alternative channel’s voice.
It says the ban was meant to stop the channel's extensive coverage of Germany's social and economic issues.

The channel has also covered the growing public anger in Germany over that country's military involvement in Afghanistan.