Dynamic interference optimization method for satellites transmitting multiple beams with common frequencies

A frequency reuse television signal broadcast method, comprising:

• establishing desired cross-beam interference levels within specified earth target areas for television signal beams to be broadcast to respective ones of said target areas with overlapping frequency bands,
• transmitting said beams by satellite to said target areas with a common polarization and so that the beams spatially overlap to produce a substantially non-zero frequency based cross-beam interference within said overlapping bands,
• comparing the actual cross-beam interference levels resulting from said transmissions to said desired levels, and
• adjusting the power level of at least one of said beams to reduce a difference between an actual and a desired cross-beam interference level, the power levels of at least some of said beams being substantially different from each other prior to and/or after said power level adjustment so that the cross-beam interference level relative to beam power is greater for a lower power beam than for its interfering higher power beam.