SelecTV

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Contents 1 Australia 1.1 External link 2 United States 3 References

[edit] Australia

SelecTV is an Australian satellite based subscription TV broadcasting service headed by CEO Jim Blomfield (previously CEO of FOXTEL). In April 2006 the company said it had 2000 customers.^[1] In August 2006, 50.1% and control was purchased by WIN Corporation (controlled by Bruce Gordon[1].

The company said that it is focused on providing premium content in comparatively low priced packages to a number of specialised market segments, including those with a LOTE first language, retirees and GLBT people. [2]

The company does not have access to premuim sporting content but instead has focused on broadcasting packages of channels in languages other than English including Spanish, Greek, German, Italian and Vietnamese. In April 2006 it said that it was investigating introducing a 12 channel package of Chinese stations.^[1]

The company also offers a GLBT package, Curve TV.

The 20 English channels on SELECTV include Movie One, Movie Two, Movie Extra, Movie Greats, Turner Classic Movies, BBC World, CNN, Cartoon Network, National Geographic Channel, A1, Eurosport, Ovation, Bloomberg TV, MTV, VH1, Wine TV and OUTtv.

SelecTV has also announced that by the end of 2006 it will offer several extras packages, channels included in these packages are yet to be announced due to confidentiality in the process. They have announced via their website that the channels will involve the genres of Lifestyle / Documentary, Family Entertainment, Music and International Movies.

[edit] External link

• SelecTV

[edit] United States

An unrelated Subscription TV Service, established in 1976, using the nighttime hours of Los Angeles UHF station KWHY. In 1983, the service went national via satellite and was later purchased by Starion Entertainment, which eventually dropped the SelecTV branding in the late 1980s and renamed it Starion Premiere Cinema. The service ceased operations in 1991.

[edit] References

1. ^ ^{a b} Griffin, Peter (24 Apr, 2006). Satellite viewing options improve. New Zealand Herald Online. Retrieved on 2006-04-28.