BEN Television
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| Bright Entertainment Network | |
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| Launched | 2003 |
| Picture format | 576i (SDTV) |
| Website | [1] |
| Availability | |
| Satellite | |
| Sky Digital | Channel 194 |
| Eurobird 1 | 12523H 27500 2/3 |
BEN Television (Bright Entertainment Network) is a British television channel launched in 2003, aimed mainly at expatriate Africans living in Europe and north Africa. According to its official website "The BEN ethos is, 'safe family viewing and empowering communities'." The channel is free to air on Sky Digital.
As well as home-grown programming and Nollywood films the channel also carries several hours of programming each night from Africa Independent Television, including news bulletins from NTA.
For all its stated idealism the station is clearly run on a very small budget and often suffers from poor technical quality, like its counterpart OBETV.
On the 3rd September 2007, channel number 146 was taken over by Zone Media (now Chello Zone) with the channel Zone Romantica being launched. This meant that BEN TV is no longer broadcast on that channel number and has therefore been moved to its BEN TV 2 slot of channel number 194.
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