Botswana’s National Broadcasting Board yesterday awarded a Satellite Subscription Television Service Licence to Munhumutape African Broadcasting Corporation (MABCTV). The licence will enable MABTV to establish studios to broadcast from Botswana and have satellite uplink facilities from Gaborone.
The service will specialise in tourism-related content while acquiring rights and aggregating other channels from other parts of the world linking up from Botswana.
MABTV will broadcast from Gaborone to the rest of the country with a view to eventually covering other parts of Africa - starting in Southern Africa in the second year of their operation. It expects to commission its channels to other parts of the globe in due course.
(Source: Mmegi/The Reporter)
on Feb 29th, 2008 at 21:24
Interesting comments about Pan-African satellite TV service. In the United States, most residents still have cable, but satellite TV is slowly phasing in.
http://www.1-satellite-tv-facts.com
on Nov 12th, 2008 at 07:12
As a man who has never been in botswana,I think it is a good news for people who is not in botswana or far from botswana. If botswana has a satellite uplink station and broadcast programmes about its country to the world, people will know botswana from the satellite TV programmes.
on Sep 8th, 2009 at 15:15
Could someone please direct me to where I can find Botswana TV satellite settings that work in Angola?
The beam coverage for South Africa covers just a bit of southern Angola.
on Sep 8th, 2009 at 20:44
@Clement - You are out of luck - BTV is only carried on the Intelsat 7 68E south african beam