- Source: Bop TV
Bop TV was a television station owned by the Bophuthatswana Broadcasting Corporation, which operated from 1983 to 2003. Initially a part of the black homeland of Bophuthatswana, the channel found its foothold by means of signal overspill, becoming an attractive alternative to the existing SABC and later M-Net channels. Following the end of Apartheid it was integrated to the South African Broadcasting Corporation, after which it shut down.
History
Commencing operations in on 31 December 1983, it primarily transmitted imported programmes in an unedited form, allowing all comical references to black people to be aired. The station transmitted on the UHF band.
In the apartheid era, a sizeable number of white people watched Bop TV, which offered a wider variety of entertainment and current affairs programming than the state-controlled South African Broadcasting Corporation, despite attempts to confine the signal to black areas such as Soweto. It was strongly recommended that the signals were to be limited to areas with a high Tswana population. Unlike the two SABC networks available at the time (TV1 and in the case of eastern South Africa TV3), which broadcast on the VHF band, Bop TV broadcast exclusively over the UHF band (channel 37).Furthermore, both Bop TV and the SABC have set up a rule where both sides wouldn't broadcast opinions contrary to the opposite side. If Bop TV violated those laws, the SABC would shut down the network. Within three months of its founding, Bop TV rapidly overtook the SABC channels in terms of ratings. The channel was set up by Tim Ellis, who also assisted in the creation of the SABC's TV4 network (which went live after the 9pm closing time for both TV2 and TV3) and later M-Net.
The signals were restricted to within Bophuthatswana in 1986 following the rapid success of its broadcasts by means of overspill to parts of South Africa; the restrictions were put to place after the ITU recommended that the station considered as a "foreign broadcaster" in South Africa. There, the overspill was limited to Soweto and Pretoria. Bop TV started satellite broadcasts in 1988, using a satellite from the Intelsat IV fleet for that purpose. The channel was even carried in the early years of cable television in Israel, being removed over concerns due to its American imports and the refusal of the Israeli cable companies to pay for its reception.
By 1990, Bop TV was received by some 350,000 television sets in its coverage area, for a daily schedule of nine hours. The channel was already interested in buying new series such as The Simpsons (before even premiering on M-Net) and The Arsenio Hall Show, but the prices for such were expensive. Its executives were in screening sessions from numerous production companies, including American juggernauts.
A post-apartheid reshuffling of the SABC in 1996 resulted in the former bantustan broadcasters being integrated into it. This infuriated the bosses of Bop Broadcasting.
In 1997, the State Reorganisation Act led to the creation of subsidies for the former bantustan broadcasters that were now under the SABC's control. The said subsidy ended in November 2001. From now onward, the SABC was now funding Bop Broadcasting in its entirety. In 2003, the SABC announced that they would shut the channel down on 31 July.
List of programmes
= Domestic
=Music
South Africa Music TV
South Africa On the Beat
Lifestyle
South Africa Panorama
Children's
South Africa Adventures at the Waterhole
South Africa Teeny Bop
Sports
South Africa Bop Sports
Horse racing
South Africa See How They Run
News & current affairs
South Africa Bop TV News
Talk shows
South Africa Rhena Church Hour
Drama
South Africa Stolen Lives
Game show
South Africa Moving Up Quiz
Education
South Africa Edutel
= Foreign
=Comedy
Anthology
United States Ghost Story
United States In the Name of Love
United Kingdom Murder Most Horrid
United States Monsters
United States Night Flight
United States Project U.F.O.
United States Shadow Theater
Western
United States The Big Valley
Canada, France Bordertown
United States Empire
United States Father Murphy
United States Lonesome Dove: The Series
United States The Lone Ranger
Canada Queen of Swords
News
United States Sightings
Drama
Sports
United States Everyday Workout
United States Gillette World Sport Special
United Kingdom Trans World Sport
United States WCW Pro
Music
United Kingdom Later... with Jools Holland
United States Night Flight
Lifestyle
United States Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
Canada Painted House
Soap opera
Variety
United States Night Flight
Ireland Secrets
United States Showtime at the Apollo
Documentary
Food
United Kingdom Delia Smith's Cookery Course
United Kingdom Floyd on Britain and Ireland
United Kingdom Ken Hom's Chinese Cookery
News
United States Front Runners
Education
Australia Beyond 2000
Canada F.R.O.G.
Canada Look Up
Canada The Magic Library
United States Newton's Apple
Canada Polka Dot Door
Canada Return to the Magic Library
Travel
United Kingdom Dominika's Planet
Animation
United Kingdom, Wales Operavox: The Animated Operas
United States The Simpsons
Children's
Video games
United Kingdom Cybernet
United Kingdom Movies, Games and Videos
Talk shows
United States The 700 Club
United States Jimmy Swaggart
United States Kenneth Copeland
United States The Oprah Winfrey Show
United States The Phil Donahue Show
United States Sally Jesse Raphael
Sci-fi
United States Beyond Reality
Canada RoboCop: The Series
United States VR.5
TV specials
United States The Ann Jillian Story
United States The Benny Goodman Special
United States Frosty's Return
United States Inspector Gadget Saves Christmas
United States Tales of Washington Irving
Canada The Teddy Bears' Christmas
Reality
United States Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
Game shows
United Kingdom The Alphabet Game
United States Infatuation
Telefilms
Australia Cassidy
TV movies
References
External links
Bop TV Schedule and Ident, YouTube, 13 January 2010
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Kidz Bop
- Kids TV
- The War (album)
- Bintang Lima
- Zendaya
- Michael Brecker
- Music Bank (seri televisi)
- Dance, Dance
- Satomi Ishihara
- Ray Conniff
- Bop TV
- Bop It
- Kidz Bop
- Bop Bop!
- Bophuthatswana
- Bop Bop
- SABC
- Be-Bop-a-Lula
- Beyond Tomorrow (TV series)
- Santa Barbara (TV series)
