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unusual facts about Free to air



AsiaStar

however as of 30 November 2010 two Free to Air (unencrypted) stations are still available, namely Sai Global Harmony and Radio France International.

Astra 2D

Provision of rights-sensitive broadcasts Free to air was made possible by the satellite's beam that was tightly focused on Ireland and the United Kingdom.

DXRJ-TV

RJTV 31 (DXRJ-TV) is a UHF, free to air television channel, owned and operated by Rajah Broadcasting Network, Inc. owned by Ramon "RJ" Jacinto.

DZRJ-TV

RJTV 29 (DZRJ-TV) is a UHF, free to air television channel, owned and operated by Rajah Broadcasting Network, Inc. owned by Ramon "RJ" Jacinto.


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2011–12 WNBL season

Broadcast rights were held by free-to-air network ABC.

Astra 2D

Channel 4 broadcast most of its channels free to air from this satellite, including Channel 4, Channel 4+1, E4, More4 and Film4 along with their timeshift variants.

From November 2008, Five began to transmit free to air for the first time on Astra 2D, using borrowed space on a BBC transponder, allowing the channel to join Freesat.

Bangla TV

It operated as a subscription-only channel until 2005, following the arrival of Channel S, a rival channel providing a free-to-air service targeting its programming specifically for the Bengali Sylheti community in the UK.

Burn It

Burn It was first shown on the free-to-air British digital channel BBC Three, and then repeated some months later on the terrestrial channel BBC2.

Cambodian Television Network

Cambodian Television Network (CTN) was launched in March 2003 as a joint venture between local conglomerate the The Royal Group and Stockholm-based Modern Times Group, this free-to-air terrestrial television channel Cambodian Television Network (CTN) is now part of Mobitel.

Censorship in Pakistan

The government controls the Pakistan Television (PTV) and Radio Pakistan, the only free-to-air broadcast outlets with a national reach, and predictably coverage supports official viewpoints.

Dance Your Ass Off

There was much criticism to the Nine Network airing Dance Your Ass Off, considering that the Oxygen Network is a low-viewed niche cable network in the United States that only targets young women exclusively with their programming, whereas Nine is a major free-to-air broadcaster for the mass-market.

DD Free Dish

A separate DTH service in C-Band with a bouquet of 10 channels has also been provided by Doordarshan exclusively for Andaman and Nicobar Islands, which is also Free to Air.

Direct-broadcast satellite

Germany is likely the leader in free-to-air (FTA) DBS, with approximately 200 digital FTA channels (including 18 HDTV channels and various regional channels) broadcast from the Astra 19.2°E satellite constellation.

Escape to the Country

In Australia, Escape to the Country airs on the HOW TO Channel, Sunday nights at 6:30pm and Seven Network's free-to-air older-oriented digital channel targeting people aged 55+, 7Two at 8.30pm Friday and Sunday nights.

How Not to Decorate

In Australia, How Not to Decorate airs on the Seven Network's free-to-air digital channel 7Two at 22:30 Friday nights.

IceTV

IceTV is an award winning Australian company providing an independently compiled Electronic Program Guide (EPG) for digital free-to-air television as well as Smart Recording Software.

India with Sanjeev Bhaskar

In Australia, this series is currently being broadcast on the Seven Network's free-to-air digital channel 7Two at 7.30pm Saturday nights.

K.O.3an Guo

It was first broadcast in Taiwan on free-to-air Formosa TV (FTV) (民視) from 27 February 2009 to 26 February 2010 on Fridays at 22:00 and on cable TV Gala Television (GTV) Variety Show/CH 28 (八大綜合台) from 28 February 2009 to 27 February 2010 on Saturdays at 23:00.

Kowloon Tong

Broadcast Drive — a road where all of Hong Kong's free-to-air TV stations (TVB, ATV), Hong Kong's oldest radio station (Radio Television Hong Kong), and Commercial Radio Hong Kong are headquartered.

Loaded TV

On 10 December 2012 it was announced that Loaded TV would be partnering with Frank Maloney to show free-to-air boxing on the channel.

Media of Malaysia

State-owned RTM operates two free-to-air terrestrial local television channels licensed to broadcast in Malaysia, as well as 32 radio channels nationwide.

Midlands Asian Television

On 2 November 2008, Harjap Singh Bhangal confirmed rumours that MATV was in talks to start a 24 hour free-to-air Punjabi religious channel called Sukrit.

Mobistar

The satellite TV package includes Flemish national channels, HD and 3D channels, and a range of European free-to-air channels, all transmitted from Astra satellites.

RT Documentary

The channel is available as a free-to-air channel on Eutelsat Hot Bird.

Seven HD

However, Seven HD became the first Free-to-air commercial television channel introduced to metropolitan areas since 1988, when it launched prior on 15 October 2007, with 25th Hour being the first program broadcast at 10:30pm.

Sharknado

Germany – Premiered on free-to-air Tele 5 television channel on January 10, 2014 as part of their "Worst films of all times" series.

Television in Thailand

There are 6 channels; three of them are government public-owned by MCOT the 2 television channels terrestrial free-to-air Modernine TV and TV3; TV5, BBTV CH7 are owned by Royal Thai Army; NBT and Thai PBS are fully government-owned.

Televisione Cristiana in Italia

Televisione Cristiana in Italia (TCI), also known as TBNE (Trinity Broadcasting Network Europe), is a free-to-air Italian religious TV channel headquartered in Marnate, Italy.

The Devil Does Exist

It was directed by Lin He Long (林合隆) and was broadcast on free-to-air China Television (CTV) (中視) from 26 June to 18 September 2005 and cable TV Eastern Television (ETTV) (東森) for 20 episodes.

The Pentagon Channel

It is widely available on US Public, educational, and government access (PEG) cable tv channels, can be viewed FTA in most Central and Western European countries (from Eurobird 9A at 9.0° East), Africa, the Americas and most of Asia via satellite, and can be viewed globally via the Internet at www.pentagonchannel.mil.

TVCatchup

TVCatchup retransmits free-to-air channels over the Internet on the basis of section 73 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA 1988), which allows for the retransmission of 'qualifying services'.

Vocal trance

Clubland TV, a British Free-to-air channel that broadcasts on Astra, plays vocal trance hits of the last decade.

WTV

West TV, a free-to-air community television station based in Perth, Australia

WZMQ

As a result, most cable providers chose to obtain WMQF's signal directly off the satellite uplink to the transmitter (it was available free-to-air on the Galaxy 18 satellite system).