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Bop TV was a television station run by the former Republic of Bophuthatswana in Southern Africa.

Commencing operations in 1984, it primarily transmitted imported programming, mostly from the US, in an unedited form, allowing all comical references to black people to be aired. The station transmitted on the UHF band.[1]

In the apartheid era, a sizeable number of white people sought to tune in to 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.[2]

A post-apartheid reshuffling of the SABC resulted in the former Bantustan broadcasters being integrated into it.[3][4]

In 2003, the SABC announced that they would shut the channel down on 31 July.[5]

List of programmes

Domestic

Music

Children's

Sports

Horse racing

News & current affairs

Game show

Foreign

Comedy

Anthology

Western

News

Drama

Lifestyle

Soap opera

Variety

Documentary

Food

Education

Animation

Children's

Video games

Talk shows

Sci-fi

Tv specials

Reality

Game shows

Telefilms

Tv movies

References

  1. ^ Van Slambrouck, Paul (3 February 1984). "South African whites clamor to tune in black TV". The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
  2. ^ Cowell, Alan (1 August 1984). "South Africa Whites Seek Black TV". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
  3. ^ Parker, Janet (27 November 1998). "e.tv accuses SABC". Business Day. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
  4. ^ "New role for 'Bop TV'". News24. 27 November 2003. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
  5. ^ Dulile, Sowaga (1 July 2003). "Bop TV and radio to be switched off". City Press. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
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