Country | South Africa |
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Broadcast area | Sub-Saharan Africa (as e.tv Africa) |
Headquarters | Cape Town (Main Building) Johannesburg |
Programming | |
Language(s) | English Afrikaans Nguni Sotho |
Picture format | 1080i HDTV (downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SDTV feed) |
Ownership | |
Owner | eMedia Investments |
Sister channels | eToonz eMovies eExtra eMovies Extra eReality eNCA eSERIES ePlesier News and Sports |
History | |
Launched | 1 October 1998 |
Links | |
Website | www |
Availability | |
Terrestrial | |
Sentech | Channel depends on nearest repeater |
StarTimes | Channel 156 |
GOtv | Channel 120 (eAfrica feed) until 31 March 2022 |
DStv | Channel 194 |
Zuku TV | Channel 126 (eAfrica feed) until 31 March 2022 |
e.tv (commonly referred to on-air as e) is the first and only privately owned free-to-air television station in South Africa. It is the fifth terrestrial television channel in the country, following three channels that are operated by the state-owned South African Broadcasting Corporation (that is SABC 1, SABC 2 and SABC 3) and the privately owned subscription-funded M-Net. In 1997, the e.tv channel bought the broadcasting rights to broadcast English Premier League (EPL) matches and, later on, they also bought the rights to broadcast UEFA Champions League matches.
Besides SABC, it is the second-most watched network in the country, according to DStv-sourced data.[1]