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| Country | South Africa |
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| Broadcast area | Africa |
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| Language(s) | Multilingual |
| History | |
| Launched | 26 November 2005 |
| Founder | Force Khashane and Ephraim Tshepo Thafeng |
| Links | |
| Website | www.sowetotv.co.za |
Soweto Community Television (Soweto TV)[1] is a South African community television channel broadcasting in the biggest township in South Africa, Soweto. The channel is free-to-air in Gauteng Province and it also broadcasts to South African subscribers on the DStv pay TV service on channel 251 and Starsat on channel 488.
The channel's main studios are situated on one of the most popular streets in Soweto, Vilakazi Street; well known for being the only street in the world to have the historical residences of two Nobel Prize winners, namely Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The channel also has studios in Diepkloof, near the largest hospital in Africa, The Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto, South Africa.