SelecTV (Australian television)
Parent WIN Corporation | | |
SelecTV was an Australian
subscription television broadcasting service. As of January 2011, the service is no longer available. Services were carried on the Intelsat 8 satellite.[3]
History
SelecTV was created in
subscription television giant Foxtel, acquiring the remaining 49.9% from Access Providers in October 2006.[9] The company expanded its programming to over 40 television channels consisting of English-language channels, as well as various programming packages comprising foreign-language and special interest channels in Greek, Spanish, Italian, German, and Vietnamese.[5] By 2009, due to low subscription to their language packages, SelecTV discontinued all German and Vietnamese programming.[10]
By June 2010, the company had approximately 45,000 subscribers, well short of its target of 80,000.
In its final days, SelecTV provided subscription packages for Greek programming.[16] On 4 February 2011 SelecTV went into voluntary administration.[17] On 7 February 2011 a creditors meeting was held where the company revealed that it was in debt of $26 million.[18] The subscription service is no longer available in Australia.
Former channels
- Animal Planet
- BBC World News
- Bloomberg Television
- Canal Sur
- Cartoon Network
- CNN
- Deutsche Welle (DW-TV, German)
- Discovery Home & Health
- Discovery Science
- Discovery Turbo
- Disney Channel[19]
- E!
- Euronews (in Italian, German, Spanish and English)[20]
- Eurosport Asia Pacific
- Fashion TV
- Latele Novela Network
- Leonardo World[21]
- Movie Network Channels (Movie One, Movie Two, Movie Extra, Movie Greats)
- MTV
- MTV Classic
- National Geographic Adventure
- National Geographic Channel
- OutTV
- Ovation Channel[22]
- Playhouse Disney[19]
- Rai Italia
- Real Madrid TV
- SBTN (Vietnamese)
- Sky Racing
- Televisión Española (TVE)
- Travel and Living Channel
- Turner Classic Movies
- TV Chile
- VTV Uruguay
- Weatherzone
- Wine TV (in English and German)
See also
References
- ^ a b Schulze, Jane (18 January 2005). "Wanted: $30m for ethnic pay-TV plan". The Australian. p. 19.
- ^ "Time called on WIN's pay TV company". The Spy Report (Media Spy). Retrieved 2 March 2011.
- ^ Lyngsat (17 January 2007). "SelecTV on PAS 8 at 166.0°E". Lyngsat. Retrieved 20 January 2007.
- ^ Shoebridge, Neil (2 August 2010). "WIN loses three directors". Australian Financial Review. p. 42.
- ^ a b "Selectv Broadcasting Ltd". Archived from the original on 30 May 2010.
- ^ Schulze, Jane (9 March 2006). "Low-cost ethnic pay-TV looks a lot like Foxtel". The Australian. p. 15.
- ^ Nabila, By (12 August 2006). "WIN's $23m bid snares SelecTV". The Age. p. 3. Retrieved 27 February 2010.
- ^ Griffin, Peter (24 April 2006). "Satellite viewing options improve". New Zealand Herald Online. Retrieved 28 April 2006.
- ^ Wragg, Ralph (25 October 2006). "Access Providers sells SelecTV stake to WIN". Australian Business News.
- ^ "2009 SelecTV channel descriptions" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 July 2011.
- The Australian Financial Review. p. 41.
- ^ "SelecTV to withdraw English language service".
- ^ Chessell, James (20 August 2010). "Bruce Gordon's SelecTV to make changes". The Australian. Retrieved 20 August 2010.
- The Australian Financial Review. p. 40. Retrieved 31 August 2010.
- ^ Shoebridge, Neil (18 October 2010). "WIN offloads Spanish channels". Australian Financial Review. p. 39.
- ^ "SelecTV ceases English-language Pay TV".
- ^ "SelecTV in voluntary administration".
- ^ "SelecTV in $25m debt".
- ^ The Australian Financial Review. p. 16. Retrieved 26 February 2010.
- ^ "World Digest – Asia-Pacific". Media And Marketing Europe: 10. 31 October 2006.
- ISSN 0278-5013. Retrieved 17 October 2010.
- ^ Truman, Rachel (27 October 2006). "Cultured Australia welcomes advertising as artform". B & T Weekly. 56 (2587): 20. Retrieved 17 October 2010.
External links
- Official website (archived site)