Channels TV
| Channels Television | |
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Channels Television logo
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| Launched | 1995 |
| Owned by |
John Momoh (Executive Chairman) Olusola Momoh (Executive Vice-Chairman) |
| Slogan | Your Home for the News |
| Country | Nigeria |
| Language | English |
| Broadcast area | Worldwide |
| Headquarters | Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria |
| Website | channelstv |
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Availability
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| Terrestrial | |
| UHF | Channel 26 (Benin) |
| UHF | Channel 31 (Abuja) |
| UHF | Channel 39 (Lagos) |
| UHF | Channel 45 (Kano) |
| Satellite | |
| DSTV | Channel 254 |
| GOTV | Channel 95 |
| MyTV | Channel 7 |
| Startimes | Channel 111 |
| Sky | Channel 575 |
| Freesat | Channel 213 |
| IPTV | |
| United Kingdom | Thema TV |
| United States | Africa TV |
| East Africa | Lanciea Broadcasting |
| Streaming media | |
| channelstv.com/live |
Watch live (Available worldwide) |
| TVPlayer | Watch live (UK only) |
Channels Television is an independent and multiple award winning 24-hour news and media television channel based in Lagos, Nigeria. The parent company Channels incorporated was founded in 1992, a year before the Nigerian government deregulated the broadcast media and began broadcasting in 1995. Its primary focus is producing news and current affairs programs on Nigerian domestic issues. The Channel's mission is to act as a watchdog on governmental policies and activities. Operating in Nigeria's popular broadcast media market, Channels Television is the first and only thriving national TV brand, dedicated solely to the dissemination of news. It is the first Nigerian broadcaster to stream its television programming live for 24 hours.
Channels Television was founded in 1995 as a private television station with only 15 employees by Nigerian veteran broadcaster and entrepreneur John Momoh and Sola Momoh, also a broadcaster. The company commenced operations in Lagos, south western Nigeria and has since grown to include three other stations in Abuja, Edo and Kano states. It also has bureaus in almost every state in Nigeria, including stringers and affiliates in other parts in Africa, as well as strong relationships with international media organizations which allows access to information around the world.
The channel was licensed in June 1993 and allocated a frequency on UHF (Channel 39). It began transmission two years later under the name, "Channels Television", and the first terrestrial broadcast was on the 1st of July 1995, with John Momoh reading the first news bulletin. Channels TV currently broadcasts to an audience of over 20 million people.
In September 2008, Channels Television was shut down by President Yar'Adua, who sent Nigeria's State Security Service (SSS) to shut down the station and to arrest its senior staff due to channel's report of Yar'Adua's bad health. The report by Channels Television was attributed to information received from News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). However, after the investigation, NAN announced that the channel did not issue any statement regarding the President stepping down, but instead that its computer was hacked into, in protest Channels TV discontinued its of the NANS wire service up to this date. It was proven that e-mail, received by Channels TV, was a hoax sent from a computer in the Ivory Coast. Nigeria's Minister of Information, John Odey, gave the statement to the BBC emphasizing the government was angered by the report.
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