Viasat 1 | |
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Launched | December 12, 2008 |
Owned by | Modern Times Group |
Slogan | Your No. 1 Entertainer |
Country | Ghana |
Language | English, (UK) |
Broadcast area | Greater/Central/Western/Ashanti |
Headquarters | Accra |
Website | Viasat1 Website |
Viasat 1 is a Ghanaian television channel owned by the Swedish listed media group, Modern Times Group (MTG).
The channel was awarded a licence from the National Communications Authority of the Republic of Ghana in December 2007 and started broadcasting on December 12, 2008 on 6 p.m. The first programme on the channel was the movie Duma, followed by The Cosby Show, Friends and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
Viasat 1 was MTG's first venture in Africa and became the fifth terrestrial television network in Ghana after GTV, Metro TV, TV3 and TV Africa.
Viasat 1 currently broadcasts the following programs: