HiTV

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HiTV
Type	Public
Founded	1 February 2007
Headquarters	ebute metta, Lagos State,  Nigeria
Industry	Telecommunication
Products	Direct broadcast satellite
Website	Official website
First Nigerian digital television provider

High Television (also known as HiTV) is Entertainment Highway's multi-channel digital satellite TV service in Nigeria, launched in 2007. It uses Hypercable Digital Terrestrial technology ^[1] and launched Direct to Home (DTH) Satellite technology on the August 1, 2007.

HiTV broadcasts its material on both cable and satellite at the price of N4,000($31.73) monthly. It is the first television platform in Africa to deploy Hypercable, a terrestrial pay per view TV decoder system.

[edit] English Premier League License

HiTV obtained English Premier League, La Liga and Italian Series A Broadcast permission in Nigeria.^{[citation needed]} This has gained the pay television station great popularity and it was seen as a vital step in breaking the monopoly once held by DStv in Nigeria. HiTV acquired a license to show 8 live matches a week while DStv was able to gain a license to show 2 live matches a week. HiTV, as of march 2008, has over 100,000 subscribers, making it one of Africa's fastest growing DTH/pay TV operator.also now has the tv rights to the english carling cup[2009-2011season],and the uefa champions league[2009-2011].

[edit] Channels

• Trace tv
• Sky News
• Hi Sports
• Hi Sports 2
• Hi Soccer
• Fox Sports
• Nigezie
• LTV
• BBC World
• E! Entertainment
• Hi Nolly
• Hi Kids
• Hi Mix
• Nickelodeon
• GOD TV Europe
• Hi Life
• Eurosport News
• LBC Europe
• ART 2 Movies
• Believers Loveworld
• CNBC Africa
• Kennis music channel
• Fox News
• Zee Cinema
• Kidsco
• Discovery Civilization

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