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Multi-Choice TV (Barbados) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Multi-Choice TV (Barbados)

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Multi-Choice TV
Multi-Choice TV

The television service provider known as Multi-Choice TV or MCTV is a DVB-C wireless microwave based broadcast cable television service provider in the country of Barbados. Though not as diverse, they offer a variety of packages which can be considered as comparatively priced to similar providers through out the world. The service began operating on December 14, 1987 under the name STV (Subscription Television), which had very few channels (CNN, ESPN, Lifetime Television, Cartoon Network and TNT LA.) with an occasional option of Pay Per View being offered for local special events and the occasional international PPV sports broadcast. In 1996 it was upgraded to include a new platform called Multi-Choice TV which was an analog wireless microwave broadcast offering many more channels (i.e BBC, Canada's CBC, TBN, etc.) eventually maxing the bandwidth capacity and having lately to upgrade the service to a digital broadcast system, Multi-Choice TV have not fully converted all of it's subscribers as yet. The system relies on line-of-sight propagation so total island wide coverage have proved to be a problem and the provider is looking into alternatives. A recent press release have indicated their interest in a partnership with the local telco Cable and Wireless .

Given that the service uses a Yagi antenna to receive the encrypted broadcast, which in turn is then decrypted by the provider's set top box. The provider now has the problem of signal theft by pirates using modified DVB-C compatible receivers and PCI cards with the most popular being the "Dreambox" manufactured in Germany to decode their signal which is based on Nagravision which is a conditional access control system developed by Kudelski . In order to prevent such activity in August, 2006 the Government of Barbados stiffened the local Barbadian copyright laws, in addition to a strengthening of the laws on cable TV piracy.

Multi-Choice TV also competes against the US-based direct broadcast satellite (DBS) service provider DirecTV Latin America in Barbados.

[edit] Current channel lineup

Below is a numerical representation of the Multi-Choice TV channel lineup. These channels are arranged in five tiers:

Channel Tier Network Site Notes
108 - 112: Local
108 Basic CBC TV 8 Link Local government-owned CBC TV-8.
109 Basic Discover Barbados TV *
110 Basic Sportsmax Link
111 Basic "The One" 98.1 FM Link (As audio stream only)
112 Basic "Quality" 100.7 FM * (As audio stream only)
200 - 209: News
200 Basic The Africa Channel Link
201 Basic CNN Link
202 Plus CNN International Link
203 High Flyer CNBC Link
204 Basic BBC World Link
205 Basic Fox News Channel Link
206 Basic truTV Link
207 High Flyer Bloomberg Link
208 High Flyer G4techTV Canada Link Canadian channel
209 Plus China Central Television (CCTV) Link the Chinese national television network.
300 - 305: Sports
300 Basic ESPN Link
301 Plus Fox Soccer Channel Link
302 High Flyer ESPN2 Link
303 High Flyer FUEL TV Link
304 High Flyer The Golf Channel Link
305 High Flyer SPEED Channel Link
400 - 406: Children
400 Basic Boomerang Link
401 Basic Cartoon Network Link
402 Basic Extra Animal Planet Link
403 (vacant)
404 Basic Discovery Kids Link
405 Basic Extra Nickelodeon Link
406 Basic Extra The N Link
500 - 511: Educational/Entertainment
500 Basic National Geographic Channel Link
501 Basic Discovery Channel Link
502 Basic Discovery Health Link
503 Basic PBS (affiliate unknown) Link
504 Plus Sony Entertainment Television Link
505 Plus The CW (affiliate unknown) Link
506 Plus WWOR-TV (My Network TV) Link New York City, New York
507 Plus CKVU-TV (Citytv) Link Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
508 Basic Extra Oxygen Link
509 Basic Extra Lifetime Real Women Link
510 Basic Extra History Link
511 High Flyer Travel Channel Link
600 - 608: Spirituality, music and culture
600 Basic TBN Link
601 Basic 3ABN Link
602 Basic EWTN Link
603 Basic VH1 Soul Link
604 Basic Gospel Music Channel Link
605 Basic E! Link
606 Basic A&E Link
607 Plus BET J Link
608 Basic MTV Tempo Link
700 - 712: Entertainment
700 Basic ABC (affiliate unknown) Link
701 Basic BET Link
702 Plus WSEE-TV (CBS) Link Erie, Pennsylvania (Prime Time 24 feed)
703 Basic CBLT (CBC Canada) Link Toronto, Ontario, Canada
704 Plus Game Show Network Link
705 Basic Lifetime Link
706 Plus NBC (affiliate unknown) Link
707 Plus Fox (affiliate unknown) Link
708 Plus HBO Family Link
709 Basic Extra HGTV Link
710 Basic Extra Food Network Link
711 Basic Extra DIY Link
712 Basic Extra Fine Living Link
800 - 810: Movies
800 Basic TNT Link
801 Premium HBO Plus Link HBO-Latin America
802 Premium Cinemax East Link
803 Premium HBO East Link
804 Premium Cinemax West Link
805 Premium HBO West Link
806 Premium Hallmark Channel Link
807 Premium Lifetime Movies *
808 Premium Cinecanal West Link
809 Premium Movie City East Link
810 Premium Turner Classic Movies Link

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