SelecTV was an Australian

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based

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broadcasting service. As of January 2011, the service is no longer available. Services were carried on the Intelsat 8 satellite.

History

SelecTV was created in

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in October 2003 by Jim Blomfield, a former chief executive officer of

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, as i-view Broadcasting Pty, Ltd. It underwent multiple name changes, before finally being renamed as SelecTV Broadcasting Limited in October 2005. The companies focus was to provide comparatively low-cost premium content to specialist market segments, including Australians whose first language was other than English and retirees. In August 2006,

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purchased 50.1% of the company for $23 million, acquiring overall company control. By April 2006, the company said it had approximately 2,000 subscribers.

saw opportunity in the companies rapid expansion, and direct competition to the Australian

giant

, acquiring the remaining 49.9% from Access Providers in October 2006. 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. By 2009, due to low subscription to their language packages, SelecTV discontinued all German and Vietnamese programming. By June 2010, the company had approximately 45,000 subscribers, well short of its target of 80,000. Despite expanding their English language services, SelecTV failed to meet subscriber targets. In August 2010, it was reported that the company would cease broadcasting English programming by 15 November 2010. On 20 August 2010, SelecTV signed an agreement allowing its 22,000 English subscribers to voluntarily change to

and

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's subscription services without additional charges. On 30 August 2010, SelecTV sold their Italian language programming to World Media International and in October their Spanish language programming to UBI World TV. In its final days, SelecTV provided subscription packages for Greek programming. On 4 February 2011 SelecTV went into voluntary administration. On 7 February 2011 a creditors meeting was held where the company revealed that it was in debt of $26 million. The subscription service is no longer available in Australia.

Former channels

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(DW-TV, German) *

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* E! *

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(in Italian, German, Spanish and English) *

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Asia Pacific *

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* Latele Novela Network * Leonardo World * Movie Network Channels (Movie One, Movie Two, Movie Extra, Movie Greats) *

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* Ovation Channel *

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* Real Madrid TV * SBTN (Vietnamese) *

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(TVE) *

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* TV Chile * VTV Uruguay *

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* Wine TV (in English and German)

References

External links

Official website
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History

Former channels

See also

References

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