Plus TV is a private national

free-to-air Free-to-air (FTA) services are television (TV) and radio services broadcast in unencrypted form, allowing any person with the appropriate receiving equipment to receive the signal and view or listen to the content without requiring a subscripti ...

television channel. It is the sixth private TV channel established in

Cyprus Cyprus ; tr, Kıbrıs (), officially the Republic of Cyprus,, , lit: Republic of Cyprus is an island country located south of the Anatolian Peninsula in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Its continental position is disputed; while it is ge ...

. Its first official broadcast took place on July 28, 2006.

History

Its first official broadcast was in the mid-2000s as ''Astra TV'' until 2005 when it was renamed to ''Axia Channel'' while on July 28, 2006 it changed to ''CNC Plus TV'', where ''CNC'' meaning ''Cyprus New Channel'' broadcasting a pilot program with children's and music shows, while from January 2007, it broadcasts under its current name (Plus TV) with the acronym CNC later removed from August of the same year. Earlier, in July 2006, it maintained a partnership with

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while also including more Cypriot productions and partnership with Greek

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and

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. In September 2007 the channel changed ownership making rapid improvements. At the end of the 2009-2010 season Plus TV occupied the lowest audience share among the nationwide channels, with direct implications for advertising value. In 2009, it stopped cooperation with these three channels and started new with Star Channel, broadcasting most of its program, which has been broadcast since 2015 by

Omega Omega (; capital: Ω, lowercase: ω; Ancient Greek ὦ, later ὦ μέγα, Modern Greek ωμέγα) is the twenty-fourth and final letter in the Greek alphabet. In the Greek numeric system/ isopsephy ( gematria), it has a value of 800. The ...

having an exclusive cooperation with him. In 2016, Plus was acquired by Filippos Vryonis, who three years before bought

, turning it into Epsilon, while also owning two regional channels in Greece (Extra and AB) with the aim of renaming the all-Cypriot channel to ''Epsilon Cyprus''. However, the plan was aborted due to continued obstacles from the Cyprus Radio and Television Authority and a lack of data. Previously, since 2013 when the then pan-Hellenic Epsilon started broadcasting, had signed a collaboration with the also all-Cypriot ''Capital TV'' in

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. In September 2018, there was a dispute between Plus and the then TV One (before it became Omega the following month) over the cooperation and broadcasting of programs of the renamed Epsilon/Open channel due to a change of ownership a year before. Due to these changes, the channel started cooperation with New Epsilon, having a shorter range in Greece, replacing Extra, which returned to AB's frequencies.

References

Greek-language television stations Television channels and stations established in 2006 Television channels in Cyprus {{Cyprus-stub