SKY Pacific is a

Fiji Fiji ( , ,; fj, Viti, ; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, ''Fijī''), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consis ...

based

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service formerly owned by

Fiji Television Limited Fiji Television Limited is Fiji, one of Fiji's main television network. It was founded on 15 June 1994 as the first permanent commercial television broadcasting network in the country, although television had previously been introduced tempora ...

delivering encrypted signals of 25 channels via direct-to-home (DTH) satellite on C-band to subscribers in

and across the South Pacific. It is headquartered in the capital city of Fiji,

Suva Suva () is the capital and largest city of Fiji. It is the home of the country's largest metropolitan area and serves as its major port. The city is located on the southeast coast of the island of Viti Levu, in Rewa Province, Central Div ...

City with branch offices in Suva, Lautoka, Nadi and Labasa. On April 1, 2016,

Digicel Digicel is a Jamaican and Caribbean mobile phone network and home entertainment provider operating in 33 markets worldwide. Digicel has operated in several countries, including Guyana, Fiji, Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago, St. Lucia, Suriname, ...

Fiji officially acquired the company.

History

Established in 2005 by

Fiji TV Fiji Television Limited is one of Fiji's main television network. It was founded on 15 June 1994 as the first permanent commercial television broadcasting network in the country, although television had previously been introduced temporarily ...

as a Direct-To-Home (DTH) satellite service for Fiji and the Pacific, it started with 1
channels
and eventually expanded to 16 channels in 2006. SKY Pacific currently operates on MPEG-4 platform with its encrypted signals uplinked to

Intelsat 19 Intelsat 19 is a geostationary communications satellite operated by Intelsat. It was constructed by Space Systems/Loral, based on the LS-1300 satellite bus. It was successfully launched by Sea Launch using a Zenit-3SL launch vehicle on 1 June 20 ...

from its base station in Suva and delivered to households across 13 island countries in the South Pacific including American Samoa, Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati (East), Nauru, New Caledonia, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu. However, the territories of French Polynesia (Tahiti),

Tokelau, Tuvalu Tokelau, Tuvalu is a village on the island of Nanumanga, Tuvalu. Population Tokelau's population is 281. It is the smaller of Nanumanga's two villages. Linguistic background ''Tokelau'' means "north-northeast" in Tuvaluan and some other Polynesi ...

and

Kiribati Kiribati (), officially the Republic of Kiribati ( gil, ibaberikiKiribati),Kiribati
''The Wor ...

(West) were missed out from reaching after SKY Pacific migrated from Intelsat 18 to IntelSat 19 in June, 2013.

Digicel Buy-out

In September 2015,

Fiji decided to buy out Sky Pacific for a mere FJD$5.75m but the Fiji Government refused the buy-out due to Digicel not being owned by a local company. In March 2016, Digicel were finally given a 12-year licence to buy and operate Sky Pacific in Fiji provided that Digicel Fiji is barred from placing local advertisements and local content on Sky Pacific. Local content will only be allowed during natural disasters and to remove all the local content from their channels which meant Sky Pacific had to drop 2 channels, The Pacific Channel and

Fiji One Fiji One is a free-to-air television channel run by Fiji Television. It provides coverage throughout Fiji Fiji ( , ,; fj, Viti, ; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, ''Fijī''), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melane ...

which Digicel complied with but they were allowed to add one of their own channels in TVWan to the lineup. Digicel Fiji finally took control of Sky Pacific on April 1, 2016.

Channels available

Prepay service

* TVWAN

Kids

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Documentary

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Entertainment

* AXN (Asia) * WarnerTV * Lifetime * Rock entertainment *

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* Food network

Sports

* TVWAN sports * ESPN Pacific Rim * Fight Sports * Premier League TV

Indian

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Sony Entertainment Television Sony Entertainment Television (SET) is an Indian Hindi-language general entertainment pay television channel, that was launched on 30 September 1995, and is owned by Culver Max Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Japanese Sony. SET India's ...

* Star Plus *

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* Zee TV

News

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Religious

* DayStar

Overseas affiliates

SKY Pacific has distribution deals with agents in several Pacific island countries: *

American Samoa American Samoa ( sm, Amerika Sāmoa, ; also ' or ') is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the South Pacific Ocean, southeast of the island country of Samoa. Its location is centered on . It is east of the Internationa ...

(Samoa Systems Incorporated) *

Cook Islands ) , image_map = Cook Islands on the globe (small islands magnified) (Polynesia centered).svg , capital = Avarua , coordinates = , largest_city = Avarua , official_languages = , lan ...

(SKY Cook Islands Ltd.) * Nauru (Central Meridian Ltd) *

Niue Niue (, ; niu, Niuē) is an island country in the South Pacific Ocean, northeast of New Zealand. Niue's land area is about and its population, predominantly Polynesian, was about 1,600 in 2016. Niue is located in a triangle between Tong ...

(Broadcasting Corporation of Niue) *

Samoa Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa; sm, Sāmoa, and until 1997 known as Western Samoa, is a Polynesian island country consisting of two main islands ( Savai'i and Upolu); two smaller, inhabited islands ( Manono and Apolima); ...

(Polylink Telecommunications Ltd) *

Tonga Tonga (, ; ), officially the Kingdom of Tonga ( to, Puleʻanga Fakatuʻi ʻo Tonga), is a Polynesian country and archipelago. The country has 171 islands – of which 45 are inhabited. Its total surface area is about , scattered over in ...

(Tonga Broadcasting Commission)

Notes

External links

Official site
Television stations in Fiji Digicel Mass media companies established in 2005 2005 establishments in Fiji 2016 mergers and acquisitions {{Oceania-tv-stub