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

HiTV
Company typePublic
IndustrySatellite television
Founded1 February 2007
Defunct21 November 2011 (21 November 2011)
HeadquartersEbute Metta, Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria
ProductsDirect broadcast satellite
ParentEntertainment Highway

HiTV later broadcast its material only on satellite at the price of N3,500 ($27.73) monthly. It was the first television platform in Africa to deploy Hypercable, a terrestrial pay-per-view TV decoder system.

HiTV services were stopped in November 2011 due to financial difficulties. The company no longer exists.

See also

edit

References

edit
  1. ^ "HiTV Hypercable Case Study". Hypercable International. Archived from the original on 2008-04-01. Retrieved 2008-04-12.
edit

HiTv