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.
Company type | Public |
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Industry | Satellite television |
Founded | 1 February 2007 |
Defunct | 21 November 2011 |
Headquarters | Ebute Metta, Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria |
Products | Direct broadcast satellite |
Parent | Entertainment 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.
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edit- ^ "HiTV Hypercable Case Study". Hypercable International. Archived from the original on 2008-04-01. Retrieved 2008-04-12.