South Africa’s newest community television station, BAY TV, is set to hit the airwaves in just over a week.
The station, which launches on 1 October, will be broadcast in isiXhosa, Afrikaans and English, covering the Nelson Mandela Bay geographic region (Port Elizabeth, Uitenhage and Despatch, including all the townships within those localities), as well as surrounding areas.
Station programming will include sport, news, actuality, music, the arts, culture, religious programming, business / finance and youth and women’s issues.
“The main focus of our programmes will be to highlight grassroots community issues, including developmental issues, health care, education, culture, sport and environmental affairs,” says Vuyo Mvoko, the chairperson of BAY TV.
Initial programmes will cover the spectrum of actuality, sport, business, finance, music, news and game shows.
To find and watch Bay TV, viewers need a terrestrial aerial that picks up SABC 1, 2, 3 and e.tv. With this connected, manually tune your television in the UHF bandwidth until you find e.tv. Continue tuning and you will find BAY TV (channel 54, frequency 735.25 MHz).
South Africa’s newest community television station, BAY TV, is set to hit the airwaves in just over a week.
The station, which launches on 1 October, will be broadcast in isiXhosa, Afrikaans and English, covering the Nelson Mandela Bay geographic region (Port Elizabeth, Uitenhage and Despatch, including all the townships within those localities), as well as surrounding areas.
Station programming will include sport, news, actuality, music, the arts, culture, religious programming, business / finance and youth and women’s issues.
“The main focus of our programmes will be to highlight grassroots community issues, including developmental issues, health care, education, culture, sport and environmental affairs,” says Vuyo Mvoko, the chairperson of BAY TV.
Initial programmes will cover the spectrum of actuality, sport, business, finance, music, news and game shows.
To find and watch Bay TV, viewers need a terrestrial aerial that picks up SABC 1, 2, 3 and e.tv. With this connected, manually tune your television in the UHF bandwidth until you find e.tv. Continue tuning and you will find BAY TV (channel 54, frequency 735.25 MHz).
