KTV Ltd.
KTV Ltd. is a DVB-T SD and HD encrypted UHF TV and radio service operating in Stanley, capital of the Falkland Islands, and also in part of the Camp. Offering up to 56 TV and radio channels, the monthly charge for the service starts from £36. Founded in 1980 by Sharon and Mario Zuvic Bulic, KTV Ltd. receives channels from the UK, the US, Saint Helena Island and Chile and rebroadcasts them to subscribers in the Falkland Islands. KTV Ltd. cooperates with a number of other small radio broadcasting companies in other British overseas territories, notably Saint FM in St Helena, the Falkland Islands Radio Service, and Myriam's Country.
KTV has a monopoly on pay-TV services in the islands; the passing of a Broadcasting Ordinance in 2004 aimed at countering the importing of illegal decoders brought in from mainland South America.
History
Marko Zuvic first tested a television service around 1981, upon returning from Punta Arenas, where he assisted the installation of an MMDS system there. A feasibility study was presented to governor Rex Hunt, but the war in 1982 complicated things.The company was formally founded in 1993 by Marko and his wife Sharon. The company started with three channels, Cartoon Network, TNT and CNN International. These channels had the strongest signal available to the Falkland Islands at the time. Since these channels were relayed from analogue satellites, its reception during bad weather would be subject to interference. The transmitting equipment was set up locally during evenings and weekends. The channel line-up later grew with the arrival of ESPN Latin America; by the time they were carrying the channel, they had acquired their first factory-built transmitter, followed by the arrivals of HBO and Discovery Channel. They were also the first MMDS system in the region to carry BBC World, once the channel was made available for interested providers in South America. With the arrival of signals sourced from digital satellites, channels such as People+Arts, Warner Channel, Sony Entertainment Television, The History Channel and, by 2006, Nickelodeon and VH1, were added.
On 14 June 1997, it made its first live outside broadcast, from the 1982 Monument, covering the Liberation Day Service of Remembrance.
In 1999, in conjunction with the launch of KTV's division Radio Nova, it started relaying the BBC World Service on the FM band, alongside the existing AM radio relay owned by FIRS. Around 2004, it also added relays of Deutsche Welle on 101.1, gaining notoriety among locals for its news and science programmes, as well as classical music on weekends.
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On 1 September 2006, Saint FM from Saint Helena was added to KTV and on FM radio. Ahead of its launch, it had received letters from the island's diaspora in the Falklands. Its line-up was changed to accommodate timezone differences between territories.
In September 2010, it announced that it would set up a local television station, Falkland Islands Television, alongside Stanley Services.