Bop TV

Bop TV was a television station run by the former Republic of Bophuthatswana in Southern Africa.

Commencing operations in 1984, it primarily transmitted imported programming, mostly from the US, in an unedited form, allowing all comical references to black people to be aired. The station transmitted on the UHF band.[1]

In the apartheid era, a sizeable number of white people sought to tune in to Bop TV, which offered a wider variety of entertainment and current affairs programming than the state-controlled South African Broadcasting Corporation, despite attempts to confine the signal to black areas such as Soweto.[2]

A post-apartheid reshuffling of the SABC resulted in the former Bantustan broadcasters being integrated into it.[3][4]

In 2003, the SABC announced that they would shut the channel down on 31 July.[5]

List of programmes

Domestic

Music
  • South Africa Music TV

Children's
  • South Africa Teeny Bop

Sports
  • South Africa Bop Sports

Horse racing
  • South Africa See How They Run

News & current affairs
  • South Africa Bop TV News

Game show
  • South Africa Moving Up Quiz

Foreign

Comedy

Anthology

Western

News

Drama

Lifestyle

Soap opera

Variety

Documentary

Food

Education
  • Australia Beyond 2000
  • Canada Look Up
  • Canada The Magic Library
  • United States Newton's Apple
  • Canada Polka Dot Door
  • Canada Return to the Magic Library

Animation
  • United Kingdom Wales Operavox: The Animated Operas
  • United States The Simpsons

Children's

Video games

Talk shows

Sci-fi
  • Canada RoboCop: The Series
  • United States VR.5

Tv specials

Reality

Game shows

Telefilms

Tv movies

References
  1. Van Slambrouck, Paul (3 February 1984). "South African whites clamor to tune in black TV". The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
  2. Cowell, Alan (1 August 1984). "South Africa Whites Seek Black TV". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
  3. Parker, Janet (27 November 1998). "e.tv accuses SABC". Business Day. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
  4. "New role for 'Bop TV'". News24. 27 November 2003. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
  5. Dulile, Sowaga (1 July 2003). "Bop TV and radio to be switched off". City Press. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
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