Fiji Television Limited (SPSE

South Pacific Stock Exchange

The South Pacific Stock Exchange is a stock exchange based in Suva, Fiji.On 1st July 2010, the SPSE launched an Electronic Trading Platform . The exchange now has different market phases which allow the brokers to perform various tasks throughout a business day...

: FTV) is Fiji

Fiji

Fiji , officially the Republic of Fiji , is an island nation in Melanesia in the South Pacific Ocean about northeast of New Zealand's North Island...

's television network. It was founded on 15 June 1994 as the first permanent television broadcasting network in the country, although television had previously been introduced temporarily in October 1991 to broadcast the Rugby World Cup

Rugby World Cup

The Rugby World Cup is an international rugby union competition organised by the International Rugby Board and held every four years since 1987....

 as well as Cricket World Cup

Cricket World Cup

The ICC Cricket World Cup is the premier international championship of men's One Day International cricket. The event is organised by the sport's governing body, the International Cricket Council , with preliminary qualification rounds leading up to a finals tournament which is held every four years...

. This was reviewed and reissued in 2000 for a term of 12 years. Fiji TV was listed as a public company in 1996 on the Suva Stock Exchange, now known as the South Pacific Stock Exchange

South Pacific Stock Exchange

The South Pacific Stock Exchange is a stock exchange based in Suva, Fiji.On 1st July 2010, the SPSE launched an Electronic Trading Platform . The exchange now has different market phases which allow the brokers to perform various tasks throughout a business day...

Fiji TV owns Fiji's premiere free-to-view channel Fiji One

Fiji One

Fiji One is a Free to Air channel run by Fiji Television. It provides coverage throughout Fiji. It is fully funded from revenue generated through Commercial advertisement. For this reason, programs on Fiji One have commercial breaks, to allow advertisers that fund the programs to showcase their...

, and the pay TV

Pay TV

Pay television, premium television, or premium channels refers to subscription-based television services, usually provided by both analog and digital cable and satellite, but also increasingly via digital terrestrial and internet television...

 services Sky Fiji

Sky Fiji

SKY Fiji is Fijian pay-tv package which carries 3 pay channels Sky Plus, Sky Entertainment and Sky Sports plus one free-to-view channel, Fiji One. It operates on an analogue platform and its encrypted signals are delivered from one transmitter site to another...

 and Sky Pacific

Sky Pacific

Sky Pacific is a Fijian pay tv owned by Fiji Television which is a direct-to-home satellite delivered service which carries 16 pay channels to subscribers in Fiji and across the Pacific.-Channels available:...

. Fiji TV also owns two subsidiary companies, Media Niugini Limited, which operates Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea , officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands...

's only commercial free-to-view channel, Communications Pacific Limited, as well as Papua New Guinea's EM TV

EM TV

EM TV is a commercial television station in Papua New Guinea. Until the launch of the National Television Service in September 2008, it was the country's only free to air television service....

 network

Fiji Television maintains a website, with an online news service.

Fiji Television's only rival is Mai TV

Mai TV

-History:The company was founded by Richard Broadbridge in 2006 and began broadcasts in June 2008. It is full privately owned and broadcasts to 80% of the Fiji group of islands.Mai TV's head office is at Garden City Suva....