Tonfön Television is a Tonga

Tonga

Tonga, officially the Kingdom of Tonga , is a state and an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean, comprising 176 islands scattered over of ocean in the South Pacific...

n 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...

 service commencing in 2002, offering seven 24-hour channels of movies, news, sport and entertainment. Among the channels available are ABC Asia Pacific, BBC World

BBC World

BBC World News is the BBC's international news and current affairs television channel. It has the largest audience of any BBC channel in the world...

, Fox News, in addition to 4 locally programmed channels, which include a sports channel, a family channel, a documentary/current affairs channel, and a movie channel.

Since November 2005, Tonfön TV has found itself facing stiff competition from a rival pay TV company, 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:...

, which offers more channels and a wider variety of programming to Tongan viewers.

External links

• Matangi Tonga article - Tongan television viewers' bonanza