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 July 31.[5]
List of programmes
Domestic
Music
Children's
Sports
Horse Racing
News & Current Affairs
Foreign
Comedy
America's Funniest Home Videos Are You Being Served? Benson Brooklyn Bridge Brush Strokes Check It Out! Don't Wait Up Executive Stress Ever Decreasing Circles Fresh Fields The Good Life Goodnight Sweetheart Grace and Favour Health and Efficiency Heartburn Hotel Hey Dad...! Joint Account Keep It in the Family Keeping Up Appearances Last of the Summer Wine Max Glick Murder Most Horrid Never the Twain Oh, Doctor Beeching! Punky Brewster Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em The Ted Knight Show Three Up, Two Down Three's Company To the Manor Born Willing and Abel 'Allo 'Allo!
Anthology
Western
News
Drama
21 Jump Street 99-1 The Adventures of the Black Stallion All Creatures Great and Small Bailey's Bird Barnaby Jones The Beachcombers Bergerac Between the Lines Blue Heelers Breakers The Broker's Man The Buddha of Suburbia Catwalk Chandler & Co Counterstrike Danger Bay Dangerfield The Duchess of Duke Street Due South Eleanor and Franklin E.N.G. Fortunes of War G.P. The Ginger Tree Hardcastle and McCormick Hawkeye Howards' Way In the Heat of the Night Ironside Jackson's Wharf Jessie JFK: Reckless Youth The Legend of King Arthur Marlin Bay Miami Sands The Mod Squad My Family and Other Animals North of 60 One West Waikiki The Onedin Line Pacific Drive A Perfect Spy Police Rescue The Professionals Rescue The Rockford Files Side Effects Star Trek: Deep Space 9 Star Trek: The Next Generation The Streets of San Francisco Swans Crossing Thunder in Paradise Tropical Heat Wiseguy The Women of Brewster Place The Wonder Years
Lifestyle
Soap Opera
Variety
Documentary
The Face of Tutankhamen Mega Movie Magic Police Camera Action! The Power and the Glory
Food
Education
Animation
Operavox: The Animated Operas The Simpsons
Children's
50/50 Adventures from the Book of Virtues The Adventures of Skippy Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog The Adventures of the Little Prince The Adventures of Tintin Adventures on Kythera Albert - the 5th Musketeer Alfred J. Kwak The Alphabet Game Amazing Tails Animal Miracles The Animals of Farthing Wood The Authentic Adventures of Professor Thompson Babar Basket Fever BB and Jennifer Belfry Witches The Berenstain Bears Bertha Betty's Bunch Beverly Hills Teens The Big Comfy Couch Billy the Cat The Biz Bod Bookmice The Borrowers The Box of Delights Breakpoint The Brollys Brownstone Kids Boffins Bucky O'Hare and the Toad Wars C Bear and Jamal c/o The Bartons Camp Cariboo Captain Planet and the Planeteers Care Bears Century Falls Charlie Chalk Children of Fire Mountain Choppy and the Princess The Chronicles of Narnia Conan and the Young Warriors Conan the Adventurer The Country Boy Critter Gitters The Curiosity Show Curse of the Viking Grave Cyberkidz Dappledown Farm Deepwater Haven Delfy and His Friends Dennis the Menace Denver, the Last Dinosaur Detective Bogey The Digswell Dog Show Dink, the Little Dinosaur Doctor Snuggles Dragon Flyz Escape from Jupiter Eye of the Storm The Fabulous Reggae Dogs Felix the Cat Fireman Sam Five Children and It The Forest Rangers The Flying Kiwi Flying, Trying and Honking Around G-Force G.I. Joe Extreme The Genie from Down Under The Get Along Gang The Girl from Tomorrow Glad Rags The Great Book of Nature The Great Space Coaster Gumdrop Haunting of Cassie Palmer Hello Mrs. Cherrywinkle Henry's Cat Here Comes the Grump Hills End The Houndcats Huckleberry Finn and His Friends Hurricanes Incredible Dennis the Menace The Jackson 5ive Jay Jay the Jet Plane Jim Henson's Animal Show Jem Jesus: A Kingdom Without Frontiers Johnson and Friends Jungle Book Shōnen Mowgli Kaboodle Kevin's Cousins Kids Down Under Kids TV The Kid-a-Littles Kimba the White Lion Laurel and Hardy The Legend of Prince Valiant The Legend of White Fang The Little Flying Bears Little Rosey Little Sir Nicholas The Littlest Hobo Look Up Marsupilami The MAXimum Dimension The Miraculous Mellops Mirror, Mirror More Winners My Pet Monster The New Adventures of Speed Racer Noddy in Toyland Oasis The Odyssey Old MacDonald's Sing-A-Long Farm Pee-wee's Playhouse Pigasso's Place Pirates Pocahontas Polka Dot Door Professor Balthazar Pugwall's Summer The Puzzle Place Rambo: The Force of Freedom The Real Ghostbusters The Really Wild Show ReBoot Redbeard Renada The Return of the Psammead Return to the Magic Library Rimba's Island Rosie and Jim Round the Twist Ruffus the Dog Rupert Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs Sea Dogs Sharky & George The Shelly T. Turtle Show Simba the Lion King Simon and the Witch Simsala Grimm Skeleton Warriors Sky Dancers Small Stories The Smoggies The Smurfs Snorks Sooty & Co. Spartakus & the Sun Beneath the Sea Spooks of Bottle Bay Star Wars: Droids Star Wars: Ewoks Stone Protectors Stories From My Childhood The Story of Cinderella Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad T. and T. Tales of the Riverbank Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles The Transformers The Triplets Twinkle, the Dream Being Uncle Jack Wonder World! Vid Kids Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light Waterville Gang Who Sir? Me Sir? Wide World of Kids Widget the World Watcher The Wild House Winners Worzel Gummidge Down Under Zoe and Charlie
Talk Shows
Sci-Fi
TV specials
Frosty's Return Inspector Gadget Saves Christmas The Teddy Bears' Christmas
Reality
Game Shows
Telefilms
References
- ↑ Van Slambrouck, Paul (3 February 1984). "South African whites clamor to tune in black TV". Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
- ↑ Cowell, Alan (1 August 1984). "South Africa Whites Seek Black TV". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
- ↑ Parker, Janet (27 November 1998). "e.tv accuses SABC". Business Day. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
- ↑ "New role for 'Bop TV'". News24. 27 November 2003. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
- ↑ 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.
External links
- Bop TV Schedule and Ident, YouTube, January 13, 2010