Channels Television is a household name among Nigerian Television stations, the TV is known for its modern media presentation with a lot of Interesting programs, especially its news.
Channels Television is a multiple award-winning TV running 24 hours. It was founded in 1992 by businessmen, John Momoh and Sola Momoh.
The Company started in just a single state which is Lagos but has gradually commenced operations in other southwestern Nigeria and even has grown beyond that, now Channels Television has stations in other parts of Nigeria as well including Kano, Edo, Abuja, and other countries of the world.
Channels Television is known to have bureaus of intelligence in every state of Nigeria and some other parts of Africa as well.
Like other foreign News Tv like CNN, BBC, and Channels Television is like the National Tv branded in that same style, Channels Tv is one of the very few Tv stations in Nigeria built only for a news broadcast.
Channels Television Is built around the idea of reporting and upholding news with objectivity on the ground of fairness, and to satisfy the personal right of an individual to be informed.
The Company’s license was granted in June 1993 and was given a frequency on UHF channel 39 and two (2) years later It began transmission.
The Tv is not what you may know it to be today as it began transmission with the name “Channels Television”. A lot of things have changed over the years, now Channels Television can boast of having over 20 million viewing audiences. The Tv station is known for its aggressive news outlet creating a balanced account coverage.
The reason for the creation of Channels Television as a news Station is built around popular demand among news consumers in the country to have a Tv station for the primary purpose of news broadcast like some foreign stations.
The Station also provides another alternative means of communication with the government and its policies while also holding public holders and other officers accountable to the people.
The Station is built to accommodate opposing views and thoughts as well as
Inform and educate the general public on how they are being governed, and educate the public about some civic responsibilities and obligations to the state.
Channels Television upholds its vision of creating well-balanced reporting, objectivity, fairness, and the right of the individual to be informed. Which is the fundamental principle of human rights.
Channels Television is guided to present its news with proven facts and air divergent views and thoughts irrespective of differences and circumstances no matter what they may be.
They broadcast News that affects the nation as a whole while ensuring the people have a voice, the goal is to make the people seen and to be heard.
Channels TV is well known for its unbiased observation of events in Nigeria, and its standing position In events in Nigeria. Channels Tv keeps pushing the landmark with its innovativeness and remarkable evolution.
The Company is home to many brilliant and outstanding broadcasters who have been the key to the Tv success.
Channels Market Position
Channels Television is a big market leader in independent news in the country. The BBG-Gallup research has shown that Channels alone attract a whole 17% of Nigeria’s adult population weekly and almost 20 million people in the country alone.
It is not surprising that Channels Tv has won the Best Television Station of the Year” award given by the Nigerian Media Merit Award Trust for respectively fourteen of the last nineteen years, that is not what any Tv station can compete with.
Channels Tv has set a lot of records being the first Tv in Nigeria and Africa as it continues to push the use of technology in News and Tv broadcasts.
The Tv is the first in Nigeria, as well as Africa to steam its news and program, live in real-time, something that was never done in the history of Television news in Africa.
it boasts of another record to be the first Tv in Nigeria to have over 1,000,000 YouTube subscribers, and also the first and only TV company in Nigeria to almost hit 7,000,000 social media followers, fans, and subscribers on the internet.
