Bop TV
Bop TV was a television station run by the Bophuthatswana Broadcasting Corporation in the former Republic of Bophuthatswana in South Africa.
History[]
Commencing operations in 1984, it primarily transmitted imported programmes 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 watched 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 in 1996 resulted in the former bantustan broadcasters being integrated into it.[3][4] This infuriated the bosses of Bop Broadcasting.[5][6]
In 1997, the State Reorganisation Act led to the creation of subsidies for the former bantustan broadcasters that were now under the SABC's control.The said subsidy ended in November 2001. From now onward, the SABC was now funding Bop Broadcasting in its entirety.[7] In 2003, the SABC announced that they would shut the channel down on 31 July.[8]
List of programmes[]
Domestic[]
Music[]
- South Africa
Lifestyle[]
- South Africa
Children's[]
- South Africa
Sports[]
- South Africa
Horse racing[]
- South Africa
News & current affairs[]
- South Africa
Game show[]
- South Africa
Education[]
- South Africa Edutel
Foreign[]
Comedy[]
- United States America's Funniest Home Videos
- United Kingdom Are You Being Served?
- United States Benson
- United States Brooklyn Bridge
- United Kingdom Brush Strokes
- Canada Check It Out!
- United States Cheers
- United States Diff'rent Strokes
- United Kingdom Don't Wait Up
- United Kingdom Drop the Dead Donkey
- United Kingdom Executive Stress
- United Kingdom Ever Decreasing Circles
- United Kingdom Fresh Fields
- United States Gimme a Break!
- United Kingdom The Good Life
- United Kingdom Goodnight Sweetheart
- United Kingdom Grace and Favour
- United Kingdom Health and Efficiency
- United Kingdom Heartburn Hotel
- Australia Hey Dad..!
- United Kingdom Joint Account
- United Kingdom Keep It in the Family
- United Kingdom Keeping Up Appearances
- United Kingdom Last of the Summer Wine
- Canada Max Glick
- United Kingdom Murder Most Horrid
- United Kingdom Never the Twain
- United Kingdom Oh, Doctor Beeching!
- United States Punky Brewster
- United Kingdom Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
- United States The Ted Knight Show
- United Kingdom Three Up, Two Down
- United States Three's Company
- United Kingdom To the Manor Born
- United Kingdom
- United Kingdom Very Big Very Soon
- Australia Willing and Abel
- United Kingdom 'Allo 'Allo!
Anthology[]
- United Kingdom Murder Most Horrid
- United States Monsters
- United States Project U.F.O.
Western[]
- United States The Big Valley
- United States Father Murphy
- United States Lonesome Dove: The Series
News[]
- United States Sightings
Drama[]
- United States 21 Jump Street
- United Kingdom 99-1
- Canada, France, New Zealand The Adventures of the Black Stallion
- United Kingdom All Creatures Great and Small
- Australia Bailey's Bird
- United States Barnaby Jones
- Canada The Beachcombers
- United Kingdom Bergerac
- United Kingdom Between the Lines
- Australia Blue Heelers
- Australia Breakers
- United Kingdom The Broker's Man
- United Kingdom The Buddha of Suburbia
- Canada Catwalk
- United Kingdom Chandler & Co
- United Kingdom Connie
- Canada France Counterstrike
- United Kingdom Cracker
- Canada Danger Bay
- United Kingdom Dangerfield
- United Kingdom The Duchess of Duke Street
- United States, Canada Due South
- United States Eleanor and Franklin
- Canada E.N.G.
- United States The Flash
- United Kingdom Fortunes of War
- Australia G.P.
- United Kingdom The Ginger Tree
- United States Hardcastle and McCormick
- United States Hawkeye
- United Kingdom Howards' Way
- United States In the Heat of the Night
- United States Ironside
- New Zealand Jackson's Wharf
- United States Jessie
- United States JFK: Reckless Youth
- United Kingdom The Legend of King Arthur
- New Zealand Marlin Bay
- United States
- United States The Mod Squad
- United Kingdom My Family and Other Animals
- Canada North of 60
- United States One West Waikiki
- United Kingdom The Onedin Line
- Australia Pacific Drive
- United Kingdom A Perfect Spy
- Australia Police Rescue
- United Kingdom The Professionals
- United Kingdom Rescue
- United States The Rockford Files
- New Zealand Shark in the Park
- Canada Side Effects
- United States Star Trek: Deep Space 9
- United States Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Canada Street Legal
- United States The Streets of San Francisco
- United States Swamp Thing
- United States Swans Crossing
- United States Thunder in Paradise
- Canada Tropical Heat
- United States Wiseguy
- United States The Women of Brewster Place
- United States The Wonder Years
- United States Zorro
Lifestyle[]
- United States Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
Soap opera[]
- United States Another Life
- Australia E Street
- United Kingdom Eldorado
- Australia Home and Away
- Australia Paradise Beach
- United States Santa Barbara
- Canada Strange Paradise
Variety[]
- Ireland Secrets
Documentary[]
- United Kingdom
- United States Mega Movie Magic
- United Kingdom Police Camera Action!
- United Kingdom The Power and the Glory
Food[]
- United Kingdom Delia Smith's Cookery Course
- United Kingdom Floyd on Britain and Ireland
Education[]
- Australia Beyond 2000
- Canada
- Canada The Magic Library
- United States Newton's Apple
- Canada Polka Dot Door
- Canada Return to the Magic Library
Animation[]
- United Kingdom Wales
- United States The Simpsons
Children's[]
- United Kingdom 50/50
- United States Adventures from the Book of Virtues
- Australia The Adventures of Skippy
- United States Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog
- United States, Japan The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers
- Japan The Adventures of the Little Prince
- France, Canada The Adventures of Tintin
- Australia Adventures on Kythera
- United Kingdom, France, Canada Albert - the 5th Musketeer
- Japan, Netherlands Alfred J. Kwak
- United Kingdom The Alphabet Game
- United States Germany Canada
- United States Animal Miracles
- United Kingdom, France The Animals of Farthing Wood
- Spain The Authentic Adventures of Professor Thompson
- France, Canada Babar
- Spain
- United States Batman: The Animated Series
- Canada BB and Jennifer
- United States Biker Mice from Mars
- United States, Canada Beetlejuice
- United Kingdom Belfry Witches
- United States The Berenstain Bears
- United Kingdom Bertha
- New Zealand Betty's Bunch
- United States Beverly Hills Teens
- Canada The Big Comfy Couch
- Canada, France, Belgium Billy the Cat
- United Kingdom The Biz
- United Kingdom Bod
- Canada Bookmice
- United Kingdom The Borrowers
- United Kingdom The Box of Delights
- United Kingdom Breakpoint
- United Kingdom
- Canada
- Australia Boffins
- France, United States Bucky O'Hare and the Toad Wars
- United States C Bear and Jamal
- Australia c/o The Bartons
- Canada Camp Cariboo
- United States Captain Planet and the Planeteers
- United States, Canada Care Bears
- United Kingdom Century Falls
- United Kingdom Charlie Chalk
- New Zealand Children of Fire Mountain
- Japan Choppy and the Princess
- United Kingdom The Chronicles of Narnia
- United States Conan and the Young Warriors
- United States, France, Canada Conan the Adventurer
- United Kingdom
- United States
- France
- Australia The Curiosity Show
- Canada Curse of the Viking Grave
- United Kingdom, Canada
- United Kingdom Dappledown Farm
- Australia, New Zealand, France
- France Delfy and His Friends
- United States Dennis the Menace
- United States, France Denver, the Last Dinosaur
- Spain
- Australia The Digswell Dog Show
- United States Dink, the Little Dinosaur
- United States Dino-Riders
- United Kingdom Doctor Snuggles
- United States, France Dragon Flyz
- Canada Eric's World
- Australia Escape from Jupiter
- United Kingdom
- United States The Fabulous Reggae Dogs
- United Kingdom The Famous Five
- Australia Fat Cat and Friends
- United States Felix the Cat
- Wales Fireman Sam
- United Kingdom Five Children and It
- Canada The Forest Rangers
- New Zealand
- United States
- Japan G-Force
- United States G.I. Joe Extreme
- Australia, United Kingdom The Genie from Down Under
- United States Gerbert
- United States, France The Get Along Gang
- Australia The Girl from Tomorrow
- Australia Glad Rags
- United Kingdom Gran
- Italy The Great Book of Nature
- United States The Great Space Coaster
- United Kingdom Gumdrop
- United Kingdom Haunting of Cassie Palmer
- Canada Hello Mrs. Cherrywinkle
- United Kingdom Henry's Cat
- United States Here Comes the Grump
- Australia Hills End
- United States The Houndcats
- Canada Huckleberry Finn and His Friends
- United States Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling
- United States, United Kingdom Scotland Hurricanes
- United States Incredible Dennis the Menace
- United Kingdom
- United States, United Kingdom The Jackson 5ive
- United States Jay Jay the Jet Plane
- United States Jim Henson's Animal Show
- United States Jem
- Italy
- Australia Johnson and Friends
- Japan Jungle Book Shōnen Mowgli
- Australia Kaboodle
- United Kingdom
- Australia
- United States
- United States
- Japan Kimba the White Lion
- United States Laurel and Hardy
- United States The Legend of Prince Valiant
- France, Canada The Legend of White Fang
- Croatia, Canada The Little Flying Bears
- Canada Little Rosey
- United Kingdom Little Sir Nicholas
- Canada The Littlest Hobo
- Canada
- Canada The Magic Library
- France Marsupilami
- Canada
- Canada
- Japan Medabots
- Australia The Miraculous Mellops
- Australia, New Zealand Mirror, Mirror
- Australia More Winners
- Canada, United States My Pet Monster
- United States The New Adventures of Speed Racer
- United Kingdom, Canada, United States Noddy in Toyland
- United Kingdom Oasis
- Canada The Odyssey
- United States
- Canada
- United Kingdom Panic Station
- United States Pee-wee's Playhouse
- United States
- United Kingdom Pirates
- Italy
- Canada Polka Dot Door
- Yugoslavia, Croatia Professor Balthazar
- Australia Pugwall's Summer
- United States The Puzzle Place
- Canada Ramona
- United States Rambo: The Force of Freedom
- United States The Real Ghostbusters
- United Kingdom The Really Wild Show
- United States, Canada ReBoot
- France Redbeard
- Germany
- United Kingdom
- Canada Return to the Magic Library
- United States Rimba's Island
- United Kingdom Rosie and Jim
- Australia Round the Twist
- Canada Ruffus the Dog
- United Kingdom, Canada Rupert
- Japan, United States Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs
- Canada, France Sea Dogs
- United States Sesame Street
- France, Canada Sharky & George
- New Zealand
- Italy
- United Kingdom Simon and the Witch
- Austria, Germany Simsala Grimm
- United States Skeleton Warriors
- United States, France Sky Dancers
- United States, Japan Skysurfer Strike Force
- France
- Canada, France The Smoggies
- United States, Belgium The Smurfs
- United States, Belgium Snorks
- United Kingdom Sooty & Co.
- France Spartakus & the Sun Beneath the Sea
- United Kingdom Spooks of Bottle Bay
- United States, Canada Star Wars: Droids
- United States, Canada Star Wars: Ewoks
- United States, United Kingdom, France Stone Protectors
- Russia, United States
- Japan The Story of Cinderella
- United Kingdom
- United States Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad
- Canada T. and T.
- United Kingdom, Canada Tales of the Riverbank
- United States Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills
- United States Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Japan, United States The Transformers
- Spain The Triplets
- South Korea, United States Twinkle, the Dream Being
- United Kingdom Uncle Jack
- France, Japan Ulysses 31
- Australia Wonder World!
- United States
- United States Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light
- Canada Waterville Gang
- United Kingdom
- United States
- United States South Korea Widget the World Watcher
- United Kingdom The Wild House
- Australia Winners
- United Kingdom, New Zealand Worzel Gummidge Down Under
- Canada, France Zoe and Charlie
Video games[]
- United Kingdom Cybernet
- United Kingdom Movies, Games and Videos
Talk shows[]
- United States The 700 Club
- United States The Phil Donahue Show
- United States Sally Jesse Raphael
Sci-fi[]
- Canada RoboCop: The Series
- United States VR.5
TV specials[]
- United States The Benny Goodman Special
- United States Frosty's Return
- United States Inspector Gadget Saves Christmas
- United States
- Canada
Reality[]
- United States Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
Game shows[]
- United Kingdom The Alphabet Game
Telefilms[]
- Australia Cassidy
TV movies[]
- United States The Jesse Owens Story
References[]
- ^ Van Slambrouck, Paul (3 February 1984). "South African whites clamor to tune in black TV". The 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.
- ^ Gevisser, Mark (15 March 1996). "The brazen boss of Bop-TV". Mail & Guardian. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
- ^ "New role for 'Bop TV'". News24. 27 November 2003. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
- ^ "Bop TV silenced". News24. 30 May 2003. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
- ^ 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, 13 January 2010
- English-language television stations in South Africa
- Television stations in South Africa
- Television channels and stations established in 1984
- Television channels and stations disestablished in 2003
- Bophuthatswana