Viasat 1

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Viasat 1

Country	Ghana
Headquarters	Accra
Programming
Language(s)	English, (UK)
Ownership
Owner	Modern Times Group
History
Launched	December 12, 2008
Links
Website	Viasat1 Website
Availability

Viasat 1 was a Ghanaian television channel owned by the Swedish listed media group, Modern Times Group (MTG). It was re-branded to in 2016.

The channel was awarded a licence from the National Communications Authority of the Republic of Ghana in December 2007 and started broadcasting on December 12, 2008, on 6 p.m. The first programme on the channel was the movie Duma, followed by The Cosby Show, Friends and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.^[1]

Viasat 1 was MTG's first venture in Africa and became the fifth terrestrial television network in Ghana after GTV, Metro TV, TV3 and TV Africa. In December 2016, MTG sold African business (Viasat 1 (Ghana), TV1 (Tanzania) and Modern African Production (MAP)) to .

Programs[]

Before the channel was sold Viasat 1 broadcast the following programs:

Series[]

• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
• CSI: NY
• CSI: Miami
• Ghost Whisperer
• The Firm
• Grey's Anatomy
• The Walking Dead
• NCIS: Los Angeles
• Bones

Kids[]

• Action Man
• Supa Strikas
• X-Men
• Gormiti
• Oscar's Oasis
• Kassai and Luk
• Men in Black
• Bernard
• Dex Hamilton: Alien Entomologist
• Hannah Montana

Talk shows[]

• The Oprah Winfrey Show
• The One Show

Game shows[]

Sitcoms[]

• Friends
• The Bernie Mac Show
• Girlfriends
• The Game
• Everybody Hates Chris
• Pair of Kings
• Two and a half men

Drama[]

• Generations
• Jozi
• Hard Copy
• Tinsel
• Los Querendones
• Grey's Anatomy
• Tormenta en el paraiso
• Pasión de Gavilanes
• Eva Luna
• Soy tu dueña
• La que no podia amar
• Alma Indomable
• En Nombre del Amor
• Un Refugio para el Amor
• Dahil May Isang Ikaw
• Sa Piling Mo
• Una Maid en Manhattan
• Sacrificio de Mujer

Reality shows[]

• America's Next Top Model

Lifestyle[]

Sports[]

• The World Game
• Sport Science
• Premier League
• Serie A

References[]

External links[]

• Viasat 1 Blog