BEN Television is a British

United Kingdom

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 television channel

Television channel

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 launched in 2003, aimed mainly at expatriate Africa

Africa

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ns living in Europe

Europe

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 and north Africa

North Africa

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. According to its official website "The BEN ethos is, 'safe family viewing and empowering communities'." The channel is free to air on Sky.

As well as home-grown programming and Nollywood film

Film

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s the channel also carries several hours of programming every day from NTA

Nigerian Television Authority

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On 3 September 2007, channel 146 on the EPG was taken over by Zone Media (now Chello Zone) with the channel Zone Romantica

Zone Romantica

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being launched. This meant that BEN TV is no longer broadcast on that channel number and has therefore been moved to its BEN TV 2 slot of channel 194.

Alistair Soyode is the founder and chairman of Ben Television he is happily married with 3 children.out of the three children the youngest is 11 the oldest is 16 and there are two girls one boy. There names are Rachel(11),Daniel(13) and Lizzie(16).

As part of BEN TV's corporate social responsibility, the social enterprise Bright Entertainment Network Community Enterprise (BENCE)was created. BENCE http://www.bence.org.uk works to support local communities and societies in engaging with the industry through various initiatives.