Burton TV Tentoria

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Burton TV Tentoria is an overseas unit of the Burton Television Network operated by Robert Addison, but not directly by the Burton Group by means of a figurehead entity. The channel has terrestrial coverage in much of Tentoria and produces its content in English and Swahili.

The channel broadcasts regular commercial programming from 7am to 11pm (11:30am to 12am on Sundays) with FRC programming for Tentoria filling in the rest of the lineup.

History[edit | edit source]

There is conflictive data about the start of Burton Television in Tentoria, some sources say 1997, other sources say 1998. The station was one of the first commercial networks to emerge in Tentoria, after the start of ITV in 1994 (the channel broke 25 years of TBC monopoly).

During its first years its local productions were limited to a news bulletin and copious amounts of FRC programming, including some imports that were also seen in the network in Bensonia, likely by means of a loophole. Eyewitness accounts recall that, in the early 2000s, Burton TV also had the Tentorian rights to air Pokémon (the series first aired in Bensonia on Burton Television in 1999).

In the 2000s, it became the first Tentorian television network to broadcast much of its output online through its website and key social media platforms.

Programming[edit | edit source]

The bulk of its commercial lineup is bilingual, mostly taken from the parent network in Bensonia.

The channel's Swahili news, Burton Habari, runs at 7pm, preceding the 7:30pm hour-long bulletin in English (Burton News at 7:30). Burton TV Tentoria is unique as it's the only major television channel whose English-language news operation is given more airtime than the Swahili language that dominates television news in the country.

Much of the FRC programming is in English with very limited programming produced in Swahili.

The channel also airs Latin Sierran telenovelas, in English.

Carriage[edit | edit source]