Channel 6 (Botojan Islands)

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Channel 6 is a state TV channel of the Botojan Islands.

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The first experimental broadcasts were conducted in 1962 and started in October of the same year, becoming the second television channel in the Botojan Islands. After a few months (around February 1963), the station acquired Channel 8 (currently occupied by BBC Television) which used it as a relay station until an undetermined year.

In 1979, when Damien Tupa became the president, he ordered the closure of Channel 12 and the merger of Alpha Television and Channel 6 to a single state company, Tupist Television System.

With Violet Caroline's triumph in the 1990 elections, Channel 6 became part of the rebranded state television network NTVS until 1997 when it was legally declared in bankruptcy under Arnold Hartunger's government. The station became TV Botojans and closed in March 2002 after a money laundering scam was discovered.

Test broadcasts of Channel 6 started in 2006 and in 2008, the Second Tupa Administration invested heavily in the relaunch of the channel. Its broadcasts resumed operations on September 14, 2011 as a separate operation.