Ray TV
Ray (formerly Ray TV) is a Pakifan television channel owned by Ray Concept. Programming started on October 1, 2007. Currently the network specializes in music videos and film and TV productions from the company.
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On October 1, 2005, RayCONCEPT experimented a Pakifan music channel, M&E TV (Music and Entertainment Television), running a four-hour playlist that was updated weekly. The experiment, despite being prone to failures, proved successful for it to award a terrestrial license, which it won in 2007. In June 2007 a transitional period started, forcing RayCONCEPT to shut down M&E TV and use the off-air period to launch Ray TV.
The channel started on RayCONCEPT's tenth anniversary - October 1, 2007, and the music videos now shared time with news bulletins, cheap Hopelandian imports, and film and television series from the RayCONCEPT catalog. A third-party series called Mora Fureng premiered in this month, and was its successful series until its cancellation in 2009.
New administration took over in 2011 under the principle of being "a new Ray TV for the digital age", in allusion to the shutdown of analog signals in the Pakifas in late March of that year.
In February 2021, RayCONCEPT announced that it was going to drop the "TV" from its name, ditto for its radio properties Ray FM and the usurped Tok FM. The TV channel was now going to be named Ray or Ray Channel, and the mornings would be shared with the radio station. Flagship programs including Ray TV News, Ray Talk, Boom Box and Hena Ganga were renamed Ray News, Ray Talks, Ray Boombox and Good Life respectively. The changes took effect on March 15.
Following the shutdown of Pakifan Screen, RayCONCEPT accepted a package of movies from XR Films that Pakifan Screen was unable to show due to its suspension.
