E.tv

e.tv

Country	South Africa
Broadcast area	Sub-Saharan Africa (as e.tv Africa)
Headquarters	Cape Town
Programming
Language(s)	English Afrikaans Nguni Sotho
Picture format	1080i HDTV (downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SDTV feed)
Ownership
Owner	Hosken Consolidated Investments (via an 80.3% ownership of subsidiary eMedia Investments)
Sister channels	eToonz eMovies eExtra eMovies Extra eReality eNCA eSERIES ePlesier News and Sports
History
Launched	1 October 1998; 26 years ago (1998-10-01)
Links
Website	www.etv.co.za
Availability
Terrestrial
Sentech	Channel depends on nearest repeater
OpenView HD	Channel 104
GOtv	Channel 120 (eAfrica feed) until 31 March 2022
DStv	Channel 194
Zuku TV	Channel 126 (eAfrica feed) until 31 March 2022

e.tv (commonly referred to on-air as e) is the first and only privately owned free-to-air television station in South Africa. Founded in 1998, the company is headquartered in Cape Town.

It is the fifth terrestrial television channel in the country, following three channels that are operated by the state-owned South African Broadcasting Corporation (that is SABC 1, SABC 2 and SABC 3) and the privately owned subscription-funded M-Net.

In 1997, the e.tv channel bought the broadcasting rights to broadcast English Premier League (EPL) matches and, later on, they also bought the rights to broadcast UEFA Champions League matches.

After South Africa's 4 free-to-air SABC channels, e.tv is the most-watched network in the country, according to data from satellite TV provider DStv.^[1]