| TV3 Ghana | |
| Launch Date: | 1997 |
| Network: | TV3 |
| Owner: | Media General Ghana Limited |
| Country: | Ghana |
| Area: | Ghana |
| Headquarters: | Accra, Ghana |
| Website: | http://www.3news.com |
TV3 is a Ghanaian free-to-air television network in Ghana.[1] Launched in 1997 by Malaysian company Sistem Televisyen Malaysia Berhad,[2] TV3 airs and produces a variety of television programmes including news bulletins, dramas and reality television and entertainment shows. It was taken over by a Ghanaian company called Media General Ghana Limited in 2011.
TV3 Ghana established itself as the most watched free-to-air television station in Ghana, having achieved 65% nationwide penetration at end-2006 and aiming to reach 90% by 2008. TV3 is a privately owned TV station in Ghana.[3]
However, TV3 has experienced major competition in the likes of Metro TV which has succeeded not only in broadcasting its network to all the regions in the country but it also struck a deal with South Africa's MultiChoice allowing it to be broadcast throughout Africa. Despite this, TV3 remains popular for its showing of Mexican telenovelas, Korean series and music and a variety of local and foreign movies.[4]
The channel was created in 1996 by TV3 Malaysia's overseas unit Amity Valley Sdn Bhd from the takeover of the Ghana Film Unit for the price of US$1.4 million over a period of fifteen years, divesting the unit from the government. The GFU had existed as far back as 1948.[2] Broadcasts started the following year.
By December 2001, TV3 Malaysia's Amity Valley was pressuring Eddie Addo to buy almost a third of the channel's shares..[5]
See main article: List of programs broadcast by TV3 (Ghana).