So because you haven't seen any news form my country, I shouldn't say the fact about NTA. AIT is a good channel but NTA is not good at all.

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SLBS.

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"The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence."

"A river does not run through a forest without bringing down trees".

I just bumped onto this thread, and can you believe I was just discussing the same topic with a young Ghanian guy who's doing his placement in my office.

Now, before we can say which station is best, I have to say there seem to be nothing else to put out there as far as independent African television content is concerned, from the producers and owners of these 3 stations that is. Although that is my opinion, but if you dedicate 2 hours of non-stop time watching these 3 channels by flicking back and forth, you will notice that they are all showing the same thing, talk shows, music videos and religion. They don't have anything else to offer.

For Passion, that is all they show (heavy on the music videos and recently with that Gilbert Deya pastor guy). For BEN, same thing plus the swicth to AIT, which should be a good thing but all that 'keeping abreast of what's going on home back home' has become tired now since the news on AIT and NTA are always about one committee or the other, 'proposing a government initiative...', or 'setting up a panel...', or talking to some minister after spear-heading yet another government initiative...?, with words like 'infrastructure' and 'economic development'. All that **** is as boring as Middle East peace talks!

As for OBE, they seem to have a bit of structure and vision to balance the programs so that it caters for all, but even so they are struggling to fill up air time, coming back to my argument of putting out all there is to put out.

I flick and surf around the 3 channels, and with the exception of Intro and Black Variety Show on OBE, Bisi Olatilo Show and Nigeria International on BEN, and whatever catches my attention (which is rare) on Passion, I find myself tuning to Revelation TV, a Christian station on channel 676, which although is a religious station, seem to appeal to me as what a proper independent TV station should be.

They have good wholesome programs, same talk shows and music shows (although 99% gospel) but they have documentaries (remember them?) and a whole lot more. They have a mix of presenters from all countries from Ghana, UK, India and Nigeria with Kayode Tijani hosting their sports program. Kayode ironically left BEN TV just like DJ Abass and Ronke because of personal issues and their programs are gaining new heights at their respective new stations.

If Revelation TV gets too religious for me (they're not so 'in your face' though), I can switch to LoveWorld TV owned by Pastor Chris Oyakhilome from Nigeria and entertain myself with his shiny white suits and hilarious 'Performance Preaching'.

Praise the Lord!

2nd Bass Jare

OBE's much more professional.

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A Beautiful Child of God

That description is so spot-on!

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Definitely, it's the best African channel we've got in the UK.

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"The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence."

"A river does not run through a forest without bringing down trees".

Passion TV is the most useless and boring. I don't think I've spent 1 hour watching Passion TV since it was opened.

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"The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence."

"A river does not run through a forest without bringing down trees".