GTV (Gotswana)

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Gotswanian Television (commonly referred to as GTV) is a Gotswanian free-to-air commercial television channel owned by GTV Studios Limited. It was launched at 9pm GCT on 4th July 1946, making it the first free-to-air television channel in the United Federation. It mainly broadcasts entertainment content and comedy content, though usually late at night. It also has a late night block: GTV After Party which broadcasts from 11pm-5am, and shows content usually not suitable for children.

Sister Channels
GTV has 3 sister channels:


 * GTV Arena: archived content from GTV past
 * GTV Play: original and ground breaking content
 * GTV Plus: Similar to GTV Arena

“Alien” Hijacking (1973)
On 9th September 1973, at around 5.45am, during a Loony Tunes cartoon, viewers who were watching on a certain kind of satellite dish heard a strange message coming through their TV’s. The picture was distorted as well, with the GTV ident playing throughout and adverts clouding over the Loony Toons episode. The alien, which had a Southern English accent, incidentally said it was head of Galactic Command, and had come to Earth to ask us to give up our weapons of mass destruction. GTV swiftly informed viewers that the broadcast was definitely a hoax, and we weren’t actually being contacted by some sort of extraterrestrial being. Eerily though, the hoaxer was never caught, and there are some people who think the broadcast was a genuine alien.