Tonfön Television is aTonganpay TV service commencing in 2002, offering seven 24-hour channels of movies, news, sport and entertainment. Among the channels available areABC Asia Pacific,BBC World,Fox News, in addition to four locally programmed channels, which include a sports channel, a family channel, a documentary/current affairs channel, and a movie channel.[1]
Since November 2005, Tonfön TV has found itself facing stiff competition from a rival pay TV company,Sky Pacific, which offers more channels and a wider variety of programming to Tongan viewers. Tonfön announced that it would launch a seventh channel, a relay of Fox News, as its third relayed channel.[2] In 2006, its subscribers were deprived of some 2006 Federated Shield matches due to negotiation issues with rights holder IMG Media.[3] With the acquisition ofTonfön byDigicel, the service was replaced by Digicel's.[4]
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