15 Facts About Optus Television

Optus Television is the cable television division of Australian telecommunications company Optus.

Optus Television Vision used the Optus Television telecommunications licence as its authority to build a cable network, which it deployed in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.

Optus Television negotiated exclusive access to AFL, rugby league, and other sports, and had exclusive access to Disney Channel, ESPN and MTV Australia, but lacked the general entertainment channels Foxtel had.

In March 1997, Optus Television bought out the other shareholders in exchange for equity in itself, to float.

In 2009, Optus Television stopped offering service to new subscribers, but maintained it for existing subscribers.

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From February 2011, Optus Television again offered Optus Television TV featuring Foxtel including IQ2 services.

Optus Television utilised this joint venture to initially trial and subsequently offer a basic satellite service, named VIP.

The ability to offer the service came about due to Optus offering a large number of channels to East Coast Television.

Until 2002, Optus Television did not offer the Fox Sports sporting channels on their service as Foxtel and Austar did, instead offering channels from Sportsvision, and ESPN.

Optus Television replaced the C7 channels with an Optus Television rebadged version of Fox Sports.

On 13 July 2016, Optus Television launched Optus Television Sport, a group of sports channels that were established to televise the Premier League.

Some time, Optus has not explicitly released subscriber numbers for their Optus Television service, however combining them with other services offered under the division of which Optus Television is a part.

Since that time, Optus has repositioned its television service to being a major component of bundled services, rather than a service by itself.

Optus Television was required to have a number of channels that were unique to their service, though the flagged channels are now available on both platforms without any change in regulation nor penalty.

Optus Television is believed to be permitting wholesale access to the network so third party broadcasters can sell subscription services over Optus Television cable.