Belize TV Stations & Channels
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Belize has a very short TV
History. The Television entered Belize in
late 1970's with the VHS playback machines.
Broadcast of international TV signals via
cable hook-up began in the early 1980's,
when Baymen Broadcasting began recording and
airing variety shows and local parades.
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Today Belize
has 3 National TV Stations and many Local TV
Channels. If you miss the broadcast, many
channels offering Streaming Video and some
of the local Channels are only on the local
Cable or in the Internet available.
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Belize National TV Stations
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Channel
5
Channel 5 airs mostly American and Caribbean
programs and locally produced programs like
Duets, a variety competition from Bliss
Center.
Channel
5 Belize
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Channel 7
Channel 7
is based in in Belize City and usually
more critical on the Government with
hard-hitting analysis of national issues.
Channel
7
News Belize
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Plus TV
PlusTV is
a Christian based television station,
launched in Belmopan on 2005. PlusTV is
Belize's third largest television station.
Plus
TV Belize
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Remind:
Belize TV
stations do not broadcast news on holidays
or weekends. Apart from 30 minutes of
local news and commercials from Monday to
Friday.
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Local TV Channels
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In Belize,
local cable-only television stations
broadcasting 24 hours a day. The most of the
programs are ads with a playback of the
local radio station, together with local
annoucements or local news.
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- Channel
3
from Orange Walk with News
- Krem
Television
from Belize City, with WUB Wake up
Belize and a lot of music
- Love
Belize
from Belize City, with News and the Love
FM Morning Show
- San
Pedro Channel 7
From San Pedro, with the Morning Show
and local events
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Cable TV
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Belizeans are obsessive about TV.
Cable TV is widely available in all towns
and cities; including the suburbs. Cable
television rates in Belize average 20US$ a
month and these generally include about 90
television channels with all the goodies
such as HBO, Cinemax, SyFy, Showtime, STARZ
and of course ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC and FOX.
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The local cable operators also
throw in Arab, British, Mexican, Indian and
Chinese and Pay Per View Channels for good
measure.
Cable Network
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Location
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Service
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Centauer
Cable
Network
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Orange
Walk area, Corozal
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70+ TV Channel |
Central
Cable Vision
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Belize City, Belmopan,
San Ignacio, Benque
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120+ TV Channel
Internet Access
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Coral
Cable
Vision
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San
Pedro, Ambergris Caye
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80+ TV Channel
Internet Access
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Dangriga Cable Vision |
Dangriaga area
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70+ TV Channel |
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Satellite TV in Belize
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If you stay out of town, too far
to get cable or insist on that high
definition signal with Dolby surround sound
you cannot yet get from local cable, there
is satellite TV. The advantage to being so
close to North America, the satellite
footprint of most television signals covers
Belize with excellent signal quality.
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C-Band is
widely available as are Direct TV and Dish
Network. You need usually at least a six
foot dish is required for good
performance. Real satellite TV aficionados
however go the extra mile and import 8 and
even 10 foot dishes for non compromise TV
reception, even in strong rain.
Fore those moving to Belize we strongly
recommend that you bring your own
satellite TV receivers. It's cheaper to
purchase them in the USA and then just pay
the local dealer to provide the dish and
setup.
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Guide to Belize, March 2024
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