Editing Telecommunications in Bermuda (section)

==Television==
*[[Television]] broadcast stations: 2 (2014) ZFB Channel 7, ZBM Channel 9

Since 2014, the Bermuda Broadcasting Company (BBC, not to be confused with the [[BBC]] in the mainland UK) is the sole company operating television stations on Bermuda. It operates [[ZBM-TV]] channel 9, a [[CBS]] affiliate, and [[ZFB-TV]] channel 7, an [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] affiliate. Until 2014, there was a third station on the island, [[VSB-TV]] channel 11, an [[NBC]] affiliate, owned by the locally based DeFontes Group. All of these television stations are commercial - there is no equivalent to the US's [[PBS]], and the UK's [[BBC]] in Bermuda.  Another TV station, Fresh Creations, is a community TV station.  Another channel, called Look TV, is primarily a rolling calendar of events.  There is also a Government information service channel, which highlights history and current event programmes produced by the Government's information department.

All five TV channels are transmitted over the air, however most residents use cable for reception.

In recent years, there had been talk [http://www.theroyalgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060323/NEWS/103230127&SearchID=73240951740102][http://www.theroyalgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060310/MIDOCEAN/103100145&SearchID=73240951740102][http://www.theroyalgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060302/NEWS/103020108&SearchID=73240951740102] in the Bermudian government of creating its own TV station, saying that it is needed "to speak directly to the public 'in an unmediated and unedited fashion'"[http://www.theroyalgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060302/NEWS/103020108&SearchID=73240951740102], while critics state that it will be no more than a propaganda exercise.

Satellite television is also used, but was unreliable when the only satellites available are those mainly servicing the [[United States|United States of America]], [[Canada]], [[Latin America]] and placed on the edge of the reception area. In 2013, Bermuda started their own telecommunication industry when it obtained the [[EchoStar VI|Bermudasat 1 (former private American EchoStar VI)]] satellite that was moved to Bermuda's owned geostationary point at 96.2° West.

Digital TV cable is available, as is wireless.