FBC TV is an entertainment and news channel based in Fiji broadcasting in English, Hindi and Fijian.
The government enacted a Television (Cross-Carriage of Designated Events) Decree to strip away exclusive sports content owned by Fiji TV and make those lucrative content available to the financially struggling FBC TV, headed by Riyaz Saiyed-Khaiyum, its chief executive officer.
FBC 2 would provide viewers with content from other parts of the world which Fijians could not access on free-to-air television.
For example, if the Indian soap opera Pavitra Rishta had aired on FBC TV at 12:00 p.m, FBC Plus would air the same show at 3:00 p.m. After a successful trial of the Digital Television platform in the Suva - Nasinu corridor, the country's first Digital TV platform, Walesi was launched on the 25th of June 2018, by the Attorney General, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum in his portfolio as Minister for Communications.
The Digital Television service is encrypted/scrambled and requires a Walesi provided set top box everytime, to view all the encrypted/scrambled (marked by $) channels, even "free-to-air" (really free-to-view) ones, making televisions already in stores with built-in DVB-T2 tuners with MPEG-4/H.264 video codec support for UHF antennas useless, as Walesi does not have any digital receiver (flat screen) Fiji specifications or certification (like Freeview used in Australia and New Zealand) to support Integrated Digital Television (iDTV) unlike most other countries.