X-Pat TV 1 was the first of XP TV Global’s TV stations, and is primarily a music channel.
Given our central aim of providing an English-speaking global service, most of the music and musicians we feature are from the UK & US.
Vintage TV and Movies. The best of UK & US comedy, drama, and documentaries from the 40’s to the 90’s.
Remember the good old days when you could watch one channel all night and still catch all your favourites? That was the brief for XPTV2 – A good old fashioned TV station with all the best classic TV in one place, like BBC, ITV, ABC, and CBS used to be.
Featuring classic old TV like Benny Hill, The Flintstones, The Addams Family, with evenings full of great sitcom and drama, and The Dukes Of Hazzard every afternoon.
A “binge watch” channel full of the very best of US TV drama and comedy 24/7
On this channel we play full seasons of some of the best US TV series back-to-back.
From great adventure shows like Charlie’s Angels and The A-Team, to classic sitcoms like Cheers! and Happy Days.
Now Playing: Cagney & Lacey
A tribute to all the best British comedy including The Two Ronnies, Morecambe & Wise, Black Adder, The Vicar Of Dibley, and lots more.
And don’t forget all your favourite Carry On movies back-to-back every Saturday.
A brand new music channel, playing anthems for all, 24/7.
Party in the day ,or dance the night away. Pop World TV is based on popular music artists from around the globe.
Whether you fancy a little Madonna, a touch of Jessie J, or anything from High School Musical to the Cha Cha Slide then we have you covered.
Like the majority of the best ideas, the initial concept for an ex-pat community TV network began with two friends conversing in a bar over a beer. About ten years have passed since then, and the technology was truly unaffordable at the time.
The majority of users were still using ADSL, and since fiber Internet was still in its infancy, upload speeds were too slow to broadcast videos over regular connections. Videophone communications at relatively low resolutions remained the only option for any type of affordable video broadcast software. Those barriers were too great for all the inebriated ideas in the world.
In order to work towards the TV channels we truly desired, X-Pat Radio (XPR1 and XPR2) was created.
Over the following few years, we kept up with developments in video streaming technology and created a system that would enable us to broadcast HD video from our own servers. We were finally able to begin test broadcasts on XPTV1 towards the end of 2019.
The COVID-19 lockdowns gave us a chance that had never been seen before. We realized that everyone else, like us, was stranded at home, begging for entertainment, In addition to that we were all bored and had nothing to do. That provided us with the impetus and time we needed to launch XPTV1, the first community music TV channel in history. We had two stations operating by the time the second round of lockdowns started in November 2020, including XPTV2, which expanded our lineup to include general entertainment programming.
Since then, we have continued to add new stations like XPTV US and XPTV UK, built this site to bring all of the stations together, and started working with other new stations like Popworld, RTV, and AroundSounds. Our next station, coming soon, will be XPTV SyTek, a science, technology, and SciFi channel. Once that station goes on air we’ll be changing the XPTV2 line-up and moving that channel more towards vintage comedy and drama, and away from its current primetime line-up of SciFi. When that happens, if you’re missing your daily dose of Stargate, Star Trek, and X-Files, just retune to the new XPTV SyTek channel.
Because we are so far ahead of the competition in IPTV broadcasting, we continue to face a number of difficulties. The majority of the technology we require is either unavailable or targeted at large, mainstream broadcasters, who also pay large, mainstream prices. To get to where we are now, we have already had to think “outside the box” and develop a large portion of our technology internally. We are now collaborating with software development partners to develop a basic broadcast automation and asset management system that is both inexpensive and easy to implement for small community stations. We will be able to advance our program scheduling as a result.
As more small IPTV stations follow our example and go online globally, the problem of content licensing is another one that truly needs attention. Since the system hasn’t been adequately updated since last century, video broadcasting still lacks ideal licensing options because it is firmly entrenched in the BBC/ITV/Videotape era. While new online licensing agreements with PRS, PPS, and MCPS have allowed community and online radio to advance, the majority of TV, movie, and video rights are still controlled by individual production companies, which only really ends up making money for copyright attorneys. Small broadcasters lose out, content creators lose out, and individuals like us wind up wasting excessive amounts of time pursuing executives from production companies who, to be honest, have better things to do and, in any case, frequently lack the knowledge about the vintage programming we wish to screen.