the company previously operated as a christian-oriented television provider carrying religious and family-oriented programming, first as a satellite television service, and later as an over-the-top internet television provider. the shift to an iptv platform was later accompanied by the spin-off of the provider's secular offerings into a second service known as fave tv. on january 14, 2014, sky angel ceased its iptv business, citing that because it didn't fall under the traditional legal definition of a multichannel video programming distributor, it was unable to employ legal remedies for its allegations that broadcasters were discriminating against its business model by preventing carriage of their channels.