High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Oceania Broadcasting Network (also known as OBN, or by its call letters A3M-TV 7) is a Tongan free-to-air television station, privately owned by Christopher Racine. and operated by members of the Tokaikolo Christian Fellowship. It began operating in 1991. OBN was officially opened by King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV on September 29, 1991. It was the second TV station broadcasting in NTSC to operate in the Kingdom, initially running in direct competition against rival Tongan TV channel ASTL TV3, before the latter ceased operations in 1993.