Timeline of the introduction of television in countries

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A map showing when television was introduced in each country.
  1939 and before
  1940s
  1950s
  1960s
  1970s
  1980s
  1990s
  2000 and after
  No television
  No data

This is a list of when the first publicly announced television broadcasts occurred in the mentioned countries. Non-public field tests and closed circuit demonstrations are not included.

This list should not be interpreted to mean the whole of a country had television service by the specified date. For example, the United States, Great Britain, Germany, and the former Soviet Union all had operational television stations and a limited number of viewers by 1939. Very few cities in each country had television service. Television broadcasts were not yet available in most places.

History

1920s and 1930s

Year Countries and territories
1928  United States (mechanical television, experimental - W2XCW)[1]
1929  United Kingdom (mechanical, experimental),[2] Germany Germany (mechanical, experimental),[3]  Australia (mechanical, experimental, after hours on two existing Melbourne radio stations - 3UZ and 3DB),[4][5][6]  Netherlands (mechanical, experimental in Scheveningen)[7]
1931  France (mechanical, experimental),  Canada (mechanical, experimental - VE9EC),  Soviet Union (mechanical, experimental - МТЦ),  Siam (mechanical, experimental, cancelled because of the revolution)
1934  Australia (electronic television, experimental, Brisbane)[8]
1935  Germany (intermediate film; semi-electronic),  France (electronic - PTT Radio Vision),  Netherlands (electronic, experimental in Eindhoven by Philips)[7]
1936  United Kingdom (electronic - BBC Television Service),  Germany (electronic television - Deutscher Fernseh Rundfunk),[9]
1937  Free City of Danzig (electronic, experimental),[10] Poland Poland (mechanical, experimental), (Doświadczalna Stacja Telewizyjna)[11]
1938  Soviet Union (electronic, experimental - CT USSR),  Turkey (electronic, experimental)
1939  Chile (experimental),  Japan (electronic, experimental - J2PQ),[12][13] Kingdom of Italy Italy (electronic, experimental - EIAR Trasmissioni Sperimentali Radiovisione),[14]  Peru (electronic, experimental),[15] Poland Poland (electronic, experimental),[11]  United States (electronic; experimental and non-commercial until 1941 - NBC)

1940s

Year Countries and territories
1941  United States ( New York,  Delaware,  New Jersey,  Connecticut, regular commercial telecasts (WNBT)),  Pennsylvania (WPTZ))
1943 Nazi Germany Occupied France (Fernsehsender Paris)
1944  France (returned, RDF Télévision française)
1945  Soviet Union (returned, CT USSR),[16]  United States ( Washington, D.C., experimental (W3XWT))
1946  United States ( Iowa, experimental (KRNT),  Illinois (WBKB),  Washington, D.C. (WTTG)),  United Kingdom (returned, BBC),[17]  Philippines (experimental, BEC),  Mexico (experimental)[18]
1947  United States ( California (KTLA),  Maryland (WTTG),  Michigan (WWDT),  Missouri (KSD-TV),  Wisconsin (WTMJ-TV),  Ohio (WEWS-TV))
1948  Czechoslovakia (experimental),[19]  United States ( Washington (KRSC-TV),  Virginia (WTVR-TV),  Massachusetts (WBZ-TV),  New Mexico (KOB-TV),  Kentucky (WAVE-TV),  Louisiana (WDSU-TV),  Minnesota (KSTP-TV),  Texas (WBAP-TV),  Tennessee (WMCT),  Utah (KDYL-TV),  San Francisco (KPIX-TV)),  Canada (experimental),  Brazil (experimental, Rede Tupi)
1949  United States ( Alabama (WAFM-TV),  Arizona (KPHO-TV),  Missouri (WDAF-TV),  Iowa (WOC-TV),  Oklahoma (WKY-TV),  North Carolina (WBTV),  Florida (WTVJ),  Rhode Island (WJAR),  Georgia (WSB-TV),  Indiana (WFBM-TV)),  Italy (experimental),  Denmark (experimental)

1950s

Year Countries and territories
1950  United States (Iowa Des Moines (WOI-TV), Tennessee Nashville (WSM-TV)),   Switzerland (experimental),  West Germany (experimental, NWDR),  Mexico (official, XHTV-TV),  Japan (returned, electronic, experimental, NHK),  Brazil ( São Paulo) (Rede Tupi, now defunct)),[20]  Cuba (CMQ-TV)
1951  Denmark (DR),[21]  Netherlands (NTS),[7]  Argentina (LR3 TV),  Mexico (XEW-TV),  Brazil ( Rio de Janeiro (Rede Tupi, now defunct[22])),  Mexico ( Tamaulipas (XELD-TV), now defunct)[23]
1952  United States ( Colorado (KBTV),  Hawaii (KGMB),  Oregon (KPTV), Spokane Spokane (KHQ-TV)),  Turkey (İTÜ TV, now defunct),  Chile (sporadically until 1959),  Dominican Republic (La Voz Dominicana),  Thailand (experimental),[24]  Canada ( Quebec (CBFT), Canada Ontario (CBLT)),  United Kingdom ( Scotland (BBC TV Service Scotland)),  Venezuela (YVKA-TV, now defunct), Poland Poland (returned, TV Polska),  East Germany (experimental and regular programming, DFF),  West Germany (full service, NWDR-Fernsehen),  Mexico (XHGC-TV)
1953  Japan (returned, NHK),   Switzerland (German television, SRG),  Canada ( Ottawa (CBOT),  British Columbia (CBUT)),  United States ( Arkansas (KRTV), California Fresno (KMJ-TV),  Idaho (KFXD-TV),  Nevada (KLAS-TV),  Kansas (KTVH),  North Dakota (KCJB-TV),  South Dakota (KELO-TV),  Maine (WABI-TV),  Montana (KXLF-TV)),  Mexico ( Baja California (XETV)),[25]  Czechoslovakia (experimental),  United Kingdom ( Northern Ireland, (BBC TV Service NI) programmes started in 1955.),  Philippines (thru ABS (DZAQ-TV), now ABS-CBN Corporation),  Belgium (INR - NIR),[26]  Saar (Telesaar, went defunct in 1958.),  Alaska (KATV, now defunct)
1954  Italy (official, Programma Nazionale), Bulgaria Bulgaria (experimental, MEI),  Czechoslovakia (ČST),  Puerto Rico (WKAQ-TV),   Switzerland (French television, Télévision Genevoise),  Colombia (HJRN-TV),  United States ( New Hampshire (WMUR-TV),  Vermont (WMVT),  Wyoming (KFBC-TV)),  Portugal (Lajes Field (Channel 8, first AFRTS television station)),[27]  Canada ( Manitoba (CBWT),  Saskatchewan (CKCK-TV),  Alberta (CHCT-TV), Canada New Brunswick (CHSJ-TV),  Nova Scotia (CJCB-TV)),  Australia (experimental, ABC),[28]  Norway (experimental, NRK),  Monaco (TMC - first microstate to have a native channel),  Latvian SSR (LTV),  Mexico ( Chihuahua (XEJ-TV)), Morocco French Morocco (Telma, went defunct shortly after)[29]
1955  Estonian SSR (TTV),  Finland (test programming, TV-kerho),[30]  Guatemala (TGW-TV, now defunct),  Brazil ( Minas Gerais (TV Itacolomi, now defunct[31])),  United Kingdom ( Guernsey,  Jersey (BBC)),  Luxembourg (Télé-Luxembourg), Romania Romania (experimental),  Saudi Arabia (experimental and regular programming, AJL-TV), now defunct),  Thailand (official) (Thai T.V.),  Austria (ORF Fernsehen),  Canada (United Kingdom Newfoundland And Labrador (CJON-TV))
1956  Australia ( New South Wales (TCN),  Victoria (HSV)), France French Algeria (RTF Television Algiers),[32]  Armenian SSR (Armenian Television),  Azerbaijan SSR (Baku Television Studio),  Byelorussian SSR (Belarusian Television),  Canada ( Prince Edward Island (CFCY-TV)),  El Salvador (YSEB-TV),[33]  Finland (regular programming, TES-TV, now defunct),[30]  Guam (KUAM-TV),  Georgian SSR (1TV), Iraq Iraq (Baghdad Television, now defunct and replaced by Al-Iraqiya TV),  Nicaragua (YNSA-TV),[34] Romania Romania (TVR),  South Korea (HLKZ-TV), Spain Spain (TVE),  Panama Canal Zone (CFN),[35]  Portugal (experimental, RTP),  Sweden, (Radiotjänst TV),  Ukrainian SSR (regular programming, Ukrainske Telebachennia),  Uruguay (Canal 10),  Uzbek SSR (Oʻzbekiston),  Yugoslavia ( SR Croatia (RTV Zagreb))[36]
1957  Portugal (full service, RTP),  Lithuanian SSR (TV Vilnius),[37] British Hong Kong Hong Kong (Rediffusion Television),[38] Hungary Hungary (MTV), Malta Malta,[39]  Chile (UCV Televisión), Cyprus Cyprus (RIK)
1958  Bermuda (ZBM-TV),  China (Peking Television),  Kazakh SSR (Almaty Television Studio),  Moldavian SSR (TVM),  Iran (Iran's National TV),  Peru (Channel 7),  Czechoslovakia (ČST Bratislava),   Switzerland (Italian television, TSI),  United Kingdom ( Wales, TWW),[40]  Yugoslavia ( SR Serbia (RTV Belgrade),  SR Slovenia (RTV Ljubljana)),  Malaya (mechanical, experimental)
1959  Brazil ( Rio Grande do Sul (TV Piratini, now defunct[41])), Bulgaria Bulgaria (Bulgarian Television),  Chile (full service, Canal 2 UC),  Ecuador (RTS),  Haiti (Télé Haïti),  Honduras (HRTG-TV),  India (Doordarshan TV),  Kirghiz SSR (regular programming, KTRK),  Lebanon (Télé Liban), Nigeria Nigeria (WNTV), United States Ryukyu Islands (KSDW-TV),[42]  Tajik SSR (Shabakai Yakum),  Turkmen SSR (Turkmen Television),  Australia ( Queensland (QTQ), South Australia (NWS),  Western Australia (TVW))

1960s

Year Countries and territories
1960 Albania Albania (RTSH),  Australia ( Tasmania (TVT)),  Brazil ( Distrito Federal (TV Brasília),  Paraná (TV Paranaense),  Bauru (TV Bauru),  Bahia (TV Itapoan),  Pernambuco (TV Jornal do Commercio),  Ceará (TV Ceará, now defunct[43])),  Panama (RPC),  Costa Rica (Teletica),  New Zealand (NZBC TV),  United Arab Republic (Egyptian Television Network) and (Channel 1),[44] Netherlands Antilles Netherlands Antilles (PJC-TV),  Norway (full service, NRK),  Greece (experimental, PPC),  Southern Rhodesia (Federal Broadcasting Corporation)
1961  Northern Rhodesia (Federal Broadcasting Corporation),  United States Virgin Islands (WBNB-TV, now defunct),  Brazil ( Goiás (TV Rádio Clube (TV Goyá) [pt]),  Espírito Santo (TV Vitória [pt]),  Pará (TV Marajoara [pt], now defunct[45])),  Kuwait (Kuwait Television),  Ireland (Telefís Éireann),[46]  Yugoslavia ( SR Bosnia (RTV Sarajevo))
1962 Republic of the Congo Congo-Brazzaville (Télé Congo), Kenya Kenya (KBC), Malta Malta (MTV),[47]  Indonesia (TVRI),[48]  Australia ( Australian Capital Territory (CTC)),  Sierra Leone (SLBS),  Taiwan (TTV),[49]  Trinidad and Tobago (TTT),  Gibraltar (GBC),[50]  Sudan (SNBC),  Ethiopia (ETV),  Antigua and Barbuda, (ZAL-TV)
1963  North Korea (CTBS-DPRK),  Gabon (RTG),  Brazil ( Maranhão (TV Difusora)),  Malaysia (TV Malaysia),[51]  Singapore (TV Singapura Channel 5),  Jamaica (JBC, now defunct),  Uganda (UTV),  Upper Volta (Volta Vision),  Ivory Coast (RTI)
1964  American Samoa (KVZK-TV),  Barbados (ZNX-TV), Pakistan East Pakistan (Pilot Television Dhaka),  Ethiopia (Ethiopian Television), France Guadeloupe (ORTF Guadeloupe [fr]),  Liberia (LBC), France Martinique (ORTF Martinique [fr]), Mauritius Mauritius (MBC 1),  Niger (Télévision Scolaire du Niger), Pakistan West Pakistan (PTV),  Karakalpak ASSR (Karakalpak Television),[52] France Réunion (ORTF La Réunion),  Yugoslavia ( SR Macedonia (RTV Skopje),  SR Montenegro (RTV Titograd)), Spain Canary Islands (TVE Canarias [es])
1965  United Kingdom ( Isle of Man (Border Television)),[53] Suriname (Kingdom of the Netherlands) Suriname (trial and regular programming, STVS),  Ghana (GTV), France New Caledonia (ORTF Télé Nouméa [fr]),  Paraguay (TV Cerro Cora),  Saudi Arabia (Al Saudiya, state-owned),  Senegal (RTS), France French Polynesia (ORTF Télé Tahiti),  Brazil ( Mato Grosso (TV Morena))[54]
1966  Zambia (ZNBC),[55]  Cambodia (TVRK), Democratic Republic of the Congo Congo-Kinshasa (RTNC),[56] Greece Greece (EIR),  Tunisia (RTT),  Iceland (Sjónvarpið),  Israel (IETV, went defunct and replaced by Kan Educational),[57]  South Vietnam (THVN, now defunct and replaced by HTV),  Brazil (Brazil Amazonas (TV Manauara [pt], now defunct),  Paraíba (TV Borborema [pt]))
1967 British Hong Kong Hong Kong (TVB), France French Somaliland (RTD), France French Guiana (ORTF Guyane), Mongolia Mongolia (experimental and regular programming, MNTV), France Saint Pierre and Miquelon (ORTF Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon [fr]),  Canada ( Northwest Territories (CFYK-TV)),  Madagascar (RTM),  Saint Lucia (HTS)
1968  Jordan (JTV),  Equatorial Guinea (TVGE),  Libya (Al-Libyah TV),  Canada ( Yukon (CFWH-TV, now defunct))
1969  Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (Saipan,[58] WSZE-TV, now defunct),  Abu Dhabi (now part of United Arab Emirates) (Abu Dhabi TV),  Bolivia (Televisión Boliviana),  Brazil ( Santa Catarina (TV Coligadas))[59]

1970s

Year Countries and territories
1970  Qatar (QTV),  North Vietnam (Independent Television System)
1971  Australia (Australia Northern Territory (ABD)),  Brazil ( Sergipe (TV Sergipe [pt])),  Malaysia ( Sabah (TV Malaysia Sabah))
1972  Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla (ZIZ),  Tanzania ( Zanzibar (TVZ)), Portugal Madeira (RTP Madeira),  Brazil ( Piauí (TV Clube))
1973 British Hong Kong Hong Kong (free-to-air broadcasting service, RTV),[60]  Bahrain (Bahrain TV),  Togo (RTNM),  Antarctica (AFAN-TV)[61]
1974  Central African Republic (RTC),  Grenada (ZBF-TV),  Oman (Oman TV),  Yugoslavia ( SAP Kosovo, (Televizioni i Prishtinës [sq])),  Brazil (Brazil Acre ((Rede Amazônica Rio Branco), Brazil Rondônia ((TV Rondônia [pt]))
1975  Angola (RPA),  Dominica (Cable & Wireless Dominica),[62]  Brunei (RTB),  Gilbert and Ellice Islands (foreign-owned launching), Yemen North Yemen (NYRTC),  Yugoslavia ( SAP Vojvodina (RTV Novi Sad)),  Burundi (RTNB), Portugal Azores (RTP Açores),  Brazil ( Alagoas (TV Gazeta de Alagoas [pt]), Brazil Amapá (TV Amapá [pt])),  Chile ( Easter Island (TVN))[63]
1976  South Africa (SABC TV), Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic Abkhaz ASSR (National Television of Abkhaz ASSR), Turkey Turkish Federated State of Cyprus[64] (BRT 1), Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands Palau (WALU-TV, now defunct)
1977  Bahamas (ZNS-TV),[65]  Guinea (RTG),  Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands ( Pohnpei (KPON-TV))
1978 Afghanistan Afghanistan (Afghanistan National Television),  Benin (ORTB), East Timor (Indonesian province) East Timor (TVRI Dili),[66]  Maldives (TVM),  Swaziland (Swazi TV)
1979 Myanmar Burma (test programming),[67] South Africa South West Africa (SWABC),  Sri Lanka (ITN Sri Lanka),[68]  Chad (mechanical, experimental),  Federated States of Micronesia ( Yap (WAAB-TV)),  Marshall Islands (MBC)[69]

1980s

Year Countries and territories
1980  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG-TV), Myanmar Burma (BBS, regular programming),  South Yemen (SYRTC), Indonesia (Batam, TVRI)[70][71][72]
1981  Belize (Channel 7), Mozambique Mozambique (TVM)
1982 Denmark Greenland (KNR),  Sri Lanka (Rupavahini, national),  Mauritania (TV de Mauritanie),[73],  Brazil (Fernando de Noronha (TV Nacional Fernando de Noronha)),  São Tomé and Príncipe (Televisão Experimental RDSTP, experimental)
1983 Cambodia Kampuchea (re-established, TVK), Mali Mali (ORTM),  Seychelles (RTS),[74]  Somalia (Telefishanka J. D. Soomaaliya),[75][76]  Vatican City (Centro Televisivo Vaticano),[77]  Laos (LNTV) [78]  Tonga (VAP-TV18, now defunct),[79]  Bophuthatswana (Bop TV)[80]
1984  Åland (TV Åland),[81]  Cape Verde (TEVEC), Portugal Macau (TDM),  Faroe Islands (SvF),    Nepal (NTV),  Tristan da Cunha (taped service)[82]
1985  Cameroon (CTV),  Norfolk Island (relays from mainland Australia)[83]
1986 France Mayotte (RFO Mayotte [fr]),  Niue (Bliss Cablevision),[84] France Wallis and Futuna (RFO Wallis-et-Futuna [fr]),  Falkland Islands (SSVC Television Falkland Islands)[85]
1987  Chad (Télé Tchad),  Papua New Guinea (foreign-owned launching, Niugini Television Network)
1988  Lesotho (Lesotho Television),[86]  Botswana (GBC TV, in Gaborone),[87]  Guyana (GTV), Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (Artsakh Public TV)
1989  Cook Islands (Cook Islands Television),  Western Samoa,  Guinea-Bissau (TEGB),[88][89] Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic Gagauz ASSR (Comrat Television [gag])

1990s

Year Countries and territories
1991  Cayman Islands (Cayman 27, now defunct),  Falkland Islands (FITV),[90]  Fiji (FijiTV),[91]  Nauru (NTV),  Rwanda (RTV)
1992  Solomon Islands (TTV),  São Tomé and Príncipe (TVS, regular),  Vanuatu (TBV, experimental),  South Ossetia (Ir),[92]  Transnistria (PMR TV)
1993  Eritrea (Eri-TV),  San Marino (San Marino RTV),  Vanuatu (TBV),  Western Samoa (SBC Television 1)
1994  Tanzania (mainland, Coastal Television Network)
1995  Andorra (ATV),[93]  Gambia (Gambia Radio & Television Service), Saint Helena (Sure South Atlantic Ltd),  Turks and Caicos Islands (WIV Channel 4)
1996  Palestine (PBC)
1997  Somaliland (Somaliland Television)[94]
1999  Bhutan (BBS),[95]  Malawi (TVM)[96]

2000s and 2010s

Year Countries and territories
2000  Botswana (BTV, national),  Tonga (TV Tonga, national)
2001  Tristan da Cunha (BFBS, live service)
2002  Kiribati (TV Kiribati, native, but suspended from 2013 to 2018)
2004  Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic[97] (Laayoune TV)
2005  British Virgin Islands (ZBTV),  South Sudan (South Sudan Television)[98]
2006  Comoros (ORTC),  Palau (OTV, returned),[99]  Pitcairn Islands[100]
2008  Liechtenstein (1 FL TV),  Papua New Guinea (state-owned launching) (NBC Television)
2011  Norfolk Island (TVNI, local)
2018  Kiribati (returned)

See also

Notes and citations

  1. ^ See WRGB History, How Television Came to Boston: The Forgotten Story of W1XAY, W3XK: America's first television station, and "WRNY to Start Daily Television Broadcasts," The New York Times, August 13, 1928, p. 13.
  2. ^ See J.L. Baird: Television in 1932.
  3. ^ See Museum of Broadcast Communications: Germany and Berlin 1936: Television in Germany.
  4. ^ Australian TV – The First 25 Years by Peter Bielby, page 173. ISBN 0-17-005998-7
  5. ^ Linking a Nation – Chap 9 – Australian Heritage Council
  6. ^ Peter Luck, 50 Years of Australian Television ISBN 1-74110-367-3 p.15
  7. ^ a b c See Eerste NTS journaal op de Nederlandse televisie.
  8. ^ "Timeline – national and state, 1927-1941". Brisbane Courier Mail. Archived from the original on February 15, 2008.
  9. ^ See The Birth of Live Entertainment and Music on Television, November 6, 1936, and 1937 RCA Publicity Photographs. "Eighty-seven video programs were telecast by NBC last year," "Where Is Television Now? Archived 2008-09-13 at the Wayback Machine", Popular Mechanics, August 1938, p. 178. Regularly scheduled electronic broadcasts began in April 1938 in New York (to the second week of June, and resuming in August) and Los Angeles. "Telecasts Here and Abroad," The New York Times, April 24, 1938, Drama-Screen-Radio section, p. 10; "Early Birds," Time, June 13, 1938; "Telecasts to Be Resumed," The New York Times, Aug. 21, 1938, Drama-Screen-Radio section, p. 10; Robert L. Pickering, "Eight Years of Television in California," California — Magazine of the Pacific, June 1939. Also note that many rural areas of the Southern United States didn't receive television until the late 1950s and early 1960s.
  10. ^ Although 180-line cathode ray tube receivers were manufactured in France in 1936, a mechanical scanning camera was still used at the transmitter in Paris until 1937.
  11. ^ a b See The Warsaw Voice: What's On? and Historia Przemysłowego Instytutu Telekomunikacji przed II wojną światową at the Wayback Machine (archived September 28, 2007) (in Polish).
  12. ^ See The Evolution of TV: A Brief History of TV Technology in Japan: “Can you see me clearly?” Archived 2013-01-01 at the Wayback Machine; Public TV Image Experiments Archived 2016-05-26 at the Wayback Machine.
  13. ^ Off from 1940 to 1950 due to Japan's entry in the Second World War and subsequent US occupation.
  14. ^ See Early Television in Italy
  15. ^ See Historia de la televisión en el Perú
  16. ^ Off from 1939 to 1945 during World War II.
  17. ^ Off from 1939 to 1946 during World War II.
  18. ^ ["Historia de la Televisión! | Primera transmisión en blanco y negro | Event view". Archived from the original on 2013-09-21. Retrieved 2013-10-24. Latin America's first experimental television station (in Spanish)
  19. ^ Czechoslovakia became two separate states, namely the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993.
  20. ^ License auctioned to Silvio Santos and became SBT São Paulo in 1981
  21. ^ See DRs historie 1950-1959.
  22. ^ License auctioned to Organizações Bloch in 1983 and became TV Manchete Rio de Janeiro, now RedeTV! Rio
  23. ^ Station broadcast in English from its launch to shutdown in 1954, as a consequence of the FCC freeze, which was lifted at the time of closure.
  24. ^ "20,000 SAW THE FIRST TELEVISION IN BANGKOK". Singapore Standard (retrieved from NLB). 30 April 1952. Retrieved 31 July 2023.
  25. ^ English-language station affiliated to American networks (with an independent phase) until 2015, when it became a Canal 5 affiliate.
  26. ^ Dutch-language BRT used the Belgian 625-line standard and French-language RTB used the Belgian 819-line standard (abandoned in 1963). Early Belgian sets were very expensive because they could receive four different standards: Belgian 625, European 625, Belgian 819, French 819. Later a fifth standard was added with the French 625-line standard.
  27. ^ "Lajes more than speck in television history". Air Force. 19 October 2004. Archived from the original on 12 February 2024. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
  28. ^ Australian Television: the first 24 years, Melbourne: Nelsen/Cinema Papers, 1980, p. 3
  29. ^ "TELMA, the story of Morocco's first and short-lived television channel".
  30. ^ a b The channel launched in 1956 as a continuation of a project that had aired a public broadcast in May 1955 as the first television broadcast in Finland. Keinonen, Heidi (2011). Kamppailu yleistelevisiosta. TES-TV:n, Mainos-TV:n ja Tesvision merkitykset suomalaisessa televisiokulttuurissa 1956–1964 (in Finnish). Tampere: Tampere University Press. ISBN 9789514483684.
  31. ^ License auctioned to Organizações Bloch in 1983 and became TV Manchete Minas, now RedeTV! Minas
  32. ^ Cheurfi, Achour (4 February 2011). Radio et télévision : histoire d'un monopole (in French). Algiers: Casbah Éditions (published September 2010). p. 88–p. 148. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  33. ^ Herrera Palacios, Antonio (October 1998). "Un breve recorrido por la televisión en El Salvador" [A Brief Tour of Television in El Salvador]. Revista Latina de Comunicación Social (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 November 2021.
  34. ^ "Primeros". La Prensa. 11 September 2006. Archived from the original on 19 September 2023. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
  35. ^ "¿Cómo fue la llegada de la pantalla chica a Panamá? - Nacional - title.suffix.trans".
  36. ^ The date refers to the launch of the television channel in republics and autonomous provinces of Yugoslavia, there were: RTV Zagreb in Croatia (1956), RTV Ljubljana in Slovenia (1958), RTV Belgrade in Serbia (1958), RTV Skopje in Macedonia (1964), RTV Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1969), RTV Titograd (Podgorica) in Montenegro (1971), and in Kosovo (RTV Priština) and Vojvodina (RTV Novi Sad) was introduced in 1975.
  37. ^ About LRT
  38. ^ Television was introduced in Hong Kong when it was a British crown colony until 1997.
  39. ^ Date where relays from Italy became available.
  40. ^ Wales had received broadcasts from England since 1952.
  41. ^ License auctioned to Silvio Santos in 1981 and became SBT RS
  42. ^ Television was introduced in the Ryukyu Islands (now part of Japan), when they were under U.S. administration.
  43. ^ License auctioned to Organizações Bloch in 1983 and became TV Manchete Ceará (signed on 1984), now RedeTV! Ceará
  44. ^ The United Arab Republic was a short-lived political union between  Egypt and  Syria. The union began in 1958 and existed until 1961, when Syria seceded from the union.
  45. ^ License auctioned to Silvio Santos in 1981 and became SBT Pará
  46. ^ Ireland had received broadcasts from the United Kingdom since 1949.
  47. ^ Previously received television broadcasts from Italy.
  48. ^ Originally limited to Jakarta area, and from 1965, the island of Java as a whole. The first television station outside of the island, TVRI North Sumatera, opened in 1970, after receiving just overspill coming from West Malaysia.
  49. ^ This is the year when television was introduced in territories under its administration. After the Chinese Civil War in 1949, the government of the Republic of China retreated to Taiwan and other islands, and Mainland China was controlled by the People's Republic of China.
  50. ^ Gibraltar had previously received television broadcasts from Spain.
  51. ^ Originally limited to most areas of Peninsular Malaysia.
  52. ^ A. Qoshanov, O. Dospanov, T. Uzakhbergenova “Qaraqalpaqstan tariyxı”, Nókis “Bilim” –2018
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  54. ^ Considering the current territory of the state, the first TV station is TV Centro América, founded in 1967. The area where TV Morena is became its own state, Mato Grosso do Sul, in 1979.
  55. ^ Successor of the prior RTV service in Lusaka, which started in 1961.
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  58. ^ Corresponds to the current  Northern Mariana Islands.
  59. ^ Excludes TV Florianópolis, a television station that existed between 1964 and 1965, and was shut down after four months on air by DENTEL on the grounds that it lacked a license.
  60. ^ Converted from the former cable service.
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  66. ^ Now believed to be under the jurisdiction of Radio-Televisão Timor Leste following the formal independence of the country in 2002.
  67. ^ Test service available only in Yangon in 1979, and formally launched in 1981.
  68. ^ Avaiable only in Colombo in the network's early years.
  69. ^ Replaced a cable company set up in 1975 when it was still under the control of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands and was shut down due to storm surges from a hurricane in 1979.
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  77. ^ Although the Vatican did not have a television service of its own until 1983, broadcasts from Italy had been received since 1954.
  78. ^ Television is available from Nong Khai city in Thailand since the mid-1970s.
  79. ^ Subscription service, shut down in 1987, during its existence it also faced competition from ASTL-TV3, itself a subscription service until the 1991 launch of the Oceania Broadcasting Network, ASTL-TV3 later shut down in 1996.
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