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Television In Switzerland ... Romansh-speaking Swiss had to wait until 1963 for the first programme in their language, a full decade after regular television transmission were initiated and, to this day, there's no television channel broadcasting exclusively in Romansh language. The 1960s also saw the arrival of television advertising, in 1964, and of colour television, in 1968...

BBC ... Outside the UK, the BBC World Service has provided services by direct broadcasting and re-transmission contracts by sound radio since the inauguration of the BBC Empire Service in December 1932, and more recently by television and online...

Television In The United States ... The first three began as radio networks: NBC and CBS in the 1920s, and ABC was spun off from NBC in 1943...

Television In Spain ... The Audiovisual Law of 2010 changed this by defining radio and television as commercial services that individuals pay for, fostering liberalization within some constraints...

Wireless Internet Service Provider ... LARIAT originally used WaveLAN equipment, manufactured by the NCR Corporation, which operated on the 900 MHz unlicensed radio band...

Radio ... When radio waves strike an electrical conductor, the oscillating fields induce an alternating current in the conductor... British Commonwealth countries continued to commonly use the term "wireless" until the mid-20th century, though the magazine of the BBC in the UK has been called Radio Times ever since it was first published in the early 1920s...

Freeview (New Zealand) ... The Freeview service started in May 2007, introducing free-to-air digital television to the country and preparing for analogue switchoff, which will begin on 30 September 2012 and be completed on 1 December 2013a In May 2011, it was estimated that 77% of New Zealand households have at least one digitally-equipped television set (including Freeview, Sky and TelstraClear), with Freeview making up approximately 45% of the digital television share. Freeview-certified set-top boxes and IDTVs, as well as PVRs, are available at most major New Zealand retailers...

Color Television ... One of the great technical challenges of introducing color broadcast television was the desire to conserve bandwidth, potentially three times that of the existing black-and-white (B& W) standards, and not use an excessive amount of radio spectrum...

WiMAX ... The original IEEE 802.16 standard (now called "Fixed WiMAX") was published in 2001. WiMAX adopted some of its technology from WiBro, a service marketed in Korea...

History Of Television In Germany ... Thus, NWDR, set up in the British occupation zone, reflected the attitudes of the BBC; the four services set up in the American zone (BR, HR, SDR and Radio Bremen) adopted American-style practices from the Armed Forces Network; and Sudwestfunk, in the French zone, tended to be more French than German in its practices...

Television In Romania ... Accorting to an article on the Romanian newspaper Adevărul, the top TV broadcasters were (based on the average prime-time number of viewers in Oct-Nov 2007): Pro TV (with 615.000 viewers), TVR1 (451.000), Antena 1 (305.000), OTV (272.000), Acasă TV (247.000), Prima TV (205.000), Realitatea TV (102.000) and Antena 3 (73.000). In early 2009, it was officially announced that the top TV broadcasters are: Pro TV, Antena 1, OTV, Realitatea TV, TVR 1, Acasă TV, Prima TV and Antena 3.)...

Television In Sweden ... The shutdown of the analogue service in Sweden started on September 19, 2005, and was finished on October 29, 2007. Typically, non Swedish content is subtitled, but maintains the original language soundtrack...

Television In Cuba ... Extensive discussions about television began to unfold in the radio and entertainment sections of Cuban newspapers and magazines in the year leading up to October 14, 1950, the day Unión Radio-TV became the first television station to broadcast in Havana...

Satellite Internet Access ... The internet latency mentioned above makes satellite Internet service problematic for applications requiring real-time user input, such as online games or remote surgery. This delay can also be irritating and debilitating with interactive applications, such as VoIP, videoconferencing, or other person-to-person communication...

Television In Ireland ... The satellite fill-in service (Saorsat) is via Ka-Sat using the Irish ka-Band spot and should be available from June 2011. See the Saorview article for details of the new digital service...

Ràdio I Televisió D'Andorra ... The broadcaster has to compete with TV and radio stations from both France and Spain whose transmissions can easily be picked up in the principality...

Television In The United Kingdom ... Over the next 30 years, whilst the network of transmitters expanded, two additional commercial services were offered (Channel 4 and Channel Five). This system is currently being phased out, from 2008 to 2012...

Internet ... Most traditional communications media including telephone, music, film, and television are reshaped or redefined by the Internet, giving birth to new services such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and Internet Protocol Television (IPTV). Newspaper, book and other print publishing are adapting to Web site technology, or are reshaped into blogging and web feeds...