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...
Timeline Of First Orbital Launches By Country ... The launching of satellites, while still contributing to national prestige, is a significant economic activity as well, with public and private rocket systems competing for launches, using cost and reliability as selling points...
Television In Latin America ... Argentina El Trece Telefe Canal 9 TV Pública América 2 Bolivia Activa TV PAT Bolivisión Brazil Rede Bandeirantes Rede Globo Rede Record RedeTV! Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão Chile UCV Televisión (since 1957), channel 5 Canal 13 (since 1959), channel 13 Chilevisión (since 1960, under different names), channel 11 TVN (since 1969), channel 7 Mega (since 1990), channel 9 La Red (since 1991), channel 4 Telecanal (since 2005), channel 2 Colombia Caracol TV RCN TV Canal Uno Costa Rica Canal 38 Estereo Conexion TV Repretel 4 Repretel 6 Repretel 9 (discontinued) Repretel 11 Sinart Teletica UCR TV Cuba Dominican Republic TeleAntillas - Channel 2 Corporación Estatal de Radio y Television CERTV - Channel 4 Public TV Station Tele Micro - Channel 5 Antena Latina - Channel 7 Color Visión - Channel 9 Telesistema Dominicano - Channel 11 Telecentro - Chann...
Television In New Zealand ... In New Zealand, in addition to a legacy analogue network, there are three forms of broadcast digital television. Satellite services provided nationwide by both Freeview and Sky, terrestrial DVB-T service provided in the main centres by Freeview and Igloo, and cable service available in Wellington and Christchurch from TelstraClear...
Television In The Netherlands ... In 2005 there was a sharp political debate over government plans to cut funding to public broadcasters and to abolish statutory broadcaster NPS... National The three national television channels are: Nederland 1 Nederland 2 Nederland 3 Digital The twelve digital television channels, that are available through Nederland 24, a promotional name for the set of digital speciality channels that are provided by the Netherlands Public Broadcasting organisation, are: Geschiedenis 24 (formerly Geschiedenis) Spirit 24 (formerly Geloven) 101 TV Consumenten 24 (formerly Consumenten TV) Cultura 24 (formerly Cultura) Best 24 (formerly Hilversum Best) Holland Doc 24 (formerly Holland Doc) Humor TV 24 (formerly Humor TV) Journaal 24 Familie 24 (formerly Opvoeden doe je zo!) Politiek 24 Sterren 24 (formerly Sterren.nl) International There is also an international channel: BVN, shared with Belgium's publicly-funded Flemish television channel VRT... It sho...
Mechanical Television ... The earliest mechanical television components originated with 19th century inventors, with 20th century inventors later adding electronic components as they were created. Mechanical systems were used in television broadcasting from 1925 to 1939, overlapping the all-electronic television era by three years...
History Of Television In Germany ... The common aim of the Western Allies was to prevent the future abuse of broadcasting by the German government. Thus, the different regional networks were placed under the control of the West German Lander governments...
Television In Norway ... If licence is granted NTV during 2005, the company says it plans to roll-out infrastructure during 2006-2009, offering the Norwegian public between 15 and 18 TV stations; of them NRK1, NRK2, TV2, TV2 Zebra and a local channel...
Television In Germany ... A regular schedule began through the cooperation of all ARD members in 1954. Basic principles in the central areas of entertainment, information and enlightenment were established and television plays developed as the medium's own specific art form...
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...
Television ... The etymology of the word has a mixed Latin and Greek origin, meaning "far sight": Greek tele (τῆλε), far, and Latin visio, sight (from video, vis- to see, or to view in the first person). Commercially available since the late 1920s, the television set has become commonplace in homes, businesses and institutions, particularly as a vehicle for advertising, a source of entertainment, and news...
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...
Television In Spain ... Antena 3, Telecinco and Canal+ were launched in 1990, in January, March and September respectively, finishing the public television monopoly in Spain... Through the 1990s and 2000s (decade), more autonomic channels (most of them public, but some of them private) were launched, and all of them created FORTA, a union of public autonomic channels...
Television In France ... By 2012, at least 95% of the French metropolitan population is expected to be covered by digital terrestrial television services. 5 HD channels (4 free and one pay) were launched in October 2008 using also the H.264 / MPEG-4 AVC format...
Television In Brazil ... As a matter of fact, the first national public television network, TV Brasil, was only launched on December 2, 2007, the same day that digital television was introduced in the country, initially limited to the cities of Brasília, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, São Luís and São Paulo...