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BBC ... The BBC is an autonomous public service broadcaster that operates under a Royal Charter and a Licence and Agreement from the Home Secretary...

Television In Portugal ... History On March 7, 1957 public broadcaster Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP) began broadcasting RTP1, the first television channel in the country... Terrestrial See Digital terrestrial television in Portugal List of free-to-air terrestrial channels RTP1: the flagship channel of RTP, the Portuguese public broadcasting corporation, and presents a general programming composed mainly by news, talk shows, discussion-based programmes, national and international fiction and drama and entertainment...

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...

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...

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 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...

Color Television ... In its most basic form, a color broadcast can be created by broadcasting three monochrome images, one each in the three colors of red, green and blue (RGB). When displayed together or in rapid succession, these images will blend together to produce a full color image as seen by the viewer...

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 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...

Television In Colombia ... Initially television in Colombia was public, with emphasis on education and cultural topics until the government developed a system of concessions, in which the State was in charge of the television infrastructure and gave programming slots in the channels for private companies known as programadoras, similar to the syndication system that is still used in the United States: networks and TV channels broadcast TV programs that were not produced by them. In 1963 Inravisión, the public broadcaster, was created...

Geographical Usage Of Television ... From 2000 onwards, India also encouraged new private stations. Star TV, which is based in Hong Kong, has expanded to other areas in Asia recently...

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 The United States ... The United States has a national public broadcast service known as the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)...

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 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...

Radio ... Information, such as sound, is carried by systematically changing (modulating) some property of the radiated waves, such as their amplitude, frequency, phase, or pulse width. When radio waves strike an electrical conductor, the oscillating fields induce an alternating current in the conductor...

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...