Timeline of the introduction of television in countries
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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.
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1939 and before
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s and 2010s
2020s and after
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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, the United Kingdom, 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 |
|---|---|
| 1924 |  United States (pre-experimental) |
| 1926 |  Germany (pre-experimental),  United Kingdom (pre-experimental) |
| 1927 |  Australia (pre-experimental),  Netherlands (pre-experimental) |
| 1928 |  Argentina (pre-experimental),  Canada (pre-experimental), United States (mechanical television, experimental – W2XCW)[1][2][3][4] |
| 1929 | United Kingdom (mechanical, experimental),[5] Germany (mechanical, experimental),[6][7] Australia (mechanical, experimental, after hours on two existing Melbourne radio stations - 3UZ and 3DB),[8][9][10] Netherlands (mechanical, experimental in Scheveningen),[11]  France (pre-experimental),  Siam (pre-experimental) |
| 1930 |  Soviet Union (pre-experimental in Moscow wired in 1929) |
| 1931 | France (mechanical, experimental), Canada (mechanical, experimental – VE9EC), Soviet Union (mechanical, experimental – МТЦ), Siam (mechanical, experimental, cancelled because of the revolution) |
| 1932 | Argentina (mechanical, experimental),[12]  Japan (pre-experimental) |
| 1934 | Australia (electronic television, experimental, Brisbane),[13]  Turkey (pre-experimental) |
| 1935 |  Germany (intermediate film; semi-electronic), France (electronic – PTT Radio Vision), Netherlands (electronic, experimental in Eindhoven by Philips),[11]  Italy (pre-experimental) |
| 1936 | United Kingdom (electronic – BBC Television Service), Germany (electronic television - Deutscher Fernseh Rundfunk),[14][15] |
| 1937 |  Free City of Danzig (electronic, experimental),[a]  Poland (mechanical, experimental), (Doświadczalna Stacja Telewizyjna),[16]  Peru (pre-experimental),  Chile (pre-experimental) |
| 1938 |  Soviet Union (electronic, experimental - CT USSR), Turkey (electronic, experimental),  Uruguay (pre-experimental) |
| 1939 | Argentina (electronic, experimental),  Brazil (electronic, experimental), Chile (electronic, experimental), Japan (electronic, experimental - J2PQ),[17][b]  Italy (electronic, experimental - EIAR Trasmissioni Sperimentali Radiovisione),[18]  Peru (electronic, experimental),[19] Poland (electronic, experimental),[16] United States (electronic; experimental and non-commercial until 1941 - NBC) |
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
| Year | Countries and territories |
|---|---|
| 1991 | Akrotiri and Dhekelia (SSVC TV Cyprus),[62]  Cayman Islands (Cayman 27, now defunct),  Falkland Islands (FITV),[bo]  Fiji (FijiTV),[bp]  Nauru (NTV) |
| 1992 |  Republika Srpska (RTV Krajina Banja Luka),  São Tomé and Príncipe (TVS, regular),  Solomon Islands (TTV),  South Ossetia (Ir),[63]  Transnistria (PMR TV),  Vanuatu (TBV, experimental),  Rwanda (TVR) |
| 1993 |  Eritrea (Eri-TV),  San Marino (San Marino RTV), Vanuatu (TBV),  Western Samoa (SBC Television 1) |
| 1995 |  Andorra (ATV),[bq]  Gambia (Gambia Radio & Television Service), Saint Helena (Sure South Atlantic Ltd),  Turks and Caicos Islands (WIV Channel 4), |
| 1996 |  Palestine (PBC) |
| 1997 |  Montserrat (Peoples Television),[br][64]  Somaliland (Somaliland Television),[65] |
| 1999 |  Belgium ( German-speaking Community (KA3)),[bs]  Bhutan (BBS),[66]  Malawi (TVM),[67]  Tuvalu (limited service),[68] |
2000s and onwards
| Year | Countries and territories |
|---|---|
| 2000 |  Botswana (BTV, national),  Tonga (TV Tonga, national),  Saba Department (STN) |
| 2001 |  Tokelau (foreign channels, no local service),[69]  Tristan da Cunha (BFBS, live service) |
| 2002 |  Kiribati (TV Kiribati, native, but suspended from 2013 to 2018) |
| 2006 |  Comoros (ORTC),  Palau (OTV, returned),[bt]  Pitcairn Islands,[70]  Gaza Strip (Al-Aqsa TV) |
| 2008 |  Liechtenstein (1 FL TV),[bu]  Bonaire (NOSTV Bonaire)),[71] |
| 2009 |  Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (RASD TV)[bv][72] |
| 2010 |  Sint Maarten (TV-CARIB)),[73]  South Sudan (South Sudan Television),[bw] |
| 2011 |  Norfolk Island (TVNI, local) |
| 2013 |  Sint Eustatius (NOSTV Sint Eustatius) |
| 2014 |  Donetsk People's Republic (Novorossiya TV),[bx]  Luhansk People's Republic (Luhansk 24)[74][bx] |
| 2018 | Kiribati (Kiri 1 TV, returned)[75] |
| 2019 | Tuvalu (returned, Tuvalu.TV)[76] |
| 2021 |  Cocos (Keeling) Islands[citation needed] |
See also
Notes
- 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.
- Off from 1940 to 1950 due to Japan's entry in the World War II and subsequent US occupation.
- Czechoslovakia became two separate states, namely the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993.
- 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.
- Rollout for NHK started in 1953 in Kanto, 1954 in Tokai and Kansai and between 1956 and 1958 for the rest of Japan. For commercial TV, limited to Kanto from 1953 to 1955 (NTV and KRT) and spread between 1956 and 1963 to the rest of the country. Saga Prefecture only gained television (NHK and commercial) in 1969 due to overspill from neighboring prefectures and usage of UHF as the preferred band.
- Served only in Kindley Air Force Base.
- 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.[27]
- The date refers to the launch of the television channel in republics and autonomous provinces of Yugoslavia, there were: RTV Zagreb in SR Croatia (1956), RTV Ljubljana in SR Slovenia (1958), RTV Belgrade in SR Serbia (1958), RTV Skopje in SR Macedonia (1964), RTV Sarajevo in SR Bosnia and Herzegovina (1969), RTV Titograd (Podgorica) in SR Montenegro (1971), and in SAP Kosovo (RTV Priština) and SAP Vojvodina (RTV Novi Sad) was introduced in 1975.
- Television was introduced in Hong Kong when it was a British crown colony until 1997. The Rediffusion service was a cable network until 1973, when it converted to terrestrial television.
- Originally limited to Tehran area, later to Abadan, and from 1969, expanded to the whole nation. Television of Iran was absorbed into National Iranian Television in 1969; since the main network of the NIRT used a different frequency from TVI (which used channel 3) in Tehran, it's likely that the former TVI frequency was turned off.
- Wales had received broadcasts from England since 1952.
- Until the launch of the first version of Telenorte in Antofagasta in 1966, television was limited to central Chile (Santiago and Valparaíso). The definitive roll-out of television outside of this region didn't start until late 1968, when TVN set up its first station in Arica months before it started definitive broadcasts, though in 1969, most of its network was concentrated in central Chile.
- Station shut down in 1972. The frequency was later occupied by Teleamazonas starting in 1974. RTS is often erroneously believed to be the first.
- Television was introduced in the Ryukyu Islands (now part of Japan), when they were under U.S. administration.
- 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.
- Ireland had received broadcasts from the United Kingdom since 1949.
- 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.
- 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.
- Station operated autonomously by the territorial production center of Televisión Española (TVE) in the region.
- 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.
- Although the Isle of Man has received television signals since 1951, 1965 marked the first direct broadcast from a relay station built on the island. To date, no local television service has been set up and the island is served by BBC North West and ITV Granada (until 2009, ITV Border) with no local opt-outs.
- The Israeli Ministry of Education in co-operation with the Rothschild Fund started limited broadcasts to schools in March 1966. A public state-owned TV channel started broadcasting in May 1968. Broadcasts were black and white (with a few exceptions) until the early 1980s.
- now defunct and replaced by HTV.
- SLTV relayed television broadcasts from Barbados.
- Corresponds to the current Northern Mariana Islands.
- Cable service. Dominica never had a terrestrial television service. Its monopoly in the market was broken in the early 80s by Marpin Telecoms, which is currently Digicel Dominica.
- Current Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
- Now believed to be under the jurisdiction of Radio-Televisão Timor Leste following the formal independence of the country in 2002.
- Test service available only in Yangon in 1979, and formally launched in 1981.
- Television is available from Nong Khai city in Thailand since the mid-1970s.
- 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.
- A prior service existed during the brief Argentine takeover of the islands in the Falklands War in 1982, sustained by ATC.
- Assets sold to the government of Niue in 1989 and converted to a free-to-air terrestrial operation, TV Niue.
- Television came to Fiji in part-time for the 1991 Rugby World Cup, and it arrived in full-time in 1994.
- Previously relayed broadcasts from Antigua and Barbuda.
- RASD TV was established in February 2004, but didn't broadcast its regular transmissions until 2009.
References
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