18 Facts About Public television

Public television broadcasting attempts to supply topics of social benefit that are otherwise not provided by commercial broadcasters.

State presence in television had a strong history, not in the way of European style public service radio or television.

The service discontinued its broadcast transmitters in Calgary and Edmonton in August 2011, due to the expense of transitioning the two stations to digital, and the fact that the service had mandatory carriage on Public television providers serving Alberta regardless of whether it ran over-the-air transmitters.

Chilean television was founded through universities, in an attempt to bring public television without the state having to pay directly and control content.

Houston's KUHT was the nation's first public television station founded by Dr John W Meaney, and signed on the air on May 25,1953, from the campus of the University of Houston.

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Since the creation of the Corporation for Public television Broadcasting, Pacifica has sometimes received CPB support.

NET was shut down by the Ford Foundation and the Corporation for Public television Broadcasting after the network refused to stop airing documentaries on varying social issues that had alienated many of the network's affiliates.

Bengali primary state Public television broadcaster is Bangladesh Television which broadcasts worldwide through its satellite based branch, BTV World.

NHK has been an innovator in Public television, developing the world's first high-definition Public television technology in 1964 and launching high definition services in Japan in 1981.

South Korea's representative public broadcasting television network is meant to be Korean Broadcasting System, or KBS.

Czech Public television is funded through a monthly fee of 135 CZK which every household that owns a TV or a radio has to pay.

Financing comes primarily from a yearly licence fee, that everyone who owns either a Public television set, a computer or other devices that can access the internet, has to pay.

TV 2 itself is a commercial government-owned television funded by subscriptions and advertising, with particular public service duties such as allowing regional stations to air their newscasts within specific timeslots of the main TV 2 channel.

Estonian Public Broadcasting organises the public radio and television stations of Estonia.

Hans-Bredow-Institut, or Hans-Bredow-Institute for Media Research at the University of Hamburg is an independent non-profit foundation with the mission on media research on public communication, particularly for radio and television broadcasting and other electronic media, in an interdisciplinary fashion.

Public television Broadcasting Services is the national broadcaster of Malta.

TVE was founded in 1956 and broadcasts different Public television channels: La 1 since 1956, that is a generalist channel; La 2 since 1966, that offers cultural programming; Teledeporte sports channel since 1994; 24 Horas news channel since 1997; Clan children's channel since 2005; and its international worldwide service TVE Internacional since 1989.

Public television Broadcasting Company of Ukraine is the national public broadcaster in Ukraine.