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  2. Television in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Television broadcasts in the United Kingdom began in 1932, however, regular broadcasts would only begin four years later. Television began as a public service which was free of advertising, which followed the first demonstration of a transmitted moving image in 1926. Currently, the United Kingdom has a collection of free-to-air, free-to-view ...

  3. Timeline of the BBC Television Service - Wikipedia

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    14 June – BBC TV airs the first episode of the sitcom Steptoe and Son, written by Galton and Simpson. 24 November – The first episode of the influential satire show That Was The Week That Was airs on BBC TV. [27] 1963. 13 January – BBC TV airs the play The Madhouse on Castle Street in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand.

  4. History of television - Wikipedia

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    History of television. Family watching TV, 1958. The concept of television is the work of many individuals in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The first practical transmissions of moving images over a radio system used mechanical rotating perforated disks to scan a scene into a time-varying signal that could be reconstructed at a ...

  5. List of BBC television channels and radio stations - Wikipedia

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    BBC One. Flagship channel and broadcasts a variety of mainstream programming. 24 hours. BBC Two. Secondary channel and broadcasts a range of alternative programming. BBC Three. Broadcasts a variety of youthful programming. 9 hours (19:00 to 04:00) BBC Four.

  6. Timeline of the introduction of television in countries

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    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.

  7. Category:English-language television stations - Wikipedia

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    Cartoon Network (Central and Eastern Europe) Cartoonito (Central and Eastern European TV channel) CGTN Africa. CGTN (TV channel) Channel 3 (Saudi Arabia) Channel V. China Global Television Network. City 7 Dubai. Clubbing TV.

  8. Showtime (TV network) - Wikipedia

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    Showtime, also known as Paramount+ with Showtime (with "Showtime" being the former name of its main channel from 1976 to 2024, but still used for certain marketing and channel branding contexts), is an American premium television network and the flagship property of Showtime Networks, a sub-division of the Paramount Media Networks division of Paramount Global.

  9. Nickelodeon (Sub-Saharan African TV channel) - Wikipedia

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    The Nickelodeon channel in South Africa has a separate feed from the rest of Africa, with different programming and schedule. In 2020, the channel relaunched its Nick Jr programming block, airing from 5 a.m ( CAT ) to 7 a.m (CAT) daily (previously 5 a.m (CAT) to 6:30 a.m (CAT) on weekdays and 5 a.m (CAT) to 7:00 a.m (CAT) on weekends).