Television in Estonia

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Television in Estonia was introduced in 1955, following the Soviet government's decision to establish a television station in 1953.[1] The National TV Channel ETV has maintained an archive since 1955 in which broadcasts of unique aspects of Estonian culture are held.

Digital television was officially launched on December 15, 2006 when the operator Eesti Digitaaltelevisiooni AS launched its pay service ZUUMtv, operated by Starman, on two multiplexes. In 2006, only ETV was available for free, but as of March 2009, there are already 7 free channels in digital broadcast. [2][3] Digital television signal (DVB-T and DVB-H) is broadcast by Levira. DVB-C is provided by cable operators Starman, STV, Telset, telecommunications company Elion (also offering IPTV)[4]. Analog transmitters were turned off in July 2010.[5]

Contents

List of channels

State-owned

  • ETV – news, current affairs, culture, sports and general entertainment.
  • ETV 2 – general entertainment, sports and news

Commercial

  • Kanal 2 – news, current affairs and general entertainment.
  • Kanal 11 – general entertainment. Mostly for women.
  • Kanal 12 – general entertainment. Mostly for men.
  • Seitse – culture and music channel.
  • TVN (Estonia) – (in Russian)
  • TV 3 – news, current affairs and general entertainment channel.
  • TV3+ – news, current affairs and general entertainment channel (in Russian).
  • TV6 – general entertainment channel.
  • TV14 – general entertainment channel. Codeshare with Tallinna TV.
  • Fox Life – general entertainment channel.
  • Fox Crime – general entertainment channel.
  • Sony Entertainment Television – general entertainment channel.

Regional

  • Alo TV – music and news channel, Tartu-based.
  • Tallinna TV – owned by Tallinn city government. Launched on January 1st, 2011.

Former channels

  • TV 1 – Commercial channel. News, current affairs, sports and general entertainment.
  • EVTV – a predecessor of TV3
  • RTV – a predecessor of TV3
  • Tipp TV – a predecessor of TV1
  • Neljas – music, news and general entertainment channel.
  • Kalev Sport – sports channel, a predecessor of TV4.
  • TV4 – sports channel, a predecessor of TV14.
  • MTV Eesti – music and entertainment channel.

References

  1. ^ "Basic Facts". Association of Estonian Broadcasters. Retrieved 6 June 2009.
  2. ^ "Zuumtv channel list". Starman.ee accessdate=2009-03-14. http://www.starman.ee/teenused/zuum/kanalid. 
  3. ^ "Chronology of Levira". Levira.ee accessdate=2009-03-14. http://www.levira.ee/435est.html. 
  4. ^ "Digital television in Estonia". digitv.ee. http://www.digitv.ee/?go=digitaaltelevisioon_eestis. Retrieved 2009-03-14. 
  5. ^ "Digitaaltelevisiooni ajastu". Levira.ee. 2008-12-30. http://www.levira.ee/949est.html. Retrieved 2009-03-14. [dead link]
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