N'televisió Ítuval - Acaden 1

N'televisión Ítuval - Acaden 1 ("Tuvalí Television - First Network" if translated) is the main and oldest television channel of N'televisió Ítuval, the state broadcaster from (the deironized version of) Tuvalu Ulterior, a fictional country from Spanish Uncyclopedia.
== History ==
=== Early history and founding (1957-1960) ===
Around early 1957, Tuvalu Ulterior started testing television equipment, mostly due to the economic agreement with Spain, which was already introducing television at the time. Several tests were done esporadically during this period, and some TV sets were put in different places for public test purposes.
In August 6th 1959 at 7:00 pm, NI officially started transmission under channel 9, broadcasting from the then country's capital Plástico. After a B&W test card, the channel's first slide ID appears with the voice-over announcing, "Welcome to the Television Service of the Tuvalí National Radio, broadcasting from channel 9 in Plástico city, capital of Tuvalu Ulterior" Following the slide ID, the channel inauguration event would be played during 1 hour, then it would be followed by experimental programmes, films, and the official state newsreel.
In the following months, the channel started producing proper programming; for example, the newsreel (Le Ítuval) was still broadcasted once a week, but a TV news programme called "Le Ítuval N'edició A'televisiv" was introduced and broadcasted from Monday to Friday.
=== Later developments (1960-1974) ===
In August 1960, with the channel's first anniversary, channel 9 would start expanding its coverage, under different frequencies for different parts of the country; as of mid 1962, nationwide coverage was de facto achieved already.
In 1965, during the Bikini Battle, transmissions were provisionally suspended in the Bikini area, resuming 1 week after the conflict ended.
During the following years, several technologies would arrive the channel, like videotapes in July 1965, microwave broadcasting in February 1969, etc. One of the first fully videotape recorded events from Tuvalí TV was the Aseñorit D'fealda from 1966, an annual event which still continues being anually produced.
In 1973, Tuvalu Citerior was at war and bombed Tuvalu Ulterior, so NI's headquaters were moved to Bikini (which wasn't too affected by the bombings); during this time, broadcast time would be reduced and there were no broadcasts during some days, and many programmes would be suspended, until the war ended, when a small scale normalization process of the TV station started, but it would not last too much due to 1974 coup d'etat.
=== Socialist military government era (1974-2000) ===
With the January 1974 coup d'etat, N'televisió Ítuval's studios were raided by the military, transmissions were suspended again for 13 days, and a major reestructuring process was done.
Films, newsreels, cartoons and basically pre-made content were pretty much common during the first weeks after the broadcasts were resumed. Several programmes like the TV newscast "Le Ítuval N'edició A'televisiv" were replaced, in that case with "O'PR", which later became the main and official state national newscast during the rest of Rozo's government.
In June 1975, the channel's headquarters returned to the original building in the capital Plástico, despite some programmes were already being produced and record in the former Plástico headquarters few months before that, and also other programmes would be still recorded and produced in Bikini studios after the change of headquarters. With the headquarters returning to the capital, the channel's acronym was changed to NVUR.
In November 1975, NVUR joined the Intervision network, an organization of broadcasters mostly from socialist countries, and so on, Soviet and Eastern European television productions and events would be exported and broadcasted in Tuvalu Ulterior's TV, and due to this, Tuvalu Ulterior hosted the Intervision Song Contest in August 1981, and also being the contest's winner.
With equipment from Spain and the Soviet Union, N'televisió Ítuval started colour television tests between December 1977 and January 1978, using both PAL and SECAM with conversion between both; the first publicy available colour TV sets arrived the country in 1978, but they were initially too expensive and somewhat harder to find than B&W sets, while NVUR would eventually start producing some colour content at the time (first in a limited scale keeping most of its content in B&W, but later transitioning more to colour), achieving full-time colour as of early 1980s. Also in the same year (1978), a second channel was launched.
The 1980s were a period of some economic development for Tuvalu Ulterior, and so on also for NVUR, where broadcasts now started at 8:30 AM, an early Scanimate-like computer animation was introduced (which was not as advanced as what westerners had at the time, but pretty much ok like for the Soviet bloc), the test card became electronically generated and so on it also showed the current time live, etc.
However, the 1990s were an unstable period for the Tuvalí society, so information which could make the government look bad was strictly censored or justified/hidden with propagandistic pro-government information. During periods of political turnoil like the local coup d'etats to Putaleka (currently called Tio1grad) mayors in 1993 and 1999, random old channel footages (mostly Aseñorit D'fealda 1960s fragments) were played for some hours with a similar purpose to swan lake videos in the USSR.
The last broadcast under Rozo's socialist government was the 1999-2000 new year eve with Tuvalu Ulterior's anthem, after that, the test card was shown for 1 minute and then the network and all its channels signed off with no proper announcement.
=== Erto's government (2000-2007) ===
In October 2005, a 25% of the channel was privatized and sold to different Tuvalí oligarchs close to the government, so the state still had major control over the channel.
During the 2006-2007 Tuvalí Revolution led by the OTA (Opartid Tío Aesperanz, Tío Hope Party) against Erto's rule, the revolution-related news were reported with a strong censorship, information was biased, and commonly there was pro-government propaganda. Due to this, many revolutionaries unsuccessfully tried to raid NVUR's headquarters several times. However, in October 2nd 2007, the revolutionaries took control of the regional Putaleka headquarters; and in October 5th, 1 day before Erto surrended, central headquarters in Ukelele were raided and occupied by revolutionaries.
=== Tío1.jpg's government (2007) ===
When Tío1.jpg became the president of Tuvalu Ulterior, the channel was officially fully nationalized/expropiated again. While there was still (this time pro-Tío1) propaganda and bias, censorship was reduced, new programming was introduced
=== Current military government and present (2007-) ===
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