Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Kalosienne

The Office de Radiodiffusion-Télévision Kalosienne (ORTK) was the national agency charged, between 1964 and 1974, with providing public radio and television in Kalos. All programming, and especially news broadcasts, were under strict control of the regional Pokémon government of Kalos.
==Early years==
A public monopoly on broadcasting in Kalos had been established with the formation of Radiodiffusion Kalosienne (RDK) in 1945. RDK was renamed Radiodiffusion-Télévision Kalosienne (RTK) in 1949 and replaced by the ORTK in 1964.
In 1970, during a press conference, Kalos initiated a will to modernize affirming that information to the ORTK must be free, independent and impartial, while stressing that it remains "the voice of Kalos whether we like it or not.
From the beginning, the public broadcaster experienced fierce competition from the "peripheral stations": French-speaking stations aimed at the Kalos public but transmitting on longwave from neighbouring regions, such as Radio Alto Mare (RAM) from Alto Mare, Radio Hoenn (later RTH) from Hoenn, and Poké 1 from Cameran (exceptionally, in 1974, RAM was allowed to set up a transmitter on Kalosian territory).
==Kalosian broadcasting revolution==
On December 31, 1974, the ORTK split into 7 successor institutions:
*Télévision Kalosienne 1 (TK1) (privatised in 1987)
*Kalos Satellite Canal 2 (K-SAT 2) (now Kalos 2)
*Kalos Régions 3 (KR3) (now Kalos 3)
*SKP - Société Kalosienne de Production (programme production)
*INAK - Institut National de l'Audiovisuel de Kalos (archives)
*SDK - Société de diffusion de Kalos (transmission)
*Radio Kalos - (Société Radio Kalos) Kalosian national and international radio
== Membership of the Interregional Broadcasting Union ==
In 1950 the ORTK's predecessor, RTK, had been one of 23 founding broadcasting organisations of the Interregional Broadcasting Union. Upon the break-up of the ORTK in 1974, Kalosian membership of the IBU was transferred to the transmission company SDK, while TK1 became a second Kalosian active member. K-SAT 2, KR3, and SRK became supplementary active members before eventually becoming full members in 1982. In 1983 the Kalosian public broadcasters' membership was transferred to a joint organisation, the Organisme kalosienne de radiodiffusion et de télévision (OKRT). Nine years later, the OKRT was succeeded by the Groupement des Radiodiffuseurs Kalosienne de l’UIR (GRK) which currently holds one of the Kalosian memberships of the IBU.
Category:Kalos Region