Vydoras Televīzija

Vydoras Televīzija (English: Vydoran Television) is the state-run public service television corporation of Vydoria and is, alongside Vydoras Radijas and Izglītības Radijas, one of the three pillars of Vydoras Radijas un Televīzija. Founded in 1959 from the division of the television operations from Radioserviss, it operates six nationwide terrestrial channels and an international one.
==History==
Vydoria started regular television operations in January 1953, after a decision made in the government in 1951. The service was influenced by FBC in Flarland and was operated by Radioserviss.
A 1959 government decision forced Radioserviss to be divided into Vydoras Radio and Vydoras Televīzija. Until then, Radioserviss operated the Pirmaja service and other regions were under the control of separate companies under government control. The restructured corporation's plan was to create a national, combined television service by November 1959. Jeznogoria was an exception to the rule as they were under separate control and the operations were given to the autonomous government.
Another consequence of the federal set-up was the fact that it carried commercial advertising. During the prior set-up, each regional broadcaster had to pay for its advert breaks. The "nationalization" of the television service had led to the creation of a dedicated ad sales agency, shut down in the 90s as an annex of VR and VTV.
Nonetheless, in the 50s and 60s it was among the richest Ashtalaic broadcasters, in an age where commercial broadcasting was limited outside of Flarland and the money it got from its ad revenue was used to finance local television series that were screened in the Ashtalaic countries. Additionally, a television license fee was put into place in 1959. Educational programming from a separate statutory board was added in 1962.
In 1966, regional news returned after a seven-year absence - even in the federal era, the news were sent in from Pirmaja and sometimes had local stories added. Initially it was an experiment to test the reactions of viewers, but it eventually becane pivotal to the development of Vydoran television. Color broadcasts and a second channel followed in 1969, however filmed color series were already being produced as early as 1965.
The television service was restructured in 1980, owing to the expansion of clandestine television channels spreading across the country in an attempt to lose VTV's viewers. The only legal competitor it had in the 80s was TV FIKI, owned by a higher education institute and promoted counter-culture to its viewers. VTV answered by increasing its commercial credentials.
VTV was reorganized in 1987. VTV 1 became a more commercial channel and all of its locally-made shows were made in Pirmaja. VTV 2 was a limited commercial operation with the bulk of its offer consisting of programs made in all of its regional offices, while still acting as a complementary service to the first channel. An international channel was launched in 1992, initially available in Flarland. Another reorganization in 1996 led to the two channels dropping their former structures and were now mixing contents to an extent where both channels were almost considered to be the same in terms of scheduling. Subsequently VTV was reorganized on January 8, 1996. Some regional centers moved their national programming to VTV 1. The number of broadcasting hours on the two channels grew.
VTV started experimental DTT broadcasts in 1999. This led to the creation of news channel VTV 24, the first national news channel.
In 2006, VTV made its first experimental HD broadcasts
==Operations==
VTV operates seven television channels. All but one have the VTV name.
*VTV 1
*VTV 2
*VTV 3
*VTV Veiki
*VTV 24
*Zināšanu Kanāls is a multilingual channel broadcasting educational and factual programming. About 90% of its programming is made in Vydoria and about 65% of the programming is in Vydorian. The remaining programming is in Jeznogorian, Ashtalaian, Hayastelari, Omdalian and English.
*VTV World is the international service. It has terrestrial coverage in the Henleys and Eumoritown owing to their historical ties with Vydoria.
*Besides managing the channels above, VTV handles the broadcasting for Parlamentseitsens (Parliamentary Service), the country's legistlative broadcaster.
==Programming==
The central pillar of VTV is its news operation.