Jeznogorian Radio and Television

Jeznogorian Radio and Television is the state radio broadcasting company of the autonomous region of Jeznogoria, consisting of two separate pieces of land, one in south-eastern Vydoria (Ustka) and one between Omdalia and Ashtalaia (Pilva). JRT initially operated as two separate units until 1976, when the Pilva and Ustka radio and television centers were connected thanks to financing from Ashtalaian co-operation.
The broadcaster attracts a local audience of 620 thousand - the Jeznogorian population, where about 45% is a regular consumer of its services, as well as a shadow audience of up to two million in Vydoria, Ashtalaia and small parts of Flarland and Omdalia. The broadcaster operates three radio stations and two television channels.
==History==
In September 1929 the first radio station in Pilva was set up. Due to the autonomous status of Jeznogoria, it was independent from Radioserviss, the Vydorian national broadcaster of the time. In Ustka, the station was set up in October 1929. In the totality of the Vydorian territory, the Pilva and Ustka stations were the fourth and fifth radio stations in Vydoria after the initial stations in the three largest cities of the main territory were set up between 1922 and 1925.
Due to the detached territories and the federal nature of Vydorian broadcasting at the time, there was no unified broadcaster in Vydoria. When the Radioserviss companies were nationalized in 1950, the two radio stations were kept under their initial owners, whereas they were sold off to the civil government of Jeznogoria in 1952. Initially the two stations were kept as they were. On October 28, 1956, the Pilva TV center (Televizija Pilva) went live on air and on April 30, 1957, the Ustka TV center (Televizija Ustka). Unlike the radio stations they were de facto commercial companies with ties to Radioserviss. This arrangement infuriated the Pirmaja staffers and in 1959 Vydorian Television was created. The two stations were sold to the owners of the Pilva and Ustka radio stations respectively, the sub-units of the Jeznogorian government.
In 1960, Pilva 2 started broadcasting five hours a day, with a mixture of cultural programming from Jeznogoria with foreign content.
In 1968, the Pilva and Ustka television centers started broadcasting second television channels. In 1973, Pilva's television center upgraded to color, Ustka followed in 1975.
In April 1976, Ashtalaian co-operation funds led to the end of the decentralized rule and the set-up of a link between Pilva and Ustka's radio and television stations, deprecating the role of the former Ustka radio and television stations to a mere office. This move was considered to be "too controversial" at the time. Between 1979 and 1981, 2 Radijas (created from the merger of Pilva 2 and Ustka 2) broadcast from Ustka. The station reverted to Pilva after a number of complaints. In April 1985 such station reverted to Ustka for a trial period of six months. The hosts were used to broadcast from Pilva and didn't like the idea of broadcasting from Ustka.
In the late 80s and early 90 the radio and television monopoly in Jeznogoria was finally broken. A number of FM radio stations emerged in 1989, but these were mostly illegal. Jeznogorian Radio wanted to set up two new radio stations, JR3 and JR4, exclusively over the FM band, but the high proliferation of commercial radio stations has led to JRT quitting the plans (JRT retried online in 2006 and became terrestrial in 2009). Likewise the government set up a funding program in 1989 for the public sector, so that the extant servies were to be improved.
In 1995, Jeznogorian Television still opened rather late, at 18:00, whereas the only commercial television stations already broadcast in the morning hours. At the same time coverage of the Jeznogorian Parliament started on JRT 2 when the channel was still off-air.
Jeznogorian Television content was made available one hour a day on VTV SAT (later VTV World), after a co-operation agreement was signed between the two broadcasters on October 30, 1994. At the same time it was suggested that JRT's channels were set to become must-carry channels in the rest of Jeznogoria. This meant that much of south-eastern Vydoria was set to receive JRT 1 terrestrially and in Jeznogoria proper, VTV 1.
JTV 2 stopped relaying VTV 2 programming on December 31, 2000. The launch of digital terrestrial television was seen as an experiment to test the limits of the carriage of Vydorian state TV in Jeznogoria. JTV 1 by then was now broadcasting from 17:00 daily.
In 2004 the operating hours of the first television channel were as follows:
*Monday to Thursday 14:30 to 22:00
*Friday 14:30 to 23:00
*Saturday, Sunday and selected national holidays: 15:00 to 23:00
As for the second channel, broadcasts regularly started at 20:00 and ended at around 22:00.
In 2005 the start time was reregulated to 16:00 for the first channel, with an ending time of 23:30 on weekdays and 00:00 on weekends.
During this phase JRT was heavily engaged in the sublicensing of TV series VTV bought and later redubbed to Jeznogorian.
After years of terrible decisions made by the Jeznogorian government, JRT 2 relocates to Ustka and broadcast three hours every night (20:00 to 23:00) starting March 25, 2008. JRT 1 rebranded on the same day and became known as JTV (Jeznogorijos Televizija). On November 1, 2007, @Radijas became Opus 3, giving the youth "a voice". The station was built upon a former internet radio station operated by JRT since late 2006.
In July 2012, the second channel moves back to Pilva as means to centralize all operations there. The corporation was rebranded. The two television channels were renamed VIENA and ANTRA respectively.
In 2015, both channels reverted to the classic names, JRT 1 and JRT 2, and rebranded. In 2018, the two channels were successfully converted to high definition.
The channels were renamed again in June 2022.
==Operations==
===Radio===
*1 Radijas (known as Jeznogorijos Radijas until 2012)
*2 Radijas
*3 Radijas (known as Opus from 2007 to 2012 and JRT Opus until 2015): Replaced a previous internet experiment, @radijas (also available over cable), that started in late 2006.
===Television===
*Jeznogorija 1
*Jeznogorija 2
==Coverage==
==Controversies==
===Underfunding===