Television in Tarania

Television in Tarania is largely controlled by the government-backed Taraan Nacionalaan Rihtevpasoõn, Central Eurectipherian Media Enterprises and Taranian Media Group. A fourth company, Centrum Televisioõn, operated from 1989 to 2018.
Television is influenced by politics and whoever is dominant in the Assembly. Through the decades, the commercial television landscape has changed several times, as private channels came and went, mostly shut down due to political pressure. Before April 1989, when the country was communist, TNT had a monopoly, operating two channels with a third channel being launched in 1989, and Centrum, the first private service, launching in November.
==History==
In 1954, a team at the Machine and Electrotechnics Institute in Syktyvykar (today called the Technical University of Syktyvykar) made its first experimental television broadcast with two antennas (one for sound and one for image) on the roof of a building near the Martyrs of the Nazi Regime monument in the city, after having previously conducted successful cable test transmissions. These experimental broadcasts led to the interest of the Ministry of Communications, which decided to build a broadcasting tower in Syktyvykar, with a state-controlled channel to air from it. The new channel, Taraan Nacionalaan Televisioõn (Taranian National Television) launched on November 1, 1958 at 19:05, used the OIRT standard of 625 lines and 25 frames per second. It also used the D/K audio system, which was generally done to prevent reception of Western Eurectipherian stations in Eastern Bloc countries. Public attention was quickly caught by the new medium, and the number of bought and registered television sets increased gradually. In 1960, a powerful 20 kilowatt transmitter was installed in Nalin, covering a large area of the country. Later, more transmitters and retranslators were placed in various cities, towns and villages around the country.
Programming was controlled and influenced by the Taranian Communist Party-run government in this time, as was usual in the Eastern Bloc. The first popular program wewa the news, which were titled Meenan Baide uguns Teheen (Around the World and Here) (with "here" meaning "in our country"), shown at 20:30, and moved to 19:30 in 1965. Other popular shows started around this time were the children's block Jo Bataan, Kakeen (Good Night, Children), like the news still broadcast today, television theatre programs, the various sport events which were broadcast live from around the world, and music programs like the regular New Year celebration shows. Foreign programming in the early years was limited to mostly Soviet Union productions, as well as some direct rebroadcasts of Soviet television programming. This later expanded to include programming from other Eastern Bloc countries like Swilatia and Pannonia, especially animated series for children. A second channel followed in 1967.
In 1980, the first color broadcast was made, in time for the Summer Olympics. The SECAM color system was used, because PAL was used in most western countries (except for Étienne, where SECAM was invented). After several years, the entire programming was broadcast in color.
A third commercial channel, TV1 launched on April 1, 1998.
==Channels==