Television in Aoshi

Television started in Aoshi in March of 1957. Three licences were issued: one for the state-run ABC and two commercial licences for ATV and Ilyu Radio.
Presently, ABC has two terrestrial channels and competes against four commercial networks.
==History==
===1955-1957===
The Aoshian parliament approved a law for television operations in December 1955. There were going to be three television channels in the capital, one assigned to the Aoshi Broadcasting Corporation and two assigned to the extant commercial radio broadcasters in Ilyu.
===1957-1974===
ABC started regular television transmissions on March 7, 1957. The other licenses, ATV and IBC, started on June 19 and October 1 respectively. Broadcasts were held for about two to three hours. Despite early competition, about 200 people had television sets and there were plans to improve television manufacturing. Most early sets were manufactured by either the Radio Corporation of Sierra or Nosghel's Radiowealth.
The ABC service had a strictly cultural and educational schedule, which conditioned the initial success of government television. This led to the quick growth of commercial television.
A third commercial broadcaster, the Maeil National Network (also known as Maeil Broadcasting) started operations in 1964.
Right from the onset, commercial television was historically linked to the political parties. ATV signed on during the mandate of the Aoshi Minju Party, who had won the 1955 legislative elections, IBC was linked to the Nationalist Party and MNN was linked to the Harmony Party. The ABC usually fell under the auspices of whatever was the ruling party - it was often known as a "second ATV" or "second IBC" if the existing broadcasters linked to parties had the majority in parliament. When the Yeonchu Party won the 1963 legislative elections, and they did not have a television channel linked to them, the ABC was usually known as "Yeonchu Broadcasting".
===1974-1989===
After about eight years of stabilization, television had become the most dominant mass media in the country, thus overshadowing radio. There was still a problem, as television channels were on air for limited hours a day, from 18:00 to 23:00. Besides, Aoshi was also a victim of the oil crisis and energy had to be saved. This limited format prevailed on Aoshian television until 1985.
Nonetheless, it was also a new age for television. In 1976, all channels started color transmission, using the NTSC color format. However, until 1980, most television was still in black and white, including advertisements, news reports and imported programming from Daehan. Aoshi was the second Koreanic country to introduce color television, as Joseon, due to Soviet influence, got there earlier in 1973.
In 1979, the ABC launched a second channel, ABC 2, which was devoted to programs of a more educational nature.
In 1980, about 80% of Aoshian television programming and content was in color, a sharp increase from the 20% of four years earlier; color TV set ownership had been 75%, up from about 10% four years earlier.
Breakfast television was introduced in 1982, but within a couple of years was temporarily taken off air due to issues with the broadcasters. By 1985, a regular broadcast day was divided in two periods: the first period between 10:00 and 12:30 and the second period between 16:00 and 00:00. This also applied to ABC 2, although there were variations due to educational programming shown in the daytime hours.
===1989-2003===
In 1989, the government conceded licenses to the Young Democrats, who signed on their television network, YTV, in April 1991. Six months later, the Young Democrats won the legislative elections for the first time.
YTV eventually challenged the long-established three commercial networks, and the effects were seen throughout the 90s: ATV, which used to be the most-viewed network, has lost more than half of its viewers; IBC benefitted by hiring former ATV staff, presenters and actors and strengthened its news operation and MNN quickly rejuvenated, thus becoming the most-viewed network.
Aoshi Cable Networks, as well as a number of other cable companies, started broadcasts in 1994. Satellite television, using the Daehansat satellite at first, quickly followed, but domestic satellite platforms weren't a reality until 1998, using the digital format. The first operator was a branch of Oriencian operator PerfecTV!, who was already merging with Orience SKY Broadcasting, in partnership with the Hyeon Group.
===Since 2003===
==Overview==
===Terrestrial===
Currently there are six terrestrial channels in larger prefectures. Smaller prefectures have two or three commercial channels. In Ilyu prefecture, this is the overview:
*3 - ATV
*5 - IBC
*7 - MNN
*9 - ABC 1
*11 - ABC 2
*13 - YTV
Each network has been nicknamed after the color it uses, similarly to political parties. ATV is nicknamed "the green network", IBC is "the blue network", MNN is "the pink network" and YTV is the "yellow network".
Korean colonization in the past also influenced what Aoshian television is since 1957. The Aoshian ad break system is based on the Daehanian system: breaks are only placed at the start and end of each show, including newscasts. ABC 2 is the only non-commercial channel in Aoshi.
Aoshian networks are not homogenous. Similar to Orience, there is a decentralized television system.
Prefecture	ABC 	ATV	IBC	MNN	YTV
Ilyu 	Ilyu 	ATV	IBC	MNN	YTV
Chulsaeng 	Chulsaeng	CTC	CBS	CJT	BAB
===Cable and satellite===
The cable industry commenced in 1999. This was followed by a Skylife-esque satellite provider in 2001. The leading pay-TV providers are Smart Telecom, AOT, StarHub, ACN and DIRECTV.
Regarding the channels, initially most channels were imported from Daehan. The first company with Aoshi-made channels was ATV Group which started licensing the CJ E&M channels until it was sold off to the local branch of CJ in 2003.
==Networks==
==Regulation==
Aoshi, like Rangwon, is subject to less stricter regulations than Daehan.
===Censorship of Oriencian topics===
Unlike Daehanian TV, Oriencian cultural topics aren't seen with strict guidelines, meaning that Aoshi had access to a vast number of Oriencian television productions practically uncut.
===Other kinds of censorship common on Daehianian television but uncommon in Aoshi===
===Product placement===
Aoshian TV has been pretty liberal in product placement.