Timeline of Lenaporean television

Main article: Television in Lenapore
==1950s==
*March 1952: The NRAMA Radio Exhibition features the country's first demonstrations of television.
*May 1953: The Lenaporean government decided not to launch a television channel owing to "prohibitive costs".
*March 1955: Talks to launch television resume under the auspices of foreign companies.
*February 9, 1956: Minister of Education Chew Swee Kee tabled a motion in the Legislative Assembly seeking approval for the principle of introducing television via an exclusive licence for a commercial operator.
*1957: The government approves the launch of a television channel run by a joint-venture known as Television Lenapore.
*1957: Television Lenapore and its international partners visit the facilities of the Northulian National Broadcaster and Channel 9 in Southgate in order to look for equipment to help sustain the television channel.
*October 1958: Test transmissions are conducted featuring static images of Lenapore and test patterns.
*December 1, 1958: Television Lenapore commences regular broadcasting on channel 5 in Lenapore City. Broadcasts during TVL's first weeks ran for about two hours. There was limited news, mostly in English, by 1959 there were two news bulletins a day.
*December 31, 1958: TVL broadcasts an end of year show. It exceeds its hours of operation for the first time, considering that it was an exceptional occation.
*June 1959: Broadcasts now run for about four to five hours.
==1960s==
*1960: TVL begins operations on channel 7 in Cantonments.
*October 1, 1960: TVL allows advertising as means to reduce dependence on subsidies.
*February 7, 1961: Television arrives to Hamanashi. Since TVL did not have a direct microwave link to the city, the channel was considered independent and broadcast mainly in the Japanese language.
*September 1961: Berita Lenapura is made available in a second language: Malay.
*October 1961: The independent service in Hamanashi shuts down due to the establishment of a microwave link to the city. As means to keep the compromise, TVL started showing more programs in the Japanese language.
*March 1962: TVL commences operating a second channel on channel 8.
*April 1, 1962: The first non-newsreel news program is broadcast on Channel 5.
*1963: Lenapore becomes a sovereign country.
*July 1963: The first regular televised anime, Astro Boy, is broadcast in Japanese on Channel 5.
*May 5, 1965: LAFRA operates an illegal television service on channel 10 in Lenapore City, in a time where the country was still unorganized.
*July 20, 1968: The Handak Broadcasting Corporation innaugurates its television service under the auspices of the Handak Autonomy. The signal is weak so that it won't interfere with other LRT-led frequencies and the Xalxas Autonomy, where a television transmitter was being built.
==1970s==
*November 1971: The Rangeedu television transmitter is operational.
*January 13, 1972: Sources say that LRT plans to create a third channel operated by the Center for Production and Training of Adult Television.
*January 14, 1972: The Ministry of Culture reports that there was no budget for a third channel, either for adult educational or general commercial use.
*May 1974: LRT begins airing imported shows in color.
*July 7, 1974: LRT broadcasts the World Cup finals live.
*1976: LRT Channel 10 commences, absorbing most of the Japanese shows from channel 5.
*May 16, 1977: Channel 10 broadcasts Lenapore's first len-dorama and the first regular drama series, two nights a week.
*June 6, 1977: Fun Time, a bilingual Japanese/English gameshow, makes its first regular edition on Channel 10.
*July 1, 1978: The Lenaporean government initiates the controversial Speak Mandarin Campaign and all programs in Chinese dialects are banned, so that radio and television would screen programming exclusively in Chinese. Programs in Cantonese had to be dubbed in Mandarin to be exported to Lenapore.
==1980s==
*January 31, 1980: It is announced on the news that, from the following day, LRT was to be renamed LBC.
*February 1, 1980: LRT's corporatization takes full effect. LRT becomes the Lenapore Broadcasting Corporation.
*January 23, 1982: LBC 12 launches. It was initially supposed to launch on February 1, to tie in with the second anniversary of the corporatization of the LBC, but was pushed ahead in order not to clash with Lunar New Year celebrations.
*July 1, 1984: The Speak Mandarin Campaign is abolished and Cantonese-language television resumes, this time on Channel 10, with Hang Peng period drama series Young Heroes and the news.
==1990s==
*January 1, 1994: At the stroke of midnight, Channel 5 rebrands and drops the LBC branding. All Malay-langage programming moves to Channel 12. At the same time, it set up Production 5, with the aim of producing local television series to show that the English-language market is considered profitable.
*February 1, 1994: Channel 12 rebrands.
*May 1994: Channel 8 rebrands. Tamil programming continued on the channel until the following year. Cantonese programming moves completely to Channel 8, however at a much smaller proportion than Tamil content.
*September 30, 1994: Last day of the Lenapore Broadcasting Corporation. It is announced that Channel 10 will be renamed Sakura and will drop the LBC branding.
*October 1, 1994: Channel 5, Channel 8 and Sakura are all grouped under the Television Corporation of Lenapore. Channel 12's ownership was now under a separate company, Lenapore Television Twelve.
*September 1, 1995: Channel 12's frequencies are taken over by Premiere 12, the ethnic programming moved to Prime 12 on new frequencies.
*1997: Channel 5 premieres its second local sitcom, Phua Chu Kang Pte Ltd., it later managed to earn remakes in Malaya and the Malayanese Union.
*April 1999: The MRA authorizes the UHF frequencies for the LPH Mediaworks channels.
*June 1999: Test broadcasts are given for the LPH services.
*December 28, 1999: TV Works, U Works and K Works start regular operations.
==2000s==
*January 30, 2000: The first DTT broadcasts in Lenapore are made by TCL and LTV12. On the same day, Prime 12 is renamed Suria, entirely in Malay, and Premiere 12 becomes Central, divided into three sub-channels: Kids Central, Vasantham Central and Arts Central.
*January 28, 2001: LPBS makes its first television operation by being a channel with morals. The format wouldn't work.
*February 12, 2001: TCL and LTV 12 are renamed Mediacorp TV and Mediacorp TV12, respectively, as Mediacorp underwent a massive corporate change.
*October 2, 2003: Shiroseiden premieres on Sakura.
*December 2004: Mediacorp and LPH have decided to end Channel I because the channel, over its five years of operation, was unsuccessful and didn't manage to make a decent earning. Its catalog moved to Mediacorp's Channel 5.
*December 31, 2004: Channel I shuts down.
*October 2008: Okto replaces Central. Vasantham is created in frequencies formerly occupied by Channel I.
==2010s==
*2010: Channel 5 premieres the English dub of Nosghelian series The Two of Us, as an experiment for there being a market for English-dubbed Nosghelian series on national television.
*December 2013: The DTT system used in Lenapore is upgraded to DVB-T2.
*December 8, 2015: Mediacorp announces the start of its move to Mediacity, first by changing the logo.
*February 21, 2016: Launch of the Sondrian Business Network, 8news, Okto Kids, Entertainment Plus and Drama Plus channels, as means to boost the expansion of digital terrestrial television in the country.
*March 1, 2018: Gonuts Kids TV begins operation as a linear terrestrial television channel and an OTT platform. While not considered to be a real competitor, it's the first nationwide commercially-operated channel (even though it runs at a low cost) to broadcast in Lenapore since the shutdown of LPH Mediaworks.
*January 1-2, 2019: End of analog terrestrial transmissions in Lenapore. Television channels switch off the signal in favor of an MRA-mandated slide.
*February 1, 2019: The slides are removed and analog television successfully comes to an end.
*February 16, 2019: The new channels commence operation.
*February 20, 2019: Mediacorp announces that it will discontinue the Okto brand and rename it and Okto Kids as part of a restructuring of its secondary network of channels.
*April 1, 2019: Entertainment Plus becomes 5 Plus and Health Plus is launched by Mediacorp.
*May 1, 2019: Okto and Okto Kids swap channels; the former Okto Kids becomes Kidzone and the former Okto becomes Alt.
*July 1, 2019: Suria and Vasantham begin their new extended weekday schedules, starting at 12 noon instead of 3pm.
*December 12, 2019: Toggle makes its commercial launch as a television operator.
==2020s==
*December 31, 2020: Shutdown of Disney XD.
*October 2021: Mediacorp announces the sale and shutdown of some of its secondary television channels in order to alleviate its financial burden.