Timeline of Hopelandian television

Main article: Television in Hopeland
==1940s==
*1941: First experimental test transmissions conducted by the Albany Technical University
*October 1941: First newsreel broadcast by the experienced mental television station: The World at War
*1946: The federal government concedes a license to HWIR radio from Albany.
*1947: Due to overwhelming responses, the government concedes a freeze in television licenses and that the first station would open if the government said so.
*September 1947: The government approved IBS/HWIR's request.
*October 1947: HWIR-TV's headquarters are formally opened.
*February 1948: HWIR-TV is fully-equipped and makes its first test transmissions.
*June 1948: First regular broadcast of HWIR-TV, channel 4, in Albany, and the beginning of IBS in the television industry. It was also the first television station to sign on in South Sierra. Station given the slogan "The Eyes and Ears of the Southern Hemisphere", later "The Eyes and Ears of Hopeland".
*December 31, 1948: HWIR-TV makes its first end of year broadcast, live from the Rainbow Room.
*March 1949: The first regular broadcasts are made in Palmerston by the IBS network.
*October 1949: First episode of Pitcairn Avenue, the world's first regularly-recorded television series. It was made initially for the US in mind, as they already had a well-developed television infrastructure.
==1950s==
*1950: The government lifts an exception for IBS's main station in Palmerston.
*October 1950: HWIR buys Jim and Judy in Teleland.
*January 1951: HWIR screens the first serial of Crusader Rabbit, a Sierran television series that was the first animated series made specifically for television.
*September 1951: IBS broadcasts the Annual Diamond Gala Ball. The event was broadcast by the network twice before handing it to Zircon in 1953.
*March 1952: IBS premieres I Love Lucy.
*June 1952: The government lifts the television license freeze. About one hundred licenses were requested.
*October 1952: The government concedes eight licenses for non-commercial educational television under the Hopelandian Educational Television network.
*December 21, 1952: NBN's Albany O&O HWOF-TV commences regular operations on channel 2.
*February 15, 1953: HWZN-TV, channel 5, is signed on by the Zircon Corporation. Later on in the year, it would become an O&O and the hub of the Zircon Television Network.
*February 22, 1953: HWIV-TV commences regular broadcasts as an IBS affiliate in Garden City. It became the first city outside of Albany and Palmerston to enter the television age.
*April 7, 1953: The United Broadcasting System launches on channel 7 in Albany.
*April 21, 1953: HXRL, an IBS O&O, commcences regular transmissions on channel 7 in Ripponlea.
*July 1953: Inspired by Bandstand, HWOF-TV debuts a local version of the music show of the same name. It was renamed Hopelandian Bandstand later on.
*October 1, 1953: Innaugural broadcast of the ill-fated Zircon Television Network, featuring a live broadcast of the Annual Diamond Gala Ball, a showcase of fine jewelry followed by an upper-class ball set to classical music.
*1955: HWAL-TV signs on in Albany as the first Spanish-language television station in the country, on channel 11. It would soon become the main station of Antena Latina.
*1956: Bankruptcy of the Zircon Television Network, its stations become independent.
*March 1957: Start of the Hopelandian version of Romper Room on UBS stations, as individual local series.
*June 16, 1957: First experimental color tests using the NTSC system.
==1960s==
*February 1, 1961: NBN screens the first episode of The Flintstones, becoming the first TV network in South Sierra to do so. Due to a dispute between sponsors, the series was sponsored by Philip Morris International (legal representative South Sierran Tobacco Company) instead of Winston. Later an agreement is done with the latter.
*1962: NBN and IBS make a slow switch to color: Sierran shows were the first to go.
*October 1, 1963: IBS broadcasts the IBS Evening News in color for the first time, slides and studio inserts were in color but filmed reports are still in black and white. This was seen in a selected number of stations from Albany to Gatwick, whereas the local newscasts were still entirely produced in black and white.
*December 16, 1963: HWIR-TV produces its first local color newscast, under the same conditions as the national one.
*1964: Cigarette manufacturers are forbidden from putting their commercials in front of animated series.
==1970s==
*October 1979: The federal government issues a license for Comtam to become a national provider of cable television, with the aim of producing its own content and channels and assisting in the increase of the cable television infrastructure.
==1980s==
*1985: The Hopelandian government issues a license to the Metropolitan Television Network, with the aim of becoming the fourth English-speaking commercial network in the country.
*October 1986: MTN signs on using some independent stations the group had, but failed to make an impression.
*December 23, 1989: MTN rushedly premieres The Simpsons with its Christmas special.
==1990s==
*July 15, 1990: Unitel, a Hopelandian company, begins operating a one-channel (later three-channel) terrestrial television service in the Botojan Islands. The Hopelandian government subsequently launches an inquiry over the situation before legalizing a TV channel under local owners a couple of years later.
*April 23, 1992: HWKKI-TV signs on as the first television station in the External Hakki Territory, broadcasting on channel 4 in Raikopu. The station was a primary affiliate of NBN, and had secondary affiliations with UBS, MTN and IBS.
*February 1993: The federal government announces the creation of two new nationwide English-language network and the merger of several smaller Hispanic networks to create Antena Latina.
*October 1, 1993: Antena Latina goes on air for the first time.
*January 1, 1995: Independent stations soon aiming to become affiliates of both TotalAccess and XTN have a promo showing the content of the upcoming networks at 8pm.
==2000s==
*2005: The government plans to switch off analog television signals by 2015.
*January 2006: Both the TotalAccess and XTN networks are experiencing losses and decided on a possible merger of each others' operations.
==2010s==
*2015: End of analog television signals in Hopeland, after 67 years. Hopeland becomes the first country in South Sierra to achieve the conversion to DTT broadcasts.
*November 30, 2018: Hopeland Direct shuts down its analog service.
==2020s==