Some interesting things found while searching channel descriptions

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I been doing some work with our channel descriptions recently and I do find interesting things every now and again.
I just came across some interesting knowledge about one Venezuelan channel ...

PDVSA TV

For a couple of years now, Venezuelans State oil company PDVSA, has been broadcasting on its own TV channel.
Their main mission is to be “the first station in the world dedicated to oil policy…”
It gets political with how it all started, but there it is... Holy Oil Policy Making... Batman !!

They are not the first Oil Company to have a TV channel.
MAV TV is owned by Lucas Oil and is dedicated to car-related stuff.
Russian oil giant Gazprom, has its own media subsidiary with plenty of outlets – the Russian HegemonCorp


https://www.caracaschronicles.com/2016/04/29/pdvsa-tv-live-anyone-watching/




Promar TV

Here is another TV station that had an interesting if not nostalgic story.
Promar TV - Venezuelan regional television station. Originally known as Mariano & Co.

Back in the 1950s the station was known to publicaly show their programming on a large screen TV in the parking lot across from the Sears building.
In 1953, the station was temporary shut down by the local municipal council because they considered it to be an unfair competitor to the local movie theatres.

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ERT Greece TV - Radio

ERT2, formerly NET
-short for Néa EllinikÃ* Tileórasi; Greek: Νέα Ελληνική Τηλεόραση ---- Greek for New Hellenic Television
Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT), the public broadcaster of Greece.



Here is a bit of history behind this channel...

On 27 February 1966, a second television channel was created by the Greek military, (The Armed Forces Television), which in 1970 became a fully-fledged second broadcaster as the Armed Forces Information Service (YENED). It contained news, sports, fashion, music, drama series and more rarely documentaries, films and children programming.

On 3 November 1982, YENED passed under civilian control and was renamed as ERT2.

In 1997, ET-2 was restructured as a news and information channel, airing documentaries and sports and renamed as NET.

On June 11, 2013, NET was taken off air after the Greek government announced its decision to close ERT.
Amid protests, NET continued to be broadcast via the Internet with the help of the European Broadcasting Union until November 7, 2013 when police forces invaded the ERT building and took the programme off.

But ERT relaunch on June 11, 2015
The station returned as ERT2

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Rope TV

Telecaribe TV - Radio station is dedicated to the Caribbean region of Colombia
Nicknamed Rope TV because of the ropes used to secure the antennas onto the highest buildings.

The station was set up in the early 1980s in Valledupar, Colombia and was created by a local entrepreneur named Jose Jorge Dangond.
It started as an unlicensed TV station and as a personal hobby with aficionado equipment brought from the United States, transmitting American movies and local vallenato musical groups, including first versions of the Vallenato Legend Festival.
Dangond's family and friends in Valledupar nicknamed it Televallenato or Rope TV, because all the antennae and equipment were attached with ropes onto one of the highest buildings in the city.

By 1986 the Colombian Ministry of Communications detected the channel's signal and seized all the equipment.
Dangond then started a legal battle to legalize the channel, which developed into a congressional proposal to create regional TV channels for every region of Colombia.
Thus were born Telecaribe, Teleantioquia, TelepacÃ*fico, and other regional TV stations.

On this same year, the station formally became Telecaribe, and the main equipment and studios were then moved to Barranquilla where it continued to develop and cover the entirety of Colombia's Caribbean region by setting up franchises or TV stations in the seven major cities of this region.
Dangond was his promoter and first director for almost 6 years before he was appointed Consul General in Venezuela.

TELECARIBE is the third national TV channel most watched in northern Colombia.

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Radio y Televisión MartÃ*

Radio y Televisión MartÃ* is an American radio and television international broadcaster based in Miami, Florida, financed by the Federal government of the United States through the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), which transmits newscasts and programs in Spanish to Cuba.
Its broadcasts can also be heard and viewed worldwide through their website and on shortwave radio frequencies.

Named after the Cuban national hero and intellectual José MartÃ*, it was established in 1983 with the addition of TV MartÃ* in 1990.
The 2014 US budget for the Cuba broadcasting program was approximately US $27 million.


In the early 1980s, the U.S. Government planned to create a radio station to be known as Radio Free Cuba, modeled on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, the mission was in fighting communism in the hope of hastening the fall of Cuban President Fidel Castro.
The station – renamed Radio MartÃ* after Cuban writer José MartÃ*, who had fought for Cuba's independence from Spain and against U.S. influence in the Americas – was established in 1983 by President Ronald Reagan at the urging of Jorge Mas Canosa.
Existing North American broadcasters objected strenuously to the establishment of Radio MartÃ*, fearing that its broadcasts would lead Cuba to retaliate by jamming existing commercial medium-wave broadcasts from Florida.

On May 20, 1985, Radio MartÃ* began broadcasts to Cuba from the United States. The first day of broadcasting was chosen to commemorate the 83rd anniversary of Cuba's independence from United States rule on May 20, 1902.
The fears of broadcasters proved well-founded, when Cuba-based transmitters briefly broadcast powerful signals on the medium-wave band, disrupting U.S. AM radio station broadcasts in several states.
Cuba continues to broadcast interference against U.S. broadcasts specifically directed to Cuba in attempts to prevent them from being received within Cuba.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991, the budget for all U.S.-government-run foreign broadcasters, with the exception of Radio MartÃ*, was sharply reduced. In 1996, Radio MartÃ*'s studios were moved from Washington, D.C. to Miami, Florida. The move, in addition to placing the station's studios closer to its target audience, also underscored its growing independence from the Voice of America, another U.S.-government-run foreign broadcaster with which Radio MartÃ* had previously shared studios.

Today, Radio Marti broadcasts a 24-hour radio program over short-wave transmitters in Delano, California, and Greenville, North Carolina, and a medium-wave transmitter in Marathon, Florida.
Cuba jams both the medium-wave and shortwave signals, but the shortwave program is heard in Canada and throughout Central America and South America. On occasion, the medium-wave transmitter at 1180 kHz can be heard as far north as Washington, D.C.

*taken from wikipedia

[jony604]

Very well done crazed i am impress
As for ERT it is back and free as is all "greek channels" on google store for android as an app
have not applied my self for other application but i am sure they are available
ERT 1
ERT 2
ERT 3
ERT world
ERT HD
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PS: So sad to loose Lamda "" Greek flag is at half mast to day ""

[crazed 9.6]

thnx jony604


Here's another small bit of facts

TV Chile

TV Chile transmits shows from Santiago, Chile.
TV Chile is the international signal of Television Nacional de Chile.
During the 2000s, TV Chile made a contract with DirecTV, which allowed TV Chile to reach over 140 countries worldwide, which roughly constitutes 66 percent of the world's countries.
After signing the contract with DirecTV, TV Chile became one of the very few television channels to broadcast shows to the Antarctic.