{{Short description|None}} {{Inc-tv|date=October 2021}} {{Cleanup|date=April 2025|reason=Article is messy, unorganized, and very cluttered. also including subdivisions might not be the best idea.}} thumb|500px|A map showing when television was introduced in each country: {{legend|#081d58|1920s to 1930s}} {{legend|#253494|1940s}} {{legend|#225ea8|1950s}} {{legend|#1d91c0|1960s}} {{legend|#41b6c4|1970s}} {{legend|#7fcdbb|1980s}} {{legend|#c7e9b4|1990s}} {{legend|#edf8b1|2000s to 2010s}} {{legend|#f8ffd4|2020s and after}} {{legend|Tan|No television}} {{legend|#e0e0e0|No data}} This is a list of when the first publicly announced television broadcasts occurred in the mentioned countries. Non-public field tests and closed circuit demonstrations are not included.
This list should not be interpreted to mean the whole of a country had television service by the specified date. For example, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and the former Soviet Union all had operational television stations and a limited number of viewers by 1939. Very few cities in each country had television service. Television broadcasts were not yet available in most places. {{clear}}
== History ==
=== 1920s and 1930s === {| class="wikitable" ! rowspan="2" | Year ! colspan="2" | Countries and territories |- ! Regular ! Pre-regular |- | 1924 | | * {{flagu|United States|1912}} (pre-experimental on television) |- | 1928 | | * {{flagu|United States|1912}} (mechanical television, – W2XCW)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tvhistory.tv/W2XB%20WGY%20WRGB%20TV%20Station.htm |title=WRGB History}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tvhistory.tv/W1XAY.htm |title=How Television Came to Boston: The Forgotten Story of W1XAY}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://online.sfsu.edu/~hl/cfj/cfj.W3XK.html |title=W3XK: America's first television station}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=WRNY to Start Daily Television Broadcasts |newspaper=The New York Times |date=August 13, 1928 |page=13}}</ref> |- | 1929 | | * {{flagu|United Kingdom}} (mechanical)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bairdtelevision.com/1932.html |title=J.L. Baird: Television in 1932 |website=Baird Television}}</ref> * {{flagicon|Germany|1919}} Germany (mechanical)<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20040207210618/https://museum.tv/archives/etv/G/htmlG/germany/germany.htm Museum of Broadcast Communications: Germany]</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tvhistory.tv/1936%20German%20Olympics%20TV%20Program.htm |title=Berlin 1936: Television in Germany}}</ref> * {{Flagu|Australia}} (mechanical, after hours on two existing Melbourne radio stations - 3UZ and 3DB)<ref>{{cite book |title=Australian TV – The First 25 Years |first=Peter |last=Bielby |page=173 |isbn=0-17-005998-7}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.environment.gov.au/heritage/ahc/publications/linking-a-nation/chapter9 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170920142542/http://www.environment.gov.au/heritage/ahc/publications/linking-a-nation/chapter9 |archivedate=2017-09-20 |title=Linking a Nation Chapter 9 |publisher=Australian Heritage Council}}</ref><ref>Peter Luck, 50 Years of Australian Television {{ISBN|1-74110-367-3}} p.15</ref> * {{flagu|Netherlands}} (mechanical, in Scheveningen)<ref name="isgeschiedenis.nl">{{cite web |url=https://isgeschiedenis.nl/nieuws/eerste-nts-journaal-op-de-nederlandse-televisie |title=Eerste NTS journaal op de Nederlandse televisie |date=5 January 2016}}</ref> |- | 1930 | | * {{flagu|Soviet Union|1924}} (pre-experimental in Moscow wired in 1929) |- | 1931 | | * {{flagicon|France|1830}} France (mechanical) * {{flagu|Canada|1921}} (mechanical, – VE9EC) * {{flagu|Soviet Union|1924}} (mechanical, – МТЦ) * {{flagu|Rattanakosin Kingdom|1917|name=Siam}} (mechanical, cancelled because of the revolution) |- | 1932 | | * {{flagu|Argentina}} (mechanical)<ref>''See'' [https://lagalenadelsur.com/2019/07/26/television-mecanica-en-argentina-en-1932-las-experiencias-de-ignacio-m-gomez-por-lr4-radio-splendid-de-buenos-aires Televisión mecánica en Argentina en 1932. Las experiencias de Ignacio M. Gómez por LR4 Radio Splendid de Buenos Aires]</ref> * {{flagu|Canada|1921}} |- | 1934 | | * {{flagu|Australia}} (electronic television, Brisbane)<ref name="Cour34">{{cite news |title=Timeline – national and state, 1927-1941 |work=Brisbane Courier Mail |url=http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/extras/federation/Timelines/CMFedTimelineNat3.htm |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080215131629/http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/extras/federation/Timelines/CMFedTimelineNat3.htm |archivedate=February 15, 2008}}</ref> |- | 1935 | * {{flagicon|France|1830}} France (electronic – PTT Radio Vision) | * {{flagu|Nazi Germany|name=Germany}} (intermediate film; semi-electronic) * {{flagu|Netherlands}} (electronic, in Eindhoven by Philips)<ref name="isgeschiedenis.nl" /> |- | 1936 | * {{flagu|United Kingdom}} (electronic – BBC Television Service) * {{flagu|Nazi Germany|name=Germany}} (electronic television - Deutscher Fernseh Rundfunk)<ref>[http://framemaster.tripod.com/index5.html The Birth of Live Entertainment and Music on Television, November 6, 1936]</ref><ref>[http://www.earlytelevision.org/rca_1937_photos.html 1937 RCA Publicity Photographs]. "Eighty-seven video programs were telecast by NBC last year," "[http://www.earlytelevision.org/where_is_television.html Where Is Television Now?] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080913065455/http://www.earlytelevision.org/where_is_television.html |date=2008-09-13}}", ''Popular Mechanics'', August 1938, p. 178. Regularly scheduled electronic broadcasts began in April 1938 in New York (to the second week of June, and resuming in August) and Los Angeles. "Telecasts Here and Abroad," ''The New York Times'', April 24, 1938, Drama-Screen-Radio section, p. 10; "[https://web.archive.org/web/20070901194251/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849042,00.html Early Birds]," ''Time'', June 13, 1938; "Telecasts to Be Resumed," ''The New York Times'', Aug. 21, 1938, Drama-Screen-Radio section, p. 10; Robert L. Pickering, "[http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist5/donlee.html Eight Years of Television in California]," ''California – Magazine of the Pacific'', June 1939. Also note that many rural areas of the Southern United States didn't receive television until the late 1950s and early 1960s.</ref> | |- | 1937 | | * {{flagu|Free City of Danzig}} (electronic){{efn|Although 180-line cathode ray tube receivers were manufactured in France in 1936, a mechanical scanning camera was still used at the transmitter in Paris until 1937.}} * {{flagicon|Poland|1928}} Poland (mechanical; Doświadczalna Stacja Telewizyjna)<ref name="poland">[http://www.warsawvoice.pl/view/1291/ The Warsaw Voice: What's On?] and {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928103407/http://www.pit.edu.pl/index.php?s=651 |date=September 28, 2007 |title=Historia Przemysłowego Instytutu Telekomunikacji przed II wojną światową}} (in Polish).</ref> |- | 1938 | | * {{flagu|Soviet Union|1936}} (electronic, CT USSR) * {{flagu|Turkey}} (electronic) |- | 1939 | * {{flagu|United States|1912}} (electronic; non-commercial until 1941 - NBC) | * {{flagu|Empire of Japan|name=Japan}} (electronic, J2PQ)<ref>''See'' The Evolution of TV: A Brief History of TV Technology in Japan: [http://www.nhk.or.jp/strl/aboutstrl/evolution-of-tv-en/p09col_1.html “Can you see me clearly?”] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130101044401/http://www.nhk.or.jp/strl/aboutstrl/evolution-of-tv-en/p07/column/index1.html |date=2013-01-01}}; [http://www.nhk.or.jp/strl/aboutstrl/evolution-of-tv-en/p09.html Public TV Image Experiments] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160526181516/http://www.nhk.or.jp/strl/aboutstrl/evolution-of-tv-en/p07/index.html |date=2016-05-26}}.</ref>{{efn|Off from 1940 to 1950 due to Japan's entry in the World War II and subsequent US occupation.}} * {{flagicon|Kingdom of Italy}} Italy (electronic, EIAR Trasmissioni Sperimentali Radiovisione)<ref>''See'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20070827100727/http://s206301103.websitehome.co.uk/database/it.tv.htm Early Television in Italy]</ref> * {{flagicon|Poland|1928}} Poland (electronic)<ref name="poland" /> |}
=== 1940s === {| class="wikitable" ! rowspan="2" | Year ! colspan="2" | Countries and territories |- ! Regular ! Pre-regular |- | 1943 | * {{flagicon image|War ensign of Germany (1938–1945).svg}} Military Administration in France (Fernsehsender Paris) | * {{flagu|Uruguay}} (electronic)<ref>[https://lagalenadelsur.com/2013/11/08/1943-mario-giampietro-la-primera-emision-electronica-de-tv-en-uruguay-y-america-latina 1943. Mario Giampietro. La primera emisión electrónica de TV en Uruguay y América Latina]</ref> |- | 1944 | * {{flagicon|France|1830}} Provisional Government of the French Republic (RDF Télévision française) | |- | 1946 | | * {{flagicon|Czechoslovakia}} Czechoslovakia (pre-experimental) * {{flagu|Denmark}} (pre-experimental) * {{flagu|Mexico|1934}} (XE1GC)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.xtimeline.com/evt/view.aspx?id=761373 |title=Historia de la Televisión! | Primera transmisión en blanco y negro | Event view |accessdate=2013-10-24 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921061928/http://www.xtimeline.com/evt/view.aspx?id=761373 |archivedate=2013-09-21 |trans-title=Latin America's first experimental television station |language=es}}</ref> * {{flagu|United States|1912}} territories: ** {{flagicon|Philippines|1936}} Philippines (BEC) |- | 1948 | | * {{flagu|Brazil|1889}} (Rede Tupi) * {{flagu|Cuba|1902}} (pre-experimental) * {{flagicon|Czechoslovakia}} Czechoslovakia{{efn|Czechoslovakia became two separate states, namely the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993.}} * {{flagu|Switzerland}} (pre-experimental) * {{flagicon|Mongolia|1945}} Mongolia (pre-experimental) |- | 1949 | | * {{flagu|Denmark}} * {{flagu|Italy}} * {{flagu|Vatican City}} (pre-experimental){{Citation needed|date=May 2026}} * {{flagu|Venezuela}} (pre-experimental) |}
=== 1950s === {| class="wikitable" ! rowspan="2" | Year ! colspan="2" | Countries and territories |- ! Regular ! Pre-regular |- | 1950 | * {{flagu|Mexico|1934}} (official, XHTV-TV) * {{flagu|Brazil|1889}} (Rede Tupi, now defunct)){{efn|License auctioned to Silvio Santos and became SBT São Paulo in 1981.}} * {{flagu|Cuba|1902}} (CMQ-TV) | * {{flagu|Dominican Republic}} (pre-experimental) * {{flagu|West Germany}} (Northwest Germany, NWDR) * {{flagu|Hungary}} (pre-experimental) * {{flagu|Iceland}} (pre-experimental) * {{flagu|Japan|1947}} (returned, electronic, NHK) * {{flagu|Monaco}} (pre-experimental) * {{flagicon|Morocco}} French Morocco (pre-experimental) * {{flagu|Norway}} (pre-experimental) * {{flagu|Romania|1952}} (pre-experimental) * {{flagicon|Saudi Arabia|1938}} Saudi Arabia (pre-experimental) * {{flagu|South Korea|1949}} (pre-experimental) * {{flagu|Switzerland}} |- | 1951 | * {{flagu|Argentina}} (LR3 TV) * {{flagu|Denmark}} (DR)<ref>''See'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20070113134402/http://www.dr.dk/OmDR/Fakta+om+DR/Historie/20060504131517.htm DRs historie 1950-1959].</ref> * {{flagu|Netherlands}} (NTS)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://isgeschiedenis.nl/nieuws/eerste-nts-journaal-op-de-nederlandse-televisie |title=Eerste NTS journaal op de Nederlandse televisie |date=5 January 2016}}</ref> | * {{flagu|Colombia}} (pre-experimental) * {{flagicon|Mongolia|1945}} Mongolia (MNTV) * {{flagu|Portugal}} (pre-experimental) |- | 1952 | * {{flagu|Chile}} (sporadically until 1959) * {{flagu|Canada|1921}} (CBFT and CBLT) * {{flagu|Dominican Republic}} (La Voz Dominicana) * {{flagu|East Germany|1949}} (DFF) * {{flagu|West Germany}} (Northwest Germany, full service, NWDR-Fernsehen) * {{flagicon|Poland|1928}} Polish People's Republic (TV Polska) * {{flagu|Thailand}}<ref>{{cite web |date=30 April 1952 |title=20,000 saw the first television in Bangkok |url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/singstandard19520731-1.2.207.40?qt=television,%20thailand&q=Television%20Thailand |access-date=31 July 2023 |website=Singapore Standard (retrieved from NLB)}}</ref> * {{flagu|Turkey}} (İTÜ TV, now defunct){{efn|Limited to Istanbul. Ankara got television in 1968 when TRT started its television service. In 1971, ITU TV shut down and TRT started a station in Istanbul. From then on, a slow process to start a national service began.}} * {{flagu|United States|1912}} territories: ** {{flagu|Hawaii}} (KONA) * {{flagu|Venezuela|1930}} (YVKA-TV, now defunct) | * {{flagu|Bulgaria}} (pre-experimental) * {{flagu|Finland}} (pre-experimental) * {{flagu|Guatemala}} (pre-experimental) * {{flagu|Iraq|19124}} (pre-experimental) * {{flagu|Luxembourg}} (pre-experimental) * {{flagicon|Mongolia|1945}} Mongolia (trial, MNTV) * {{flagu|Spain|1945}} (pre-experimental) |- | 1953 | * {{flagu|Belgium}} (INR Télé Expérimentale Belge and NIR Belgische Televisie){{efn|Dutch-language BRT used the Belgian 625-line standard and French-language RTB used the Belgian 819-line standard (abandoned in 1963). Early Belgian sets were very expensive because they could receive four different standards: Belgian 625, European 625, Belgian 819, French 819. Later a fifth standard was added with the French 625-line standard.}} * {{flagu|Japan|1947}} (returned, NHK){{efn|Rollout for NHK started in 1953 in Kanto, 1954 in Tokai and Kansai and between 1956 and 1958 for the rest of Japan. For commercial TV, limited to Kanto from 1953 to 1955 (NTV and KRT) and spread between 1956 and 1963 to the rest of the country. Saga Prefecture only gained television (NHK and commercial) in 1969 due to overspill from neighboring prefectures and usage of UHF as the preferred band.}} * {{flagicon|Mongolia|1945}} Mongolia{{cn|date=May 2026}} * {{flagu|Philippines|1936}} (DZAQ-TV){{efn|Coverage was limited to Manila until 1959, and by 1972 had also reached Baguio, Batangas, Bacolod, Cebu and Davao. During the Martial Law that led into first ABS-CBN shutdown, there were still many regions in the Philippines that hadn't been electrified, making a total nationwide expansion unviable for years.}}<ref>{{cite web |date=2025-02-07 |title=FACT CHECK: Hindi totoong babalik sa Channel 3 ang ABS-CBN |url=https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/business/2025/2/7/fact-check-hindi-totoong-babalik-sa-channel-3-ang-abs-cbn-2012 |website=ABS-CBN |access-date=2025-10-14|language=tl}}</ref> * {{flagu|Saar}} (Telesaar){{efn|Telesaar went defunct in 1958 as it was ordered by the German authorities.}} * {{flagu|Switzerland}} (SRG) * {{flagu|United States|1912}} territories: ** {{flagu|Alaska}} (KATV, now defunct) * {{flagu|United Kingdom}} territories: ** {{flagu|Guernsey}} ** {{flagu|Jersey|old}} (pre-experimental) | * {{flagu|Austria}} (pre-experimental) * {{flagicon|Czechoslovakia}} Czechoslovakia * {{flagu|El Salvador}} (pre-experimental) * {{flagu|Hungarian People's Republic|name=Hungary}} * {{flagu|Nicaragua}} (pre-experimental) * {{flagu|United Kingdom}} territories: ** {{flagu|Jersey|old}} (pre-experimental) ** {{flagu|Malta|1943}} (pre-experimental) * {{flagu|United States|1912}} territories: ** {{flagu|Puerto Rico}} (pre-experimental) * {{flagu|Vatican City}} (HVJ) * {{flagu|Yugoslavia}} (pre-experimental) |- | 1954 | * {{flagu|Colombia}} (HJRN-TV) * {{flagu|Czechoslovak Socialist Republic|name=Czechoslovakia}} (ČST) * {{flagu|Italy}} (Programma Nazionale) * {{flagu|Monaco}} (TMC) * {{flagu|United States|1912}} territories: ** {{flagu|Puerto Rico|1952}} (WKAQ-TV) | * {{flagicon|Bulgaria|1948}} Bulgaria (MEI) * {{flagu|France}} territories: ** {{flagicon|France}} Algerian Departments (pre-experimental) ** {{flagicon|Morocco}} French Morocco (TELMA, went defunct shortly after)<ref>{{cite web |date=1 August 2019 |title=TELMA, the story of Morocco's first and short-lived television channel |url=https://en.yabiladi.com/articles/details/81793/telma-story-morocco-s-first-short-lived.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240508210355/https://en.yabiladi.com/articles/details/81793/telma-story-morocco-s-first-short-lived.html |archive-date=8 May 2024 |access-date=9 June 2023 |website=en.yabiladi.com |last1=Com |first1=Yabiladi}}</ref> * {{flagu|Hungarian People's Republic|name=Hungary}} * {{flagu|Norway}} (NRK) * {{flagu|Portugal}} (Lajes Field: CSL-TV)<ref>{{cite web |title=Lajes more than speck in television history |url=https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/135794/lajes-more-than-speck-in-television-history/ |access-date=12 February 2024 |website=Air Force |date=19 October 2004 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240212003143/https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/135794/lajes-more-than-speck-in-television-history/ |archive-date=12 February 2024}}</ref> * {{flagu|United States|1912}} territories: ** {{flagu|Guam}} (pre-experimental) * {{flagu|Uruguay}} (pre-experimental) |- | 1955 | * {{flagu|Austria}} (ORF Fernsehen) * {{flagu|Guatemala}} (TGW-TV, now defunct) * {{flagu|Luxembourg}} (Télé-Luxembourg) * {{flagu|Thailand}} (official, HSI-TV)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1957-TV-Factbook/TV-Factbook-1957-all.pdf |title=Television Factbook |date=1957 |accessdate=6 April 2024 |page=280}}</ref> {{flagicon|Romania|1952}} Romania (experimental) * {{flagu|United Kingdom}} territories: ** ({{flagu|Guernsey}}{{cn|date=May 2026}} ** {{flagu|Jersey|old}} (BBC)) | * {{flagu|Bermuda}} (Kindley Air Force Base: ZBK-TV) * {{flagu|Finland}} (test programming, TV-kerho){{efn|name="TESTV"|The channel launched in 1956 as a continuation of a project that had aired a public broadcast in May 1955 as the first television broadcast in Finland.<ref>{{cite book |last=Keinonen |first=Heidi |date=2011 |title=Kamppailu yleistelevisiosta. TES-TV:n, Mainos-TV:n ja Tesvision merkitykset suomalaisessa televisiokulttuurissa 1956–1964 |location=Tampere |publisher=Tampere University Press |url=https://trepo.tuni.fi/handle/10024/66715 |isbn=9789514483684 |language=fi}}</ref>}} * {{flagu|Iceland}} (AFRTS Keflavik) * {{flagicon|Saudi Arabia|1938}} Saudi Arabia (Dhahran Airfield, experimental and regular programming, AJL-TV, now defunct) |- | 1956 | * {{flagu|El Salvador}} (YSEB-TV)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.revistalatinacs.org/a/02nherrera.htm |language=Spanish |trans-title=A Brief Tour of Television in El Salvador |title=Un breve recorrido por la televisión en El Salvador |last=Herrera Palacios |first=Antonio |date=October 1998 |website=Revista Latina de Comunicación Social |access-date=10 November 2021 |archive-date=9 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210509224907/http://www.revistalatinacs.org/a/02nherrera.htm |url-status=dead}}</ref> * {{flagu|Finland}} (TES-TV, now defunct){{efn|name="TESTV"}} * {{flagu|France}} territories: ** {{flagicon|France}} Algerian Departments (RTF Television Algiers)<ref>{{cite book |url=http://chdjamel.centerblog.net/6509516-radio-et-television-histoire-d-un-monopole |title=Radio et télévision : histoire d'un monopole |last=Cheurfi |first=Achour |date=4 February 2011 |publisher=Casbah Éditions |location=Algiers |publication-date=September 2010 |pages=88–148 |language=fr}}</ref> * {{flagicon|Iraq|1924}} Iraq (BTV, now defunct and replaced by Al-Iraqiya TV) * {{flagu|Nicaragua|1908}} (YNSA-TV)<ref>{{cite web |title=Primeros |url=https://www.laprensani.com/2006/09/11/espectaculo/1471054-primeros |access-date=19 September 2023 |website=La Prensa |date=11 September 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230919134830/https://www.laprensani.com/2006/09/11/espectaculo/1471054-primeros |archive-date=19 September 2023}}</ref> * {{flagicon|Romania|1952}} Romania (TVR) * {{flagu|South Korea|1949}} (HLKZ-TV) * {{flagicon|Spain|1945}} Spain (TVE) * {{flagu|Sweden}} (Radiotjänst TV) * {{flagu|United States|1912}} territories: ** {{flagu|Guam|1956}} (KUAM-TV) ** {{flagu|Panama Canal Zone}} (CFN)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.laestrella.com.pa/amp/nacional/180314/chica-panama-llegada-pantalla |title=¿Cómo fue la llegada de la pantalla chica a Panamá? - Nacional - title.suffix.trans |access-date=2021-01-17 |archive-date=2022-03-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220303143612/https://www.laestrella.com.pa/amp/nacional/180314/chica-panama-llegada-pantalla |url-status=dead}}</ref> * {{flagu|Uruguay}} (SAETA)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1957-TV-Factbook/TV-Factbook-1957-all.pdf |title=Television Factbook |date=1957 |accessdate=6 April 2024 |page=281}}</ref> * {{flagu|Yugoslavia}} (RTV Zagreb){{efn|The date refers to the launch of the television channel in republics and autonomous provinces of Yugoslavia, there were: RTV Zagreb in SR Croatia (1956), RTV Ljubljana in SR Slovenia (1958), RTV Belgrade in SR Serbia (1958), RTV Skopje in SR Macedonia (1964), RTV Sarajevo in SR Bosnia and Herzegovina (1969), RTV Titograd (Podgorica) in SR Montenegro (1971), and in SAP Kosovo (RTV Priština) and SAP Vojvodina (RTV Novi Sad) was introduced in 1975.}} | * {{flagu|Soviet Union}} territories: ** {{flagu|Kazakhstan}} (pre-experimental) * {{flagu|Portugal}} (RTP) |- | 1957 | * {{flagu|Chile}} (UCV Televisión) * {{flagu|Hungarian People's Republic|name=Hungary}} (MTV) * {{flagu|Portugal}} (RTP) * {{flagu|United Kingdom}} territories: ** {{flagicon|Cyprus|colonial}} Cyprus (RIK) ** {{flagicon|British Hong Kong|1955}} Hong Kong (Rediffusion Television){{efn|Television was introduced in Hong Kong when it was a British crown colony until 1997. The Rediffusion service was a cable network until 1973, when it converted to terrestrial television.}} ** {{flagicon|Malta|1943}} Malta{{efn|Date where relays from Italy became available.}} | |- | 1958 | * {{flagu|China}} (Peking Television){{efn|This station was the first in the Chinese world to be strictly terrestrial from the outset.}} *{{flagu|Pahlavi Iran|name=Iran}} (TVI){{efn|Originally limited to Tehran area, later to Abadan, and from 1969, expanded to the whole nation. Television of Iran was absorbed into National Iranian Television in 1969; since the main network of the NIRT used a different frequency from TVI (which used channel 3) in Tehran, it's likely that the former TVI frequency was turned off.}} * {{flagu|Peru}} (OAD-TV) * {{flagu|United Kingdom}} territories: ** {{flagu|Bermuda}} (ZBM-TV) | * {{flagu|Malaya|1948}} (mechanical) * {{flagu|Panama}} (pre-experimental and mechanical television) |- | 1959 | * {{flagicon|Bulgaria|1948}} Bulgaria (Bulgarian Television) * {{flagu|Chile}} (Canal 2 UC){{efn|Until the launch of the first version of Telenorte in Antofagasta in 1966, television was limited to central Chile (Santiago and Valparaíso). The definitive roll-out of television outside of this region didn't start until late 1968, when TVN set up its first station in Arica months before it started definitive broadcasts, though in 1969, most of its network was concentrated in central Chile.}} * {{flagu|Ecuador|1900}} (HCJB-TV, now defunct){{efn|Station shut down in 1972. The frequency was later occupied by Teleamazonas starting in 1974. RTS is often erroneously believed to be the first.}} * {{flagu|Haiti|1859}} (4VMR-TV) * {{flagu|Honduras|1949}} (HRTG-TV) * {{flagu|India}} (AIR-TV),<ref name=":0">{{cite web |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1966-TV-Factbook/Television-Factbook-36-1966.pdf |title=Television Factbook |date=1966 |accessdate=12 April 2024 |page=856-b}}</ref> * {{flagu|Lebanon}} (CLT) * {{flagu|United Kingdom}} territories: ** {{flagicon|Nigeria|colonial}} Nigeria (WNTV) * {{flagu|United States}} territories: ** {{flagicon|Ryukyu Islands|1954}} Ryukyu Islands (KSDW-TV){{efn|Television was introduced in the Ryukyu Islands (now part of Japan), when they were under U.S. administration.}} | * {{flagu|Kuwait}} (pre-experimental) |}
=== 1960s === {| class="wikitable" ! rowspan="2" |Year ! colspan="2" |Countries and territories |- ! Regular ! Pre-regular |- | 1960 | * {{flagicon|Albania|1946}} Albania (RTSH) * {{flagu|Costa Rica}} (Teletica) * {{flagu|The Netherlands}} territories: ** {{flagicon|Netherlands Antilles|1959}} Netherlands Antilles (PJC-TV) * {{flagu|New Zealand}} (NZBC TV) * {{flagu|Norway}} (NRK) * {{flagu|Panama}} (RPC) * {{flagu|Southern Rhodesia}} (RTV) * {{flagu|United Arab Republic}} (Egyptian Television Network and Channel 1 (Syria)){{efn|The United Arab Republic was a short-lived political union between Egypt and Syria. The union began in 1958 and existed until 1961, when Syria seceded from the union.}} | * {{flagu|Greece|old}} (PPC) |- | 1961 | * {{flagu|Ireland}} (Telefís Éireann){{efn|Ireland had received broadcasts from the United Kingdom since 1949.}} * {{flagu|Kuwait|1961}} (Kuwait Television) * {{flagu|Northern Rhodesia}} (RTV) * {{flagu|United States}} territories: ** {{flagu|United States Virgin Islands}} (WBNB-TV, now defunct) | * {{flagu|Cambodia|1948}} (NEC)<ref name=megahertz1984>{{cite web |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/INTERNATIONAL/Megahertz/Megahertz-1984-03.pdf |title=Megahertz |date=March 1984 |accessdate=2 April 2024 |page=32}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1962-63-TV-Factbook/TV-Factbook-1963.pdf |title=Television Factbook |date=1963 |accessdate=6 April 2024 |page=745}}</ref> |- | 1962 | * {{flagicon|Republic of the Congo}} Congo-Brazzaville (RTC) * {{flagu|Ethiopia|1897}} (ETV) * {{flagu|Indonesia}} (Jajasan TVRI){{efn|Originally limited to Jakarta area, and from 1965, the island of Java as a whole. The first television station outside of the island, TVRI North Sumatera, opened in 1970, after receiving just overspill coming from West Malaysia.}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1966-TV-Factbook/Television-Factbook-36-1966.pdf |title=Television Factbook |date=1966 |accessdate=12 April 2024 |page=856-b}}</ref> * {{flagu|Sudan|1956}} (Sudan Television Service) * {{flagu|Taiwan}} (TTV),{{efn|This is the year when television was introduced in territories under its administration. After the Chinese Civil War in 1949, the government of the Republic of China retreated to Taiwan and other islands, and Mainland China was controlled by the People's Republic of China.}} * {{flagu|Trinidad and Tobago}} (TTT) * {{flagu|United Kingdom}} territories: ** {{flagu|Gibraltar|ensign}} (First channel of its own, GBC){{efn|Gibraltar had previously received television broadcasts from Spain.}} ** {{flagicon|Kenya|colonial}} Kenya (Television Kenya) ** {{flagicon|Malta|1943}} Malta (First channel of its own, MTV){{efn|name="ReferenceA"|Previously received television broadcasts from Italy.}} |- | 1963 | * {{flagu|Upper Volta}} (VoltaVision) * {{flagu|Gabon}} (RTG) * {{flagu|Ivory Coast}} (RTI) * {{flagu|Jamaica}} (JBC, now defunct) * {{flagu|Malaysia}} (Televisyen Malaysia){{efn|Originally limited to most areas of Peninsular Malaysia.}} * {{flagu|North Korea|1948}} (CTBS-DPRK) * {{flagu|Sierra Leone}} (SLTV)<ref name=tvfactbook1971/> * {{flagu|Singapore}} (TV Singapura Channel 5) * {{flagu|Uganda}} (UTV) | * {{flagu|Tunisia}}{{cn|date=May 2026}} |- | 1964 | * {{flagu|Ethiopia|1897}} (ETV) * {{flagu|Federation of South Arabia}} (Aden TV) * {{flagicon|France}} Overseas France: ** {{flagicon|France|1830}} Guadeloupe ({{ill|Guadeloupe La Première (télévision)|lt=ORTF Guadeloupe|fr}}) ** {{flagicon|France|1830}} Martinique ({{ill|Martinique La Première (télévision)|lt=ORTF Martinique|fr}}) ** {{flagicon|France|1830}} Réunion (ORTF La Réunion) * {{flagu|Liberia}} (LBC) * {{flagu|Niger}} (Télévision Scolaire du Niger) * {{flagu|Pakistan}} (PTV and Pilot Television Dhaka) * {{flagu|Turkey}} (Turkish Radio and Television Corporation) * {{flagu|United Kingdom}} territories: ** {{flagu|Barbados|1885}} (CBC-TV) ** {{flagicon|Mauritius|1923}} Mauritius (MBC 1) * {{flagu|United States}} territories: ** {{flagu|American Samoa}} (KVZK-TV) |- | 1965 | * {{flagicon|France}} Overseas France: ** {{flagicon|France|1830}} French Polynesia (ORTF Télé Tahiti) ** {{flagicon|France|1830}} New Caledonia ({{ill|Nouvelle-Calédonie La Première (télévision)|lt=ORTF Télé Nouméa|fr}}) * {{flagu|Ghana|1964}} (GTV) * {{flagu|India}} (AIR-TV)<ref name=":0" /> * {{flagu|The Netherlands}} territories: ** {{flagicon|Dutch Guiana}} Suriname (STVS) * {{flagu|Paraguay|1954}} (TV Cerro Cora) * {{flagu|Saudi Arabia|1938}} (Al Saudiya) * {{flagu|Senegal}} (RTS) * {{flagu|United Kingdom}} territories: ** {{flagu|Antigua and Barbuda|colonial}} (ZAL-TV)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1968-69-TV-Factbook/TV-Factbook-1968-All.pdf |title=Television Factbook |date=1969 |accessdate=5 April 2024 |page=928-b}}</ref> ** ({{flagu|Isle of Man}} (On-island signal tower, Border Television){{efn|Although the Isle of Man has received television signals since 1951, 1965 marked the first direct broadcast from a relay station built on the island. To date, no local television service has been set up and the island is served by BBC North West and ITV Granada (until 2009, ITV Border) with no local opt-outs.}} | * {{flagu|Tunisia}}{{cn|date=May 2026}} |- | 1966 | * {{flagu|Cambodia|1966}} (TVRK) * {{flagicon|Congo-Kinshasa|1966}} Congo-Kinshasa (RTNC) * {{flagicon|Greece|old}} Greece (EIR) * {{flagu|Iceland}} (Sjónvarpið) * {{flagu|Israel}} (IETV, went defunct and replaced by Kan Educational){{efn|The Israeli Ministry of Education in co-operation with the Rothschild Fund started limited broadcasts to schools in March 1966. A public state-owned TV channel started broadcasting in May 1968. Broadcasts were black and white (with a few exceptions) until the early 1980s.}} * {{flagu|Tunisia}} (RTT){{efn|name="ReferenceA"}} * {{flagu|South Vietnam}} (THVN){{efn|now defunct and replaced by HTV.}} * {{flagicon|Yemen|1962}} North Yemen (SABS-TV)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1968-69-TV-Factbook/TV-Factbook-1968-All.pdf |title=Television Factbook |date=1969 |accessdate=6 April 2024 |page=928-b}}</ref> * {{flagu|South Yemen}} (SYBS-TV)<ref name=tvfactbook1971>{{cite web |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1970-71-TV-Factbook/TV-Factbook-1970-71.pdf |title=Television Factbook |date=1971 |accessdate=5 April 2024 |page=1056-b}}</ref> * {{flagu|Zambia|1964}} (ZNBC),{{efn|Successor of the prior RTV service in Lusaka, which started in 1961.}} |- | 1967 | * {{flagicon|France}} Overseas France: ** {{flagicon|France|1830}} French Somaliland (RTD) ** {{flagicon|France|1830}} French Guiana (ORTF Guyane) ** {{flagicon|France|1830}} Saint Pierre and Miquelon (ORTF Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon) * {{flagu|Madagascar}} (RTM) * {{flagu|United Kingdom}} territories: ** {{flagu|Saint Lucia|1939}} (SLTV){{efn|SLTV relayed television broadcasts from Barbados.}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/BOOKSHELF-ARH/Business/World-Communicatiions-Unesco-1975.pdf |title=World Communications |date=1975 |publisher=UNESCO |accessdate=24 April 2024 |page=192}}</ref> |- | 1968 | * {{flagu|Equatorial Guinea}} (TVE Guinea Ecuatorial){{efn|name="TVE"|Station operated autonomously by the territorial production center of Televisión Española (TVE) in the region.}} * {{flagu|Jordan}} (JTV) * {{flagu|Libya|1951}} (Libyan Television Service)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1970-71-TV-Factbook/TV-Factbook-1970-71.pdf |title=Television Factbook |date=1971 |accessdate=30 April 2024 |page=1048-b}}</ref> * {{flagu|Turkey}} (TRT 1) |- | 1969 | * {{flagu|Bolivia}} (Televisión Boliviana) * {{flagu|United Kingdom}} territories: ** {{flagu|Trucial States}} (Abu Dhabi TV) * {{flagu|United States}} territories: ** {{flagu|Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands}} (Saipan,{{efn|Corresponds to the current Northern Mariana Islands.}} WSZE-TV, now defunct) |}
=== 1970s === {| class="wikitable" ! rowspan="2" | Year ! colspan="2" | Countries and territories |- ! Regular ! Pre-regular |- | 1970 | * {{flagu|United Kingdom}} territories: ** {{flagu|Qatar|1949}} (QTV) * {{flagu|North Vietnam}} (Independent Television System) | * {{flagu|United Kingdom}} territories: ** {{flagu|Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla}} (pre-experimental) |- | 1972 | * {{flagu|United Kingdom}} territories: ** {{flagu|Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla}} (ZIZ) |- | 1973 | * {{flagu|Antarctica|ats}} ({{flagicon|United States}} McMurdo Station (AFAN-TV)){{efn|Was replaced by a cable network with the normal AFN Television channels in the mid 90s.}}<ref>{{cite book |title=Antarctic Journal of the United States |date=January–February 1974 |page=29 |isbn=9780786451982 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=45RPAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22afan-tv%22+mcmurdo&pg=RA1-PA29 |via=Google Books}}</ref> * {{flagu|Bahrain|1972}} (Bahrain TV) * {{flagu|United Kingdom}} territories: ** {{flagu|British Virgin Islands}} (ZBTV){{efn|Converted from the former cable service.}} ** {{flagicon|British Hong Kong|1955}} Hong Kong (free-to-air broadcasting service, RTV) * {{flagu|Togo}} (RTNM) |- | 1974 | * {{flagu|Central African Republic}} (RTC) * {{flagu|Grenada}} (Grenada Television)<ref name="massmediacaribbean">{{cite book |title=Mass Media and the Caribbean |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jzyf1kaLihkC&dq=%22Grenada+Television%22&pg=PA93 |access-date=24 September 2025 |date=1990 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-2-88124-447-6}}</ref> * {{flagu|Oman|1970}} (Oman TV) * {{flagu|Tanzania}} ({{flagu|Zanzibar}} (TVZ)) * {{flagu|Yugoslavia}} ({{flagu|SAP Kosovo}} ({{ill|Radio Televizioni i Prishtinës|lt=Televizioni i Prishtinës|sq}})) | * {{flagicon|Timor Timur}} East Timor (experimental) |- | 1975 | * {{flagu|United Kingdom}} territories: ** {{flagu|Brunei}} (RTB) * {{flagu|Burundi|1967}} (RTNB) * {{flagu|United Kingdom}} territories: ** {{flagu|Dominica|1965}} (Cable & Wireless Dominica) {{efn|Cable service. Dominica never had a terrestrial television service. Its monopoly in the market was broken in the early 80s by Marpin Telecoms, which is currently Digicel Dominica.}} ** {{flagu|Gilbert and Ellice Islands}} (foreign-owned launching) | * {{flagu|Angola}} (experimental and regular programming, RPA) |- | 1976 | * {{flagicon|Turkey}} Turkish Federated State of Cyprus (BRT 1),{{efn|Current Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.}} * {{flagu|United States}} territories: ** {{flagicon|Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands}} Palau (WALU-TV, now defunct) * {{flagu|South Africa|1928}} (SABC TV) | * {{flagu|Bahamas}} (experimental)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1976-TV-Factbook/1976-TV-Factbook.pdf |title=Television Factbook |date=1976 |accessdate=6 April 2024 |page=1077-b}}</ref> |- | 1977 | * {{flagu|Bahamas}} (ZNS-TV){{efn|The Bahamas had previously received broadcasts from the United States.}} * {{flagu|Guinea}} (RTG) |- | 1978 | * {{flagicon|Afghanistan|1978}} Afghanistan (Afghanistan National Television) * {{flagu|Benin|1975}} (ORTB) * {{flagicon|Timor Timur}} East Timor (TVRI Dili){{efn|Now believed to be under the jurisdiction of Radio-Televisão Timor Leste following the formal independence of the country in 2002.}} * {{flagu|Eswatini|name=Swaziland}} (Swazi TV) * {{flagu|Maldives}} (TV Maldives)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1984-TV-Factbook/TV-Factbook-1984-Other.pdf |title=Television Factbook |date=1984 |accessdate=6 April 2024 |page=1381}}</ref> |- | 1979 | * {{flagu|Equatorial Guinea}} (returned, TVGE){{efn|Off from 1973 to 1979.}} * {{flagu|United States}} territories: ** {{flagu|Federated States of Micronesia}} ({{flagu|Yap}} (WAAB-TV)) ** {{flagu|Marshall Islands}} (MBC){{efn|Replaced a cable company set up in 1975 when it was still under the control of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands and was shut down due to storm surges from a hurricane in 1979.}} * {{flagu|Sri Lanka}} (ITN Sri Lanka){{efn|Available only in Colombo in the network's early years.}} | * {{flagu|Chad}} (mechanical, experimental) * {{flagicon|Burma|1974}} Burma (test programming){{efn|Test service available only in Yangon in 1979, and formally launched in 1981.}} |}
=== 1980s === {| class="wikitable" ! rowspan="2" | Year ! colspan="2" | Countries and territories |- ! Regular ! Pre-regular |- | 1980 | * {{flagicon|Burma|1974}} Burma (BBS, regular programming) * {{flagu|Saint Vincent and the Grenadines|1979}} (SVG-TV) * {{flagu|Guyana}} (Vieira Communications Television) | * {{flagu|Mauritania|1959}} (experimental) * {{flagu|Mozambique}} (pre-experimental) |- | 1981 | * {{flagu|Belize|1981}} (Channel 7) * {{flagicon|Mozambique|1975}} Mozambique (TEM) * {{flagu|United Kingdom}} territories: ** {{flagicon|South Africa|1928}} South West Africa (SWABC){{efn|Corresponds to the current country of Namibia.}} |- | 1982 | * {{flagu|Denmark}} territories: ** {{flagu|Greenland}} (KNR) * {{flagu|Mauritania|1959}} (TV de Mauritanie)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://tvm.mr/ar/%D8%B9%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%B3%D8%B3%D8%A9/ |script-title=ar:عن المؤسسة - موقع التلفزة الموريتانية |website=tvm.mr |language=ar |access-date=2018-10-25}}</ref> * {{flagu|Sri Lanka}} (Rupavahini, national) * {{flagu|São Tomé and Príncipe}} (Televisão Experimental RDSTP, experimental) | * {{flagu|Somalia}} (pre-experimental) |- | 1983 | * {{flagu|Bophuthatswana}} (Bop TV){{efn|After the dissolution of Bophuthatswana, the station was integrated into the SABC and later shut down.}} * {{flagicon|Cambodia|1979}} Kampuchea (re-established, TVK) * {{flagu|Laos}} (LNTV){{efn|Television is available from Nong Khai city in Thailand since the mid-1970s.}} * {{flagicon|Mali}} Mali (ORTM) * {{flagu|Seychelles|1977}} (RTS)<ref>{{cite web |title=Media in Seychelles |url=http://seymediacom.sc/about/media-in-seychelles |access-date=2022-12-22 |website=Seychelles Media Commission |language=en}}</ref> * {{flagu|Somalia}} (Telefishanka J. D. Soomaaliya)<ref>{{cite book |author=Louise M. Bourgault |title=Mass Media in Sub-Saharan Africa |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=egVLkASXCgC&pg=PA104 |date=22 June 1995 |publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=0-253-11309-1 |pages=104–}}</ref>{{efn|Off from 1991 to 2011 as the channel was suspended due to the civil war. During the interim, numerous private television stations appeared.}} * {{flagu|Vatican City}} (First channel of its own, Centro Televisivo Vaticano){{efn|Although the Vatican did not have a television service of its own until 1983, broadcasts from Italy had been received since 1954.}} * {{flagu|Saint Lucia}} (HTS, local) | * {{flagu|Tonga}} (VAP-TV18, now defunct){{efn|Subscription service, shut down in 1987, during its existence it also faced competition from ASTL-TV3, itself a subscription service until the 1991 launch of the Oceania Broadcasting Network, ASTL-TV3 later shut down in 1996.}} * {{flagu|Cape Verde}} (pre-experimental) |- | 1984 | * {{flagu|Cape Verde|1975}} (TEVEC) * {{flagu|Denmark}} territories: ** {{flagu|Faroe Islands}} (SvF) * {{flagu|Finland}} territories: ** {{flagu|Åland}} (First channel of its own, TV Åland)<ref>http://www.radiotv.ax/om-alands-radio (Swedish)</ref> * {{flagu|Norway}} territories: ** Svalbard (NRK)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.svalbardposten.no/historie-historisk-svalbard-historie/fikk-se-tv-i-opptak-uker-etter-fastlandet/168243|title=Fikk se TV i opptak uker etter fastlandet|lang=nb|access-date=12 September 2023|date=23 March 2018|website=Svalbardposten}}</ref> * {{flagu|Portugal}} territories: ** {{flagicon|Portugal}} Macau (TDM) * {{flagu|United Kingdom}} territories: ** {{flagu|Tristan da Cunha}} (taped service)<ref>{{cite book |last=Winchester |first=Simon |title=Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire |year=2003 |page=85 |orig-year=originally published 1985}}</ref> |- | 1985 | * {{flagu|Cameroon}} (CTV) * {{flagu|Nepal}} (NTV) | * {{flagu|Australia}} territories: ** {{flagu|Norfolk Island}} (relays from mainland Australia)<ref>''TV comes to Norfolk Islands'', Pacific Islands Communication Journal, December 1984</ref> |- | 1986 | * {{flagu|France|1974}} territories: ** Mayotte (RFO Mayotte) ** Wallis and Futuna (RFO Wallis-et-Futuna) * {{flagu|New Zealand}} territories: ** {{flagu|Niue}} (Bliss Cablevision){{efn|Assets sold to the government of Niue in 1989 and converted to a free-to-air terrestrial operation, TV Niue.}} * {{flagu|Ciskei}} (TBN Ciskei){{efn|Established as a private operation from the US Trinity Broadcasting Network by arrangement with the Venda government. After apartheid ended, the station likely shut down and resumed in 1997 as a community station under IBA/ICASA rules (TBN Eastern Cape). That station later went national on DStv in 2002 but ended its ties with TBN in 2014, becoming Faith Broadcasting Network.}} |- | 1987 | * {{flagu|Chad}} (Télé Tchad) * {{flagu|Papua New Guinea}} (EM TV, Niugini Television Network) |- | 1988 | * {{flagu|Lesotho|1987}} (Lesotho Television),<ref>{{cite web |url=https://lesothotribune.co.ls/ltv-starts-broadcasting-for-the-first-time/ |title=LTV starts broadcasting for the first time - lesothotribune |date=7 September 2022}}</ref> | * {{flagu|Botswana}} (GBC TV, in Gaborone),<ref name="NegotiatingControl">{{cite web |title=Botswana Television (BTV) Negotiating Control and Cultural Production in a Globalising Context: A Political Economy of Media State Ownership in Africa |url=https://ccms.ukzn.ac.za/Files/articles/PhD_theses/sethunya%20mosime%20-%20botswana%20television.pdf |access-date=23 November 2023 |website=University of Kwa-Zulu Natal |date=March 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211203100243/https://ccms.ukzn.ac.za/Files/articles/PhD_theses/sethunya%20mosime%20-%20botswana%20television.pdf |archive-date=3 December 2021}}</ref> |- | 1989 | * {{flagu|New Zealand}} territories: ** {{flagu|Cook Islands}} (Cook Islands Television) * {{flagu|Guinea-Bissau}} (TEGB)<ref name="historia 1">{{cite web |date=15 November 2006 |title=Guiné-Bissau: Televisão celebra 17º aniversário com 14 horas de emissão |url=http://www.portalangop.co.ao/angola/pt_pt/noticias/africa/2006/10/46/Guine-Bissau-Televisao-celebra-aniversario-com-horas-emissao,1aa7234a-a086-4312-bf44-602ec1476f01.html |access-date=9 October 2015 |publisher=Agência Angola Press}}</ref><ref name="historia 2">{{cite web |author=LUSA (Agência de Notícias de Portugal, S.A.) |date=14 November 2007 |title=Único canal de televisão da Guiné-Bissau comemora 18 anos |url=http://www.rtp.pt/noticias/mundo/unico-canal-de-televisao-da-guine-bissau-comemora-18-anos_n142263 |access-date=9 October 2015 |publisher=Rádio e Televisão de Portugal}}</ref> |}
=== 1990s === {| class="wikitable" ! rowspan="2" | Year ! colspan="2" | Countries and territories |- ! Regular ! Pre-regular |- | 1991 | * {{flagu|Estonia}} (Post-independence, ETV) * {{flagu|Latvia}} (Post-independence, LTV1) * {{flagu|Lithuania}} (Post-independence, LRT) * {{flagu|Nauru}} (NTV) * {{flagu|United Kingdom}} territories: ** {{flagu|Akrotiri and Dhekelia}} (First channel of its own, SSVC TV Cyprus)<ref>{{cite web |title=Where it all began – 1980s and 1990s |url=https://about.bfbs.com/our-history |access-date=8 May 2024 |publisher=BFBS}}</ref> ** {{flagu|Cayman Islands|old}} (Cayman 27, now defunct) ** {{flagu|Falkland Islands|1948}} (FITV){{efn|Television broadcasts had also been received from Argentina.}} | * {{flagu|Fiji}} (FijiTV){{efn|Television came to Fiji in part-time for the 1991 Rugby World Cup, and it arrived in full-time in 1994.}} |- | 1992 | * {{flagu|Republika Srpska (1992–1995)}} (RTV Krajina Banja Luka) * {{flagu|São Tomé and Príncipe}} (TVS) * {{flagu|Solomon Islands}} (TTV) * {{flagu|South Ossetia}} (Ir)<ref>{{cite web |date=2019-12-08 |title=They were the first: on December 8, 1992, television appeared in South Ossetia |url=http://cominf.org/en/node/1166526942 |access-date=2024-01-24 |website=Государственное информационное агентство "Рес" |language=ru}}</ref> * {{flagu|Transnistria}} (PMR TV) * {{flagu|Rwanda|1962}} (TVR) * {{flagu|Western Samoa}} (SBC Television 1) | * {{flagu|Vanuatu}} (TBV) |- | 1993 | * {{flagu|Eritrea|1992}} (Eri-TV) * {{flagu|San Marino|1862}} (First channel of its own, San Marino RTV) * {{flagu|Slovakia}} (Post-independence, STVR) * {{flagu|Vanuatu}} (TBV) |- | 1994 | * {{flagu|Tanzania}} (mainland, Coastal Television Network) |- | 1995 | * {{flagu|Andorra}} (First channel of its own, ATV){{efn|ATV's origins trace back to the early 90s as an opt-out in the local relay of TVC's second channel, Canal 33.}} * {{flagu|Fiji}} (FijiTV) * {{flagu|Gambia}} (Gambia Radio & Television Service) * {{flagu|United Kingdom}} territories: ** {{flagu|Saint Helena}} (Sure South Atlantic Ltd) ** {{flagu|Turks and Caicos Islands|1968}} (WIV Channel 4) |- | 1996 | * {{flagu|Palestine}} (PBC) |- | 1997 | * {{flagu|Somaliland}} (Somaliland Television)<ref name="MINGC">{{cite web |title=Somaliland National Television |url=https://mingc.govsomaliland.org/article/somaliland-national-television |access-date=9 January 2004 |website=somalilandlaw.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230923141457/https://mingc.govsomaliland.org/article/somaliland-national-television |archive-date=23 September 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref> * {{flagu|United Kingdom}} territories: ** {{flagu|Montserrat}} (Peoples Television){{efn|Previously relayed broadcasts from Antigua and Barbuda.}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/BOOKSHELF-ARH/Business/World-Communicatiions-Unesco-1975.pdf |title=World Communications |date=1975 |publisher=UNESCO |accessdate=24 April 2024 |page=181}}</ref> |- | 1999 | * {{flagu|Bhutan}} (BBS)<ref>{{cite news |title=Bhutan TV Follows Cyber Launch |work=BBC News |date=2 June 1999 |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/358230.stm}}</ref> * {{flagu|Malawi}} (TVM)<ref name="Crossroads">{{cite web |title=At the Crossroads: Freedom of Expression in Malawi |url=https://www.article19.org/data/files/pdfs/publications/malawi-at-the-crossroads.pdf |access-date=3 November 2023 |website=Article 19 |date=March 2000}}</ref> | * {{flagu|Tuvalu}} (limited service)<ref>{{cite web |title=TUVALU: 2002 Economic and Public Sector Review |url=https://www.adb.org/sites/default/files/publication/28817/tuvalu-2002-epsr.pdf |access-date=8 April 2024 |website=Asian Development Bank |date=November 2002 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160318063229/https://www.adb.org/sites/default/files/publication/28817/tuvalu-2002-epsr.pdf |archive-date=18 March 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref> |}
=== 2000s and 2010s === {| class="wikitable" ! Year ! Countries and territories |- | 2000 | * {{flagu|Botswana}} (BTV, national) * {{flagu|Tonga}} (TV Tonga, national) |- | 2001 | * {{flagu|Tokelau}} (foreign channels, no local service)<ref>{{cite book |first=Narini |last=Rajan |title=The Digitized Imagination: Encounters with the Virtual World |date=23 April 2012 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-136-51633-7 |page=102}}</ref> *{{flagu|United Kingdom}} territories: **{{flagu|Tristan da Cunha}} (BFBS, live service) |- | 2002 | * {{flagu|Kiribati}} (TV Kiribati, native, but suspended from 2013 to 2018) |- | 2006 | * {{flagu|Comoros}} (ORTC) * {{flagicon|Hamas}} Gaza Strip (Al-Aqsa TV) * {{flagu|Palau}} (OTV, returned){{efn|Excluding the cable network installed by the PNCC in 1990.}} * {{flagu|United Kingdom}} territories: ** {{flagu|Pitcairn Islands}}<ref>{{cite book |title=Pitcairn Island as a Port of Call |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_qYb8TcQEH8C&dq=%22Pitcairn+Island%22+%22Television%22&pg=PA311 |access-date=February 16, 2024 |publisher=McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers |date=March 23, 2012 |isbn=978-0-7864-8822-3}}</ref> |- | 2008 | * {{flagu|Liechtenstein}} (First channel of its own, 1FLTV){{efn|Liechtenstein previously received television broadcasts from Switzerland.}} |- | 2009 | * {{flagu|Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic}} (RASD TV){{efn|RASD TV was established in February 2004, but didn't broadcast its regular transmissions until 2009.}}<ref>{{cite news |title=Sahrawis launch national television |url=http://www.afrol.com/articles/33324 |publisher=Afrol News |date=2009-05-21 |accessdate=2012-06-03}}</ref> |- | 2010 | * {{flagu|The Netherlands}} territories: ** {{flagu|Sint Maarten}} (TV-CARIB)<ref>{{cite web |title=About TV-CARIB |url=http://www.wtntv.com/about.html |publisher=TV-CARIB |access-date=13 June 2024}}</ref> * {{flagu|South Sudan}} (South Sudan Television){{efn|Became the national broadcaster upon independence in 2011.}} |- | 2011 | * {{flagu|Australia}} territories: ** {{flagu|Norfolk Island}} (First channel of its own, TVNI) |- | 2014 | * {{flagu|Donetsk People's Republic}} (Novorossiya TV){{efn|name="LPRDPR"|Excludes local stations that existed before and were confiscated by the new regimes. Suspilne still has channels for the occupied areas, which as of 2024 are "temporarily occupied" according to the official stance of the Ukrainian government.}} * {{flagu|Luhansk People's Republic}} (Luhansk 24)<ref>{{cite web |title=Occupied Territories of Ukraine: Russia propaganda machine continues to absorb local media |date=6 December 2023 |url=https://rsf.org/en/occupied-territories-ukraine-russia-propaganda-machine-continues-absorb-local-media |publisher=Reporters Without Borders |access-date=1 May 2024}}</ref>{{efn|name="LPRDPR"}} |- | 2018 | * {{flagu|Kiribati}} (Kiri 1 TV, returned)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/356431/kiribati-tv-venture-hopes-to-connect-islands |title=Kiribati TV venture hopes to connect islands |publisher=RNZ |date=2 May 2018 |access-date=2 April 2023}}</ref> |- | 2019 | * {{flagu|Tuvalu}} (returned, Tuvalu.TV)<ref>{{cite news |title=Tuvalu Parliament sessions go live |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/404419/tuvalu-parliament-sessions-go-live |accessdate=8 April 2024 |newspaper=Radio New Zealand |date=29 November 2019 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191129025317/https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/404419/tuvalu-parliament-sessions-go-live |archive-date=29 November 2019}}</ref> |}
=== 2020s and onwards === {| class="wikitable" ! Year ! Countries and territories |- | 2021 | * {{flagu|Australia}} territories: ** {{flagu|Cocos (Keeling) Islands}}{{Citation needed|date=April 2025}} |- | 2023 | * {{flagu|France}} territories: ** {{flagu|Clipperton Island}}{{cn|date=May 2026}} |- | 2025 | * {{flagu|Australia}} territories: ** {{flagu|Christmas Island}} (official launch on TV){{Citation needed|date=May 2026}} |}
== See also == * History of television * List of years in television * Geographical usage of television * Prewar television stations * Timeline of the introduction of color television in countries and territories * Timeline of the introduction of radio in countries
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