Curated category
Publicly funded broadcasters
- Jamaica Broadcasting CorporationThe Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation came into the world on the 15th of June 1959, founded by Premier Norman Manley with a clear ambition: to build a public…
- ITV (TV network)ITV launched on the 22nd of September 1955, the day Associated-Rediffusion broadcast the very first signal from London, and in doing so broke a monopoly that…
- France 24France 24 launched on the 6th of December 2006 at 20:30 Central European Time, initially as a web stream before satellite distribution reached Europe, the…
- Al Jazeera Media NetworkAl Jazeera Media Network launched on the 1st of November 1996 with six hours of programming a day and a budget that would later be estimated at $30 million a…
- Radio France InternationaleThe year 1975 marked the official birth of Radio France Internationale. This new entity replaced a long line of colonial-era broadcasters that stretched back…
- RT (TV network)RT launched on the 10th of December 2005 with a simple, explicit goal: to show the world a different Russia. At its founding, RIA Novosti director Svetlana…
- Sveriges TelevisionIn 1954, test transmissions began from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. This marked the start of a journey that would eventually create…
- RTVERadiotelevisión Española, known by its acronym RTVE, began not in a gleaming broadcast tower but in wartime Salamanca, where the first signals of Radio…
- EuronewsEuronews went on air on the 1st of January 1993, broadcasting its first bulletin from the Lyon suburb of Écully. Behind that modest debut was a bigger…
- NHKNHK, Japan's statutory public broadcaster, carries a history stretching back to a radio station founded in 1924 under Count Gotō Shinpei.