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Publicly funded broadcasters

  • Jamaica Broadcasting CorporationJamaica Broadcasting Corporation began in 1959 with its own live big band. Ernest Ranglin played in it.
  • ITV (TV network)ITV broke the BBC's monopoly on British television on 22 September 1955.
  • France 24France 24 nearly launched under a name managers couldn't pronounce. The working title CFII was awkward to say in French.
  • Al Jazeera Media NetworkA test broadcast in London convinced Qatar's emir to make Al Jazeera an all-news channel.
  • Radio France InternationaleTogo's president phoned the Elysee Palace to stop a Radio France Internationale interview.
  • RT (TV network)RT launched in December 2005 as Russia Today, with 300 journalists and a goal of showing a different Russia.
  • Sveriges TelevisionSweden's public broadcaster SVT lost its television monopoly when TV4 began terrestrial broadcasts in 1992.
  • RTVERTVE, Spain's public broadcaster, began as a wartime propaganda radio in Salamanca. Its radio service began in 1937.
  • EuronewsEuronews began as Europe's answer to CNN's Persian Gulf War coverage. It first went on air from Lyon on January 1, 1993.
  • NHKNHK broadcast both Tokyo Rose and Emperor Hirohito's 1945 surrender speech. It is Japan's public broadcaster.

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