Television in Ulakisonia

Television in Ulakisonia started with experimental broadcasts in 1943 under British rule, with the station 4SG in Sigiyan. After Ulakisonia's independence in 1948, television signals were ceased. During the Ulakisonian civil war, television was often used as a tool for anti-communist and communist propaganda. Television signals in Ulakisonia officially began on June 24, 1964, with the launch of Ulakisonian Television in Sheze. Television was later brought to Sancı Kristufari, Hommarı, and Geram in 1966. During the communist regime, television became a fully government-owned entity under Rudio Telivizonyur Ulakisonidiha, now Ruteliulak. Color television was introduced in 1975, with full-time color broadcasts being commenced in 1980. The government held a significant monopoly over television until the launch of TV Aina in 1992.

The Ulakisonian National Authority of Telecommunications Regulation indicated that as of 2021, there were more than 672 local television stations in broadcasting in Ulakisonia. There were also over 200 pan-Nesionytan television channels operating from and in the country. Ulakisonia hosts the largest television market in the Nesionytan Islands, as well as one of the largest in all of. The state-owned broadcaster Ruteliulak operates fourteen national channels, six of them being on terrestrial. There are also thirty privately owned national broadcasters since 1992.

Test phase as 4SG and civil war
Television services were commenced in in 1936, with the launch of. After the network ceased transmissions at the start of, some television broadcast equipments were brought to Ulakisonia, specifically Sigiyan. Ulakisonian-Obanacian UoS professor Hafiz Abdullah Bin Irjilarshaq visioned a local Ulakisonian television station. Irjilarshaq worked with Diha Ryzik to establish Ulakisonia's first television station. The station began operations in July 1943 as "4SG", broadcast on VHF channel 4 using a 450 watt transmitter. It only broadcast in Sigiyan, in which only around seven television sets were confirmed to be able to receive the station. 4SG was an experiment which only lasted for five years, and broadcast animated short films. The station was forced to cease operations in 1948, right after the Ulakisonian civil war started, which would have otherwise destroyed its facilities.

During the war, television was widely used as a tool for propaganda from rebel forces, rather than radio. Multiple clandestine television stations were launched during the 1950s, the largest being Sancı Kristufari Telivizonyur, owned by the Communist Party of Ulakisonia. The anti-communist rebels owned many television stations mostly concentrated in the north, and usually consisted of nationalist music and news programming. Almost all of them were very short lived as their facilities were either destroyed by war or were extremely poor. In 1957, researchers in the University of Zampiqar proposed a full-fledged television station in Ulakisonia, the first since 4SG shut down in 1948. UZTV was launched on June 15, 1959, on VHF channel 9. The station was initially only available in Zampiqar, but later expanded to various areas in the Shayaq Province, including in Khamarkhaide, Tunruzura, Wayqra, Hinterbeji, and Toruwalu. UZTV broadcast educational programs and game shows to university students, but later expanded to include high school students in its audience. It was shut in mid-1962 as much of its facilities were poor and easily damaged by the civil war.

Official transmissions
With the initial success of UZTV, the government were inspired to launch a national television network in the country as tensions began to ease in early 1960s. Proposals similar to this were made numerous times prior, but were all scrapped and delayed due to the brutality of the war. Experimental television signals commenced in Boslak, a small city near northern Sheze, in August 1960. Test signals later began to be broadcast from the heart of Sheze in 1962, with the ambitions to commence full broadcasts. This eventually happened with the official establishment of Ulakisonian Television on August 27, 1964. It immediately became the national television channel of the Republic of Ulakisonia, as its popularity skyrocketed after a week following its inauguration. Its iconic logo, designed by Karkuri Antoniya Henjarzaq, debuted on September 1, 1964, which was one of the most recognizable logos in the country at the time.

Television was expanded to many cities in the northern areas in 1965. In order to compete with UTV, Bilich Mik Talbairat ordered the establishment of Ulakisonian Central Television, which operated alongside Radio Sancı Kristufari (now part of Ruteliulak Radio Diha) as a strictly state-owned entity, on July 25, 1966. It quickly expanded to other cities in the Democratic Republic of Ulakisonia such as Sigiyan, Geram, Ayqarıtshe, Urqaza, and many others. UCT predominantly broadcast communist propaganda such as news in the communist party's point-of-view.