Television in Espalia

Television in Espalia started with the launch of EBS 1

General informations
Television in Espalia started on the 11th of January 1953 when the first Espalian television channels was launched and it followed the european style. Initially the only televisions in the Country were all imported from brazil. At the time, in the part of the county near Brazil, television owner were actually able to receive 's signals. When television was introduced in Espalia, the country used  as the analog broadcasting system, the same choice of. All channels in Espalia are in Digital using the system, but analog transmission is permitted to citizens as long as the signal is no longer than 1 km, if longer it must be known from the state and broadcast in Digital. All channels in Espalia broadcast in 24 hours.

All the national channels available in Espalia, from the 1st January 2020 are broadcast in on both terrestrial and satellite television. In Espalia dual-language is used where available, the only channels who use it are the EBS's one. While Timeshift channels aren't much used, in Espalia all channels (Except news and sports channels) must have a Timeshift version of at least one hour, due to the Espalian television reform. This reform was needed due to the need (before streaming) of people to watch a show or a movie if lost. Espalian television channels always use commercial bumpers.

It is almost impossible to receive both Spanish and Italian channels via Satellite due to geographical limitations, but it is possible to include the vision of some free-to-air channels like and  in some Sky Espalia's packages.

The state monopoly
After the launching from the EBS of the first television channel, EBS 1, in 1966 the company launched its second channel, named EBS 2. The channel initially was meant to propose more experimental transmissions with new technologies. In 1976 color transmission began. Then in 1981, after the pushing from the right side of the politics, EBS 3 was created.