Television in Alexonia

Alexonian TV started operations in 1957.

History
In 1956 some former Alexonian Broadcasting Company (now ABR) brought the television to Alexonia, with imported cameras from Japan and the United Kingdom, making tests. The television first set-up as PAL system, just like Australia and UK one. The first television station was launched in May 1956 as Royal Broadcasting Television in Alexiona City. In 1957, ATS (now ATS One) was launched, during the first 3 years they began at 5 PM and ended at 9 PM.

Alexonia Hoso Terebi was launched in 1960, as the first Japanese-speaking channel in Alexonia.

Color broadcasts started in 1968, and also ATS Second Program (now ATS TWO) was launched as the third channel, the rest of channels started color broadcasting in 1970.

In the 70s TV3 broke the ATS/AHT monopoly, being the first commercial channel, and also Capital TV started transmissions in 1981.

Digital Television was launched in 2001 with ADB-T instead of DVB-T or ATSC and launching 5 digital-only channels

In 2010, all the Alexonian channels changed their aspect ratio to 16:9.

The digital changeover in Alexonia is now complete. It began on 30th September 2010, when Kyotsuba switched off analogue television transmission. The rest of the Lyoneaux switched off analogue television transmission on 28th April 2011, followed by the Alexia and Daitshima on 29th September 2011. The Nikkatsu was the last provinces to cease analogue transmissions on 1st December 2011.