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. The channel was more oriented to politics and on the regional information.

The launch of Canal Cinco and the rise of RTE
Back in 1983, The channel Canal Cinco was the first private channel in Espalia, it was the tentative by to export the  type of channel. This drastic change led to the  Television Reform of 1983  which allowed to other companies to create their own TV channel. Initially, the frequencies given from the government were only up to the channel 7 (the channels were actually 3, because of the already assigned Canal Cinco and the three channels owned by the state). In 1985 After the allowance for the frequencies and after the winning of the competition for the assignment against Discovery Networks Espalia, Rede Cuatro the new Berlusconi's channel was launched. The launch of the channel led to the creation of the company RTE (Redi Televisìe Espaliane, now Mediaset Espalia).

Espalia Uno, Discovery 6 and Globo 7
At the the time of the assignment for the frequencies RTE and Discovery were still in competition for the assignment of Channel 6, In fact RTE wanted to export in Espalia too but due to the fact stated by the Reform that a television company can own only 2 channels the project failed, instead Discovery won and created Discovery 6 the first generalist channel owned in the world by the company. Meanwhile won the assignment for Globo 7, now 7Mundo.

Canal+ and the introduction of pay-tv
In 1987, Telecom Espalia (now TelEspalia) wanted to improve the internet connection system and availability in the Country so they started implementing (in most of the regions) internet through the use of. This helped the introduction of, but since Telecom at that time doesn't had the economic possibility to start its own television provider they rented the Television infrastructure to the winner of a public procurement. After two years, in 1989 the winner was declared, it was the French Company. Initially the offer was only made by one channel, Canal+ but after the launch of Canal+ Cable in 1992 the service became multichannel, carrying other companies channel, like the just-launched Discovery Channel.

The launch of Sky
After the decision of the company to launch the Hispasat 46W satellite in 1998,  rented 16 analog transponders for the launch of Sky Espalia. Right after the launch of the satellite on the 1st of September 1999 transmission started, with the launch of Sky Uno getting started the espalian satellite tv. In the following years all transponders were turned in Digital, now the platform broadcast all of their channels in the standard.

The digital transitions
Digital transition in Espalia was meant to being done in 2004 but was done in 2007, in fact due to EBS economic crisis in that period, the switch-off was postponed. Initially all channel broadcasted in the Aspect ratio, but in 2013 all channels switched to the  ratio. The HD broadcast transition and consequent switch to the DVB-T2 Standard started in 2019 and concluded in 2020

The first streaming services
In 2011 EBS launched its first streaming service EBS Stream (now, EBS+), then in 2013 premiered in Espalia too. Ever since almost all television companies present in Espalia got their streaming service. In 2020 launched, making it the most subscribed video service in Espalia

Television providers in Espalia
Here is a table with all television providers actually active in Espalia