Channel One (YinYangia)

For other uses, see Channel One.

Channel One, stylized as 1, (YinYangiese: 频道一; Fiéntàu Yèn) is the flagship television channel of YBC, the state-owned broadcaster of YinYangia, launched in 1944. It is the oldest channel in the country.

It is the first television channel in the world to broadcast in color, in 1947.

History
Channel One was launched on April 6, 1944 as Teleprogram Toralaq, operated by Toralaq Broadcasting Corporation. It was a sister of Radio Toralaq.

Teleprogram Toralaq was telecast from 3:00pm-6:00 pm on weekdays. The day started with an hour of children's programming (3:00pm-4:00pm), half-hour of news (4:00pm-4:30pm), Toralaq News (Now Channel One Shinhuen), half hour of comedy (4:30pm-5:00pm), and one hour of women's programming (5:00pm-6:00pm), and the channel signs off with the block test pattern.

In 1946, the channel started to broadcast 6 hours, from 12:00pm to 6:00pm. More shows were introduced to the channel.

On July 14, 1947, color transmissions started in selected programs. The staff announced that in 1949, transmissions will be on RCA and Technicolor broadcasting. On May 1, 1950, full-color transmissions started, at the same time, Teleprogram Toralaq was renamed to TBC Main Teleprogram.

At the time, only the rich and urban people, which made up 20% of the population, owned color television.

On July 1, 1958, the second television channel, TBC2 (now YinYang Two), was launched in color. TBC 2 runs 7:00am-10:00pm daily. TBC 2 mainly aired teledramas and movies. Due to a power problem at the Malodin Tower in 1961, TBC 2, along with TBC1 (then was just TBC), was temporarily shut down and went back on-air in 1964. On January 1, 1971, third television channel, TBC3 (now Ang Ikatlo) was launched.

On May 13, 1959, TBC started to broadcast daily 8 hours from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm. The first color Teledrama was "Three Men and Two Little Boys", started in 1952 and ended in 1977, a TV show about a gay couple with a son and a divorced man with a son. It also started broadcasting in YinYangiese.

In May 1966, TBC and TBC2 idents premiered. They go like The red T, blue B, and yellow C zooms out and the full company name zooms out of the bottom in a black background. Like TBC, in TBC2, the green 2 zooms out at the top. They were discontinued in July 1970 and started a new set of idents.

On July 18, 1975, Michael Anquan took over TBC, and announced that the TBC channel will be renamed to TBC1. While the launch of the news channel, TBC News (Now News TV) in 1987, the channel revived its original 1966-1970 idents to all the channels created by the Toralaq Broadcasting Corporation.

After Toralaq Republic's dissolution in 1999, TBC was split into two government-owned media organizations, NTVC and Voice of YinYangia. TBC 1 was renamed to NTVC 1.

On January 1, 2006, NTVC and Voice of YinYangia merged into YBC, and NTVC 1 was renamed to Channel One. The channel went to a huge makeover and started to not only air original programming, but also international ones.

On June 1, 2007, the channel switched off analog transmissions, along with all other YinYangian channels.

Original programming

 * Criminal Case (2008-present)
 * Downtown Street (2002-present)
 * The Edward Show
 * Mother (2014-present)
 * Spring Love (2017-present)
 * Workspace Romance (YinYangian TV series (2009-present)

Cartoons

 * The Loud House (2016-present)
 * Pingu (1986-present)
 * Yin Yang Yo! (2007-present)

Foreign Programming (Drama/Soap Opera/Sitcom)

 * Shortland Street (New Zealand) [1992-present]
 * The Simpsons (United States) [1990-present]
 * Technic Heroes (El Kadsre) [1976-present]

Comedy Shows (Live-stream only)

 * Prank Calls (1994-Present)
 * Dead Street Jokes (2009-Present)
 * Just for Laughs Gags (US, UK) [2010-present]

Children's programming

 * LazyTown (Iceland) [2004-present]

Entertainment

 * Cash Struck YinYangia (2017-present)
 * Travelling around the country (2015-present)