Television in Ostland

Television broadcasting in Ostland was established on November 1, 1949. The first Television in the country was brought from Washington, United States, and the first channel locally broadcasted was ONL 1.

History
In August 1941, Hans II, king of Ostland, and the Ministry of Telegraph and systems of Comunications anounced that television will be introduced in the country during November of that year, and revealed that works for electronic installations, which started on June 1936, had " good progression ". The Television device used in the launch and the first Television in Ostland was brought from the United States, device that departed on October 10 and arrived 18 days later due to delays on shipping. At the time, during WW2, Germany pushed back their movements of invasion against Ostland since they had the support of Great Britain and most importantly the U.S., and Ostland declared its neutrality about the Norwegian situation. Hans II wanted to keep the social stability in the country and distract the population of the political situation happening in the European continent.

The First Channel to be broadcast was the first dial of Ostlandisk Nacionalsk Lokalen Television, the Ostlandic national channel, which started broadcasting on 13:15 of the same day. The first program broadcasted was a news pannel. Later, on 15:30, a cultural show consisting of traditional Ostlandic poetry and songs called Bright Nation's Sun was introduced, being one of the longest airing shows in the history of the country, being broadcasted until March 1990. This show was specially created to rise the nationalists feelings in the population in case of an invasion.

After the end of the war, Ministry of Telegraph and systems of Comunications and Ministry of Electricity resumed the works of cable and electric installations in the rest of the country, after television was only available in Nordostat and surrounding villages as Himmursby. The second city to start comercial operations was Timsgrat, in 1946. Later, in order: Mellerfield, Port Thordsen, Kysten, Feliksen, and Rästrav in 1948, Syrostlandsen, Karelstat and Irksenberg in early 1950.

Rating system
Ostland Broadcasting Association introduced in 2006