EBS 1 (Espalia)

EBS 1 is a television channel in Espalia and the  Channel of EBS, the public operation service of the country. It's operation started on the 11th of January 1953. It's a generalist channel. The channel provides the most followed newscast in the country named: Noticias 1 (Noticias Primero). Its main competitor is Canal Cinco that often egualiate the channel in terms of Viewership.

The 50s
The channel was launched following the 1948 radio-television act wanted by Egidìo Garcia Reha the first president of Espalia. Then E.B.S was created. The first president in charge of the channel was Andrè Marìa Rusca, who last until 1959. The first official transmission, started at 21:03, was called Spetàculo Spetàculo (Show Show) and was led by Rintès Di Vìlla an Espalian Showgirl. The show was a variety with songs, comedy schechs and interviews and was follow by a relatively small part of the population, the aristocratic, in fact it is thought that only 8% followed the television program. In the following years, the estimates of people who watch TV grew, also because many bars in the most important cities began to install TV sets to allow customers, who could not afford them, to watch the channel's programs.

The 60s
During the 60s more and more people started watching the channel, this was due to economic boom of that period, at this time television production started to enhance and the channel's hour of programming have been increased from two (20:10 - 22:00) to four ( 8:00 - 9:00, 13:00 - 14:00, 20:10 - 22:00). This change was implemented for the launch of the network news program: the Noticias 1

In the 1961 EBS 2 was launched making the channel's name change from EBS to EBS 1, to identificate the two channels.

In 1967 the channel started the first political debate program called Dibatos. This is one of the most long-lived program in the network's history. The first presenter of the program was Gullio Ristìa Died at the age of 98.