Television in Alexonia

Television in Alexonia started operations in 1951.

History
In 1951 some former Alexonian Broadcasting Company (BR) 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 1951 as Royal Broadcasting Television in Alexiona City. In 1957, Royal Broadcasting TV was renamed ATS (now ATS One), during the first 3 years they began at 5 PM and ended at 9 PM.

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

Alexonia Hoso Terebi was launched in 1969, as the first Japanese-speaking channel in Alexonia.

In 1970 TV3 broke the duopoly of ATS and AHT (both by the time owned by the Alexonian goverment),being the first commercial channel. TV3 was founded by the namesake company, acquiring material from ABC (U.S.), VIVA Television (El Kadsre) and Fuji TV (Japan).

In 1978 the Alexonian goverment spun-off ATS, transforming it into an independent public broadcaster, while opted to create Alexonia Media Authority, which englobes AHT and the newly created Raido Alexonia (not be confused by ATS Radio)

Capital TV started transmissions in 1981 as Alfa TV.

By the 1981 Alexonian television adopted 60hz broadcasts, in order to include japanese and other languages.

In 1981 Alfa Radio founded Alfa TV, which was the first regional channel.

Digital Television tests were launched in 1998 with the European DVB-T standard and launching 5 digital-only channels. They opted for 16:9 aspect ratio, while the video quality was still 480p. In 2001 was launched officially with more channels

In 2010 all 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. Nikkatsu was the last province to cease analogue transmissions on 1st December 2011.

On April 2014, 4K broadcasts stared with ATS UHD, Alexia MX 4K and Movienet Ultra the first 4K channels; later on june of that year DVB-UHD was launched, with support up to 8K, and 120 frames per second.

Cable Providers

 * Cignal
 * DirecTV
 * Vodafone
 * ArrowStar
 * Spark
 * StellaNet
 * Axient Docomo

Streaming
In 1988 streaming was introduced in the Alexonian Market as "Teleweb". Now about a-quarter of the population have access to at least one streaming service.

SVOD

 * Netflix
 * Quckflix
 * Amazon Prime Video
 * Disney+
 * ESPN+
 * HBO Max
 * Paramount+
 * Lionsgate+
 * Crunchyroll
 * Viewster
 * YouTube Premium
 * VidSpace Plus
 * MovieTime
 * Movienet NOW
 * Docomo Now
 * Universal Plus
 * HOOQ
 * Binge AN
 * Arcon TV
 * DirecTV Go

Free Providers include

 * ATS Play
 * ThreePlus
 * SixPlay
 * MyTen
 * AHT Ichiban
 * PlutoTV
 * El TV Player AN
 * Tubi
 * WeTV
 * AbemaTV