Arolan National Television

Arolan National Television Oy (ANT) is the national television broadcaster of the Republic of Arola. It was founded on 1st July 1958 as the successor to the BBC Arola Division, which previously handled television operations in the country after. ANT is a subsidiary of the state-owned Arogo Holdings.

ANT operates two terrestrial television channels: ANT1 and AKT Kakkonen, as well as four cable television channels: ANT News, ANT Movies, ANT Learning and ANT Game Show and international television channel ANT Arola. ANT also owns ANT Radio Network, a nationwide radio network.

History
After ended, the United Kingdom decided to bring radio and television to Arola. On 30th November 1946, the BBC Arola Division was formed, broadcasting BBC radio and television in English and in Finnish dubs.

This arrangement however was short-lived, as Britain focused less on colonialism and Arola was preparing for self-governance. After Arola was completely under independence on 1st July 1958, the BBC Arola Division was sold to the Arolan government and it was renamed Arolan National Television.

On 22nd May 1964, ANT was split into two different channels, with the existing channel now completely English and named ANT 1 (now ANT1) and a new Finnish-language channel was launched under the name AKT, which was a translation of ANT’s Finnish name.

On 8th April 1975, ownership of ANT was transferred to the newly formed state-owned holding company AROGO (now Arogo Holdings).

In December 1986, ANT's 28-year monopoly was broken by newly launched commercial broadcaster CTV. When CTV launched, all commercials intended to be broadcast on ANT moved to CTV. Since then, ANT has only allowed 1-2 commercials during every program break.

In the early to mid-1990s, ANT launched its own cable television service, ANT Cable, along with four new television channels as well as ANT World, an international television service. ANT Cable would later merge with A-Star in June 1999.