Československá televize

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Československá televize
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reception analog terrestrial
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business 1953 to 1992
language Czech , Slovak
Seat Prague
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Československá televize (Czech) or Československá televízia (Slovak) or Česko-slovenská televízia (Slovak - from 1990), abbreviated to ČST (German Czechoslovak television ), was the state television broadcaster of Czechoslovakia from 1953 to 1992 .

history

Color broadcast, 1971

ČST started broadcasting from Prague in 1953 . Since 1956 there has also been regular broadcasts from Bratislava . In 1970 the Nordic World Ski Championships in the High Tatras saw the first color broadcast , and a second channel was introduced in the same year.

The broadcast language of the ČST was mainly Czech in the first channel , Slovak for some programs , and Czech and Slovak mixed for news. The second channel was in Czech for the Czech Republic and in Slovak for Slovakia and broadcast a completely different program in the two parts of the country. The partial broadcast in two languages ​​was possible because the two languages ​​are very similar . The broadcasting practice of radio and television has itself contributed to mutual intelligibility. Today, Slovak productions are often shown in an edited version on Czech television, while Czech programs are still broadcast unchanged on Slovak television.

After the Velvet Revolution in 1990, state television was federalized. The first ČST program was renamed F1 federální okruh jedna . F1 was broadcast in both the Czech Republic and Slovakia as a joint federal program. The term federální okruh can be roughly translated as a federal (broadcasting) circle or federal (broadcasting) ring. The second channel of ČST was renamed ČTV in the Czech Republic and S1 in Slovakia . As before, the second channel broadcast different programs in both parts of the country - under new names. In addition, on the frequency on which Soviet television has been broadcast since the late 1980s and which today belongs to the largest private broadcasters in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, a third channel of ČST - OK3 (in Slovakia 1991 through the channel TA3 replaced). On December 31, 1992, the ČST was dissolved together with the Czechoslovak state and replaced by the two national public broadcasters Česká televize and Slovenská televízia , both of which had already existed parallel to the ČST for a year. After a joint address by Michal Kováč , the last chairman of the Federal Assembly of the ČSFR , and Jan Stráský , the last Prime Minister of the ČSFR, and the playing of the Czechoslovak national anthem, the joint F1 program was finally switched off at 11:59 p.m.

Individual evidence

  1. Česká televize: ČST v datech - Československá televize do roku 1992 - History - Vše o ČT - Česká televize. Retrieved February 2, 2017 (Czech).
  2. Markéta Kachlíková: Slovak is a foreign language for young Czechs . Radio Prague . February 27, 2013.
  3. a b Konec federální televize - Československá televize do roku 1992 - History - Vše o ČT - Česká televize. Česká televize, accessed on February 2, 2017 (Czech).
  4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycWSB4WKjPo