KBS1

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KBS1
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Television station ( public law institution )
Program type Full program
reception Digital
Image resolution 1080i , 2160p
Start of transmission December 31, 1961
language Korean
Seat Korea SouthSouth Korea Seoul , South Korea
Broadcaster KBS
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KBS1 is a South Korean public television broadcaster operated by KBS ( Korean Broadcasting System ). Compared to KBS2 , the focus of the programs is on news , current affairs , culture and documentaries , supplemented by dramas , animations as well as music and sports programs.

history

KBS TV began broadcasting television on December 31, 1961 as the first full-fledged television station in South Korea . Regular broadcasts began on January 15 of the following year.

KBS started out as a commercial television station, but the radio tax was introduced in 1963 . KBS1 has not broadcast any advertising since October 1994 .

The monopoly ended with the commissioning of the TV station TBC ( Tongyang Broadcasting Company ) in 1965 . In December 1980, due to political pressure from the then military government under Chun Doo-hwan, a merger with TBC and the takeover of several private broadcasters , resulting in KBS1.

In the course of digitization and the lifting of the night-time broadcasting ban for terrestrial TV channels, KBS1 was the first Korean TV channel to start all-day broadcasting without interruption on October 8, 2012 , even if the broadcast was regularly interrupted either on Sunday and Monday at night or on Monday and Tuesday at night due to technical maintenance becomes.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ About KBS. Retrieved June 1, 2020 (Korean).
  2. ↑ Tens of billion won deficits despite 600 billion won radio license. Munhwa Ilbo, accessed June 1, 2020 (Korean).
  3. ↑ About KBS. Retrieved June 1, 2020 (Korean).
  4. ↑ Broadcast restructuring with KBS as a central component in 1980. Dong-a Ilbo , accessed June 1, 2020 (Korean).
  5. ↑ Release of the broadcast time for the terrestrial television channels. Korean Communications Media Commission (KCC), accessed June 1, 2020 (Korean).

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