ART 3
ART 3 is the third channel of Ashtalaian Radio and Television. It was the main broadcaster of Darwin the Merman from 2015.
Starting June 2022, ART 3 became a bilingual (Ashtalaian and English) television channel, following a compromise reached between the English-speaking community of Ashtalaia, and the government's insistence in claiming that the Flarlandian channels have no legal rights to operate within Ashtalaian territory.
History[edit | edit source]
Experimental service[edit | edit source]
In April 1989 the Ashtalaian government gave positive hearings for the creation of two new state networks (third national network and fourth regional network), with ART's third network drawing upon the popularity of cable and satellite television and relays from the neighboring countries. The channel would initially limit itself to an experimental format broadcasting from 20:00 to 00:00 with no original content and was served mostly of foreign TV relays without copyright laws, inlike what happened on ART 1, ART 2 and the Hayastelari service HTV.
In June 1990 ART 3 started its test broadcasts at 19:45 ahead of the planned 20:00 starting time.
