Daehan Television
Daehan Television (대한텔레비전), abbreviated as DTV, was the first television channel in Daehan. It operated from 1956 to 1961.
History[edit | edit source]
HLKZ-TV, channel 7, was founded in early 1956, as the Radio Corporation of Sierra announced its urge to leave the television channel that DBS started a few months earlier and create competition. Funding was provided by RCS who named the station DAE-RCS Television, after the Daehanian branch of RCS. Broadcasts started on May 12th, 1956.
Within exactly a year of its launch, the channel was sold to the Daehan Ilbo printing company and was renamed Daehan Television.
Problems started plaguing DTV, on February 2nd, network facilities were burning. The causes were unknown.
By the end of the year, SFDN-TV, operated by the Sierran Armed Forces, began broadcasting a half-hour service under a blocktime agreement. It would later move to channel 4, where it remained for many years, as a standalone channel.
Advertising issues, lack of infrastructure and related uncertainties led to DTV's shutdown on October 15th, 1961. As compensation, DBS would have to broadcast commercial advertising as a loophole until a new commercial television network would commence operations. The channel 7 frequency remained vacant until 1964, when the Dongso Broadcasting Company began broadcasting. Following the Media Consolidation Plan of 1980, the frequencies used by DSB were given over to DBS to operate DBS 2.
Current status[edit | edit source]
Until 1980, Daehan Television was considered to be a "dormant company" according to Daehanian regulations. No other entity could use the HLKZ calls because they belonged to the DTV corporation, which still existed legally until 1964, despite having shut down operations in 1961. What survives of DTV's archives is maintained by the Daehanian Institute of the Moving Image.