Tangwa Television

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Tangwa Television is one of Tangwa's state-owned television channels. It is directly controlled by a government fund unlike PTS Channel 11, yet both channels are still seen as government mouthpieces.

History[edit | edit source]

Equipment provided by the Nashlandian Pye company arrived in February 1953 and on June 2 that year, Tangwa Television started its first regular broadcasts which lasted an hour in the early days. At the time, television sets were expensive and this didn't justify the growth of the service.

TV broadcasts started from VHF channel 1 in Chongfang where it would be the only transmitter until 1955, when a transmitter at Ichang was installed. This was followed by two more the following year, Trakalong and Pho Chakhin.

Programming was heavily improvised and influenced by radio. Documentaries provided by embassies and Sierran television filmed serials were broadcast in English due to the lack of dubbing infrastructure. By 1955, there were 1,000 television sets registered in Tangwa, 800 of which in Chongfang, up from 60 in the first year. Most viewers watched the service, which started at 6:30pm and ended at 9pm in its early years, in public places and restaurants.

During the Zagule regime, Tangwa Television started buying in taping equipment in order to preserve certain programming; the first pre-recorded dramas went on air in 1962. Tangwa Television had covered all of the regional capitals by then and was one of the most technologically-advanced television stations in Southeast Sondria.

Programming[edit | edit source]