Television in Eumoritown

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Although television was introduced to Eumoritown in 1985, its planning took more than 25 years. Isolation and lack of interest were among the earlier factors that led to a wide-scale rejection of television in Eumoritown, but there was also the possible idea that it would hurt the film sector. Currently Eumoritown has three local television broadcasting companies as well as a subscription television service provided by the ETA. Here's its history.

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In February 1960, representatives of a company called Television International Enterprises were headed to Flarland to convene plans for the television services in Flarland's overseas territories. While the Henleys and the Pakifas already got their construction permits ready in April and June 1960, respectively, the territory of Eumoritown, whose local radio service was started by the Eumoritonian Broadcasting Corporation just a few years earlier, thought that television would be a "stretch on the budget", for either the government or private entities.

TIE Ltd said that the tea-dependent territory didn't want to refuse the offer, but setting up a privately-owned television station without the consent of the government, unlike the Henlyes and Pakifas stations that started up as joint TIE-government networks (until 1974), was considered by the government of the time to be "sick and wrong".

Territory Commissioner of Eumoritown John Gurgel (period of serving 1957 to 1974) said:

"I saw television in 1958 in Wembley. Some of the programming doesn't match the lifestyles practiced in Eumoritown. As of now, under my rule, television will always be the demon's box."

Such speech would also be replicated by South Bulungi, whose television service didn't start until 1973.

In 1962, Television Broadcasts Henleys took to the air. The first television set brought to Eumoritown was owned by technician Scott Saffords, who bought a television set and an antenna in June 1962 in Port Henley to later send it to his home in Crown Harbor, in northern Eumoritown. He was granted access, though very deficiently, of distant reception of television stations from the Henleys, of the TVB network, and some stations from the Ashtalaic countries with poorer reception. One day in 1963, Saffords received signals from NBS TV, and from a faint picture, was able to understand that the NBS was reporting about fraud committed in the 1962 legislative election of Flarland.

In 1973, after TVB switched to color, Saffords switched his television set for a new one. Saffords' experiments were logged in a diary he called "Chronicle of Television in Eumoritown". His influence has led to, after the government crisis in 1974, lobby for the installation of an EBC television service.