Television in Omawate

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Television is currently the most popular kind of media in Omawate. Since its inception in 1959, television was used as means initially to disperse propaganda, but now it promotes cultural values, commerce and intercommunication, largely due to the influx of foreign influences, particularly from East Sondria and the general Western cultures.

History[edit | edit source]

Television was introduced on October 1st, 1959, on the eighteenth anniversary of the introduction of Juje rule. Television was controlled by a central entity run by the government, Omawatian Central Television (Омавате Нак-а Телевицун/Omawate Nak-a Telewizun; Koreanic: 오마와테 낰아 텔레위준; Japonic: おまわて中央テレ゜ヰツン). Television was not considered to be a priority as part of the Omawatian Great Leap Forward, but it was jeavily suggested that, with television signals nationwide, it would promote the ideologies of the ruling Communist Party. This helped influence Yaniko and Mongolia to get their television services runming within a couple of years from then.

Initially television was on from 19:00 to 21:00. By 1967, it was on from 18:00 to 22:00.

The government planned to make television available in all large cities, but plans stopped in 1962 after setting up the Bishek transmitter.

In 1963, when monarchy was restored, television became progressively Western. New television stations signed on in 1977. In March that year, television commercials were allowed for the first time.

The Omawatian government has greenlighted proper commercial TV licenses in 2015. Oigoo TV, formerly a cable and satelite channel under government supervision, began terrestrial broadcasts in late 2014. Bachaag followed in 2015.

Oigoo TV shut down at 23:55 on January 11, 2021.

In February 2021, the Omawatian Pool of Television Channels (OPTC) unilaterally banned imports from Kaixhung. This ban later extended to other "genocidal" countries: Yaniko in August 2021 (after the border was shut down) and Alavia in March 2022.

Channels[edit | edit source]

OBC (government)[edit | edit source]

Other government entities in Omawatian[edit | edit source]

  • Nyer Yeeg (Cultural Television Channel)
  • Natak TV (Ministry of Youth, featuring lots of imported Western programming)
  • Natak 2 (MoY, music video channel)

Other languages[edit | edit source]

Commercial[edit | edit source]