Soviet Central Television
| Type | Broadcast television |
|---|---|
| Country | Soviet Union |
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First air date
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9 March 1938 (based in Moscow) |
| Availability | Free-to-air |
| Founded | 9 March 1938 |
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Licence area
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Moscow, Soviet Union |
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Broadcast area
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Soviet Union |
| Owner | Government of the Soviet Union |
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Launch date
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9 March 1938 |
| Dissolved | 27 December 1991 |
| Replaced by |
Programme One: Ostankino TV Channel 1, Public Russian Television, and now Channel One Russia Programme Two: All Union First Programme All Union First Programme: Main state TV channels of the Soviet Union republics Moscow Programme: MTK-Moscow Television Channel, now TV Center Programme Four: Ostankino TV Channel 4, Russian Universities, now NTV (NTV already existed as Russian Universities evening news and entertainment block until it took over Russian Universities entire airtime in 1994) Leningrad Television: Petersburg State Television Company till 1997, Saint Petersburg Television and Radio until 2004, presently Petersburg - Channel 5 |
The Central Television of the USSR (CT USSR) (Russian: Центральное телевидение СССР, ЦТ СССР, tr. Tsentral'noye televideniye SSSR, TsT SSSR), was the state television broadcaster in the Soviet Union.
Soviet TV programming was highly diverse and somewhat similar to that of the BBC or American PBS. Like much of the Soviet media, CT USSR regularly promoted the agendas of the Communist Party. Initially, the service was operated, together with the national radio service, by the Ministry of Culture. Later it was operated by the Committee on Television and Radio (USSR Gosteleradio, Russian: Государственный комитет по телевидению и радиовещанию СССР, Гостелерадио СССР), under the Communications Ministry and the Information and Press Ministry, and later a Council of Ministers-controlled network of television and radio broadcasting.
Radio was the dominant medium in the former Soviet Union, however, in the 1930s preparations for television were in full swing.
On 1 October 1934, the first television sets were made available to the public. The next year, the first television broadcasts began.
The Soviet Union television service began full-time experimental test broadcasts on 1 March 1938.
Regular public programming began on 9 March 1938 - with an evening of programmes, which included news, documentary films and entertainment on Channel 1 in Moscow. At the same time, Channel 5 Leningrad the national television service from Leningrad and the northern Soviet Union, was launched on 7 July the same year.
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