Television in Estonia was
introduced in 1955, following the Soviet government's decision to establish a
television
Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertisin ...
station in 1953. The
Nation
A nation is a community of people formed on the basis of a combination of shared features such as language, history, ethnicity, culture and/or society. A nation is thus the collective Identity (social science), identity of a group of people unde ...
al
TV Channel ETV has maintained an archive since 1955 in which broadcasts of unique aspects of
Estonian culture
The culture of Estonia combines an indigenous heritage, represented by the country's Finnic national language Estonian, with Nordic and German cultural aspects. The culture of Estonia is considered to be significantly influenced by that of the ...
are held.
Northern
Estonia
Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...
receives
television signals from Finland. During the 1970s and 1980s, Finnish broadcasts were more popular than Soviet-Estonian offerings until the
Singing Revolution
The Singing Revolution; lv, dziesmotā revolūcija; lt, dainuojanti revoliucija) was a series of events that led to the restoration of independence of the Baltic nations of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania from the Soviet Union at the end of ...
,
with many Estonians enjoying ''
Dallas
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'' and other programs portraying non-Communist lifestyles.
Digital television was officially launched on December 15, 2006 when the operator Eesti Digitaaltelevisiooni AS launched its pay service
ZUUMtv, operated by Starman, on two multiplexes. In 2006, only ETV was available for free, but as of March 2009, there are already 7 free channels in digital broadcast. Digital television signal (
DVB-T and
DVB-H) is broadcast by Levira.
DVB-C is provided by cable operators
Starman,
STV,
Telset, telecommunications company
Elion (also offering
IPTV
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). Analog transmitters were turned off in July 2010.
List of television channels
See also
*
List of years in Estonian television
This is a list of years in Estonian television.
Twenty-first century
Twentieth century
See also
* List of years in television
References
{{Lists of years in television
Estonian
Estonian may refer to:
* Something of, from, ...
References
{{Television in Europe