History
It was launched on 28 October 1956 as the first Television in Spain, regular television service in Spain. It was the only one until 15 November 1966, when TVE launched a La 2 (Spanish TV channel), second channel. As TVE held a monopoly on television broadcasting in the country, they were the only television channels until the first regional public television station was launched on 16 February 1983, when ETB 1, Euskal Telebista started broadcasting in the Basque Country (autonomous community), Basque Country. Commercial broadcasting, Commercial television was launched on 25 January 1990, when Antena 3 (Spanish TV channel), Antena 3 started broadcasting nationwide. The channel was initially simply referred to as "Televisión Española" until the launch of its second channel in 1966. Since then it received other names, such as "Primera Cadena", "Primer Programa", "TVE-1", "TVE1" or "La Primera" until it adopted its current name "La 1" (''La uno'') in 2008. Its headquarters and main production centre is Prado del Rey (studios), Prado del Rey in Pozuelo de Alarcón. Although almost all its programming is in Spanish and is the same for all of Spain, TVE has territorial centres in every autonomous community and produces and broadcasts some local programming in regional variations in each of them, such as local news bulletins, in the corresponding Languages of Spain, co-official language. On 1 January 2010, TVE stopped broadcasting Television advertisement, commercial advertising on all its channels, with only Promo (media), self promotions, institutional campaigns and Sponsor (commercial), sponsorships allowed. With analog service discontinued on 3 April 2010, it have only been available free-to-air through the digital terrestrial television (DTT) ever since. La 1 and Teledeporte started its DDT HD resolution simulcasts on 31 December 2013, initially in 720p and later in 1080i.Logos and identities
References
External links