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:1 is a generalist channel, family-oriented television, broadcasting Slovak movies, children's programming, news and documentaries, major sport events on club and international level. :2 ( Dvojka ) broadcasts documentaries, mature-oriented shows, minor sport events, old Slovak dramas and movies, and also frequently shows classic and art foreign ...
History; Launched: 3 November 1956 (as ČST Bratislava) 1 January 1993 (as STV1) Former names: ČST Bratislava (1956–1970) ČST1 (1970–1990) F1 (1990–1993)
The establishment of STV as an independent institution happened on 1 July 1991, after a law by the Slovak National Council related to the independence of Slovakia from Czechoslovakia. However, its history dates back to November 1956, when Czechoslovak Television , then under socialist regime, established a television studio in Bratislava as a ...
The organisation was created in 2011 following a merger of Slovenská televízia (Slovak Television) with Slovenský rozhlas (Slovak Radio). [1] It was headquartered in Bratislava. [2] [3] Like its two predecessor organisations - Slovenská televízia (STV) and Slovenský rozhlas (SRo), RTVS was a member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).
STV was embroiled in a series of administrative changes, and one of the proposals in 1996 was to privatize the second network and move it entirely to cable and satellite television. [3] A government-friendly bidder, PRO TV, won the license in June 1997, [ 4 ] but on June 26, the government passed a law halting its privatization.
Television stations in Slovakia broadcast in both DVB-T format (MUX-2 and MUX-3) and DVB-T2 format (MUX-1 and MUX-4). Broadcasting is mostly in the Slovak, state-owned channels have some dedicated broadcasting for ethnic minorities (always subtitled).
The 9th and 10th season were watched by 731,000 and 778,000 people respectively, with the latter being televised on two STV sister's channels at the same time; Jednotka (STV 1) and Trojka (STV 3). Since the 2010s, the show format gains considerably less — roughly half a million audiences each year —, yet still making it the most watched ...
As well, STV uses ranked voting, an unknown quantity in many places in the world. Arguments for and against proportional representation in general are frequently referenced in debates among electorates considering STV. STV is a family of systems, and the specific implications of the use of a particular STV system is sometimes an issue.