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[[File:TV Introduction Map.svg|thumb|500px|A map showing when television was introduced in each country:
{{legend|#081d58|1939 and before}}
{{legend|#253494|1940s}}
{{legend|#225ea8|1950s}}
{{legend|#1d91c0|1960s}}
{{legend|#41b6c4|1970s}}
{{legend|#7fcdbb|1980s}}
{{legend|#c7e9b4|1990s}}
{{legend|#edf8b1|2000s and 2010s}}
{{legend|#f8ffd4|2020s and after}}
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This is a list of when the first publicly announced television broadcasts occurred in the mentioned countries. Non-public field tests and closed circuit demonstrations are not included.

This list should not be interpreted to mean the whole of a country had television service by the specified date. For example, the [[United States]], the [[United Kingdom]], [[Germany]], and the former [[Soviet Union]] all had operational television stations and a limited number of viewers by 1939. Very few cities in each country had television service. Television broadcasts were not yet available in most places.
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== History ==

=== 1920s and 1930s ===
{| class="wikitable"
! Year
! Countries and territories
|-
| 1924
| {{flag|United States|1912}} ([[mechanical television|pre-experimental]])
|-
| 1926
| {{flagicon|Germany|1919}} [[Weimar Republic|Germany]] (pre-experimental), {{flag|United Kingdom}} (pre-experimental)
|-
| 1927
| {{flag|Australia}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Netherlands}} (pre-experimental)
|-
| 1928
| {{flag|Argentina}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Canada|1921}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|United States|1912}} ([[mechanical television]], experimental – [[WRGB|W2XCW]])<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tvhistory.tv/W2XB%20WGY%20WRGB%20TV%20Station.htm |title=WRGB History}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tvhistory.tv/W1XAY.htm |title=How Television Came to Boston: The Forgotten Story of W1XAY}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://online.sfsu.edu/~hl/cfj/cfj.W3XK.html |title=W3XK: America's first television station}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=WRNY to Start Daily Television Broadcasts |newspaper=The New York Times |date=August 13, 1928 |page=13}}</ref> 
|-
| 1929
| {{flag|United Kingdom}} (mechanical, experimental),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bairdtelevision.com/1932.html |title=J.L. Baird: Television in 1932 |website=Baird Television}}</ref> {{flagicon|Germany|1919}} [[Weimar Republic|Germany]] (mechanical, experimental),<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20040207210618/https://museum.tv/archives/etv/G/htmlG/germany/germany.htm Museum of Broadcast Communications: Germany]</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tvhistory.tv/1936%20German%20Olympics%20TV%20Program.htm |title=Berlin 1936: Television in Germany}}</ref> {{AUS}} (mechanical, experimental, after hours on two existing [[Melbourne]] radio stations - [[RSN Racing & Sport|3UZ]] and [[3DB (Melbourne)|3DB]]),<ref>{{cite book |title=Australian TV – The First 25 Years |first=Peter |last=Bielby |page=173 |isbn=0-17-005998-7}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.environment.gov.au/heritage/ahc/publications/linking-a-nation/chapter9 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170920142542/http://www.environment.gov.au/heritage/ahc/publications/linking-a-nation/chapter9 |archivedate=2017-09-20 |title=Linking a Nation Chapter 9 |publisher=Australian Heritage Council}}</ref><ref>Peter Luck, 50 Years of Australian Television {{ISBN|1-74110-367-3}} p.15</ref> {{flag|Netherlands}} (mechanical, experimental in [[Scheveningen]]),<ref name="isgeschiedenis.nl">{{cite web |url=https://isgeschiedenis.nl/nieuws/eerste-nts-journaal-op-de-nederlandse-televisie |title=Eerste NTS journaal op de Nederlandse televisie |date=5 January 2016}}</ref> {{flagicon|France|1830}} [[Third French Republic|France]] (pre-experimental), {{flag|Rattanakosin Kingdom|1917|name=Siam}} (pre-experimental)
|-
| 1930
| {{flag|Soviet Union|1924}} (pre-experimental in Moscow wired in 1929)
|-
| 1931
| {{flagicon|France|1830}} [[Third French Republic|France]] (mechanical, experimental), {{flag|Canada|1921}} (mechanical, experimental – [[VE9EC]]), {{flag|Soviet Union|1924}} (mechanical, experimental – [[Shukhov Tower|МТЦ]]),  {{flag|Rattanakosin Kingdom|1917|name=Siam}} (mechanical, experimental, cancelled because of [[Siamese revolution of 1932|the revolution]])
|-
| 1932
| {{flag|Argentina}} (mechanical, experimental),<ref>''See'' [https://lagalenadelsur.com/2019/07/26/television-mecanica-en-argentina-en-1932-las-experiencias-de-ignacio-m-gomez-por-lr4-radio-splendid-de-buenos-aires Televisión mecánica en Argentina en 1932. Las experiencias de Ignacio M. Gómez por LR4 Radio Splendid, de Buenos Aires]</ref> {{flag|Empire of Japan|name=Japan}} (pre-experimental) 
|- 
| 1934
| {{flag|Australia}} ([[electronic television]], experimental, [[Brisbane]]),<ref name="Cour34">{{cite news |title=Timeline – national and state, 1927-1941 |work=Brisbane Courier Mail |url=http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/extras/federation/Timelines/CMFedTimelineNat3.htm |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080215131629/http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/extras/federation/Timelines/CMFedTimelineNat3.htm |archivedate=February 15, 2008}}</ref> {{flag|Turkey}} (pre-experimental)
|-
| 1935
| {{flag|Nazi Germany|name=Germany}} ([[Intermediate film system|intermediate film]]; semi-electronic), {{flagicon|France|1830}} [[French Third Republic|France]] (electronic – [[TF1|PTT Radio Vision]]), {{flag|Netherlands}} (electronic, experimental in [[Eindhoven]] by [[Philips]]),<ref name="isgeschiedenis.nl"/> {{flag|Italy}} (pre-experimental)
|-
| 1936
| {{flag|United Kingdom}} (electronic – [[BBC One|BBC Television Service]]), {{flag|Nazi Germany|name=Germany}} (electronic television - [[Deutscher Fernseh-Rundfunk|Deutscher Fernseh Rundfunk]]),<ref>[http://framemaster.tripod.com/index5.html The Birth of Live Entertainment and Music on Television, November 6, 1936]</ref><ref>[http://www.earlytelevision.org/rca_1937_photos.html 1937 RCA Publicity Photographs]. "Eighty-seven video programs were telecast by NBC last year," "[http://www.earlytelevision.org/where_is_television.html Where Is Television Now?] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080913065455/http://www.earlytelevision.org/where_is_television.html |date=2008-09-13}}", ''Popular Mechanics'', August 1938, p.&nbsp;178. Regularly scheduled electronic broadcasts began in April 1938 in New York (to the second week of June, and resuming in August) and Los Angeles. "Telecasts Here and Abroad," ''The New York Times'', April 24, 1938, Drama-Screen-Radio section, p.&nbsp;10; "[https://web.archive.org/web/20070901194251/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849042,00.html Early Birds]," ''Time'', June 13, 1938; "Telecasts to Be Resumed," ''The New York Times'', Aug. 21, 1938, Drama-Screen-Radio section, p.&nbsp;10; Robert L. Pickering, "[http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist5/donlee.html Eight Years of Television in California]," ''California – Magazine of the Pacific'', June 1939. Also note that many rural areas of the Southern United States didn't receive television until the late 1950s and early 1960s.</ref>
|-
| 1937
| {{flag|Free City of Danzig}} (electronic, experimental),{{efn|Although 180-line cathode ray tube receivers were manufactured in France in 1936, a mechanical scanning camera was still used at the transmitter in [[Paris]] until 1937.}} {{flagicon|Poland|1928}} [[Second Polish Republic|Poland]] (mechanical, experimental), (Doświadczalna Stacja Telewizyjna),<ref name="poland">[http://www.warsawvoice.pl/view/1291/ The Warsaw Voice: What's On?] and {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928103407/http://www.pit.edu.pl/index.php?s=651 |date=September 28, 2007 |title=Historia Przemysłowego Instytutu Telekomunikacji przed II wojną światową}} (in Polish).</ref> {{flag|Peru}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Chile}} (pre-experimental)
|-
| 1938
| {{flag|Soviet Union|1936}} (electronic, experimental - [[Soviet Central Television|CT USSR]]), {{flag|Turkey}} (electronic, experimental), {{flag|Uruguay}} (pre-experimental)
|-
| 1939
| {{flag|Argentina}} (electronic, experimental), {{flag|Brazil}} (electronic, experimental), {{flag|Chile}} (electronic, experimental), {{flag|Empire of Japan|name=Japan}} (electronic, experimental - [[NHK General TV|J2PQ]]),<ref>''See'' The Evolution of TV: A Brief History of TV Technology in Japan: [http://www.nhk.or.jp/strl/aboutstrl/evolution-of-tv-en/p09col_1.html “Can you see me clearly?”] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130101044401/http://www.nhk.or.jp/strl/aboutstrl/evolution-of-tv-en/p07/column/index1.html |date=2013-01-01}}; [http://www.nhk.or.jp/strl/aboutstrl/evolution-of-tv-en/p09.html Public TV Image Experiments] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160526181516/http://www.nhk.or.jp/strl/aboutstrl/evolution-of-tv-en/p07/index.html |date=2016-05-26}}.</ref>{{efn|Off from 1940 to 1950 due to Japan's entry in the [[World War II]] and subsequent US occupation.}} {{flagicon|Kingdom of Italy}} [[Fascist Italy|Italy]] (electronic, experimental - EIAR Trasmissioni Sperimentali Radiovisione),<ref>''See'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20070827100727/http://s206301103.websitehome.co.uk/database/it.tv.htm Early Television in Italy]</ref> {{flag|Peru|1884}} (electronic, experimental),<ref>''See'' [http://todosobrelahistoriadelperu.blogspot.com/2013/11/historia-de-la-television-en-el-peru.html Historia de la televisión en el Perú]</ref> {{flagicon|Poland|1928}} [[Second Polish Republic|Poland]] (electronic, experimental),<ref name="poland"/> {{flag|United States|1912}} (electronic; experimental and non-commercial until 1941 - [[NBC]])
|}

=== 1940s ===
{| class="wikitable"
! Year
! Countries and territories
|-
| 1941
| {{flag|United States|1912}} ({{flag|New York (state)|1909|name=New York}}, {{flag|Delaware}}, {{flag|New Jersey|1896}}, {{flag|Connecticut}}, regular commercial telecasts ([[WNBC|WNBT]])), {{flag|Pennsylvania}} ([[KYW-TV|WPTZ]]))
|-
| 1942
| {{flag|Mexico|1934}} (pre-experimental)
|-
| 1943
| {{flagcountry|Nazi Germany}} ({{flagicon|Nazi Germany|army}} [[German military administration in occupied France during World War II|Occupied France]] ([[TF1#Fernsehsender Paris (1943–1944)|Fernsehsender Paris]])), {{flag|Philippines|1936}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Uruguay}} (electronic, experimental)<ref>[https://lagalenadelsur.com/2013/11/08/1943-mario-giampietro-la-primera-emision-electronica-de-tv-en-uruguay-y-america-latina 1943. Mario Giampietro. La primera emisión electrónica de TV en Uruguay y América Latina]</ref>
|-
| 1944
| {{flagicon|France|1830}} [[Provisional Government of the French Republic|France]] (returned, [[TF1#RDF Télévision française (1944–1949)|RDF Télévision française]])
|-
| 1945
| {{flag|Soviet Union|1936}} (returned, [[Soviet Central Television|CT USSR]]),{{efn|Off from 1939 to 1945 during World War II. The service reached the entirety of the Russian SSR alone by the late 1960s.}} {{flag|United States|1912}} ({{flag|Washington, D.C.}}, experimental ([[WTTG#Early years (1945–1958)|W3XWT]]))
|-
| 1946
| {{flag|Brazil|1889}} (pre-experimental), {{flagicon|Czechoslovakia}} [[Czechoslovak Socialist Republic|Czechoslovakia]] (pre-experimental), {{flag|Denmark}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Mexico|1934}} (experimental),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.xtimeline.com/evt/view.aspx?id=761373 |title=Historia de la Televisión! &#124; Primera transmisión en blanco y negro &#124; Event view |accessdate=2013-10-24 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921061928/http://www.xtimeline.com/evt/view.aspx?id=761373 |archivedate=2013-09-21 |trans-title=Latin America's first experimental television station |language=es}}</ref> {{flag|United States|1912}} ({{flagicon|Philippines|1936}} [[Commonwealth of the Philippines|Philippines]] (experimental, [[ABS-CBN Corporation#History|BEC]])), {{flag|United Kingdom}} (returned, [[BBC One#Early years and launch|BBC]]),{{efn|Off from 1939 to 1946 during World War II.}} {{flag|United States|1912}} ({{flag|Illinois|1915}} ([[WBBM-TV|WBKB]]), {{flag|Iowa}}, experimental (KRNT), {{flag|Washington, D.C.}} ([[WTTG]])) 
|-
| 1947
| {{flag|United States|1912}} ({{flag|California}} ([[KTLA]]), {{flag|Maryland}} ([[WMAR-TV]]), {{flag|Michigan}} ([[WDIV-TV|WWDT]]), {{flag|Missouri}} ([[KSDK|KSD-TV]]), {{flag|Ohio}} ([[WEWS-TV]]), {{flag|Wisconsin|1913}} ([[WTMJ-TV]]))
|-
| 1948
| {{flag|Brazil|1889}} (experimental, [[Rede Tupi]]), {{flag|Canada|1921}} (experimental), {{flag|Cuba|1902}} (pre-experimental), {{flagicon|Czechoslovakia}} [[Czechoslovak Socialist Republic|Czechoslovakia]] (experimental),{{efn|[[Czechoslovakia]] became two separate states, namely the [[Czech Republic]] and [[Slovakia]] in 1993.}} {{flag|Switzerland}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|United States|1912}} ({{flag|Kentucky|1918}} ([[WAVE (TV)|WAVE-TV]]), {{flag|Louisiana|1912}} ([[WDSU|WDSU-TV]]), {{flag|Massachusetts|1908}} ([[WBZ-TV]]), {{flag|Minnesota|1893}} ([[KSTP-TV]]), {{flag|New Mexico}} ([[KOB (TV)|KOB-TV]]), {{flag|San Francisco}} ([[KPIX-TV]]), {{flag|Tennessee}} ([[WMC-TV|WMCT]]), {{flag|Texas}} ([[KXAS-TV|WBAP-TV]]), {{flag|Utah|1922}} ([[KTVX|KDYL-TV]]), {{flag|Virginia}} ([[WTVR-TV]]), {{flag|Washington (state)|name=Washington|1923}} ([[KING-TV|KRSC-TV]]))
|-
| 1949
| {{flag|Denmark}} (experimental), {{flag|Italy}} (experimental), {{flag|United States|1912}} ({{flag|Alabama}} ([[WVTM-TV|WAFM-TV]]), {{flag|Arizona}} ([[KPHO-TV]]), {{flag|Florida|1900}} ([[WTVJ]]), {{flag|Georgia (U.S. state)|name=Georgia|1920}} ([[WSB-TV]]), {{flag|Iowa}} ([[KWQC-TV|WOC-TV]]), {{flag|Indiana|1917}} ([[WRTV|WFBM-TV]]), {{flag|Missouri}}  ([[WDAF-TV]]), {{flag|North Carolina|1885}} ([[WBTV]]), {{flag|Oklahoma|1941}} ([[KFOR-TV|WKY-TV]]), {{flag|Rhode Island}} ([[WJAR]])), {{flag|Vatican City}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Venezuela}} (pre-experimental)
|}

=== 1950s ===
{| class="wikitable"
! Year
! Countries and territories
|-
| 1950
| {{flag|Brazil|1889}} ({{flag|São Paulo}} ([[TV Tupi São Paulo|Rede Tupi]], now defunct)),{{efn|License auctioned to Silvio Santos and became SBT São Paulo in 1981.}} {{flag|Cuba|1902}} ([[CMQ (Cuba)|CMQ-TV]]), {{flag|Dominican Republic}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|France|1830}} ({{flag|Nord}} ([[France 3 Nord-Pas-de-Calais|Télé-Lille]])), {{flag|West Germany}} ([[Northwest Germany]], experimental, [[Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk|NWDR]])), {{flag|Hungary}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Iceland}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Japan|1947}} (returned, electronic, experimental, [[NHK]]), {{flag|Mexico|1934}} (official, [[XHTV-TDT|XHTV-TV]]), {{flag|Monaco}} (pre-experimental), {{flagicon|Morocco}} [[French protectorate in Morocco|French Morocco]] (pre-experimental), {{flag|Norway}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Romania|1952}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Saudi Arabia|1938}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|South Korea|1949}} (pre-experimental),  {{flag|Soviet Union}} ({{flag|Latvian SSR}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Switzerland}} (experimental), {{flag|United States|1912}} ({{flagicon|Iowa}} [[Des Moines]] ([[WOI-DT|WOI-TV]]), {{flagicon|Tennessee}} [[Nashville]] ([[WSMV-TV|WSM-TV]]))
|-
| 1951
| {{flag|Argentina}} ({{flag|Buenos Aires Province|name=Buenos Aires}} ([[Televisión Pública|LR3 TV]])), {{flag|Brazil|1889}} ({{flag|Rio de Janeiro}} ([[TV Tupi Rio de Janeiro|Rede Tupi]], now defunct{{efn|License auctioned to Organizações Bloch in 1983 and became TV Manchete Rio de Janeiro, now RedeTV! Rio.}})), {{flag|Colombia}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Denmark}} ([[DR1|DR]]),<ref>''See'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20070113134402/http://www.dr.dk/OmDR/Fakta+om+DR/Historie/20060504131517.htm DRs historie 1950-1959].</ref> {{flag|Mexico|1934}} ([[XEW-TDT|XEW-TV]], {{flag|Tamaulipas}} ([[XELD-TV]]), now defunct),{{efn|Station broadcast in English from its launch to shutdown in 1954, as a consequence of the FCC freeze, which was lifted at the time of closure.}} {{flag|Netherlands}} ([[NPO 1|NTS]]),<ref name="isgeschiedenis.nl"/> {{flag|Portugal}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Soviet Union}} ({{flag|Estonian SSR}} (pre-experimental))
|-
| 1952
| {{flag|Bulgaria}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Chile}} (sporadically until 1959), {{flag|Canada|1921}} ({{flag|Quebec}} ([[CBFT-DT|CBFT]]), {{flagicon|Canada|1921}} [[Ontario]] ([[CBLT-DT|CBLT]])), {{flag|Dominican Republic}} ([[Corporación Estatal de Radio y Televisión|La Voz Dominicana]]), {{flag|Finland}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|East Germany|1949}} (experimental and regular programming, [[Deutscher Fernsehfunk|DFF]]), {{flag|West Germany}} ([[Northwest Germany]], full service, [[Das Erste|NWDR-Fernsehen]])), {{flag|Guatemala}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Iraq|19124}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Luxembourg}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Mexico|1934}} ([[XHGC-TDT|XHGC-TV]], {{flag|Puebla}} ([[XHTM-TDT|XEQ-TV]]){{efn|Licensed to Altzomoni, in the neighboring State of Mexico.}}), {{flagicon|Poland|1928}} [[Polish People's Republic|Poland]] (returned, [[TVP1|TV Polska]]), {{flag|Spain|1945}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Thailand}} (experimental),<ref>{{cite web |date=30 April 1952 |title=20,000 saw the first television in Bangkok |url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/singstandard19520731-1.2.207.40?qt=television,%20thailand&q=Television%20Thailand |access-date=31 July 2023 |website=Singapore Standard (retrieved from NLB)}}</ref> {{flag|Turkey}} ([[ITU TV|İTÜ TV]], now defunct),{{efn|Limited to [[Istanbul]]. [[Ankara]] got television in 1968 when [[TRT 1|TRT]] started its television service. In 1971, ITU TV shut down and TRT started a station in Istanbul. From then on, a slow process to start a national service began.}} {{flag|United Kingdom}} ({{flag|Scotland}} ([[BBC One Scotland|BBC TV Service Scotland]])), {{flag|United States|1912}} ({{flag|Colorado|1911}} ([[KUSA (TV)|KBTV]]), {{flag|Hawaii}} ([[KGMB]]), {{flag|Oregon}} ([[KPTV]]), {{flagicon|Spokane|1912}} [[Spokane, Washington|Spokane]] ([[KHQ-TV]])), {{flag|Venezuela|1930}} ([[Televisora Nacional|YVKA-TV]], now defunct)
|-
| 1953
| {{flag|Alaska}} ([[KATV (Alaska)|KATV]], now defunct), {{flag|Austria}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Belgium}} ({{flag|Wallonia}} ([[La Une|INR Télé Expérimentale Belge]]), {{flag|Flanders}} ([[VRT 1|NIR Belgische Televisie]])),{{efn|[[Dutch language|Dutch-language]] [[Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep|BRT]] used the Belgian [[576i|625-line]] standard and [[French language|French-language]] [[RTBF|RTB]] used the Belgian 819-line standard (abandoned in 1963). Early Belgian sets were very expensive because they could receive four different standards: Belgian 625, European 625, Belgian 819, French 819. Later a fifth standard was added with the French 625-line standard.}} {{flag|Canada|1921}} ({{flag|Ottawa|1902}} ([[CBOT-DT|CBOT]]), {{flag|British Columbia|1906}} ([[CBUT-DT|CBUT]])), {{flagicon|Czechoslovakia}} [[Czechoslovak Socialist Republic|Czechoslovakia]] (experimental), {{flag|El Salvador}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|France|1830}} ({{flag|Bas-Rhin}} ([[France 3 Alsace|Télé-Strasbourg]])), {{flag|Hungarian People's Republic|name=Hungary}} (experimental), {{flag|Japan|1947}} (returned, [[NHK General TV|NHK]]),{{efn|Rollout for NHK started in 1953 in Kanto, 1954 in Tokai and Kansai and between 1956 and 1958 for the rest of Japan. For commercial TV, limited to Kanto from 1953 to 1955 ([[Nippon Television|NTV]] and [[TBS Television (Japan)|KRT]]) and spread between 1956 and 1963 to the rest of the country. Saga Prefecture only gained television (NHK and [[Saga Television Station|commercial]]) in 1969 due to overspill from neighboring prefectures and usage of UHF as the preferred band.}} {{flag|Lithuanian SSR}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Malta|1943}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Mexico|1934}} ({{flag|Baja California}} ([[XETV-TDT|XETV]])),{{efn|English-language station affiliated to American networks (with an independent phase) until 2015, when it became a Canal 5 affiliate.}} {{flag|Nicaragua}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Philippines|1936}} (thru ABS ([[DWWX-TV|DZAQ-TV]]), now [[ABS-CBN Corporation]]), {{flag|Puerto Rico}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Saar}} ([[Telesaar]]),{{efn|Telesaar went defunct in 1958 as it was ordered by the German authorities.}}{{flag|Soviet Union}} ({{flag|Armenian SSR}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Azerbaijan SSR|1952}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Byelorussian SSR}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Georgian SSR}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Ukrainian SSR}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Uzbek SSR}} (pre-experimental)), {{flag|Sweden}} (pre-experimental),  {{flag|Switzerland}} (German television, [[SRF 1|SRG]]), {{flag|United Kingdom}} ({{flag|Guernsey}}, {{flag|Jersey|old}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|United Kingdom}} ({{flag|Northern Ireland}}, ([[BBC One Northern Ireland|BBC TV Service NI]]){{efn|First television broadcasts in the island of Ireland, eight years before the Republic. Local programmes started in 1955.}}), {{flag|United States|1912}} ({{flag|Arkansas|1924}} ([[KRTV (Arkansas)|KRTV]]), {{flag|South Carolina}} ([[WCOS-TV]]), {{flagicon|California}} [[Fresno, California|Fresno]] ([[KSEE|KMJ-TV]]), {{flag|Idaho}} ([[KFXD-TV]]), {{flag|Nevada|1929}} ([[KLAS-TV]]), {{flag|Kansas|1927}} ([[KWCH-DT|KTVH]]), {{flag|North Dakota}} ([[KXMC-TV|KCJB-TV]]), {{flag|South Dakota|1909}} ([[KELO-TV]]), {{flag|Maine}} ([[WABI-TV]]), {{flag|Montana|1905}} ([[KXLF-TV]])), {{flag|Vatican City}} (experimental, [[Vatican Radio#Television and satellite|HVJ]]), {{flag|Yugoslavia}} ({{flag|Socialist Republic of Croatia|name=SR Croatia}} (pre-experimental)
|-
| 1954
| {{flag|Algeria}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Australia}} (experimental, [[Television in Australia#Early demonstrations|ABC]]),<ref name="first24">{{Citation |title=Australian Television: the first 24 years |publisher=Nelsen/Cinema Papers |year=1980 |page=3 |location=Melbourne}}</ref> {{flagicon|Bulgaria|1948}} [[People's Republic of Bulgaria|Bulgaria]] (experimental, [[Technical University, Sofia|MEI]]), {{flag|Canada|1921}} ({{flag|Manitoba}} ([[CBWT-DT|CBWT]]), {{flag|Saskatchewan|1921}} ([[CKCK-DT|CKCK-TV]]), {{flag|Alberta|1921}} ([[CICT-DT|CHCT-TV]]), {{flagicon|Canada|1921}} [[New Brunswick]] ([[CBAT-DT|CHSJ-TV]]), {{flag|Nova Scotia}} ([[CJCB-DT|CJCB-TV]])), {{flag|Colombia}} ([[Canal 1|HJRN-TV]]), {{flag|Czechoslovak Socialist Republic|name=Czechoslovakia}} ([[ČT1|ČST]]), {{flag|France|1830}} ({{flag|Bouches-du-Rhône}} ([[France 3 Provence-Alpes|Télé Marseille]]), {{flag|Rhône}} ([[France 3 Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes|Télé-Lyon]])), {{flag|Guam}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Hungarian People's Republic|name=Hungary}} (experimental) {{flag|Italy}} (official, [[Rai 1|Programma Nazionale]]), {{flag|Mexico|1934}} ({{flag|Chihuahua}} ([[XEJ-TDT|XEJ-TV]])), {{flag|Monaco}} ([[TMC (TV channel)|TMC]] - first microstate to have a native channel), {{flagicon|Morocco}} [[French protectorate in Morocco|French Morocco]] ([[TELMA (Moroccan TV channel)|TELMA]], went defunct shortly after),<ref>{{cite web |date=1 August 2019 |title=TELMA, the story of Morocco's first and short-lived television channel |url=https://en.yabiladi.com/articles/details/81793/telma-story-morocco-s-first-short-lived.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240508210355/https://en.yabiladi.com/articles/details/81793/telma-story-morocco-s-first-short-lived.html |archive-date=8 May 2024 |access-date=9 June 2023 |website=en.yabiladi.com |last1=Com |first1=Yabiladi}}</ref> {{flag|Norway}} (experimental, [[NRK]]), {{flag|Portugal}} ([[Lajes Field]] ([[CSL-TV]], first AFRTS television station)),<ref>{{cite web |title=Lajes more than speck in television history |url=https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/135794/lajes-more-than-speck-in-television-history/ |access-date=12 February 2024 |website=Air Force |date=19 October 2004 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240212003143/https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/135794/lajes-more-than-speck-in-television-history/ |archive-date=12 February 2024}}</ref> {{flag|Puerto Rico|1952}} ([[WKAQ-TV]]), {{flag|Soviet Union}} ({{flag|Latvian SSR}} ([[Latvian Television|Latvijas Televīzija]])), {{flag|Switzerland}} (French television, [[RTS 1 (Swiss TV channel)|Télévision Genevoise]]), {{flag|United States|1912}} ({{flag|New Hampshire}} ([[WMUR-TV]]), {{flag|Vermont}} ([[WCAX-TV|WMVT]]), {{flag|Wyoming}} ([[KGWN-TV|KFBC-TV]])), {{flag|Uruguay}} (pre-experimental)
|-
| 1955
| {{flag|Austria}} ([[ORF 1|ORF Fernsehen]]), {{flag|Brazil|1889}} ({{flag|Minas Gerais}} ([[TV Itacolomi]], now defunct{{efn|License auctioned to Organizações Bloch in 1983 and became TV Manchete Minas, now RedeTV! Minas.}})), {{flag|Bermuda}} ([[ZBK-TV]]),{{efn|Served only in [[Kindley Air Force Base]].}} {{flag|Canada|1921}} ({{Flagicon|United Kingdom}} [[Newfoundland and Labrador|Newfoundland And Labrador]] ([[CJON-DT|CJON-TV]])), {{flag|Finland}} (test programming, [[Tesvisio|TV-kerho]]),{{efn|name="TESTV"|The channel launched in 1956 as a continuation of a project that had aired a public broadcast in May 1955 as the first television broadcast in Finland.<ref>{{cite book |last=Keinonen |first=Heidi |date=2011 |title=Kamppailu yleistelevisiosta. TES-TV:n, Mainos-TV:n ja Tesvision merkitykset suomalaisessa televisiokulttuurissa 1956–1964 |location=Tampere |publisher=Tampere University Press |url=https://trepo.tuni.fi/handle/10024/66715 |isbn=9789514483684 |language=fi}}</ref>}} {{flag|Guatemala}} ([[Canal 8 (Guatemala)|TGW-TV]], now defunct), {{flag|Iceland}} ([[Armed Forces Radio and Television Service Keflavik|AFRTS Keflavik]]), {{flag|Luxembourg}} ([[RTL9|Télé-Luxembourg]]), {{flag|Saudi Arabia|1938}} ([[Dhahran Airfield]], experimental and regular programming, [[AJL-TV]], now defunct), {{flag|Soviet Union}} ({{flag|Estonian SSR}} ([[Eesti Televisioon|TTV]])), {{flag|Thailand}} (official, [[MCOT HD|HSI-TV]]),<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1957-TV-Factbook/TV-Factbook-1957-all.pdf |title=Television Factbook |date=1957 |accessdate=6 April 2024 |page=280}}</ref> {{flagicon|Romania|1952}} [[Socialist Republic of Romania|Romania]] (experimental), {{flag|United Kingdom}} ({{flag|Guernsey}}, {{flag|Jersey|old}} ([[BBC One|BBC]]))
|-
| 1956
| {{flag|Australia}} ({{flag|New South Wales}} ([[TCN]]), {{flag|Victoria}} ([[HSV (TV station)|HSV]])), {{flag|France|1830}} ({{flagicon|France|1830}} [[French Algeria|Algerian Departments]] ([[TV1 (Algerian TV channel)|RTF Television Algiers]])),<ref>{{cite book |url=http://chdjamel.centerblog.net/6509516-radio-et-television-histoire-d-un-monopole |title=Radio et télévision : histoire d'un monopole |last=Cheurfi |first=Achour |date=4 February 2011 |publisher=[[:fr:Casbah Editions|Casbah Éditions]] |location=[[Algiers]] |publication-date=September 2010 |pages=88–148 |language=fr}}</ref> {{flag|Canada|1921}} ({{flag|Prince Edward Island}} ([[CBCT-DT|CFCY-TV]])), {{flag|El Salvador}} ([[Canal 6 (Salvadoran TV channel)|YSEB-TV]]),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.revistalatinacs.org/a/02nherrera.htm |language=Spanish |trans-title=A Brief Tour of Television in El Salvador |title=Un breve recorrido por la televisión en El Salvador |last=Herrera Palacios |first=Antonio |date=October 1998 |website=Revista Latina de Comunicación Social |access-date=10 November 2021 |archive-date=9 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210509224907/http://www.revistalatinacs.org/a/02nherrera.htm |url-status=dead}}</ref> {{flag|Finland}} (regular programming, [[Tesvisio|TES-TV]], now defunct),{{efn|name="TESTV"}} {{flag|United States|1912}} ({{flag|Guam|1956}} ([[KUAM-TV]])), {{flagicon|Iraq|1924}} [[Kingdom of Iraq|Iraq]] ([[Baghdad Television|BTV]], now defunct and replaced by Al-Iraqiya TV), {{flag|Nicaragua|1908}} ([[TN8|YNSA-TV]]),<ref>{{cite web |title=Primeros |url=https://www.laprensani.com/2006/09/11/espectaculo/1471054-primeros |access-date=19 September 2023 |website=La Prensa |date=11 September 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230919134830/https://www.laprensani.com/2006/09/11/espectaculo/1471054-primeros |archive-date=19 September 2023}}</ref> {{flag|United States}} ({{flag|Panama Canal Zone}} ([[American Forces Network#Central America|CFN]])),<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.laestrella.com.pa/amp/nacional/180314/chica-panama-llegada-pantalla |title=¿Cómo fue la llegada de la pantalla chica a Panamá? - Nacional - title.suffix.trans |access-date=2021-01-17 |archive-date=2022-03-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220303143612/https://www.laestrella.com.pa/amp/nacional/180314/chica-panama-llegada-pantalla |url-status=dead}}</ref> {{flagicon|Romania|1952}} [[Socialist Republic of Romania|Romania]] ([[TVR 1|TVR]]), {{flag|South Korea|1949}} ([[HLKZ-TV]]), {{flag|Soviet Union}} ({{flag|Armenian SSR}} ([[Public Television Company of Armenia|Armenian Television]]), {{flag|Azerbaijan SSR|1952}} ([[AzTV|Baku Television Studio]]), {{flag|Byelorussian SSR}} ([[Belarus-1|Belarusian Television]]), {{flag|Georgian SSR}} ([[First Channel (Georgian TV channel)|1TV]]), {{flag|Ukrainian SSR}} (regular programming, [[Pershyi|Ukrainske Telebachennia]]), {{flag|Uzbek SSR}} ([[National Television and Radio Company of Uzbekistan|Tashkent Television Studio]])), {{flagicon|Spain|1945}} [[Francoist Spain|Spain]] ([[La 1 (Spanish TV channel)|TVE]]), {{flag|Portugal}} (experimental, [[RTP1|RTP]]), {{flag|Sweden}}, ([[SVT1|Radiotjänst TV]]), {{flag|Uruguay}} ([[Canal 10 (Uruguay)|SAETA]]),<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1957-TV-Factbook/TV-Factbook-1957-all.pdf |title=Television Factbook |date=1957 |accessdate=6 April 2024 |page=281}}</ref> {{flag|Yugoslavia}} ({{flag|Socialist Republic of Croatia|name=SR Croatia}} ([[HRT 1|RTV Zagreb]])){{efn|The date refers to the launch of the television channel in republics and autonomous provinces of [[Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]], there were: RTV Zagreb in [[Socialist Republic of Croatia|SR Croatia]] (1956), RTV Ljubljana in [[Socialist Republic of Slovenia|SR Slovenia]] (1958), RTV Belgrade in [[Socialist Republic of Serbia|SR Serbia]] (1958), RTV Skopje in [[Socialist Republic of Macedonia|SR Macedonia]] (1964), RTV Sarajevo in [[Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina|SR Bosnia and Herzegovina]] (1969), RTV Titograd (Podgorica) in [[Socialist Republic of Montenegro|SR Montenegro]] (1971), and in [[Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo|SAP Kosovo]] (RTV Priština) and [[Socialist Autonomous Province of Vojvodina|SAP Vojvodina]] (RTV Novi Sad) was introduced in 1975.}}
|-
| 1957
| {{flag|Chile}} ([[TV+ (Chile)|UCV Televisión]]), {{flagicon|Cyprus|colonial}} [[British Cyprus|Cyprus]] ([[Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation|RIK]]), {{flagicon|British Hong Kong|1955}} [[British Hong Kong|Hong Kong]] (subscription, [[Rediffusion Television]]),{{efn|Television was introduced in [[Hong Kong]] when it was a [[British crown colony]] until 1997. The Rediffusion service was a cable network until 1973, when it converted to terrestrial television.}} {{flag|Hungarian People's Republic|name=Hungary}} ([[M1 (TV channel)|MTV]]), {{flag|Lithuanian SSR}} ([[LRT televizija|TV Vilnius]]),<ref>[https://apie.lrt.lt/en About LRT]</ref> {{flagicon|Malta|1943}} [[Crown Colony of Malta|Malta]],{{efn|Date where relays from Italy became available.}} {{flag|Portugal}} (full service, [[RTP1|RTP]])
|-
| 1958
| {{flag|Bermuda}} ([[ZBM-TV]]), {{flag|China}} ([[CCTV-1|Peking Television]]),{{efn|This station was the first in the Chinese world to be strictly terrestrial from the outset.}} {{flag|Czechoslovak Socialist Republic|name=Czechoslovakia}} ([[Jednotka|ČST Bratislava]]), {{flag|Pahlavi Iran|name=Iran}} ([[IRIB TV1|TVI]]),{{efn|Originally limited to Tehran area, later to Abadan, and from 1969, expanded to the whole nation. Television of Iran was absorbed into [[National Iranian Radio and Television|National Iranian Television]] in 1969; since the main network of the NIRT used a different frequency from TVI (which used channel 3) in Tehran, it's likely that the former TVI frequency was turned off.}} {{flag|Malaya|1948}} (mechanical, experimental), {{flag|Peru}} ([[TV Perú|OAD-TV]]), {{flag|Philippines|1936}} ([[DWWX-TV|DZXL-TV]]), CBN-9, now [[ABS-CBN Corporation]]), {{flag|Soviet Union}} ({{flag|Kazakh SSR}} ([[Qazaqstan (TV channel)|Almaty Television Studio]]), {{flagicon|Russian SFSR}} [[Kaliningrad Oblast]] ({{ill|Калининград (телерадиокомпания)|lt=Kaliningrad Television Studio|ru}}), {{flag|Moldavian SSR}} ([[Moldova 1|TVM]])), {{flag|Switzerland}} (Italian television, [[RSI La 1|TSI]]), {{UK}} ({{flag|Wales|1953}}, [[Television Wales and the West|TWW]]),{{efn|[[Wales]] had received broadcasts from England since 1952.}} {{flag|Yugoslavia}} ({{flag|SR Serbia}} ([[RTS1 (Serbian TV channel)|RTV Belgrade]]), {{flag|Socialist Republic of Slovenia|name=SR Slovenia}} ([[Radiotelevizija Slovenija#National 2|RTV Ljubljana]]))
|-
| 1959
| {{flag|Australia}} ({{flag|Queensland}} ([[QTQ]]), {{flag|South Australia}} ([[NWS (TV station)|NWS]]), {{flag|Western Australia}} ([[TVW]])), {{flag|Brazil|1889}} ({{flag|Rio Grande do Sul}} ([[TV Piratini]], now defunct{{efn|License auctioned to Silvio Santos in 1981 and became SBT RS.}})), {{flagicon|Bulgaria|1948}} [[People's Republic of Bulgaria|Bulgaria]] ([[BNT 1|Bulgarian Television]]), {{flag|Chile}} (full service, [[Canal 13 (Chilean TV channel)|Canal 2 UC]]),{{efn|Until the launch of the first version of [[Telenorte]] in [[Antofagasta]] in 1966, television was limited to central Chile (Santiago and Valparaíso). The definitive roll-out of television outside of this region didn't start until late 1968, when [[Televisión Nacional de Chile|TVN]] set up its first station in Arica months before it started definitive broadcasts, though in 1969, most of its network was concentrated in central Chile.}} {{flag|Ecuador|1900}} ([[HCJB-TV]], now defunct),{{efn|Station shut down in 1972. The frequency was later occupied by [[Teleamazonas]] starting in 1974. [[RTS (Ecuadorian TV channel)|RTS]] is often erroneously believed to be the first.}} {{flag|Haiti|1859}} ([[Tele Haiti|4VMR-TV]]), {{flag|Honduras|1949}} ([[Canal 5 (Honduras)|HRTG-TV]]), {{flag|India}} ([[DD National|AIR-TV]]),<ref name=":0">{{cite web |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1966-TV-Factbook/Television-Factbook-36-1966.pdf |title=Television Factbook |date=1966 |accessdate=12 April 2024 |page=856-b}}</ref> {{flag|Lebanon}} ([[Télé Liban|CLT]]), {{flagicon|Nigeria|colonial}} [[Colonial Nigeria|Nigeria]] ([[Western Nigeria Television|WNTV]]), {{flag|Philippines|1936}} ([[DZTV-TV]] ([[Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation|Inter-Island Broadcasting Corporation]]) (Test)), {{flagicon|Ryukyu Islands|1954}} [[United States Civil Administration of the Ryukyu Islands|Ryukyu Islands]] ([[Okinawa Television|KSDW-TV]]),{{efn|Television was introduced in the [[Ryukyu Islands]] (now part of Japan), when they were under U.S. administration.}}{{flag|Soviet Union}} ({{flag|Crimean ASSR}} ({{ill|Крым_(телерадиокомпания)#Телеканал_«Первый_Крымский»|lt=Crimean Television|ru}}), {{flag|Kirghiz SSR}} (regular programming, [[Kyrgyz Television|KTRK]]), {{flag|Tatar ASSR}} ({{ill|Татарстан (телерадиокомпания)|lt=Kazan Television Studio|ru}}), {{flag|Tajik SSR}} ([[Televizioni Tojikiston|Shabakai Yakum]]), {{flag|Turkmen SSR}} ([[Altyn Asyr (TV channel)|Turkmen Television]])) 
|}

=== 1960s ===
{| class="wikitable"
! Year
! Countries and territories
|-
| 1960
| {{flagicon|Albania|1946}} [[People's Socialist Republic of Albania|Albania]] (experimental and regular programming, [[RTSH#Television|RTSH]]), {{flag|Argentina}} ({{flag|Córdoba|name=Córdoba}} ([[El Doce|LU1-H TV]])), {{flag|Australia}} ({{flag|Tasmania}} ([[TVT (TV station)|TVT]])), {{flag|Brazil|1889}} ({{flag|Distrito Federal}} ([[TV Brasília]]), {{flag|Paraná}} ([[RPC Curitiba|TV Paranaense]]), {{flag|Bauru}} ([[TV TEM Bauru|TV Bauru]]), {{flag|Bahia}} ([[Record Bahia|TV Itapoan]]), {{flag|Pernambuco}} ([[TV Jornal|TV Jornal do Commercio]]), {{flag|Ceará}} ({{ill|TV Ceará (channel 2)|lt=TV Ceará|pt}}, now defunct{{efn|License auctioned to Organizações Bloch in 1983 and became TV Manchete Ceará (signed on 1984), now RedeTV! Ceará.}})), {{flag|Costa Rica}} ([[Teletica]]), {{flag|Greece|old}} (experimental, [[Public Power Corporation|PPC]]), {{flagicon|Netherlands Antilles|1959}} [[Netherlands Antilles]] ([[Telecuraçao|PJC-TV]]), {{flag|New Zealand}} ([[TVNZ 1|NZBC TV]]), {{flag|Norway}} (full service, [[NRK1|NRK]]), {{flag|Panama}} ([[RPC Televisión|RPC]]), {{flag|Philippines|1936}} ([[DZKB-TV]] ([[Radio Philippines Network|KBS-9]]{{efn|ABS-CBN vacated Channel 9 as CBN merged with ABS}}) and [[DZTV-TV]] ([[Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation|Inter-Island Broadcasting Corporation-13]] (full service)), {{flag|Southern Rhodesia}} ([[Rhodesia Television|RTV]]), {{flag|Soviet Union}} ({{flagicon|Russian SFSR}} [[Sakhalin Oblast]] ({{ill|Сахалин_(телеканал)|lt=Sakhalin|ru}})), {{flag|United Arab Republic}} (([[Egyptian Television Network]]), {{flag|Syrian Republic|name=Syria}} ([[Channel 1 (Syrian TV channel)|Channel 1]])){{efn|The [[United Arab Republic]] was a short-lived political union between Egypt and Syria. The union began in 1958 and existed until 1961, when Syria seceded from the union.}}
|-
| 1961
| {{flag|Argentina}} ({{flag|Mendoza|name=Mendoza}} ([[Channel 7 (Mendoza, Argentina)|LV 89 TV]])), {{flag|Brazil|1889}} ({{flag|Goiás}} ([[Record Goiás|TV Rádio Clube (TV Goyá)]]), {{flag|Espírito Santo}} ([[TV Vitória]]), {{flag|Pará}} ([[TV Marajoara]], now defunct{{efn|License auctioned to Silvio Santos in 1981 and became SBT Pará.}})), {{flag|Cambodia|1948}} (experimental, [[NEC]]),<ref name=megahertz1984>{{cite web |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/INTERNATIONAL/Megahertz/Megahertz-1984-03.pdf |title=Megahertz |date=March 1984 |accessdate=2 April 2024 |page=32}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1962-63-TV-Factbook/TV-Factbook-1963.pdf |title=Television Factbook |date=1963 |accessdate=6 April 2024 |page=745}}</ref> {{flag|Ireland}} ([[RTÉ One|Telefís Éireann]]),{{efn|[[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]] had received broadcasts from the United Kingdom since 1949.}} {{flag|Kuwait|1961}} ([[Kuwait Television]]), {{flag|Philippines}} ([[DZBB-TV]] [[GMA Network|RBS-7]] and DZFM-TV (Presidential Broadcast Service Channel 10), {{flag|United States Virgin Islands}} ([[WBNB-TV]], now defunct), {{flag|Yugoslavia}} ({{flag|Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina|name=SR Bosnia}} ([[BHT1|RTV Sarajevo]])), {{flag|Northern Rhodesia}} ([[Rhodesia Television|RTV]]), {{flag|Italy}} ({{flag|Sardinia|name=Sardinia}} ([[Rai 1|Rai Sardinia]])
|-
| 1962
| {{flag|Australia}} ({{flag|Australian Capital Territory}} ([[CTC (TV station)|CTC]])), {{flagicon|Republic of the Congo}} [[Republic of the Congo|Congo-Brazzaville]] ([[Télé Congo|RTC]]), {{flag|Ethiopia|1897}} ([[Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation|ETV]]), {{flag|France|1830}} ({{flag|Gironde}} ([[France 3 Aquitaine|Télé-Bordeaux Aquitaine]]), {{flag|Haute-Garonne}} ([[France 3 Midi-Pyrénées|Télé Toulouse-Pyrénées]])), {{flag|Gibraltar|ensign}} ([[Gibraltar Broadcasting Corporation|GBC]]),{{efn|Gibraltar had previously received television broadcasts from Spain.}} {{flag|Indonesia}} (experimental and regular programming, [[TVRI (TV channel)|Jajasan TVRI]]),{{efn|Originally limited to Jakarta area, and from 1965, the island of Java as a whole. The first television station outside of the island, [[TVRI North Sumatera]], opened in 1970, after receiving just overspill coming from West Malaysia.}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1966-TV-Factbook/Television-Factbook-36-1966.pdf |title=Television Factbook |date=1966 |accessdate=12 April 2024 |page=856-b}}</ref> {{flagicon|Kenya|colonial}} [[Kenya Colony|Kenya]] ([[Kenya Broadcasting Corporation|VOK]]), {{flagicon|Malta|1943}} [[Crown Colony of Malta|Malta]] ([[Television Malta|MTV]]),{{efn|name="ReferenceA"|Previously received television broadcasts from Italy.}} {{flag|Philippines|1936}} ([[DZTM-TV]] [[TV5 (Philippine TV network)|ABC-5)]], {{flag|Sudan|1956}} ([[Sudan TV|Sudan Television Service]]), {{flag|Taiwan}} ([[TTV Main Channel|TTV]]),{{efn|This is the year when television was introduced in territories under its administration. After the [[Chinese Civil War]] in 1949, the government of the [[Republic of China (1912–1949)|Republic of China]] [[Republic of China retreat to Taiwan|retreated]] to [[Free Area of the Republic of China|Taiwan and other islands]], and [[Mainland China]] was controlled by the [[People's Republic of China]].}} {{flag|Trinidad and Tobago}} ([[Trinidad and Tobago Television|TTT]])
|-
| 1963
| {{flag|Brazil|1889}} ({{flag|Maranhão}} ([[TV Difusora São Luís|TV Difusora]])), {{flag|Upper Volta}} ([[Radio Télévision du Burkina|VoltaVision]]), {{flag|Gabon}} ([[Radio Télévision Gabonaise|RTG]]), {{flag|Ivory Coast}} ([[La Première (RTI)|RTI]]), {{flag|Jamaica}} ([[Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation|JBC]], now defunct), {{flag|Malaysia}} ([[TV1 (Malaysian TV network)|Televisyen Malaysia]]),{{efn|Originally limited to most areas of Peninsular Malaysia.}} {{flag|Netherlands}} ({{flag|Aruba}} ([[Telearuba]])), {{flag|North Korea|1948}} ([[Korean Central Television|CTBS-DPRK]]), {{flag|Sierra Leone}} ([[Sierra Leone Broadcasting Corporation|SLTV]]),<ref name=tvfactbook1971/> {{flag|Singapore}} ([[Channel 5 (Singaporean TV channel)|TV Singapura Channel 5]]), {{flag|Soviet Union}} ({{flag|Nakhichevan ASSR}} ([[Nakhchivan TV]])),<ref>{{cite web |url=https://aztv.az/en/about-us |title=The activity of Azerbaijan Television |accessdate=1 May 2024}}</ref> {{flag|Tunisia}} (experimental), {{flag|Uganda}} ([[Uganda Broadcasting Corporation|UTV]])
|-
| 1964
| {{flag|American Samoa}} ([[KVZK-TV]]), {{flag|Argentina}} ({{flag|San Juan|name=San Juan}} ([[Channel 8 (San Juan, Argentina)|LV 82 TV]]), {{flag|Santa Fe|name=Santa Fe}} ([[Telefe Rosario|LT 84 TV]])), {{flag|Barbados|1885}} ([[CBC TV 8|CBC-TV]]), {{flagicon|Pakistan}} [[East Pakistan]] ([[Bangladesh Television|Pilot Television Dhaka]]), {{flag|Spain|1945}} ([[Canary Islands]] ([[RTVE Canarias|TVE Canarias]]){{efn|name="TVE"|Station operated autonomously by the territorial production center of [[Televisión Española]] (TVE) in the region.}}), {{flag|Ethiopia|1897}} (regular programming, [[Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation|ETV]]), {{flag|Federation of South Arabia}} ({{flag|Aden|1963}} ([[Aden TV]])), {{flag|France|1830}} ({{flag|Alpes-Maritimes}} ([[France 3 Côte d'Azur|Télé Marseille-Provence]]), {{flag|Calvados}}, {{flag|Cher}} & {{flag|Seine-Maritime}} ([[France 3 Centre|Télé Paris Normandie Centre]]), {{flag|Ille-et-Vilaine}} ([[France 3 Bretagne|Télé-Bretagne]]), {{flag|Loire-Atlantique}} ({{ill|France 3 Pays de la Loire|lt=Télé Loire-Océan|fr}}), {{flag|Puy-de-Dôme}} ({{ill|France 3 Auvergne|lt=Télé Auvergne|fr}}), {{flag|Sarthe}} ({{ill|France 3 Pays de la Loire|lt=Télé Maine-Anjou-Touraine-Perche|fr}})), {{flagicon|France|1830}} [[Guadeloupe]] ({{ill|Guadeloupe La Première (télévision)|lt=ORTF Guadeloupe|fr}}), {{flag|Karakalpak ASSR}} ([[Qaraqalpaqstan (TV channel)|Karakalpak Television]]),<ref name="QaraqalpaqTariyxi">A.  Qoshanov, O.  Dospanov, T. Uzakhbergenova “Qaraqalpaqstan tariyxı”, Nókis “Bilim” –2018</ref> {{flag|Liberia}} ([[Liberia Broadcasting System|LBC]]), {{flagicon|France|1830}} [[Martinique]] ({{ill|Martinique La Première (télévision)|lt=ORTF Martinique|fr}}), {{flagicon|Mauritius|1923}} [[British Mauritius|Mauritius]] ([[MBC 1 (Mauritian TV channel)|MBC 1]]), {{flag|Niger}} ([[Télé Sahel|Télévision Scolaire du Niger]]), {{flagicon|Pakistan}} [[West Pakistan]] ([[Pakistan Television Corporation|PTV]]), {{flagicon|France|1830}} [[Réunion]] ([[La Première (French TV network)|ORTF La Réunion]]), {{flag|Yugoslavia}} ({{flag|Socialist Republic of Macedonia|name=SR Macedonia}} ([[MRT 1|RTV Skopje]]), {{flag|Socialist Republic of Montenegro|name=SR Montenegro}} ([[Radio and Television of Montenegro|RTV Titograd]])) {{flag|Turkey}} ([[Turkish Radio and Television Corporation]]), {{flag|Italy}} ({{flag|Sicily}} ([[Rai 1|Rai Sicilia]])
|-
| 1965
| {{flag|Antigua and Barbuda|colonial}} ([[Antigua and Barbuda Broadcasting Service|ZAL-TV]]),<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1968-69-TV-Factbook/TV-Factbook-1968-All.pdf |title=Television Factbook |date=1969 |accessdate=5 April 2024 |page=928-b}}</ref> {{flag|Argentina}} ({{flag|Neuquén|name=Neuquén}} ([[Channel 7 (Neuquén, Argentina)|LU 84 TV]]), {{flag|Santiago del Estero|name=Santiago del Estero}} ([[Channel 7 (Santiago del Estero, Argentina)|LW 81 TV]])), {{flag|Brazil|1889}} ({{flag|Mato Grosso}} ([[TV Morena]])),{{efn|Considering the current territory of the state, the first TV station is [[TV Centro América]], founded in 1967. The area where TV Morena is became its own state, [[Mato Grosso do Sul]], in 1979.}} {{flag|France|1830}} ({{flag|Côte-d'Or}} ([[France 3 Bourgogne|Télé Bourgogne-Franche-Comté]]), {{flag|Haute-Vienne}} ({{ill|France 3 Limousin|lt=Télé-Limoges-Centre-Ouest|fr}})), {{flag|Meurthe-et-Moselle}} & {{flag|Marne}} ({{ill|France 3 Grand Est|lt=Télé Lorraine-Champagne|fr}})) {{flagicon|France|1830}} [[French Polynesia]] ([[Polynésie la 1ère|ORTF Télé Tahiti]]), {{flag|Ghana|1964}} ([[GTV (Ghana)|GTV]]), {{flagicon|France|1830}} [[New Caledonia]] ({{ill|Nouvelle-Calédonie La Première (télévision)|lt=ORTF Télé Nouméa|fr}}), {{flag|Paraguay|1954}} ([[Sistema Nacional de Televisión (Paraguayan TV channel)|TV Cerro Cora]]), {{flag|Saudi Arabia|1938}} ([[Al Saudiya]], state-owned), {{flag|Senegal}} ([[Radiodiffusion Télévision Sénégalaise|RTS]]), {{flagicon|Dutch Guiana}} [[Suriname (Kingdom of the Netherlands)|Suriname]] (trial and regular programming, [[STVS]]), {{flag|Tunisia|1959}} (experimental), {{flag|United Kingdom}} ({{flag|Isle of Man}} ([[ITV Border|Border Television]])),{{efn|Although the Isle of Man has received television signals since 1951, 1965 marked the first direct broadcast from a relay station built on the island. To date, no local television service has been set up and the island is served by [[BBC North West]] and [[ITV Granada]] (until 2009, ITV Border) with no local opt-outs.}} {{flag|India}} ([[DD National|AIR-TV]], regular programming)<ref name=":0" /> 
|-
| 1966
| {{flag|Argentina}} ({{flag|Jujuy|name=Jujuy}} ([[Channel 7 (Jujuy, Argentina)|LW 80 TV]]), {{flag|Salta|name=Salta}} ([[Channel 11 (Salta, Argentina)|LW 82 TV]]), {{flag|Tucumán|name=Tucumán}} ([[Channel 10 (Tucumán, Argentina)|LW 83 TV]])), {{flag|Brazil|1889}} ({{flagicon|Brazil|1889}} [[Amazonas (Brazilian state)|Amazonas]] ({{ill|TV Manauara|pt}}, now defunct), {{flag|Paraíba}} ([[TV Borborema]])),{{efn|Experimental broadcasts started in 1963; the station claims 1966 to be its birth year, when broadcasts became regular.}} {{flag|Cambodia|1966}} ([[National Television of Cambodia#Television (TVK)|TVRK]], regular), {{flagicon|Congo-Kinshasa|1966}} [[Democratic Republic of the Congo|Congo-Kinshasa]] ([[Radio-Télévision nationale congolaise|RTNC]]), {{flagicon|Greece|old}} [[Kingdom of Greece|Greece]] ([[ERT1|EIR]]), {{flag|Iceland}} ([[RÚV (TV channel)|Sjónvarpið]]), {{flag|Israel}} ([[Israeli Educational Television|IETV]], went defunct and replaced by [[Kan Educational]]),{{efn|The Israeli Ministry of Education in co-operation with the [[Rothschild Fund]] started limited broadcasts to schools in March 1966. A [[Channel 1 (Israel)|public state-owned TV channel]] started broadcasting in May 1968. Broadcasts were black and white (with a few exceptions) until the early 1980s.}} {{flag|Tunisia}} ([[El Watania 1|RTT]]),{{efn|name="ReferenceA"}} {{flag|South Vietnam}} ([[Vietnam Television Network|THVN]]),{{efn|now defunct and replaced by [[Ho Chi Minh City Television|HTV]].}} {{flagicon|Yemen|1962}} [[Yemen Arab Republic|North Yemen]] ([[Yemen TV|SABS-TV]]),<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1968-69-TV-Factbook/TV-Factbook-1968-All.pdf |title=Television Factbook |date=1969 |accessdate=6 April 2024 |page=928-b}}</ref> {{flag|South Yemen}} (SYBS-TV),<ref name=tvfactbook1971>{{cite web |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1970-71-TV-Factbook/TV-Factbook-1970-71.pdf |title=Television Factbook |date=1971 |accessdate=5 April 2024 |page=1056-b}}</ref> {{flag|Zambia|1964}} ([[Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation|ZNBC]]),{{efn|Successor of the prior RTV service in Lusaka, which started in 1961.}} {{flag|Italy}} ({{flag|Veneto}} ([[Rai 1|Rai Veneto]])
|-
| 1967
| {{flag|Canada}} ({{flag|Northwest Territories}} ([[CFYK-DT|CFYK-TV]])), {{flagicon|France|1830}} [[French Somaliland]] ([[Radio Television of Djibouti|RTD]]), {{flagicon|France|1830}} [[French Guiana]] ([[Guyane La Première (television)|ORTF Guyane]]), {{flagicon|British Hong Kong|1955}} [[British Hong Kong|Hong Kong]] (free-to-air, [[Television Broadcasts Limited|TVB)]], {{flag|Madagascar}} ([[Télévision Malagasy|RTM]]), {{flagicon|Mongolia|1945}} [[Mongolian People's Republic|Mongolia]] (experimental and regular programming, [[MNB (TV channel)|MNTV]]), {{flag|Saint Lucia|1939}} (SLTV),{{efn|SLTV relayed television broadcasts from [[Barbados]].}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/BOOKSHELF-ARH/Business/World-Communicatiions-Unesco-1975.pdf |title=World Communications |date=1975 |publisher=[[UNESCO]] |accessdate=24 April 2024 |page=192}}</ref> {{flagicon|France|1830}} [[Saint Pierre and Miquelon]] ({{ill|Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon La Première (télévision)|lt=ORTF Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon|fr}}) {{flag|France|1830}} ({{flag|Somme}} ([[France 3 Picardie|Télé-Lille Amiens]]), {{flag|Italy}} ({{flag|Tuscany}} ([[Rai 1|Rai Tuscany]]) 
|-
| 1968
| {{flag|Canada}} ({{flag|Yukon}} ([[CFWH-TV]], now defunct)), {{flag|Equatorial Guinea}} ([[TVGE|TVE Guinea Ecuatorial]]),{{efn|name="TVE"}} {{flag|Jordan}} ([[Jordan Radio and Television Corporation#History|JTV]]), {{flag|Libya|1951}} ([[Libyan Jamahiriya Broadcasting Corporation#Al-Jamahiriya TV|Libyan Television Service]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1970-71-TV-Factbook/TV-Factbook-1970-71.pdf |title=Television Factbook |date=1971 |accessdate=30 April 2024 |page=1048-b}}</ref> {{flag|Turkey}} ([[TRT 1]]), {{flag|Italy}} ({{flag|Calabria}} ([[Rai 1|Rai Calabria]])
|-
| 1969
| {{flag|Bolivia}} ([[Bolivia TV|Televisión Boliviana]]), {{flag|Brazil|1889}} ({{flag|Santa Catarina}} ([[NSC TV Blumenau|TV Coligadas]])),{{efn|Excludes TV Florianópolis, a television station that existed between 1964 and 1965, and was shut down after four months on air by DENTEL on the grounds that it lacked a license.}} {{flag|Trucial States}} ({{flag|Abu Dhabi}} ([[Abu Dhabi TV]])), {{flag|Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands}} (Saipan,{{efn|Corresponds to the current [[Northern Mariana Islands]].}} [[WSZE-TV]], now defunct), {{flag|Italy}} ({{flag|Umbria}} ([[Rai 1|Rai Umbria]])
|}

=== 1970s ===
{| class="wikitable"
! Year
! Countries and territories
|-
| 1970
| {{flag|Qatar|1949}} ([[Qatar Television|QTV]]), {{flag|North Vietnam}} ([[Vietnam Television|Independent Television System]]), {{flag|Italy}} ({{flag|Friuli-Venezia Giulia}} ([[Rai 1|Rai Friuli-Venezia]])
|-
| 1971
| {{flag|Argentina}} ({{flag|La Rioja (Argentina)|name=La Rioja}} ([[Channel 9 (La Rioja, Argentina)|LV 91 TV]])), {{flag|Australia}} ({{flagicon|Australia}} [[Northern Territory]] ([[ABD (TV station)|ABD]])), {{flag|Brazil|1968}} ({{flag|Sergipe}} ([[TV Sergipe]])), {{flag|Malaysia}} ({{flag|Sabah|1963}} ([[Rangkaian Ketiga|TV Malaysia Sabah]]))
|-
| 1972
| {{flag|Argentina}} ({{flag|La Pampa|name=La Pampa}} ([[Televisión Pública Pampeana|LU 89 TV]]), {{flag|Misiones|name=Misiones}} ([[Channel 12 (Misiones, Argentina)|LT 85 TV]])), {{flag|Brazil|1968}} ({{flag|Rio Grande do Norte}} ([[TV Universitária Rio Grande do Norte|TVU RN]]), {{flag|Piauí}} ([[TV Clube (Teresina)|TV Clube]])), {{flagicon|Portugal}} [[Madeira]] ([[RTP Madeira]]), {{flag|Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla}} ([[ZIZ]])
|-
| 1973
| {{flag|Antarctica|ats}} ({{flagicon|United States}} [[McMurdo Station]] ([[McMurdo Station#Communications|AFAN-TV]])),{{efn|Was replaced by a cable network with the normal AFN Televisions channels in the mid 90s.}}<ref>{{cite book |first= |last= |title=Antarctic Journal of the United States |date=January–February 1974 |page=29 |isbn=9780786451982 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=45RPAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22afan-tv%22+mcmurdo&pg=RA1-PA29 |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref> {{flag|Bahrain|1972}} ([[Bahrain Radio and Television Corporation#Bahrain TV|Bahrain TV]]), {{flag|British Virgin Islands}} ([[Caribbean Broadcast Network|ZBTV]]){{efn|Converted from the former cable service.}} {{flagicon|British Hong Kong|1955}} [[British Hong Kong|Hong Kong]] (free-to-air broadcasting service, [[Rediffusion Television|RTV]]), {{flag|Togo}} ([[Togolese Television|RTNM]])
|-
| 1974
| {{flag|Brazil|1968}} ({{flagicon|Brazil|1968}} [[Acre (state)|Acre]] (([[Rede Amazônica Rio Branco]]), {{flagicon|Brazil|1968}} [[Rondônia]] (([[Rede Amazônica Porto Velho|TV Rondônia]])), {{flag|Central African Republic}} ([[Télévision Centrafricaine|RTC]]), {{flag|Grenada}} ([[List of television stations in the Caribbean#Grenada|ZBF-TV]]), {{flag|Philippines}} ([[DWGT-TV]] [[People's Television Network|Government Television Channel 4)]], {{flag|Oman|1970}} ([[Sultanate of Oman Television|Oman TV]]), {{flag|Tanzania}} ({{flag|Zanzibar}} ([[ZBC TV (Zanzibar)|TVZ]])), {{flagicon|Timor Timur}} [[East Timor (province)|East Timor]] (experimental), {{flag|Yugoslavia}} ({{flag|SAP Kosovo}}, ({{ill|Radio Televizioni i Prishtinës|lt=Televizioni i Prishtinës|sq}}))
|-
| 1975
| {{flag|Angola}} (experimental and regular programming, [[TPA 1|RPA]]), {{flagicon|Portugal}} [[Azores]] ([[RTP Açores]]), {{flag|Brazil|1968}} ({{flag|Alagoas}} ([[TV Gazeta de Alagoas]]), {{flagicon|Brazil|1889}} [[Amapá]] ([[Rede Amazônica Macapá|TV Amapá]])), {{flag|Brunei}} ([[RTB Perdana|RTB]]), {{flag|Burundi|1967}} ([[Burundi National Radio and Television|RTNB]]), {{flag|Chile}} ({{flag|Easter Island}} (TVN))<ref>{{cite web |url=https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10125/17593/PacificIslandsCommunicationNewsletter_1975_v5_n1%5Bpdfa%5D.pdf |title=Easter Island Television |author=[[Honolulu Star-Bulletin]] |date=February 1975 |access-date=2 December 2020 |language=en |page=9 |archive-date=29 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210729193413/https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10125/17593/PacificIslandsCommunicationNewsletter_1975_v5_n1&#91;pdfa&#93;.pdf |url-status=dead}}</ref> {{flag|Dominica|1965}} (Cable & Wireless Dominica),{{efn|Cable service. Dominica never had a terrestrial television service. Its monopoly in the market was broken in the early 80s by Marpin Telecoms, which is currently [[Digicel]] Dominica.}} {{flag|Gilbert and Ellice Islands}} (foreign-owned launching), {{flag|Yugoslavia}} ({{flag|SAP Vojvodina}} ([[Radio Television of Vojvodina|RTV Novi Sad]]))
|-
| 1976
| {{flagicon|Georgian SSR}} [[Abkhaz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic|Abkhaz ASSR]] ([[Apsua TV|National Television of Abkhaz ASSR]]), {{flag|Bahamas}} (experimental),<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1976-TV-Factbook/1976-TV-Factbook.pdf |title=Television Factbook |date=1976 |accessdate=6 April 2024 |page=1077-b}}</ref> {{flagicon|Turkey}} [[Turkish Federated State of Cyprus]] ([[Bayrak|BRT 1]]),{{efn|Current [[Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus]].}} {{flagicon|Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands}} [[Palau]] ([[WALU-TV]], now defunct), {{flag|South Africa|1928}} ([[SABC 2|SABC TV]])
|-
| 1977
| {{flag|Bahamas}} ([[ZNS-TV]]),{{efn|The Bahamas had previously received broadcasts from the United States.}} {{flag|Guinea}} ([[Radio Télévision Guinéenne|RTG]]), {{Flag|Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands}} ({{Flag|Pohnpei}} ([[KPON-TV]]))
|-
| 1978
| {{flagicon|Afghanistan|1978}} [[Democratic Republic of Afghanistan|Afghanistan]] ([[Afghanistan National Television]]), {{flag|Benin|1975}} ([[Office de Radiodiffusion et Télévision du Bénin|ORTB]]), {{flagicon|Timor Timur}} [[East Timor (province)|East Timor]] ([[TVRI Dili]]),{{efn|Now believed to be under the jurisdiction of [[Radio-Televisão Timor Leste]] following the formal independence of the country in 2002.}} {{flag|Eswatini|name=Swaziland}} ([[Eswatini Broadcasting and Information Service#Eswatini Television Authority|Swazi TV]]), {{flag|Maldives}} ([[Television Maldives|TV Maldives]]),<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1984-TV-Factbook/TV-Factbook-1984-Other.pdf |title=Television Factbook |date=1984 |accessdate=6 April 2024 |page=1381}}</ref> {{flag|Venda}} (Venda TV)
|-
| 1979
| {{flag|Chad}} (mechanical, experimental), {{flag|Equatorial Guinea}} (returned, [[TVGE]]),{{efn|Off from 1973 to 1979.}} {{flag|Federated States of Micronesia}} ({{flag|Yap}} ([[WAAB-TV]])), {{flag|Marshall Islands}} ([[Marshalls Broadcasting Company|MBC]]),{{efn|Replaced a cable company set up in 1975 when it was still under the control of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands and was shut down due to storm surges from a hurricane in 1979.}} {{flagicon|Burma|1974}} [[Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma|Burma]] (test programming),{{efn|Test service available only in [[Yangon]] in 1979, and formally launched in 1981.}} {{flag|Sri Lanka}} ([[Independent Television Network|ITN Sri Lanka]]),{{efn|Available only in Colombo in the network's early years.}} {{flag|QwaQwa}} (QWA-TV){{Citation needed|date=April 2025}}
|}

=== 1980s ===
{| class="wikitable"
! Year
! Countries and territories
|-
| 1980
| {{flag|Indonesia}} ([[Batam]], TVRI),{{efn|Had received broadcasts from Singapore since 1963.}}<ref>{{cite web |date=13 July 1980 |title=Bonus TV channel |url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes19800713-1.2.32?qt=%22fifth%20channel%22&q=%22Fifth%20channel%22 |access-date=30 August 2023 |website=The Straits Times (retrieved from NLB)}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=12 July 1980 |title=Tune in to Channel 6! |url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/newnation19800712-1.2.59?qt=%22fifth%20channel%22&q=%22Fifth%20channel%22 |access-date=30 August 2023 |website=The New Nation (retrieved from NLB)}}</ref> {{flag|Mauritania|1959}} (experimental), {{flagicon|Burma|1974}} [[Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma|Burma]] ([[MRTV (TV network)|BBS]], regular programming), {{flag|Saint Vincent and the Grenadines|1979}} ([[SVG-TV]]), {{flag|Guyana}} ([[Television Guyana|Vieira Communications Television]]), {{flag|Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands}} ({{flag|Chuuk}} ([[TTKK|WTKK-TV]]))
|-
| 1981
| {{flag|Belize|1981}} ([[Tropical Vision Limited|Channel 7]]), {{flagicon|Mozambique|1975}} [[People's Republic of Mozambique|Mozambique]] ([[Televisão de Moçambique|TEM]]), {{flagicon|South Africa|1928}} [[South West Africa]] ([[Namibian Broadcasting Corporation#Television|SWABC]]),{{efn|Corresponds to the current country of Namibia.}} {{flag|KwaZulu}} (KWZ-TV KwaZulu){{Citation needed|date=April 2025}}
|-
| 1982
| {{flag|Brazil|1968}} ([[Fernando de Noronha]] ([[TV Golfinho|TV Nacional Fernando de Noronha]])), {{flag|France|1830}} ({{flag|Corsica}} (({{ill|France 3 Corse|lt=FR3 Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur-Corse|fr}})), {{flagicon|Denmark}} [[Greenland]] ([[Kalaallit Nunaata Radioa|KNR]]), {{flag|Mauritania|1959}} ([[TV de Mauritanie]]),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://tvm.mr/ar/%D8%B9%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%B3%D8%B3%D8%A9/ |script-title=ar:عن المؤسسة - موقع التلفزة الموريتانية |website=tvm.mr |language=ar |access-date=2018-10-25}}</ref> {{flag|São Tomé and Príncipe}} ([[TVS (São Tomé and Príncipe)|Televisão Experimental RDSTP]], experimental), {{flag|Sri Lanka}} ([[Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation|Rupavahini]], national), {{flag|KaNgwane}} (KaNgwane TV), {{flag|Transkei}} (TV-TS)
|-
| 1983
| {{flag|Bophuthatswana}} ([[Bop TV]]),{{efn|Only [[bantustan]] within Apartheid-era South Africa to have a local television service. After the dissolution of Bophuthatswana, the station was integrated into the [[SABC]] and later shut down.}} {{flagicon|Cambodia|1979}} [[People's Republic of Kampuchea|Kampuchea]] (re-established, [[National Television of Cambodia#Television (TVK)|TVK]]), {{flag|Laos}} ([[Lao National Television|LNTV]]){{efn|Television is available from [[Nong Khai]] city in Thailand since the mid-1970s.}} {{flagicon|Mali}} [[Mali]] ([[Office de Radiodiffusion-Télévision du Mali|ORTM]]), {{flag|Seychelles|1977}} ([[Seychelles Broadcasting Corporation|RTS]]),<ref>{{cite web |title=Media in Seychelles |url=http://seymediacom.sc/about/media-in-seychelles |access-date=2022-12-22 |website=Seychelles Media Commission |language=en}}</ref> {{flag|Somalia}} ([[Somali National Television|Telefishanka J. D. Soomaaliya]]),<ref>{{cite book |author=Louise M. Bourgault |title=Mass Media in Sub-Saharan Africa |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=egVLkASXCgC&pg=PA104 |date=22 June 1995 |publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=0-253-11309-1 |pages=104–}}</ref>{{efn|Off from 1991 to 2011 as the channel was suspended due to the civil war. During the interim, numerous private television stations appeared.}} {{flag|Tonga}} ([[VAP-TV18]], now defunct),{{efn|Subscription service, shut down in 1987, during its existence it also faced competition from [[ASTL-TV3]], itself a subscription service until the 1991 launch of the [[Oceania Broadcasting Network]], ASTL-TV3 later shut down in 1996.}} {{flag|Vatican City}} ([[Vatican Media|Centro Televisivo Vaticano]]),{{efn|Although the Vatican did not have a television service of its own until 1983, broadcasts from Italy had been received since 1954.}} {{flag|Saint Lucia}} ([[Helen Television System|HTS]], local)
|-
| 1984
| {{flag|Åland}} ([[TV Åland]]),<ref>http://www.radiotv.ax/om-alands-radio (Swedish).</ref> {{flag|Cape Verde|1975}} ([[Televisão de Cabo Verde|TEVEC]]), {{flag|Faroe Islands}} ([[Kringvarp Føroya|SvF]]), {{flagicon|Portugal}} [[Portuguese Macau|Macau]] ([[TDM (Macau)|TDM]]), {{flag|Tristan da Cunha}} (taped service),<ref>{{cite book |last=Winchester |first=Simon |title=Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire |year=2003 |page=85 |orig-year=originally published 1985}}</ref> {{flag|Lebowa}} (Lebowa TV)
|-
| 1985
| {{flag|Nepal}} ([[Nepal Television|NTV]]), {{flag|Cameroon}} ([[Cameroon Radio Television|CTV]]), {{flag|Norfolk Island}} (relays from mainland Australia)<ref>''TV comes to Norfolk Islands'', Pacific Islands Communication Journal, December 1984</ref> {{flagicon image|Forces Libanaises Flag.svg}} [[Lebanese Forces (militia)|Lebanese Forces]] ([[Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International|LBCI]]), {{flag|Ciskei}} ([[Television Ciskei]])
|-
| 1986
| {{flag|Falkland Islands}} ([[British Forces Broadcasting Service|SSVC Television Falkland Islands]]),{{efn|A prior service existed during the brief Argentine takeover of the islands in the [[Falklands War]] in 1982, sustained by [[Televisión Pública|ATC]].}} {{flagicon|France|1974}} [[Mayotte]] ({{ill|Mayotte La Première (télévision)|lt=RFO Mayotte|fr}}), {{flag|Niue}} (Bliss Cablevision),{{efn|Assets sold to the government of Niue in 1989 and converted to a free-to-air terrestrial operation, [[TV Niue]].}} {{flagicon|France|1974}} [[Wallis and Futuna]] ({{ill|Wallis-et-Futuna La Première (télévision)|lt=RFO Wallis-et-Futuna|fr}}), {{flag|Gazankulu}} (Gaz TV)
|-
| 1987
| {{flag|Chad}} ([[Télé Tchad]]), {{flag|Papua New Guinea}} ([[EM TV]], [[Niugini Television Network]]), {{flag|Ceuta}} ([[La 1 (Spanish TV channel)|La 1 Ceuta]]), {{flag|Melilla}} ([[La 1 (Spanish TV channel)|La 1 Melilla]])
|-
| 1988
| {{flag|Botswana}} ([[YTV (Botswana)|GBC TV]], in Gaborone),<ref name="NegotiatingControl">{{cite web |title=Botswana Television (BTV) Negotiating Control and Cultural Production in a Globalising Context: A Political Economy of Media State Ownership in Africa |url=https://ccms.ukzn.ac.za/Files/articles/PhD_theses/sethunya%20mosime%20-%20botswana%20television.pdf |access-date=23 November 2023 |website=University of Kwa-Zulu Natal |date=March 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211203100243/https://ccms.ukzn.ac.za/Files/articles/PhD_theses/sethunya%20mosime%20-%20botswana%20television.pdf |archive-date=3 December 2021}}</ref> {{flag|Lesotho|1987}} ([[Lesotho Television]]),<ref>{{cite web |url=https://lesothotribune.co.ls/ltv-starts-broadcasting-for-the-first-time/ |title=LTV starts broadcasting for the first time - lesothotribune |date=7 September 2022}}</ref> {{flagicon|Azerbaijan SSR}} [[Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast]] ([[Artsakh Public TV]])
|-
| 1989
| {{flag|Cook Islands}} ([[Cook Islands Television]]), {{flag|Guinea-Bissau}} ([[Guinea-Bissau Television|TEGB]]),<ref name="historia 1">{{cite web |date=15 November 2006 |title=Guiné-Bissau: Televisão celebra 17º aniversário com 14 horas de emissão |url=http://www.portalangop.co.ao/angola/pt_pt/noticias/africa/2006/10/46/Guine-Bissau-Televisao-celebra-aniversario-com-horas-emissao,1aa7234a-a086-4312-bf44-602ec1476f01.html |access-date=9 October 2015 |publisher=Agência Angola Press}}</ref><ref name="historia 2">{{cite web |author=LUSA (Agência de Notícias de Portugal, S.A.) |date=14 November 2007 |title=Único canal de televisão da Guiné-Bissau comemora 18 anos |url=http://www.rtp.pt/noticias/mundo/unico-canal-de-televisao-da-guine-bissau-comemora-18-anos_n142263 |access-date=9 October 2015 |publisher=Rádio e Televisão de Portugal}}</ref> {{flagicon|Moldavian SSR}} [[Gagauz Republic|Gagauz ASSR]] ({{ill|Gagauziya Radio Televizionu|lt=Comrat Television|gag}})
|}

=== 1990s ===
{| class="wikitable"
! Year
! Countries and territories
|-
| 1991
| {{flag|Akrotiri and Dhekelia}} ([[British Forces Broadcasting Service#BFBS Television|SSVC TV Cyprus]]),<ref>{{cite web |title=Where it all began – 1980s and 1990s |url=https://about.bfbs.com/our-history |access-date=8 May 2024 |publisher=[[British Forces Broadcasting Service|BFBS]]}}</ref> {{flag|Cayman Islands|old}} ([[Cayman 27]], now defunct), {{flag|Falkland Islands|1948}} ([[Telecommunications in the Falkland Islands#Radio and television|FITV]]),{{efn|Television broadcasts had also been received from Argentina.}} {{flag|Fiji}} ([[Fiji Television|FijiTV]]),{{efn|Television came to Fiji in part-time for the [[1991 Rugby World Cup]], and it arrived in full-time in 1994.}} {{flag|Nauru}} ([[Nauru Television|NTV]])
|-
| 1992
| {{flagcountry|Republika Srpska (1992–1995)}} ([[Televizija Republike Srpske|RTV Krajina Banja Luka]]), {{flag|São Tomé and Príncipe}} ([[TVS (São Tomé and Príncipe)|TVS]], regular), {{flag|Solomon Islands}} ([[List of television stations in the Solomon Islands#History|TTV]]), {{flag|South Ossetia}} (Ir),<ref>{{cite web |date=2019-12-08 |title=They were the first: on December 8, 1992, television appeared in South Ossetia |url=http://cominf.org/en/node/1166526942 |access-date=2024-01-24 |website=Государственное информационное агентство "Рес" |language=ru}}</ref> {{flag|Transnistria}} ([[TV PMR|PMR TV]]), {{flag|Vanuatu}} ([[Television Blong Vanuatu|TBV]], experimental), {{flag|Rwanda|1962}} ([[Rwanda Television|TVR]])
|-
| 1993
| {{flag|Eritrea|1992}} ([[Eri-TV]]), {{flag|San Marino|1862}} ([[San Marino RTV]]), {{flag|Vanuatu}} ([[Television Blong Vanuatu|TBV]]), {{flag|Western Samoa}} ([[Samoa Broadcasting Corporation#SBC Television 1|SBC Television 1]])
|-
| 1995
| {{flag|Andorra}} ([[Andorra Televisió|ATV]]),{{efn|ATV's origins trace back to the early 90s as an opt-out in the local relay of TVC's second channel, Canal 33.}} {{flag|Gambia}} ([[Gambia Radio & Television Service]]), [[Saint Helena]] ([[Communications in Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha#Television|Sure South Atlantic Ltd]]), {{flag|Turks and Caicos Islands|1968}} ([[Telecommunications in the Turks and Caicos Islands#Television|WIV Channel 4]]) 
|-
| 1996
| {{flag|Palestine}} ([[Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation|PBC]])
|-
| 1997
| {{flag|Montserrat}} ([[Telecommunications in Montserrat|Peoples Television]]),{{efn|Previously relayed broadcasts from [[Antigua and Barbuda]].}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/BOOKSHELF-ARH/Business/World-Communicatiions-Unesco-1975.pdf |title=World Communications |date=1975 |publisher=[[UNESCO]] |accessdate=24 April 2024 |page=181}}</ref> {{flag|Somaliland}} ([[Somaliland National TV|Somaliland Television]])<ref name="MINGC">{{cite web |title=Somaliland National Television |url=https://mingc.govsomaliland.org/article/somaliland-national-television |access-date=9 January 2004 |website=somalilandlaw.com |date= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230923141457/https://mingc.govsomaliland.org/article/somaliland-national-television |archive-date=23 September 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref> 
|-
| 1999
| {{flag|Belgium}} ({{flag|German-speaking Community}} ([[BRF TV|KA3]])),{{efn|Sporadic broadcasts in association with a local Francophone cable channel in 1993. Start of the German-language service. Excludes German TV received by overspill and cable and the adjacent services from RTBF in French.}} {{flag|Bhutan}} ([[Bhutan Broadcasting Service|BBS]]),<ref>{{cite news |title=Bhutan TV Follows Cyber Launch |work=BBC News |date=2 June 1999 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/358230.stm}}</ref> {{flag|Malawi}} ([[Television Malawi|TVM]]),<ref name="Crossroads">{{cite web |title=At the Crossroads: Freedom of Expression in Malawi |url=https://www.article19.org/data/files/pdfs/publications/malawi-at-the-crossroads.pdf |access-date=3 November 2023 |website=Article 19 |date=March 2000 |archive-url= |archive-date=}}</ref> {{flag|Tuvalu}} (limited service)<ref>{{cite web |title=TUVALU: 2002 Economic and Public Sector Review |url=https://www.adb.org/sites/default/files/publication/28817/tuvalu-2002-epsr.pdf |access-date=8 April 2024 |website=Asian Development Bank |date=November 2002 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160318063229/https://www.adb.org/sites/default/files/publication/28817/tuvalu-2002-epsr.pdf |archive-date=18 March 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref> 
|}

=== 2000s and onwards ===
{| class="wikitable"
! Year
! Countries and territories
|-
| 2000
| {{flag|Botswana}} ([[Botswana Television|BTV]], national), {{flag|Tonga}} ([[Television Tonga|TV Tonga]], national), {{flag|Saba|name=Saba Department}} ([[Saba Television Network|STN]])
|-
| 2001
| {{flag|Tokelau}} (foreign channels, no local service),<ref>{{cite book |first=Narini |last=Rajan |title=The Digitized Imagination: Encounters with the Virtual World |date=23 April 2012 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-136-51633-7 |page=102}}</ref> {{flag|Tristan da Cunha}} ([[British Forces Broadcasting Service|BFBS]], live service)
|-
| 2002
| {{flag|Kiribati}} ([[Television Kiribati|TV Kiribati]], native, but suspended from 2013 to 2018)
|-
| 2003
| {{flag|Christmas Island}} (experimental)
|-
| 2006
| {{flag|Comoros}} ([[Mass media in the Comoros|ORTC]]), {{flag|Palau}} ([[Oceania Television Network|OTV]], returned),{{efn|Excluding the cable network installed by the PNCC in 1990.}} {{flag|Pitcairn Islands}},<ref>{{cite book |title=Pitcairn Island as a Port of Call |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_qYb8TcQEH8C&dq=%22Pitcairn+Island%22+%22Television%22&pg=PA311 |access-date=February 16, 2024 |publisher=McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers |date=March 23, 2012 |isbn=978-0-7864-8822-3}}</ref> {{flagicon|Hamas}} [[Gaza Strip]] ([[Al-Aqsa TV]])
|-
| 2008
| {{flag|Liechtenstein}} ([[1 FL TV]]),{{efn|Liechtenstein previously received television broadcasts from Switzerland.}} {{flag|Bonaire}} (NOSTV Bonaire))<ref>{{cite web |title=About us |url=http://www.nostvbonaire.com/about/ |publisher=NOSTV Bonaire |access-date=13 June 2024}}</ref> 
|-
| 2009
| {{flag|Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic}} ([[RASD TV]]){{efn|[[RASD TV]] was established in February 2004, but didn't broadcast its regular transmissions until 2009.}}<ref>{{cite news |title=Sahrawis launch national television |url=http://www.afrol.com/articles/33324 |publisher=[[Afrol News]] |date=2009-05-21 |accessdate=2012-06-03}}</ref>
|-
| 2010
| {{flag|Sint Maarten}} (TV-CARIB)),<ref>{{cite web |title=About TV-CARIB |url=http://www.wtntv.com/about.html |publisher=TV-CARIB |access-date=13 June 2024}}</ref> {{flag|South Sudan}} ([[SSBC TV|South Sudan Television]]){{efn|Became the national broadcaster upon independence in 2011.}}
|-
| 2011
| {{flag|Norfolk Island}} ([[TVNI]], local)
|-
| 2013
| {{flag|Sint Eustatius}} (NOSTV Sint Eustatius)
|-
| 2014
| {{flag|Donetsk People's Republic}} ([[Novorossiya TV]]),{{efn|name="LPRDPR"|Excludes local stations that existed before and were confiscated by the new regimes. Suspilne still has channels for the occupied areas, which as of 2024 are "temporarily occupied" according to the official stance of the Ukrainian government.}} {{flag|Luhansk People's Republic}} (Luhansk 24)<ref>{{cite web |title=Occupied Territories of Ukraine: Russia propaganda machine continues to absorb local media |date=6 December 2023 |url=https://rsf.org/en/occupied-territories-ukraine-russia-propaganda-machine-continues-absorb-local-media |publisher=[[Reporters Without Borders]] |access-date=1 May 2024}}</ref>{{efn|name="LPRDPR"}}
|-
| 2018
| {{flag|Kiribati}} (Kiri 1 TV, returned)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/356431/kiribati-tv-venture-hopes-to-connect-islands |title=Kiribati TV venture hopes to connect islands |publisher=[[RNZ]] |date=2 May 2018 |access-date=2 April 2023}}</ref>
|-
| 2019
| {{flag|Tuvalu}} (returned, [[Tuvalu.TV]])<ref>{{cite news |title=Tuvalu Parliament sessions go live |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/404419/tuvalu-parliament-sessions-go-live |accessdate=8 April 2024 |newspaper=Radio New Zealand |date=29 November 2019 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191129025317/https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/404419/tuvalu-parliament-sessions-go-live |archive-date=29 November 2019}}</ref>
|-
| 2021
| {{flag|Cocos (Keeling) Islands}}{{Citation needed|date=April 2025}}
|-
| 2023
| {{flag|Clipperton Island}}
|-
| 2025
| {{flag|Christmas Island}} (official launch on TV)
|}

== See also ==
* [[History of television]]
* [[List of years in television]]
* [[Geographical usage of television]]
* [[Prewar television stations]]
* [[Timeline of the introduction of color television in countries and territories]]
* [[Timeline of the introduction of radio in countries]]

== Notes ==
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== References ==
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