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Korean Central Television (KCTV; ) is a television service operated by Korean Central Broadcasting Committee, a state-owned broadcaster in North Korea. KCTV is the only official source of television news for North Koreans. ==History== KCTV was established on 1 September 1953 as Pyongyang Broadcasting Network after the Korean War ended. Kim Il-sung personally envisioned that the time was ripe for television broadcasting in the DPRK, but this was not yet to happen. Thus, the PBN began an 8-year period of preparation for commencement of television broadcasts, with the help of the national government. PBN was renamed as Central Broadcasting Television System in 1961, and conducted on 1 September the same year its first test broadcasts. CBTS officially began operations on 3 March 1963 at 19:00 (7:00 pm) KST based in Pyongyang, broadcasting 2-hours between 19:00 (7:00 pm) until 21:00 (9:00 pm) KST on weekdays only, and then expanding to 4 and later 6 hours. The network carried live the whole proceedings of the 5th Worker's Party of Korea Congress held on 1 October 1970. The Central Broadcasting Television System would later be renamed Korean Central Television (KCTV) and was officially relaunched at 17:00 (5:00 pm) local time on 3 January 1973 (the first working day in 1973 in North Korea). The broadcasting hours were only on weekdays (workday in North Korea) and closed on weekends and national holidays. At the same year colour television test broadcasts started. KCTV officially began colour television broadcasts on 1 July 1974 and broadcast the first live colour telecast in preparation for the 7th Asian Games held in Teheran via satellite transmission on 1 September 1974, the first network to do so. KCTV was the first live colour television channel to broadcast the New Year's Eve in colour on 31 December 1974, and in 1975 began weekend broadcasts as well. KCTV started their full-time colour broadcasts on 1 September 1977. The first broadcast received by media telecommunication on satellite television was the 22nd Summer Olympic Games on 19 July 1980. KCTV started broadcasting on national holidays on 1 March 1981. On national holidays, the broadcasting time of each station is the same as weekends save for major ones. On 19 January 2015, KCTV started high-definition television broadcasting via digital satellite as part of its modernization of the network.〔(KCTV launches HD satellite broadcasts ) North Korean Tech (www.northkoreantech.org). 19 January 2015. Retrieved on 6 June 2015.〕〔(KCTV’s slow move to high-definition, what’s taking so long? ) North Korean Tech (www.northkoreantech.org). 15 May 2015. Retrieved on 6 June 2015.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Korean Central Television」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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