Czechoslovak Television

Československé televise ( Czech) or Československé televízia ( Slovak) or Česko - Slovenská televízia ( Slovak - after 1990), abbreviated cSt ( German Czechoslovak television) was from 1953 to 1992 the state broadcaster Czechoslovakia.

The CST took in 1953 began broadcasting from Prague. Since 1956 was also sent from Bratislava regularly. In 1970 the first transmission in color ( Ski Championships in the High Tatras ), in the same year, a second channel was launched. In 1990 was built on the frequency, aired on the hitherto soviet since the end of the 1980s, television and now part of the respective largest private TV channels in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, briefly, a third channel of the CST - OC3 ( in Slovakia 1991 the channel TA3 replaced). On 31 December 1992, the CST was dissolved together with the Czechoslovak state and televise the two national public broadcasters and Česká Slovenská televízia replaced, but who had both previously existed for a long parallel to the CST.

The transmission language of the CST was the first channel predominantly Czech, Slovak, in some programs, partly mixed Czech and Slovak with messages. The second channel was tschechischsprachig for the Czech Republic and Slovakia for slowakischsprachig and sent in the two parts of the country a completely different program. The partially broadcast in two languages ​​was possible because the two languages ​​are very similar ( but what has helped this practice of transmitting single television in the country also quite ). Today Slovak Czech television productions are often shown in an edited version in Slovak Czech television broadcasts will continue to be aired unchanged.

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