Belarus-2
television channel
Belarus 2 (Belarusian: Беларусь 2) is a state-owned television channel in Belarus.
It is an educational and entertainment TV channel created in 2003 by Belteleradiocompany, which until 2011 carried the name LAD (ЛАД). The channel broadcasts in both Belarusian and Russian languages.
History
LAD was launched as Belteleradio's second television channel, in opposition to ONT, while established as a de facto second television network, upon its creation, it was considered as separate from the BTRC.
In late 2002, BTRC started planning the creation of a second television network - the third network overall - under the tentative name Spadchyna (Спадчына, Heritage). The initiative behind the name of the channel was not up to Belteleradio. The name Lad eventually won and was selected for the new network. The channel's launch was announced in September 2003, scheduled to launch the following month. It was positioned as a "family channel" with the aim of its viewers being united by "universal traditional values: family happiness, love and mutual respect, harmony and tolerance, responsibility and pride for the country", while refusing to show programs that contained aggressivity, violence and propaganda in favor of bad habits.
The channel replaced Russian channel Kultura in some areas of Belarus, including the capital Minsk. The politically neutral VGTRK channel was commercial-free, which had no insertions for local commercials in Belarusian relays.
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