Slovenská televízia
public television organisation in Slovakia, part of STVR, Slovak television and radio
Slovenská televízia (Slovak pronunciation: [ˈslɔʋenskaː ˈteleʋiːzɪɐ]; "Slovak Television"; STV) was a state-owned public television organisation in Slovakia. It was created in 1991 as the Slovak part of the former Czechoslovak Television and was headquartered in Bratislava. It was funded from a combination of television licence fees, advertising, and government funding. It ceased to existed on 1 January 2011, when it was merged with the state-owned public radio organisation Slovenský rozhlas ("Slovak Radio") to create Rozhlas a televízia Slovenska ("Radio and Television of Slovakia"). STV was a member of the European Broadcasting Union.
History
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 test transmission. Regular broadcasts began on 3 November 1957, broadcasting daily except Monday (as it was customary in Eastern Bloc television broadcasts). After the fall of communism in the Czechoslovak Republic, programming began to be relaunched, and the Bratislava studio was renamed as Slovenská televízia in preparation for the Slovak independence. In September 1990, as part of a massive reorganisation of the CST channels, the second program was repositioned as a separate service for the Slovak side of the country, under the S1 name (the Czech side received its own separate service, ČTV).
“Slovenská televízia” enters the record as public television organisation in Slovakia, part of STVR, Slovak television and radio. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Slovenská, televízia and public can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q600527. VIAF identifies the subject as 157597466. The Library of Congress control number is no2006046862. 3 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1991, 2011, 1956 and 1957.
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