Television in Myanmar
overview of television in Myanmar
Television broadcasting in Myanmar began in 1979 as a test trial in Yangon. The first television service BBS was launched on 3 June 1980, followed by regular service in 1981. Most television networks in the country are broadcast from Yangon. MRTV and MWD are the two Burmese state-owned television networks, providing Burmese-language programming in news and entertainment. Other channels include MRTV Entertainment, M Channel, MRTV-4, Channel 7, 5Plus, MNTV, Channel 9, Mizzima TV, DVB TV, Channel K, YTV, Fortune TV, Mahar HD, HEY Play Sports Channel, Uni TV, SNDSY Channel, Channel 24, Noble Star TV, Golden Land Channel, Channel Light, TVM Channel, and more than 20 TV channels. Pay TV services include SKYNET, Myansat and CANAL+ Myanmar.
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Technical Details
When Myanmar (Burma) established its first television service, the choice of the Broadcast television systems was an unusual, considering its geography. At that time, most of the neighbouring countries were adopting PAL-B/G system. But, Myanmar (Burma) has chosen NTSC-M system on 6 MHz channel spacing on Pan-American TV frequency as their analogue television standard. The reason Myanmar (Burma) adopted NTSC-M standard is because of the Government of Japan and Matsushita Electric.
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