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The following is a list of programs broadcast by CyBC or RIK (Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation) television stations. CybC was the only Cypriot television network before the launches of ANT1 (in 1993), Mega (Logos TV until 1999), and Sigma (in 1995).
The corporation was modelled in part on the British Broadcasting Corporation. [3] CyBC was admitted as an associate member of the European Broadcasting Union on 1 January 1964, becoming an active member five years later. As the state broadcaster, CBC is responsible for implementing the Constitution of the Republic of Cyprus.
Television in Cyprus was introduced in 1956. In 1957, CyBC was created. [ 1 ] Private TV was introduced on 26 April 1992, by the church owned Logos TV which started its transmissions in stereo and Teletext from day one.
The channel opened in 1957 as CBS TV, in 1959, the corporation changed its name to CyBC, RIK in Greek. Until 1992, RIK was the only television channel in the country, a position it held for 34 and a half years until March 1992, when RIK 2 started broadcasting, and later in April, the private channel O Logos. By the early 1990s, RIK opened at ...
RIK 2 was the second television channel to start in Cyprus, starting shortly before the first private television channel O Logos in April. Successful content in the 1990s included Latin American telenovelas and US soaps such as The Bold and the Beautiful, which, as of 2005, was still on air. [1]
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It added that the change in Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation's broadcasting frequency prevented many Turkish Cypriot TV channels broadcasting in Northern Cyprus, thus violating the freedom of the speech. [42] The government of Northern Cyprus has been reported as hostile to independent journalists. Several attacks were reported in 2011. [43]
Morley is the Cyprus correspondent for the Voice of America, Vatican Radio and ORF Radio Austria (Radioprogramme des Österreichischen Rundfunks). [ citation needed ] During the 2003 US invasion of Iraq he was a presenter with the USA Radio Network (reporting from the Iraqi border), co-hosting and reporting for all of the networks news programs.