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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.
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).
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]
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 ...
Cyprus has a thriving radio landscape, with 93% of Greek Cypriots tuning in every day. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Most stations broadcast in FM, and there's a mixture of state and private-run stations. This article lists all radio stations broadcasting in the southern part of Cyprus and overviews the major stations broadcasting from the part of Cyprus under ...
Calling code: +357 for the Republic of Cyprus and +90 for Northern Cyprus, which uses the Turkish numbering plan. [1] International call prefix: 00 [2] Domestic: excellent system in both the area under Republic of Cyprus government control and Turkish-occupied Northern Cyprus; open wire, fiber-optic cable and microwave radio relay. [1 ...
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.
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]