Slovenská televízia

Slovenská televízia

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Type	Broadcast television
Country	Slovakia
Availability	terrestrial, cable, satellite
Headquarters	Bratislava
Owner	Government of Slovakia
Launch date	1991 (by law) 1993 (de facto)
Dissolved	1 January 2011
Replaced by	Rozhlas a televízia Slovenska

The STV Tower: Slovak TV's headquarters in Bratislava

Slovenská televízia (Slovak pronunciation: [ˈsloʋenskaː ˈteleʋiːzia]; Slovak Television) or STV was a state-owned public television organization 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.

As a parliamentary response to increasing debt, on 1 January 2011, STV was merged with the state-owned public radio organization Slovenský rozhlas (Slovak Radio) to create Rozhlas a televízia Slovenska (Radio and Television of Slovakia).

STV was a regular member of the European Broadcasting Union.

Television channels

STV operated three channels during its existence. They were named Jednotka (One), Dvojka (Two) (called STV1 and STV2 before a name change in 2004), and Trojka (Three), a sports channel launched in 2008.

Trojka ceased broadcasting on 30 June 2011, while the other two channels continued to operate as a part of Rozhlas a televízia Slovenska. The three channels covered the entire territory of Slovakia

Broadcasting was on a 24-hour basis. Between 1987 and 1994, it was limited from 06:00 to 01:30.

See also

• Radio and Television Slovakia
• List of Slovak language television channels
• Mass media in Communist Czechoslovakia