DäTV
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| Publicly funded, public-service broadcaster | |
| Industry | Broadcasting |
| Founded | 15. January 1929 (As Rädyo Darkmänsije), 2. May 1956 (As Darkmänsije TeleVïsan) |
| Products | TV, radio, online services |
| Owner | Government of Darkmania |
Number of employees | 60 000 (2021) |
DaTV (Darkmanian: Darkmänsije TeleVïsan, Hiklarmangian: Darkmaniqe Teilevisjion, Norlangdish: Darkmanisk Televisjon) is the national broadcaster in Darkmania with its sole purpose is to broadcast the happenings all over the multiverse. It is also the organizer for Darkmanian partition in Worldvision Song Contest and formerly World Hit Festival. Its also broadcasts sport, entertainment, and happenings to the darkmanian people. It is the most viewed channel in Darkmania, with over and around 10 000 000 darkmanians tuning in every day in all 7 channels. DaTV are not just known as the national broadcaster of Darkmania but is generaly seen as the least biased channel inside Darkmania
History
Fulltime colourbrodcast stared in 1971
Financing
72,3% of DaTV's funding in 2017 comes from a mandatory annual payable license by anyone who owns or uses a TV or device capable of receiving TV broadcasts. The remainder comes from commercial activities such as programme and DVD sales, spin-off products and certain types of sponsorship. DaTV's license income in 2012 was around 10 billion danks. In the autumn of 2017, the government of Darkmania announced that it planned to change the way DaTV is financed by removing the license in favour of a 0,5% tax on television starting in 2018. As of 2018, the tax has brought in five and half a billion danks toward the channel in the year alone.
DaTV has, however, a problem with debt and in 2018 had a debt to income of 12,5%. DaTV have announced that they will be cutting "wasteful spending in order to reduce our debt". As of 2021, this has been successful and the debt is expected to be fully repaided back by 2024.
History
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