Littish National Television Service

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Littish National Television Service
Public-service broadcaster
IndustryMass media
Founded1 September 1922
HeadquartersTV-Huset, ,
Area served
Littland
Key people
Oskar Mosetoft
(Chairman)

Peter Novack
(Managing Director)
OwnerGovernment of Littland
Number of employees
3,280 (2020)

NFS (Littish: "National Fjersynsservice", Malskic: "Telewizja Narodowa", English: "National Television Service") is a Littish public-service broadcasting corporation. Originally founded in 1922 as Nationalradio (National Radio), it reorganized in 1954 to its current name and form alongside the launching of its first television channel. Today, NFS operates six television channels, five radio stations as well as several online services.

Timeline of NFS

  • 1922: Founded as Nationalradio (National Radio) with FM channel, RadioFM
  • 1931: Launch of second radio station, Radio2
  • 1934: Daily reading of news at 19:00 start on RadioFM
  • 1949: Start of experimental television broadcasts
  • 1954: Reorganization and rebranding to NFS, beginning of regular programming on Station1
  • 1957: Launch of Station2
  • 1961: First tests with color television broadcasts
  • 1972: Launch of national color broadcasting
  • 1983: Teletext for all channels launched
  • 1984: Bravo Broadcasting launches Kanal2, NFS monopoly over Littish television ends
  • 1990: Station3 launches with more youth-oriented programming
  • 1991: StationFilm launch, showing movies non-stop
  • 1994: StationSport launches, covering domestic and international sport events and news
  • 1995: StationFilm is shut-down due to lack of viewership
  • 2002: All radio channels now use DAB
  • 2005: Dziennik ("Journal"), a Malskic version of Station1 launches in Malskland, NFS change to current logo
  • 2008: NFS Online launches with an online portal for children's programming and online games called Fidus
  • 2012: Fidus launches as television channel
  • 2015: All television channels undergo rebranding
  • 2022: NFS celebrates 100th anniversary

Financing

NFS is funded via a television license as well as advertising fees. Advertisements are subject to restrictions, gambling and tobacco ads are not permitted for example. There has been much pushback against the license and political parties such as the Freedom Party want to abolish it. No changes to the license appears to be happening in the near future despite this, as a majority of political parties want to keep it.

Services

Television

  • Station1 (24h, HD) - News, current affairs, movies and dramas
  • Station2 (24h, HD) - Series, soap operas, stand-up comedy, culture and game shows
  • Station3 (24h, SD) - Youth oriented channel
  • StationSport (24h, HD) - Sport events coverage and sport news
  • Fidus (6:00-20:00, SD) - Children's programming
  • Dziennik (24h, HD) - Malskic version of Station1

Radio

  • RadioFM - Talk-show channel, featuring debates, radio drama and daily news readings
  • Radio2 - Current hits, jazz, opera, classic music. Radio2 also covers major sporting events
  • RadioRock - Youth oriented, rock music, alternate music and electronic music
  • PopRadio - Pop music, spoken-magazines and talk-shows
  • RadioNu - NFS's most popular radio channel, features talk-shows, popular music and traffic announcements

Regional radio

Map showing regional radio stations

Online

  • Arkivet - Archive of productions and television reruns
  • NFStv - Online streaming of current programming
  • NetFidusen - Online portal for Fidus channel with games and reruns