JTBC
South Korean broadcasting company
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- JTBC (shortened from Joongang Tongyang Broadcasting Company ; Korean: 제이티비씨 ; stylized in all lowercase) is a South Korean nationwide pay television network.
- It was launched on December 1, 2011.
- In 2011, JTBC was one of four new South Korean nationwide generalist cable TV networks alongside The Dong-A Ilbo ' s Channel A, The Chosun Ilbo ' s TV Chosun and Maeil Business Newspaper ' s MBN.
- History Origins of the network can be traced back to 1964, when JoongAng Ilbo , then a part of Samsung, founded the Tongyang Broadcasting Corporation (TBC) and ran the network for 16 years until it was forced to merge with the state-run KBS by the military regime of Chun Doo-hwan in 1980.
- JoongAng Ilbo wanted to reuse the name Tongyang Broadcasting Corporation, but failed because Taegu Broadcasting Corporation has held the rights to TBC in South Korea since 1994.
JTBC (shortened from Joongang Tongyang Broadcasting Company; Korean: 제이티비씨; stylized in all lowercase) is a South Korean nationwide pay television network. Its primary shareholder is JoongAng Holdings, with a 25% stake. It was launched on December 1, 2011. JTBC is a generalist channel, with programming consisting of television series, variety shows, and news broadcasting; its news division is held in similar regard to the three main terrestrial networks in South Korea.
In 2011, JTBC was one of four new South Korean nationwide generalist cable TV networks alongside The Dong-A Ilbo's Channel A, The Chosun Ilbo's TV Chosun and Maeil Business Newspaper's MBN. They serve as supplementary networks to the existing conventional free-to-air TV networks like KBS, MBC, SBS and other smaller channels launched following deregulation in 1990.
History
Origins of the network can be traced back to 1964, when JoongAng Ilbo, then a part of Samsung, founded the Tongyang Broadcasting Corporation (TBC) and ran the network for 16 years until it was forced to merge with the state-run KBS by the military regime of Chun Doo-hwan in 1980.
At its founding in 2011, some media analysts considered the return of JoongAng Ilbo to television in JTBC as the reincarnation of TBC. JoongAng Ilbo wanted to reuse the name Tongyang Broadcasting Corporation, but failed because Taegu Broadcasting Corporation has held the rights to TBC in South Korea since 1994.
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