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Television in Daehan:


 * DBS is KBS.


 * In the Naran canon, the DBS2 frequency was occupied by Dong-So Broadcasting (East Sondria Broadcasting) until 1980. (based on the former Korean Dong-A Broadcasting Company with traits of the former Tongyang Broadcasting Company)


 * SBS started television broadcasts in 1963.


 * DBS started broadcasts in 1955, though in 1956 it got a short-lived competitor: DTV. It shut down in 1961.


 * MBC started television operations a little earlier. Probably 1968.


 * Tongyang Broadcasting is channel 2 here. It started television broadcasts in April 1964. In 1980, following a government decision, it became the JoongAng Broadcasting System (JBS). It is basically JTBC if it were terrestrial, but doesn't use the JTBC branding.


 * The rename was because of some corporate affairs at the time of the government's plan to consolidate all media under government law.


 * DBS24 recently started terrestrial transmissions as a subchannel of DBS1.


 * There are plans for specialist broadcasters to commence terrestrial television operations. However the government must choose one or two broadcasters.