* Asahi Broadcasting Corporation, a Japanese commercial television and radio station

It is the island's largest commercial centre and home to the Cape Breton Post daily newspaper, as well as one television station, CJCB-TV ( CTV ), and several radio stations.

As a method of in-band signaling, DTMF tones were also used by cable television broadcasters to indicate the start and stop times of local commercial insertion points during station breaks for the benefit of cable companies.

The city has two commercial radio stations: Forth One, a station aimed at young listeners with a mainstream chart music output, and Forth 2 on medium wave which plays classic hits.

* 1971 – The first unit of the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, the first commercial nuclear power station in Canada, goes online.

Gibraltar economy, mainly based on commercial shipping and import-export trade, takes a new income source with the opening of a coaling station for the new steam ships.

The commercial and residential developments are mostly around Granville railway station and Parramatta Road.

The latter, launched in 1967, was the territory's first free-to-air commercial station, and is currently the predominant TV station in the territory.

The public-service commercial radio station for the island is Manx Radio.

The islands were wired with 13 outgoing and 10 incoming commercial telephone lines, a 60-channel submarine cable, 22 DSN circuits by satellite, an Autodin with standard remote terminal, a digital telephone switch, the Military Affiliated Radio System ( MARS station ), a UHF / VHF air-ground radio, and a link to the Pacific Consolidated Telecommunications Network ( PCTN ) satellite.

* 1947 – KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in Hollywood, California.

* 1939 – The first commercial FM radio station in the United States is launched in Bloomfield, Connecticut.

The news headlines and station identification are therefore given just before a commercial.

Though practices differ by region and format, what follows is a typical arrangement in a North American urban commercial radio station.

However, to succeed, the approach requires genius jocks, totally in-tune with their audience, who are also committed to the commercial success of the radio station.

The commercial ' free to air ' station is One Africa Television, the successor to the now defunct TV Africa.

* 1920 – In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station.

* 1967 – The establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong.

* 1956 – The first commercial nuclear power station is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in Sellafield, in Cumbria, England.

The Los Angeles station eventually became KTLA, the first commercial station on the West Coast.

The Chicago station got a commercial license as WBKB in 1943, but was sold to UPT along with Balaban & Katz in 1948, resold to CBS, and eventually became WBBM-TV.

* 2007 – Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station, is demolished in a controlled explosion.

Shetland is served by a weekly local newspaper, The Shetland Times and the online Shetland News with radio service being provided by BBC Radio Shetland and the commercial radio station SIBC.

The channel was established to provide a fourth television service to the United Kingdom in addition to the television licence – funded BBC's two services and the single commercial broadcasting network, ITV.

The notion of a second commercial broadcaster in the United Kingdom had been around since the inception of ITV in 1954 and its subsequent launch in 1955 ; the idea of an ' ITV2 ' was long expected and pushed for.

Throughout ITV's history and until Channel 4 finally became a reality, a perennial dialogue existed between the GPO, the government, the ITV companies and other interested parties, concerning the form such an expansion of commercial broadcasting would take.

Since first being aired, it has been one of the most financially lucrative programmes on British commercial television, underpinning the success of its broadcaster ITV and its franchise Granada Television.

) is a television series produced originally by Rediffusion, London, then, by the fledgling Thames Television for British commercial television channel ITV from 26 December 1967 to 14 May 1969.

In the 1960s, Britain's commercial television network, ITV, influenced by Canadian producer Sydney Newman produced the science-fiction serials Pathfinders In Space ( 1960 ) and its sequel Pathfinders to Venus ( 1961 ).

One of the most controversial Archers episodes was broadcast on 22 September 1955, the evening of the launch of the UK's first commercial television station, ITV.

ITV is a major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom.

The BBC was not alone in this practice – the commercial companies that formed its main rival ITV also wiped videotapes and destroyed telerecordings, leaving gaps in their archive holdings.

It also manufactured broadcast television cameras for British television production companies, mostly the BBC, although the commercial television ITV companies used them as well alongside cameras made by Pye and Marconi.

For instance, it was one of the first programs made in the USA seen on British television, which became more open to commerce with the launch of ITV, a commercial network that aired the series, in September 1955.

Many of these are produced by the BBC, but the line-up has also included programs shown on the commercial ITV network and Channel 4.

With the launch of the first commercial broadcaster ITV in 1955, the government required that the local franchises fulfilled a similar obligation, mandating a certain level of local news coverage, arts and religious programming, in return for the right to broadcast.

In November 2006, NTL announced that it had approached commercial television broadcaster ITV about a proposed merger BSkyB effectively blocked the merger on 12 November 2006, when it controversially bought a 17. 9 % stake in ITV plc, a move that attracted anger from NTL shareholder Richard Branson and an investigation from media and telecoms regulator Ofcom.

The Independent Television Authority ( ITA ) is a no longer operating agency created by the Television Act 1954 to supervise the creation of " Independent Television " ( ITV ), the first commercial television network in the United Kingdom.

The ITA was responsible for determining the location, constructing, building, and operating the transmission stations used by the ITV network, as well as determining the franchise areas and awarding the franchises for each regional commercial broadcaster.

Furthermore, the two commercial analogue broadcasters ITV and Channel 5 also have significant public service obligations imposed as part of their licence to broadcast.

By the late 1980s the UK commercial broadcasters were considered too small to compete in the world market and the ITV franchises began to consolidate with the aim of creating a single company with a larger budget.

The Television Act 1954 was a British law which permitted the creation of the first commercial television network in the United Kingdom, ITV.

ITN was founded in 1955 as part of the new British commercial television network, referred to as " Independent Television " ( later ITV ), by the Independent Television Authority.

* Paul Dale ( 1970 -), the first CTO to be appointed to the management board at ITV plc, biggest commercial television network in the UK.

ITV have since also sold the Gas Street office building to Cube Real Estate, a commercial property developer, which has refurbished the interior of the building.