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Regular broadcasts of [[wikipedia:television|television]] service in Tavaris began in 1939. In 2020, approximately 97.9% of Tavari households owned a television set. The Tavari government has historically placed significant investment in radio communications, including television (in Tavari: ''Releten Cõlcavi'', lit. visual radio) and has maintained a strong tradition of public television broadcasting even during an era of extensive privatization of other state services in the 2000s and 2010s. From 1971 until the transition to [[wikipedia:digital television|digital television]] in 2011, the Tavari government offered a rebate on the purchase of one monochrome TV set per household which lowered the retail price of the set to 1 našdat (though the purchaser still needed to pay the [[wikipedia:television license|television registration fee]] to the state broadcaster, which in 2011 was
[[wikipedia:Teletext|Teletext]] services (Tavari: ''Reletekst''), introduced in the early 1980s, remained unusually popular in Tavaris until the end of the analog television era in 2011, even after the development and popularization of the [[wikipedia:World Wide Web|Urth Wide Utility]], and digital [[wikipedia:interactive television|interactive services]] known as “digital teletext” (Tavari: reletekst dížítal) have replaced them with wide adoption across the Tavari TV industry. As such, much of Tavari television programming, especially news broadcasts, reality TV and televised games or competitions, and children's programming, is designed with interactive features in mind. The system is also used for emergency alerts and weather and financial market information, and also provides an additional degree of accommodation for deaf or hard-of-hearing viewers in the form of expanded captioning services. Accessible over free airwaves without an internet connection, teletext has remained popular among Tavari even after the widespread adoption of the Internet elsewhere in society.
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Bló (pronounced as the Staynish-Codexian word blue) is the newest of the four main broadcasters, launching in 1981. The network was closely involved in efforts to bring rugby to Tavaris, using the launch of the Tavari Rugby Cup (which they exclusively televised) to draw attention. Rugby proved a breakaway smash hit among the Tavari public and Bló's success as a network was assured within a few years of the Cup's operation. Bló continues to hold the exclusive right to air rugby in Tavaris. The network has also been involved in bringing ice hockey to the country and has aired matches of the Tavari Hockey League since 2004. Bló tends to market itself as trendy and focused on young people, and at times has garnered a reputation for being "edgy" or "inflammatory."
In 2010, the network was fined
While [[wikipedia:judicial review|judicial review]] in Tavaris is ostensibly highly limited—a two-thirds vote of the Diet can entrench any law with constitutional force, which would overrule any contraindicating court ruling, and a three-quarters vote of the Diet can amend the text of the country's constitution directly, without a referendum—the Diet was unable to attain the majority required to overrule the court, and as such for a brief period it was legal to air even the most explicit pornography, which Bló did (for sixteen consecutive hours on a Tuesday, beginning at 7am.) A weaker package of anti-obscenity laws was later passed and Tavari law now explicitly defines a list of specific words that cannot be said on television, as well as a list of sex acts and a specific list of crimes and other activities that cannot be shown. As a result of the ruling, the country has weaker anti-obscenity laws on television than many others. Notably, the word "fuck" is now allowable at any time of day, but only in Staynish-Codexian.
Each year on the anniversary of their fine, Bló news anchors read on air the entire text of Section 418.27-262 of the Tavari Compiled Statutes, Annotated, which contains the list of proscribed swear words. The network maintains that the government cannot prosecute them for reading the text of a law on air, and while legal observers have generally concluded it is unlikely Bló would win such a court case, the government has yet to prosecute the network for the offenses, with many observers concluding the government is afraid to risk Bló winning another speech case.
===Cable and Satellite===
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