Capital Television (CTV) () is a state-owned TV channel in

Belarus Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Belarus spans an a ...

covering the whole country. The corresponding closed joint-stock company "" was registered on October 19, 2000, and its first broadcast was on January 1, 2001. Initially it covered only the news from the capital city of

Minsk Minsk (, ; , ) is the capital and largest city of Belarus, located on the Svislach (Berezina), Svislach and the now subterranean Nyamiha, Niamiha rivers. As the capital, Minsk has a special administrative status in Belarus and is the administra ...

, since 2005, the coverage includes the whole country. In December 2009, the channel aired ''The Theorists'', a shot-for-shot clone of ''

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''. Weeks after the initial airing,

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addressed the issue in one of his vanity plates, where it was revealed that the series was sent to Warner Bros. Television's legal department, whose officials states that suing for copyright infringement in Belarus was impossible. STV ceased airing the series after just four episodes on air. Since November 2017 CTV started broadcasting in

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format.

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* Television stations in Belarus Television channels and stations established in 2001 Mass media in Minsk 2000 establishments in Belarus {{Belarus-media-stub