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Andorra Andorra, officially the Principality of Andorra, is a Sovereignty, sovereign landlocked country on the Iberian Peninsula, in the eastern Pyrenees in Southwestern Europe, Andorra–France border, bordered by France to the north and Spain to A ...
date back to the 1970s. The Andorran television scene is the direct result of the country's complex history, which can be explained by the balanced cultural, political and social relations of the European microstate with the two neighboring countries,
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and
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. Thus, Andorra had first time a
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input, although for a while it shared the signal with black and white. The incorporation of the country into the digital era was, however, quite leading. Andorra is the third European country, after
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and
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, to have switched off the analogue signal. The Andorran television channel Andorra Televisió was launched in 1995.


History

Having political conflicts with its neighbours over the implementation of
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,
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and
radio Radio is the technology of communicating using radio waves. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of frequency between 3  hertz (Hz) and 300  gigahertz (GHz). They are generated by an electronic device called a transmitter connec ...
, made the introduction of
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in Andorra very late. There is news from the 1950s about the use of televisions in Andorran bars. But it was not until the arrival of color television, introduced in France before Spain, that the Andorran authorities decided to take an interest in television. Therefore, the Andorran Parliament, which had its own government only since the 1980s, decided in 1967 to contact the French co-prince in order to find out how to obtain permits and licenses to broadcast television in Andorra. Following the traditional diplomatic criteria with France and Spain, the first French and Spanish television channels can be seen from the 1970s. This justified setting up an Andorran company to manage the television offer; Servei de Telecomunicacions d'Andorra (STA), the current Andorra Telecom. In the 1980s, Andorra received a government for the first time and, with it, separated, albeit rhetorically, the executive of the parliament under Montesquian criteria: government, parliament and courts. This is important since it is under the first government that a whole process began that culminated in the conversion of Ràdio Andorra into the current Ràdio i Televisió d'Andorra. In the 1990s, Ràdio Andorra was formally transformed into a new public entity, responsible for broadcasting not only radio, but also television.


Digital terrestrial television

On 25 September 2007 at 11pm, Andorra became one of the first European countries to switch off all terrestrial analogue transmissions, making TDT the only method of terrestrial TV reception in the country. The service is operated jointly by the Andorran Government and the country's telecommunications company Andorra Telecom. As well as offering Andorra's only TV Channel ATV, the service offers various channels from Spain and France. It is also one of the few terrestrial television services to offer the
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channel.
Former channels: *
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* Direct 8 *
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*
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* SIC Internacional * C8 * NRJ 12


Pay television

Andorra Telecom started providing pay-TV through
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technology following the completion of the transition from
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to
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in 2010. Andorra Telecom has signed a contract with
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to broadcast their television package. In addition to the free channels and the Spanish
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channels, it also includes French channels
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, Franceinfo,
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, W9, TMC, TFX, BFM TV and Gulli and other channels like Cubavision,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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and
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.


Sant Julià de Lòria

Mútua Eléctrica, however, has been offering
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in the southern city of
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, since the introduction of pay television in Spain.


References

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Andorra Andorra, officially the Principality of Andorra, is a Sovereignty, sovereign landlocked country on the Iberian Peninsula, in the eastern Pyrenees in Southwestern Europe, Andorra–France border, bordered by France to the north and Spain to A ...
Andorra Andorra, officially the Principality of Andorra, is a Sovereignty, sovereign landlocked country on the Iberian Peninsula, in the eastern Pyrenees in Southwestern Europe, Andorra–France border, bordered by France to the north and Spain to A ...