Timeline of the introduction of television in countries

! Year

! Countries and territories

| {{flag|United States|1912}} (pre-experimental)

| {{flagicon|Germany|1919}} Germany (pre-experimental), {{flag|United Kingdom}} (pre-experimental)

| {{flag|Australia}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Netherlands}} (pre-experimental)

| {{flag|Argentina}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Canada|1921}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|United States|1912}} (mechanical television, experimental – W2XCW){{cite web |url=http://www.tvhistory.tv/W2XB%20WGY%20WRGB%20TV%20Station.htm |title=WRGB History}}{{cite web |url=http://www.tvhistory.tv/W1XAY.htm |title=How Television Came to Boston: The Forgotten Story of W1XAY}}{{cite web |url=http://online.sfsu.edu/~hl/cfj/cfj.W3XK.html |title=W3XK: America's first television station}}{{cite news |title=WRNY to Start Daily Television Broadcasts |newspaper=The New York Times |date=August 13, 1928 |page=13}}

| {{flag|United Kingdom}} (mechanical, experimental),{{cite web |url=http://www.bairdtelevision.com/1932.html |title=J.L. Baird: Television in 1932 |website=Baird Television}} {{flagicon|Germany|1919}} Germany (mechanical, experimental),[https://web.archive.org/web/20040207210618/https://museum.tv/archives/etv/G/htmlG/germany/germany.htm Museum of Broadcast Communications: Germany]{{cite web |url=http://www.tvhistory.tv/1936%20German%20Olympics%20TV%20Program.htm |title=Berlin 1936: Television in Germany}} {{AUS}} (mechanical, experimental, after hours on two existing Melbourne radio stations - 3UZ and 3DB),{{cite book |title=Australian TV – The First 25 Years |first=Peter |last=Bielby |page=173 |isbn=0-17-005998-7}}{{cite web |url=http://www.environment.gov.au/heritage/ahc/publications/linking-a-nation/chapter9 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170920142542/http://www.environment.gov.au/heritage/ahc/publications/linking-a-nation/chapter9 |archivedate=2017-09-20 |title=Linking a Nation Chapter 9 |publisher=Australian Heritage Council}}Peter Luck, 50 Years of Australian Television {{ISBN|1-74110-367-3}} p.15 {{flag|Netherlands}} (mechanical, experimental in Scheveningen),{{cite web |url=https://isgeschiedenis.nl/nieuws/eerste-nts-journaal-op-de-nederlandse-televisie |title=Eerste NTS journaal op de Nederlandse televisie |date=5 January 2016}} {{flagicon|France|1830}} France (pre-experimental), {{flag|Rattanakosin Kingdom|1917|name=Siam}} (pre-experimental)

| {{flag|Soviet Union|1924}} (pre-experimental in Moscow wired in 1929)

| {{flagicon|France|1830}} France (mechanical, experimental), {{flag|Canada|1921}} (mechanical, experimental – VE9EC), {{flag|Soviet Union|1924}} (mechanical, experimental – МТЦ), {{flag|Rattanakosin Kingdom|1917|name=Siam}} (mechanical, experimental, cancelled because of the revolution)

| {{flag|Argentina}} (mechanical, experimental),See [https://lagalenadelsur.com/2019/07/26/television-mecanica-en-argentina-en-1932-las-experiencias-de-ignacio-m-gomez-por-lr4-radio-splendid-de-buenos-aires Televisión mecánica en Argentina en 1932. Las experiencias de Ignacio M. Gómez por LR4 Radio Splendid, de Buenos Aires] {{flag|Empire of Japan|name=Japan}} (pre-experimental)

| {{flag|Australia}} (electronic television, experimental, Brisbane),{{cite news |title=Timeline – national and state, 1927-1941 |work=Brisbane Courier Mail |url=http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/extras/federation/Timelines/CMFedTimelineNat3.htm |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080215131629/http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/extras/federation/Timelines/CMFedTimelineNat3.htm |archivedate=February 15, 2008}} {{flag|Turkey}} (pre-experimental)

| {{flag|Nazi Germany|name=Germany}} (intermediate film; semi-electronic), {{flagicon|France|1830}} France (electronic – PTT Radio Vision), {{flag|Netherlands}} (electronic, experimental in Eindhoven by Philips), {{flag|Italy}} (pre-experimental)

| {{flag|United Kingdom}} (electronic – BBC Television Service), {{flag|Nazi Germany|name=Germany}} (electronic television - Deutscher Fernseh Rundfunk),[http://framemaster.tripod.com/index5.html The Birth of Live Entertainment and Music on Television, November 6, 1936][http://www.earlytelevision.org/rca_1937_photos.html 1937 RCA Publicity Photographs]. "Eighty-seven video programs were telecast by NBC last year," "[http://www.earlytelevision.org/where_is_television.html Where Is Television Now?] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080913065455/http://www.earlytelevision.org/where_is_television.html |date=2008-09-13}}", Popular Mechanics, August 1938, p. 178. Regularly scheduled electronic broadcasts began in April 1938 in New York (to the second week of June, and resuming in August) and Los Angeles. "Telecasts Here and Abroad," The New York Times, April 24, 1938, Drama-Screen-Radio section, p. 10; "[https://web.archive.org/web/20070901194251/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849042,00.html Early Birds]," Time, June 13, 1938; "Telecasts to Be Resumed," The New York Times, Aug. 21, 1938, Drama-Screen-Radio section, p. 10; Robert L. Pickering, "[http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist5/donlee.html Eight Years of Television in California]," California – Magazine of the Pacific, June 1939. Also note that many rural areas of the Southern United States didn't receive television until the late 1950s and early 1960s.

| {{flag|Free City of Danzig}} (electronic, experimental),{{efn|Although 180-line cathode ray tube receivers were manufactured in France in 1936, a mechanical scanning camera was still used at the transmitter in Paris until 1937.}} {{flagicon|Poland|1928}} Poland (mechanical, experimental), (Doświadczalna Stacja Telewizyjna),[http://www.warsawvoice.pl/view/1291/ The Warsaw Voice: What's On?] and {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928103407/http://www.pit.edu.pl/index.php?s=651 |date=September 28, 2007 |title=Historia Przemysłowego Instytutu Telekomunikacji przed II wojną światową}} (in Polish). {{flag|Peru}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Chile}} (pre-experimental)

| {{flag|Soviet Union|1936}} (electronic, experimental - CT USSR), {{flag|Turkey}} (electronic, experimental), {{flag|Uruguay}} (pre-experimental)

| {{flag|Argentina}} (electronic, experimental), {{flag|Brazil}} (electronic, experimental), {{flag|Chile}} (electronic, experimental), {{flag|Empire of Japan|name=Japan}} (electronic, experimental - J2PQ),See The Evolution of TV: A Brief History of TV Technology in Japan: [http://www.nhk.or.jp/strl/aboutstrl/evolution-of-tv-en/p09col_1.html “Can you see me clearly?”] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130101044401/http://www.nhk.or.jp/strl/aboutstrl/evolution-of-tv-en/p07/column/index1.html |date=2013-01-01}}; [http://www.nhk.or.jp/strl/aboutstrl/evolution-of-tv-en/p09.html Public TV Image Experiments] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160526181516/http://www.nhk.or.jp/strl/aboutstrl/evolution-of-tv-en/p07/index.html |date=2016-05-26}}.{{efn|Off from 1940 to 1950 due to Japan's entry in the World War II and subsequent US occupation.}} {{flagicon|Kingdom of Italy}} Italy (electronic, experimental - EIAR Trasmissioni Sperimentali Radiovisione),See [https://web.archive.org/web/20070827100727/http://s206301103.websitehome.co.uk/database/it.tv.htm Early Television in Italy] {{flag|Peru|1884}} (electronic, experimental),See [http://todosobrelahistoriadelperu.blogspot.com/2013/11/historia-de-la-television-en-el-peru.html Historia de la televisión en el Perú] {{flagicon|Poland|1928}} Poland (electronic, experimental), {{flag|United States|1912}} (electronic; experimental and non-commercial until 1941 - NBC)

! Year

! Countries and territories

| {{flag|United States|1912}} ({{flag|New York (state)|1909|name=New York}}, {{flag|Delaware}}, {{flag|New Jersey|1896}}, {{flag|Connecticut}}, regular commercial telecasts (WNBT)), {{flag|Pennsylvania}} (WPTZ))

| {{flag|Mexico|1934}} (pre-experimental)

| {{flagcountry|Nazi Germany}} ({{flagicon|Nazi Germany|army}} Occupied France (Fernsehsender Paris)), {{flag|Philippines|1936}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Uruguay}} (electronic, experimental)[https://lagalenadelsur.com/2013/11/08/1943-mario-giampietro-la-primera-emision-electronica-de-tv-en-uruguay-y-america-latina 1943. Mario Giampietro. La primera emisión electrónica de TV en Uruguay y América Latina]

| {{flagicon|France|1830}} France (returned, RDF Télévision française)

| {{flag|Soviet Union|1936}} (returned, CT USSR),{{efn|Off from 1939 to 1945 during World War II. The service reached the entirety of the Russian SSR alone by the late 1960s.}} {{flag|United States|1912}} ({{flag|Washington, D.C.}}, experimental (W3XWT))

| {{flag|Brazil|1889}} (pre-experimental), {{flagicon|Czechoslovakia}} Czechoslovakia (pre-experimental), {{flag|Denmark}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Mexico|1934}} (experimental),{{cite web |url=http://www.xtimeline.com/evt/view.aspx?id=761373 |title=Historia de la Televisión! | Primera transmisión en blanco y negro | Event view |accessdate=2013-10-24 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921061928/http://www.xtimeline.com/evt/view.aspx?id=761373 |archivedate=2013-09-21 |trans-title=Latin America's first experimental television station |language=es}} {{flag|United States|1912}} ({{flagicon|Philippines|1936}} Philippines (experimental, BEC)), {{flag|United Kingdom}} (returned, BBC),{{efn|Off from 1939 to 1946 during World War II.}} {{flag|United States|1912}} ({{flag|Illinois|1915}} (WBKB), {{flag|Iowa}}, experimental (KRNT), {{flag|Washington, D.C.}} (WTTG))

| {{flag|United States|1912}} ({{flag|California}} (KTLA), {{flag|Maryland}} (WMAR-TV), {{flag|Michigan}} (WWDT), {{flag|Missouri}} (KSD-TV), {{flag|Ohio}} (WEWS-TV), {{flag|Wisconsin|1913}} (WTMJ-TV))

| {{flag|Brazil|1889}} (experimental, Rede Tupi), {{flag|Canada|1921}} (experimental), {{flag|Cuba|1902}} (pre-experimental), {{flagicon|Czechoslovakia}} Czechoslovakia (experimental),{{efn|Czechoslovakia became two separate states, namely the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993.}} {{flag|Switzerland}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|United States|1912}} ({{flag|Kentucky|1918}} (WAVE-TV), {{flag|Louisiana|1912}} (WDSU-TV), {{flag|Massachusetts|1908}} (WBZ-TV), {{flag|Minnesota|1893}} (KSTP-TV), {{flag|New Mexico}} (KOB-TV), {{flag|San Francisco}} (KPIX-TV), {{flag|Tennessee}} (WMCT), {{flag|Texas}} (WBAP-TV), {{flag|Utah|1922}} (KDYL-TV), {{flag|Virginia}} (WTVR-TV), {{flag|Washington (state)|name=Washington|1923}} (KRSC-TV))

| {{flag|Denmark}} (experimental), {{flag|Italy}} (experimental), {{flag|United States|1912}} ({{flag|Alabama}} (WAFM-TV), {{flag|Arizona}} (KPHO-TV), {{flag|Florida|1900}} (WTVJ), {{flag|Georgia (U.S. state)|name=Georgia|1920}} (WSB-TV), {{flag|Iowa}} (WOC-TV), {{flag|Indiana|1917}} (WFBM-TV), {{flag|Missouri}} (WDAF-TV), {{flag|North Carolina|1885}} (WBTV), {{flag|Oklahoma|1941}} (WKY-TV), {{flag|Rhode Island}} (WJAR)), {{flag|Vatican City}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Venezuela}} (pre-experimental)

! Year

! Countries and territories

| {{flag|Brazil|1889}} ({{flag|São Paulo}} (Rede Tupi, now defunct)),{{efn|License auctioned to Silvio Santos and became SBT São Paulo in 1981.}} {{flag|Cuba|1902}} (CMQ-TV), {{flag|Dominican Republic}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|France|1830}} ({{flag|Nord}} (Télé-Lille)), {{flag|West Germany}} (Northwest Germany, experimental, NWDR)), {{flag|Hungary}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Iceland}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Japan|1947}} (returned, electronic, experimental, NHK), {{flag|Mexico|1934}} (official, XHTV-TV), {{flag|Monaco}} (pre-experimental), {{flagicon|Morocco}} French Morocco (pre-experimental), {{flag|Norway}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Romania|1952}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Saudi Arabia|1938}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|South Korea|1949}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Soviet Union}} ({{flag|Latvian SSR}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Switzerland}} (experimental), {{flag|United States|1912}} ({{flagicon|Iowa}} Des Moines (WOI-TV), {{flagicon|Tennessee}} Nashville (WSM-TV))

| {{flag|Argentina}} ({{flag|Buenos Aires Province|name=Buenos Aires}} (LR3 TV)), {{flag|Brazil|1889}} ({{flag|Rio de Janeiro}} (Rede Tupi, now defunct{{efn|License auctioned to Organizações Bloch in 1983 and became TV Manchete Rio de Janeiro, now RedeTV! Rio.}})), {{flag|Colombia}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Denmark}} (DR),See [https://web.archive.org/web/20070113134402/http://www.dr.dk/OmDR/Fakta+om+DR/Historie/20060504131517.htm DRs historie 1950-1959]. {{flag|Mexico|1934}} (XEW-TV, {{flag|Tamaulipas}} (XELD-TV), now defunct),{{efn|Station broadcast in English from its launch to shutdown in 1954, as a consequence of the FCC freeze, which was lifted at the time of closure.}} {{flag|Netherlands}} (NTS), {{flag|Portugal}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Soviet Union}} ({{flag|Estonian SSR}} (pre-experimental))

| {{flag|Bulgaria}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Chile}} (sporadically until 1959), {{flag|Canada|1921}} ({{flag|Quebec}} (CBFT), {{flagicon|Canada|1921}} Ontario (CBLT)), {{flag|Dominican Republic}} (La Voz Dominicana), {{flag|Finland}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|East Germany|1949}} (experimental and regular programming, DFF), {{flag|West Germany}} (Northwest Germany, full service, NWDR-Fernsehen)), {{flag|Guatemala}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Iraq|19124}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Luxembourg}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Mexico|1934}} (XHGC-TV, {{flag|Puebla}} (XEQ-TV){{efn|Licensed to Altzomoni, in the neighboring State of Mexico.}}), {{flagicon|Poland|1928}} Poland (returned, TV Polska), {{flag|Spain|1945}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Thailand}} (experimental),{{cite web |date=30 April 1952 |title=20,000 saw the first television in Bangkok |url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/singstandard19520731-1.2.207.40?qt=television,%20thailand&q=Television%20Thailand |access-date=31 July 2023 |website=Singapore Standard (retrieved from NLB)}} {{flag|Turkey}} (İTÜ TV, now defunct),{{efn|Limited to Istanbul. Ankara got television in 1968 when TRT started its television service. In 1971, ITU TV shut down and TRT started a station in Istanbul. From then on, a slow process to start a national service began.}} {{flag|United Kingdom}} ({{flag|Scotland}} (BBC TV Service Scotland)), {{flag|United States|1912}} ({{flag|Colorado|1911}} (KBTV), {{flag|Hawaii}} (KGMB), {{flag|Oregon}} (KPTV), {{flagicon|Spokane|1912}} Spokane (KHQ-TV)), {{flag|Venezuela|1930}} (YVKA-TV, now defunct)

| {{flag|Alaska}} (KATV, now defunct), {{flag|Austria}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Belgium}} ({{flag|Wallonia}} (INR Télé Expérimentale Belge), {{flag|Flanders}} (NIR Belgische Televisie)),{{efn|Dutch-language BRT used the Belgian 625-line standard and French-language RTB used the Belgian 819-line standard (abandoned in 1963). Early Belgian sets were very expensive because they could receive four different standards: Belgian 625, European 625, Belgian 819, French 819. Later a fifth standard was added with the French 625-line standard.}} {{flag|Canada|1921}} ({{flag|Ottawa|1902}} (CBOT), {{flag|British Columbia|1906}} (CBUT)), {{flagicon|Czechoslovakia}} Czechoslovakia (experimental), {{flag|El Salvador}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|France|1830}} ({{flag|Bas-Rhin}} (Télé-Strasbourg)), {{flag|Hungarian People's Republic|name=Hungary}} (experimental), {{flag|Japan|1947}} (returned, NHK),{{efn|Rollout for NHK started in 1953 in Kanto, 1954 in Tokai and Kansai and between 1956 and 1958 for the rest of Japan. For commercial TV, limited to Kanto from 1953 to 1955 (NTV and KRT) and spread between 1956 and 1963 to the rest of the country. Saga Prefecture only gained television (NHK and commercial) in 1969 due to overspill from neighboring prefectures and usage of UHF as the preferred band.}} {{flag|Lithuanian SSR}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Malta|1943}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Mexico|1934}} ({{flag|Baja California}} (XETV)),{{efn|English-language station affiliated to American networks (with an independent phase) until 2015, when it became a Canal 5 affiliate.}} {{flag|Nicaragua}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Philippines|1936}} (thru ABS (DZAQ-TV), now ABS-CBN Corporation), {{flag|Puerto Rico}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Saar}} (Telesaar),{{efn|Telesaar went defunct in 1958 as it was ordered by the German authorities.}}{{flag|Soviet Union}} ({{flag|Armenian SSR}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Azerbaijan SSR|1952}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Byelorussian SSR}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Georgian SSR}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Ukrainian SSR}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Uzbek SSR}} (pre-experimental)), {{flag|Sweden}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Switzerland}} (German television, SRG), {{flag|United Kingdom}} ({{flag|Guernsey}}, {{flag|Jersey|old}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|United Kingdom}} ({{flag|Northern Ireland}}, (BBC TV Service NI){{efn|First television broadcasts in the island of Ireland, eight years before the Republic. Local programmes started in 1955.}}), {{flag|United States|1912}} ({{flag|Arkansas|1924}} (KRTV), {{flag|South Carolina}} (WCOS-TV), {{flagicon|California}} Fresno (KMJ-TV), {{flag|Idaho}} (KFXD-TV), {{flag|Nevada|1929}} (KLAS-TV), {{flag|Kansas|1927}} (KTVH), {{flag|North Dakota}} (KCJB-TV), {{flag|South Dakota|1909}} (KELO-TV), {{flag|Maine}} (WABI-TV), {{flag|Montana|1905}} (KXLF-TV)), {{flag|Vatican City}} (experimental, HVJ), {{flag|Yugoslavia}} ({{flag|Socialist Republic of Croatia|name=SR Croatia}} (pre-experimental)

| {{flag|Algeria}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Australia}} (experimental, ABC),{{Citation |title=Australian Television: the first 24 years |publisher=Nelsen/Cinema Papers |year=1980 |page=3 |location=Melbourne}} {{flagicon|Bulgaria|1948}} Bulgaria (experimental, MEI), {{flag|Canada|1921}} ({{flag|Manitoba}} (CBWT), {{flag|Saskatchewan|1921}} (CKCK-TV), {{flag|Alberta|1921}} (CHCT-TV), {{flagicon|Canada|1921}} New Brunswick (CHSJ-TV), {{flag|Nova Scotia}} (CJCB-TV)), {{flag|Colombia}} (HJRN-TV), {{flag|Czechoslovak Socialist Republic|name=Czechoslovakia}} (ČST), {{flag|France|1830}} ({{flag|Bouches-du-Rhône}} (Télé Marseille), {{flag|Rhône}} (Télé-Lyon)), {{flag|Guam}} (pre-experimental), {{flag|Hungarian People's Republic|name=Hungary}} (experimental) {{flag|Italy}} (official, Programma Nazionale), {{flag|Mexico|1934}} ({{flag|Chihuahua}} (XEJ-TV)), {{flag|Monaco}} (TMC - first microstate to have a native channel), {{flagicon|Morocco}} French Morocco (TELMA, went defunct shortly after),{{cite web |date=1 August 2019 |title=TELMA, the story of Morocco's first and short-lived television channel |url=https://en.yabiladi.com/articles/details/81793/telma-story-morocco-s-first-short-lived.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240508210355/https://en.yabiladi.com/articles/details/81793/telma-story-morocco-s-first-short-lived.html |archive-date=8 May 2024 |access-date=9 June 2023 |website=en.yabiladi.com |last1=Com |first1=Yabiladi}} {{flag|Norway}} (experimental, NRK), {{flag|Portugal}} (Lajes Field (CSL-TV, first AFRTS television station)),{{cite web |title=Lajes more than speck in television history |url=https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/135794/lajes-more-than-speck-in-television-history/ |access-date=12 February 2024 |website=Air Force |date=19 October 2004 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240212003143/https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/135794/lajes-more-than-speck-in-television-history/ |archive-date=12 February 2024}} {{flag|Puerto Rico|1952}} (WKAQ-TV), {{flag|Soviet Union}} ({{flag|Latvian SSR}} (Latvijas Televīzija)), {{flag|Switzerland}} (French television, Télévision Genevoise), {{flag|United States|1912}} ({{flag|New Hampshire}} (WMUR-TV), {{flag|Vermont}} (WMVT), {{flag|Wyoming}} (KFBC-TV)), {{flag|Uruguay}} (pre-experimental)

| {{flag|Austria}} (ORF Fernsehen), {{flag|Brazil|1889}} ({{flag|Minas Gerais}} (TV Itacolomi, now defunct{{efn|License auctioned to Organizações Bloch in 1983 and became TV Manchete Minas, now RedeTV! Minas.}})), {{flag|Bermuda}} (ZBK-TV),{{efn|Served only in Kindley Air Force Base.}} {{flag|Canada|1921}} ({{Flagicon|United Kingdom}} Newfoundland And Labrador (CJON-TV)), {{flag|Finland}} (test programming, TV-kerho),{{efn|name="TESTV"|The channel launched in 1956 as a continuation of a project that had aired a public broadcast in May 1955 as the first television broadcast in Finland.{{cite book |last=Keinonen |first=Heidi |date=2011 |title=Kamppailu yleistelevisiosta. TES-TV:n, Mainos-TV:n ja Tesvision merkitykset suomalaisessa televisiokulttuurissa 1956–1964 |location=Tampere |publisher=Tampere University Press |url=https://trepo.tuni.fi/handle/10024/66715 |isbn=9789514483684 |language=fi}}}} {{flag|Guatemala}} (TGW-TV, now defunct), {{flag|Iceland}} (AFRTS Keflavik), {{flag|Luxembourg}} (Télé-Luxembourg), {{flag|Saudi Arabia|1938}} (Dhahran Airfield, experimental and regular programming, AJL-TV, now defunct), {{flag|Soviet Union}} ({{flag|Estonian SSR}} (TTV)), {{flag|Thailand}} (official, HSI-TV),{{cite web |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1957-TV-Factbook/TV-Factbook-1957-all.pdf |title=Television Factbook |date=1957 |accessdate=6 April 2024 |page=280}} {{flagicon|Romania|1952}} Romania (experimental), {{flag|United Kingdom}} ({{flag|Guernsey}}, {{flag|Jersey|old}} (BBC))

| {{flag|Australia}} ({{flag|New South Wales}} (TCN), {{flag|Victoria}} (HSV)), {{flag|France|1830}} ({{flagicon|France|1830}} Algerian Departments (RTF Television Algiers)),{{cite book |url=http://chdjamel.centerblog.net/6509516-radio-et-television-histoire-d-un-monopole |title=Radio et télévision : histoire d'un monopole |last=Cheurfi |first=Achour |date=4 February 2011 |publisher=Casbah Éditions |location=Algiers |publication-date=September 2010 |pages=88–148 |language=fr}} {{flag|Canada|1921}} ({{flag|Prince Edward Island}} (CFCY-TV)), {{flag|El Salvador}} (YSEB-TV),{{cite web |url=http://www.revistalatinacs.org/a/02nherrera.htm |language=Spanish |trans-title=A Brief Tour of Television in El Salvador |title=Un breve recorrido por la televisión en El Salvador |last=Herrera Palacios |first=Antonio |date=October 1998 |website=Revista Latina de Comunicación Social |access-date=10 November 2021 |archive-date=9 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210509224907/http://www.revistalatinacs.org/a/02nherrera.htm |url-status=dead}} {{flag|Finland}} (regular programming, TES-TV, now defunct),{{efn|name="TESTV"}} {{flag|United States|1912}} ({{flag|Guam|1956}} (KUAM-TV)), {{flagicon|Iraq|1924}} Iraq (BTV, now defunct and replaced by Al-Iraqiya TV), {{flag|Nicaragua|1908}} (YNSA-TV),{{cite web |title=Primeros |url=https://www.laprensani.com/2006/09/11/espectaculo/1471054-primeros |access-date=19 September 2023 |website=La Prensa |date=11 September 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230919134830/https://www.laprensani.com/2006/09/11/espectaculo/1471054-primeros |archive-date=19 September 2023}} {{flag|United States}} ({{flag|Panama Canal Zone}} (CFN)),{{cite web |url=https://www.laestrella.com.pa/amp/nacional/180314/chica-panama-llegada-pantalla |title=¿Cómo fue la llegada de la pantalla chica a Panamá? - Nacional - title.suffix.trans |access-date=2021-01-17 |archive-date=2022-03-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220303143612/https://www.laestrella.com.pa/amp/nacional/180314/chica-panama-llegada-pantalla |url-status=dead}} {{flagicon|Romania|1952}} Romania (TVR), {{flag|South Korea|1949}} (HLKZ-TV), {{flag|Soviet Union}} ({{flag|Armenian SSR}} (Armenian Television), {{flag|Azerbaijan SSR|1952}} (Baku Television Studio), {{flag|Byelorussian SSR}} (Belarusian Television), {{flag|Georgian SSR}} (1TV), {{flag|Ukrainian SSR}} (regular programming, Ukrainske Telebachennia), {{flag|Uzbek SSR}} (Tashkent Television Studio)), {{flagicon|Spain|1945}} Spain (TVE), {{flag|Portugal}} (experimental, RTP), {{flag|Sweden}}, (Radiotjänst TV), {{flag|Uruguay}} (SAETA),{{cite web |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1957-TV-Factbook/TV-Factbook-1957-all.pdf |title=Television Factbook |date=1957 |accessdate=6 April 2024 |page=281}} {{flag|Yugoslavia}} ({{flag|Socialist Republic of Croatia|name=SR Croatia}} (RTV Zagreb)){{efn|The date refers to the launch of the television channel in republics and autonomous provinces of Yugoslavia, there were: RTV Zagreb in SR Croatia (1956), RTV Ljubljana in SR Slovenia (1958), RTV Belgrade in SR Serbia (1958), RTV Skopje in SR Macedonia (1964), RTV Sarajevo in SR Bosnia and Herzegovina (1969), RTV Titograd (Podgorica) in SR Montenegro (1971), and in SAP Kosovo (RTV Priština) and SAP Vojvodina (RTV Novi Sad) was introduced in 1975.}}

| {{flag|Chile}} (UCV Televisión), {{flagicon|Cyprus|colonial}} Cyprus (RIK), {{flagicon|British Hong Kong|1955}} Hong Kong (subscription, Rediffusion Television),{{efn|Television was introduced in Hong Kong when it was a British crown colony until 1997. The Rediffusion service was a cable network until 1973, when it converted to terrestrial television.}} {{flag|Hungarian People's Republic|name=Hungary}} (MTV), {{flag|Lithuanian SSR}} (TV Vilnius),[https://apie.lrt.lt/en About LRT] {{flagicon|Malta|1943}} Malta,{{efn|Date where relays from Italy became available.}} {{flag|Portugal}} (full service, RTP)

| {{flag|Bermuda}} (ZBM-TV), {{flag|China}} (Peking Television),{{efn|This station was the first in the Chinese world to be strictly terrestrial from the outset.}} {{flag|Czechoslovak Socialist Republic|name=Czechoslovakia}} (ČST Bratislava), {{flag|Pahlavi Iran|name=Iran}} (TVI),{{efn|Originally limited to Tehran area, later to Abadan, and from 1969, expanded to the whole nation. Television of Iran was absorbed into National Iranian Television in 1969; since the main network of the NIRT used a different frequency from TVI (which used channel 3) in Tehran, it's likely that the former TVI frequency was turned off.}} {{flag|Malaya|1948}} (mechanical, experimental), {{flag|Peru}} (OAD-TV), {{flag|Philippines|1936}} (DZXL-TV), CBN-9, now ABS-CBN Corporation), {{flag|Soviet Union}} ({{flag|Kazakh SSR}} (Almaty Television Studio), {{flagicon|Russian SFSR}} Kaliningrad Oblast ({{ill|Калининград (телерадиокомпания)|lt=Kaliningrad Television Studio|ru}}), {{flag|Moldavian SSR}} (TVM)), {{flag|Switzerland}} (Italian television, TSI), {{UK}} ({{flag|Wales|1953}}, TWW),{{efn|Wales had received broadcasts from England since 1952.}} {{flag|Yugoslavia}} ({{flag|SR Serbia}} (RTV Belgrade), {{flag|Socialist Republic of Slovenia|name=SR Slovenia}} (RTV Ljubljana))

| {{flag|Australia}} ({{flag|Queensland}} (QTQ), {{flag|South Australia}} (NWS), {{flag|Western Australia}} (TVW)), {{flag|Brazil|1889}} ({{flag|Rio Grande do Sul}} (TV Piratini, now defunct{{efn|License auctioned to Silvio Santos in 1981 and became SBT RS.}})), {{flagicon|Bulgaria|1948}} Bulgaria (Bulgarian Television), {{flag|Chile}} (full service, Canal 2 UC),{{efn|Until the launch of the first version of Telenorte in Antofagasta in 1966, television was limited to central Chile (Santiago and Valparaíso). The definitive roll-out of television outside of this region didn't start until late 1968, when TVN set up its first station in Arica months before it started definitive broadcasts, though in 1969, most of its network was concentrated in central Chile.}} {{flag|Ecuador|1900}} (HCJB-TV, now defunct),{{efn|Station shut down in 1972. The frequency was later occupied by Teleamazonas starting in 1974. RTS is often erroneously believed to be the first.}} {{flag|Haiti|1859}} (4VMR-TV), {{flag|Honduras|1949}} (HRTG-TV), {{flag|India}} (AIR-TV),{{cite web |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1966-TV-Factbook/Television-Factbook-36-1966.pdf |title=Television Factbook |date=1966 |accessdate=12 April 2024 |page=856-b}} {{flag|Lebanon}} (CLT), {{flagicon|Nigeria|colonial}} Nigeria (WNTV), {{flag|Philippines|1936}} (DZTV-TV (Inter-Island Broadcasting Corporation) (Test)), {{flagicon|Ryukyu Islands|1954}} Ryukyu Islands (KSDW-TV),{{efn|Television was introduced in the Ryukyu Islands (now part of Japan), when they were under U.S. administration.}}{{flag|Soviet Union}} ({{flag|Crimean ASSR}} ({{ill|Крым_(телерадиокомпания)#Телеканал_«Первый_Крымский»|lt=Crimean Television|ru}}), {{flag|Kirghiz SSR}} (regular programming, KTRK), {{flag|Tatar ASSR}} ({{ill|Татарстан (телерадиокомпания)|lt=Kazan Television Studio|ru}}), {{flag|Tajik SSR}} (Shabakai Yakum), {{flag|Turkmen SSR}} (Turkmen Television))

! Year

! Countries and territories

| {{flagicon|Albania|1946}} Albania (experimental and regular programming, RTSH), {{flag|Argentina}} ({{flag|Córdoba|name=Córdoba}} (LU1-H TV)), {{flag|Australia}} ({{flag|Tasmania}} (TVT)), {{flag|Brazil|1889}} ({{flag|Distrito Federal}} (TV Brasília), {{flag|Paraná}} (TV Paranaense), {{flag|Bauru}} (TV Bauru), {{flag|Bahia}} (TV Itapoan), {{flag|Pernambuco}} (TV Jornal do Commercio), {{flag|Ceará}} ({{ill|TV Ceará (channel 2)|lt=TV Ceará|pt}}, now defunct{{efn|License auctioned to Organizações Bloch in 1983 and became TV Manchete Ceará (signed on 1984), now RedeTV! Ceará.}})), {{flag|Costa Rica}} (Teletica), {{flag|Greece|old}} (experimental, PPC), {{flagicon|Netherlands Antilles|1959}} Netherlands Antilles (PJC-TV), {{flag|New Zealand}} (NZBC TV), {{flag|Norway}} (full service, NRK), {{flag|Panama}} (RPC), {{flag|Philippines|1936}} (DZKB-TV (KBS-9{{efn|ABS-CBN vacated Channel 9 as CBN merged with ABS}}) and DZTV-TV (Inter-Island Broadcasting Corporation-13 (full service)), {{flag|Southern Rhodesia}} (RTV), {{flag|Soviet Union}} ({{flagicon|Russian SFSR}} Sakhalin Oblast ({{ill|Сахалин_(телеканал)|lt=Sakhalin|ru}})), {{flag|United Arab Republic}} ((Egyptian Television Network), {{flag|Syrian Republic|name=Syria}} (Channel 1)){{efn|The United Arab Republic was a short-lived political union between Egypt and Syria. The union began in 1958 and existed until 1961, when Syria seceded from the union.}}

| {{flag|Argentina}} ({{flag|Mendoza|name=Mendoza}} (LV 89 TV)), {{flag|Brazil|1889}} ({{flag|Goiás}} (TV Rádio Clube (TV Goyá)), {{flag|Espírito Santo}} (TV Vitória), {{flag|Pará}} (TV Marajoara, now defunct{{efn|License auctioned to Silvio Santos in 1981 and became SBT Pará.}})), {{flag|Cambodia|1948}} (experimental, NEC),{{cite web |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/INTERNATIONAL/Megahertz/Megahertz-1984-03.pdf |title=Megahertz |date=March 1984 |accessdate=2 April 2024 |page=32}}{{cite web |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1962-63-TV-Factbook/TV-Factbook-1963.pdf |title=Television Factbook |date=1963 |accessdate=6 April 2024 |page=745}} {{flag|Ireland}} (Telefís Éireann),{{efn|Ireland had received broadcasts from the United Kingdom since 1949.}} {{flag|Kuwait|1961}} (Kuwait Television), {{flag|Philippines}} (DZBB-TV RBS-7 and DZFM-TV (Presidential Broadcast Service Channel 10), {{flag|United States Virgin Islands}} (WBNB-TV, now defunct), {{flag|Yugoslavia}} ({{flag|Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina|name=SR Bosnia}} (RTV Sarajevo)), {{flag|Northern Rhodesia}} (RTV), {{flag|Italy}} ({{flag|Sardinia|name=Sardinia}} (Rai Sardinia)

| {{flag|Australia}} ({{flag|Australian Capital Territory}} (CTC)), {{flagicon|Republic of the Congo}} Congo-Brazzaville (RTC), {{flag|Ethiopia|1897}} (ETV), {{flag|France|1830}} ({{flag|Gironde}} (Télé-Bordeaux Aquitaine), {{flag|Haute-Garonne}} (Télé Toulouse-Pyrénées)), {{flag|Gibraltar|ensign}} (GBC),{{efn|Gibraltar had previously received television broadcasts from Spain.}} {{flag|Indonesia}} (experimental and regular programming, Jajasan TVRI),{{efn|Originally limited to Jakarta area, and from 1965, the island of Java as a whole. The first television station outside of the island, TVRI North Sumatera, opened in 1970, after receiving just overspill coming from West Malaysia.}}{{cite web |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1966-TV-Factbook/Television-Factbook-36-1966.pdf |title=Television Factbook |date=1966 |accessdate=12 April 2024 |page=856-b}} {{flagicon|Kenya|colonial}} Kenya (VOK), {{flagicon|Malta|1943}} Malta (MTV),{{efn|name="ReferenceA"|Previously received television broadcasts from Italy.}} {{flag|Philippines|1936}} (DZTM-TV ABC-5), {{flag|Sudan|1956}} (Sudan Television Service), {{flag|Taiwan}} (TTV),{{efn|This is the year when television was introduced in territories under its administration. After the Chinese Civil War in 1949, the government of the Republic of China retreated to Taiwan and other islands, and Mainland China was controlled by the People's Republic of China.}} {{flag|Trinidad and Tobago}} (TTT)

| {{flag|Brazil|1889}} ({{flag|Maranhão}} (TV Difusora)), {{flag|Upper Volta}} (VoltaVision), {{flag|Gabon}} (RTG), {{flag|Ivory Coast}} (RTI), {{flag|Jamaica}} (JBC, now defunct), {{flag|Malaysia}} (Televisyen Malaysia),{{efn|Originally limited to most areas of Peninsular Malaysia.}} {{flag|Netherlands}} ({{flag|Aruba}} (Telearuba)), {{flag|North Korea|1948}} (CTBS-DPRK), {{flag|Sierra Leone}} (SLTV), {{flag|Singapore}} (TV Singapura Channel 5), {{flag|Soviet Union}} ({{flag|Nakhichevan ASSR}} (Nakhchivan TV)),{{cite web |url=https://aztv.az/en/about-us |title=The activity of Azerbaijan Television |accessdate=1 May 2024}} {{flag|Tunisia}} (experimental), {{flag|Uganda}} (UTV)

| {{flag|American Samoa}} (KVZK-TV), {{flag|Argentina}} ({{flag|San Juan|name=San Juan}} (LV 82 TV), {{flag|Santa Fe|name=Santa Fe}} (LT 84 TV)), {{flag|Barbados|1885}} (CBC-TV), {{flagicon|Pakistan}} East Pakistan (Pilot Television Dhaka), {{flag|Spain|1945}} (Canary Islands (TVE Canarias){{efn|name="TVE"|Station operated autonomously by the territorial production center of Televisión Española (TVE) in the region.}}), {{flag|Ethiopia|1897}} (regular programming, ETV), {{flag|Federation of South Arabia}} ({{flag|Aden|1963}} (Aden TV)), {{flag|France|1830}} ({{flag|Alpes-Maritimes}} (Télé Marseille-Provence), {{flag|Calvados}}, {{flag|Cher}} & {{flag|Seine-Maritime}} (Télé Paris Normandie Centre), {{flag|Ille-et-Vilaine}} (Télé-Bretagne), {{flag|Loire-Atlantique}} ({{ill|France 3 Pays de la Loire|lt=Télé Loire-Océan|fr}}), {{flag|Puy-de-Dôme}} ({{ill|France 3 Auvergne|lt=Télé Auvergne|fr}}), {{flag|Sarthe}} ({{ill|France 3 Pays de la Loire|lt=Télé Maine-Anjou-Touraine-Perche|fr}})), {{flagicon|France|1830}} Guadeloupe ({{ill|Guadeloupe La Première (télévision)|lt=ORTF Guadeloupe|fr}}), {{flag|Karakalpak ASSR}} (Karakalpak Television),A. Qoshanov, O. Dospanov, T. Uzakhbergenova “Qaraqalpaqstan tariyxı”, Nókis “Bilim” –2018 {{flag|Liberia}} (LBC), {{flagicon|France|1830}} Martinique ({{ill|Martinique La Première (télévision)|lt=ORTF Martinique|fr}}), {{flagicon|Mauritius|1923}} Mauritius (MBC 1), {{flag|Niger}} (Télévision Scolaire du Niger), {{flagicon|Pakistan}} West Pakistan (PTV), {{flagicon|France|1830}} Réunion (ORTF La Réunion), {{flag|Yugoslavia}} ({{flag|Socialist Republic of Macedonia|name=SR Macedonia}} (RTV Skopje), {{flag|Socialist Republic of Montenegro|name=SR Montenegro}} (RTV Titograd)) {{flag|Turkey}} (Turkish Radio and Television Corporation), {{flag|Italy}} ({{flag|Sicily}} (Rai Sicilia)

| {{flag|Antigua and Barbuda|colonial}} (ZAL-TV),{{cite web |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1968-69-TV-Factbook/TV-Factbook-1968-All.pdf |title=Television Factbook |date=1969 |accessdate=5 April 2024 |page=928-b}} {{flag|Argentina}} ({{flag|Neuquén|name=Neuquén}} (LU 84 TV), {{flag|Santiago del Estero|name=Santiago del Estero}} (LW 81 TV)), {{flag|Brazil|1889}} ({{flag|Mato Grosso}} (TV Morena)),{{efn|Considering the current territory of the state, the first TV station is TV Centro América, founded in 1967. The area where TV Morena is became its own state, Mato Grosso do Sul, in 1979.}} {{flag|France|1830}} ({{flag|Côte-d'Or}} (Télé Bourgogne-Franche-Comté), {{flag|Haute-Vienne}} ({{ill|France 3 Limousin|lt=Télé-Limoges-Centre-Ouest|fr}})), {{flag|Meurthe-et-Moselle}} & {{flag|Marne}} ({{ill|France 3 Grand Est|lt=Télé Lorraine-Champagne|fr}})) {{flagicon|France|1830}} French Polynesia (ORTF Télé Tahiti), {{flag|Ghana|1964}} (GTV), {{flagicon|France|1830}} New Caledonia ({{ill|Nouvelle-Calédonie La Première (télévision)|lt=ORTF Télé Nouméa|fr}}), {{flag|Paraguay|1954}} (TV Cerro Cora), {{flag|Saudi Arabia|1938}} (Al Saudiya, state-owned), {{flag|Senegal}} (RTS), {{flagicon|Dutch Guiana}} Suriname (trial and regular programming, STVS), {{flag|Tunisia|1959}} (experimental), {{flag|United Kingdom}} ({{flag|Isle of Man}} (Border Television)),{{efn|Although the Isle of Man has received television signals since 1951, 1965 marked the first direct broadcast from a relay station built on the island. To date, no local television service has been set up and the island is served by BBC North West and ITV Granada (until 2009, ITV Border) with no local opt-outs.}} {{flag|India}} (AIR-TV, regular programming)

| {{flag|Argentina}} ({{flag|Jujuy|name=Jujuy}} (LW 80 TV), {{flag|Salta|name=Salta}} (LW 82 TV), {{flag|Tucumán|name=Tucumán}} (LW 83 TV)), {{flag|Brazil|1889}} ({{flagicon|Brazil|1889}} Amazonas ({{ill|TV Manauara|pt}}, now defunct), {{flag|Paraíba}} (TV Borborema)),{{efn|Experimental broadcasts started in 1963; the station claims 1966 to be its birth year, when broadcasts became regular.}} {{flag|Cambodia|1966}} (TVRK, regular), {{flagicon|Congo-Kinshasa|1966}} Congo-Kinshasa (RTNC), {{flagicon|Greece|old}} Greece (EIR), {{flag|Iceland}} (Sjónvarpið), {{flag|Israel}} (IETV, went defunct and replaced by Kan Educational),{{efn|The Israeli Ministry of Education in co-operation with the Rothschild Fund started limited broadcasts to schools in March 1966. A public state-owned TV channel started broadcasting in May 1968. Broadcasts were black and white (with a few exceptions) until the early 1980s.}} {{flag|Tunisia}} (RTT),{{efn|name="ReferenceA"}} {{flag|South Vietnam}} (THVN),{{efn|now defunct and replaced by HTV.}} {{flagicon|Yemen|1962}} North Yemen (SABS-TV),{{cite web |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1968-69-TV-Factbook/TV-Factbook-1968-All.pdf |title=Television Factbook |date=1969 |accessdate=6 April 2024 |page=928-b}} {{flag|South Yemen}} (SYBS-TV),{{cite web |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1970-71-TV-Factbook/TV-Factbook-1970-71.pdf |title=Television Factbook |date=1971 |accessdate=5 April 2024 |page=1056-b}} {{flag|Zambia|1964}} (ZNBC),{{efn|Successor of the prior RTV service in Lusaka, which started in 1961.}} {{flag|Italy}} ({{flag|Veneto}} (Rai Veneto)

| {{flag|Canada}} ({{flag|Northwest Territories}} (CFYK-TV)), {{flagicon|France|1830}} French Somaliland (RTD), {{flagicon|France|1830}} French Guiana (ORTF Guyane), {{flagicon|British Hong Kong|1955}} Hong Kong (free-to-air, TVB), {{flag|Madagascar}} (RTM), {{flagicon|Mongolia|1945}} Mongolia (experimental and regular programming, MNTV), {{flag|Saint Lucia|1939}} (SLTV),{{efn|SLTV relayed television broadcasts from Barbados.}}{{cite web |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/BOOKSHELF-ARH/Business/World-Communicatiions-Unesco-1975.pdf |title=World Communications |date=1975 |publisher=UNESCO |accessdate=24 April 2024 |page=192}} {{flagicon|France|1830}} Saint Pierre and Miquelon ({{ill|Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon La Première (télévision)|lt=ORTF Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon|fr}}) {{flag|France|1830}} ({{flag|Somme}} (Télé-Lille Amiens), {{flag|Italy}} ({{flag|Tuscany}} (Rai Tuscany)

| {{flag|Canada}} ({{flag|Yukon}} (CFWH-TV, now defunct)), {{flag|Equatorial Guinea}} (TVE Guinea Ecuatorial),{{efn|name="TVE"}} {{flag|Jordan}} (JTV), {{flag|Libya|1951}} (Libyan Television Service){{cite web |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1970-71-TV-Factbook/TV-Factbook-1970-71.pdf |title=Television Factbook |date=1971 |accessdate=30 April 2024 |page=1048-b}} {{flag|Turkey}} (TRT 1), {{flag|Italy}} ({{flag|Calabria}} (Rai Calabria)

| {{flag|Bolivia}} (Televisión Boliviana), {{flag|Brazil|1889}} ({{flag|Santa Catarina}} (TV Coligadas)),{{efn|Excludes TV Florianópolis, a television station that existed between 1964 and 1965, and was shut down after four months on air by DENTEL on the grounds that it lacked a license.}} {{flag|Trucial States}} ({{flag|Abu Dhabi}} (Abu Dhabi TV)), {{flag|Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands}} (Saipan,{{efn|Corresponds to the current Northern Mariana Islands.}} WSZE-TV, now defunct), {{flag|Italy}} ({{flag|Umbria}} (Rai Umbria)

! Year

! Countries and territories

| {{flag|Qatar|1949}} (QTV), {{flag|North Vietnam}} (Independent Television System), {{flag|Italy}} ({{flag|Friuli-Venezia Giulia}} (Rai Friuli-Venezia)

| {{flag|Argentina}} ({{flag|La Rioja (Argentina)|name=La Rioja}} (LV 91 TV)), {{flag|Australia}} ({{flagicon|Australia}} Northern Territory (ABD)), {{flag|Brazil|1968}} ({{flag|Sergipe}} (TV Sergipe)), {{flag|Malaysia}} ({{flag|Sabah|1963}} (TV Malaysia Sabah))

| {{flag|Argentina}} ({{flag|La Pampa|name=La Pampa}} (LU 89 TV), {{flag|Misiones|name=Misiones}} (LT 85 TV)), {{flag|Brazil|1968}} ({{flag|Rio Grande do Norte}} (TVU RN), {{flag|Piauí}} (TV Clube)), {{flagicon|Portugal}} Madeira (RTP Madeira), {{flag|Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla}} (ZIZ)

| {{flag|Antarctica|ats}} ({{flagicon|United States}} McMurdo Station (AFAN-TV)),{{efn|Was replaced by a cable network with the normal AFN Televisions channels in the mid 90s.}}{{cite book |first= |last= |title=Antarctic Journal of the United States |date=January–February 1974 |page=29 |isbn=9780786451982 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=45RPAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22afan-tv%22+mcmurdo&pg=RA1-PA29 |via=Google Books}} {{flag|Bahrain|1972}} (Bahrain TV), {{flag|British Virgin Islands}} (ZBTV){{efn|Converted from the former cable service.}} {{flagicon|British Hong Kong|1955}} Hong Kong (free-to-air broadcasting service, RTV), {{flag|Togo}} (RTNM)

| {{flag|Brazil|1968}} ({{flagicon|Brazil|1968}} Acre ((Rede Amazônica Rio Branco), {{flagicon|Brazil|1968}} Rondônia ((TV Rondônia)), {{flag|Central African Republic}} (RTC), {{flag|Grenada}} (ZBF-TV), {{flag|Philippines}} (DWGT-TV Government Television Channel 4), {{flag|Oman|1970}} (Oman TV), {{flag|Tanzania}} ({{flag|Zanzibar}} (TVZ)), {{flagicon|Timor Timur}} East Timor (experimental), {{flag|Yugoslavia}} ({{flag|SAP Kosovo}}, ({{ill|Radio Televizioni i Prishtinës|lt=Televizioni i Prishtinës|sq}}))

| {{flag|Angola}} (experimental and regular programming, RPA), {{flagicon|Portugal}} Azores (RTP Açores), {{flag|Brazil|1968}} ({{flag|Alagoas}} (TV Gazeta de Alagoas), {{flagicon|Brazil|1889}} Amapá (TV Amapá)), {{flag|Brunei}} (RTB), {{flag|Burundi|1967}} (RTNB), {{flag|Chile}} ({{flag|Easter Island}} (TVN)){{cite web |url=https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10125/17593/PacificIslandsCommunicationNewsletter_1975_v5_n1%5Bpdfa%5D.pdf |title=Easter Island Television |author=Honolulu Star-Bulletin |date=February 1975 |access-date=2 December 2020 |language=en |page=9 |archive-date=29 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210729193413/https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10125/17593/PacificIslandsCommunicationNewsletter_1975_v5_n1[pdfa].pdf |url-status=dead}} {{flag|Dominica|1965}} (Cable & Wireless Dominica),{{efn|Cable service. Dominica never had a terrestrial television service. Its monopoly in the market was broken in the early 80s by Marpin Telecoms, which is currently Digicel Dominica.}} {{flag|Gilbert and Ellice Islands}} (foreign-owned launching), {{flag|Yugoslavia}} ({{flag|SAP Vojvodina}} (RTV Novi Sad))

| {{flagicon|Georgian SSR}} Abkhaz ASSR (National Television of Abkhaz ASSR), {{flag|Bahamas}} (experimental),{{cite web |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1976-TV-Factbook/1976-TV-Factbook.pdf |title=Television Factbook |date=1976 |accessdate=6 April 2024 |page=1077-b}} {{flagicon|Turkey}} Turkish Federated State of Cyprus (BRT 1),{{efn|Current Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.}} {{flagicon|Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands}} Palau (WALU-TV, now defunct), {{flag|South Africa|1928}} (SABC TV)

| {{flag|Bahamas}} (ZNS-TV),{{efn|The Bahamas had previously received broadcasts from the United States.}} {{flag|Guinea}} (RTG), {{Flag|Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands}} ({{Flag|Pohnpei}} (KPON-TV))

| {{flagicon|Afghanistan|1978}} Afghanistan (Afghanistan National Television), {{flag|Benin|1975}} (ORTB), {{flagicon|Timor Timur}} East Timor (TVRI Dili),{{efn|Now believed to be under the jurisdiction of Radio-Televisão Timor Leste following the formal independence of the country in 2002.}} {{flag|Eswatini|name=Swaziland}} (Swazi TV), {{flag|Maldives}} (TV Maldives),{{cite web |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1984-TV-Factbook/TV-Factbook-1984-Other.pdf |title=Television Factbook |date=1984 |accessdate=6 April 2024 |page=1381}} {{flag|Venda}} (Venda TV)

| {{flag|Chad}} (mechanical, experimental), {{flag|Equatorial Guinea}} (returned, TVGE),{{efn|Off from 1973 to 1979.}} {{flag|Federated States of Micronesia}} ({{flag|Yap}} (WAAB-TV)), {{flag|Marshall Islands}} (MBC),{{efn|Replaced a cable company set up in 1975 when it was still under the control of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands and was shut down due to storm surges from a hurricane in 1979.}} {{flagicon|Burma|1974}} Burma (test programming),{{efn|Test service available only in Yangon in 1979, and formally launched in 1981.}} {{flag|Sri Lanka}} (ITN Sri Lanka),{{efn|Available only in Colombo in the network's early years.}} {{flag|QwaQwa}} (QWA-TV){{Citation needed|date=April 2025}}

! Year

! Countries and territories

| {{flag|Indonesia}} (Batam, TVRI),{{efn|Had received broadcasts from Singapore since 1963.}}{{cite web |date=13 July 1980 |title=Bonus TV channel |url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes19800713-1.2.32?qt=%22fifth%20channel%22&q=%22Fifth%20channel%22 |access-date=30 August 2023 |website=The Straits Times (retrieved from NLB)}}{{cite web |date=12 July 1980 |title=Tune in to Channel 6! |url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/newnation19800712-1.2.59?qt=%22fifth%20channel%22&q=%22Fifth%20channel%22 |access-date=30 August 2023 |website=The New Nation (retrieved from NLB)}} {{flag|Mauritania|1959}} (experimental), {{flagicon|Burma|1974}} Burma (BBS, regular programming), {{flag|Saint Vincent and the Grenadines|1979}} (SVG-TV), {{flag|Guyana}} (Vieira Communications Television), {{flag|Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands}} ({{flag|Chuuk}} (WTKK-TV))

| {{flag|Belize|1981}} (Channel 7), {{flagicon|Mozambique|1975}} Mozambique (TEM), {{flagicon|South Africa|1928}} South West Africa (SWABC),{{efn|Corresponds to the current country of Namibia.}} {{flag|KwaZulu}} (KWZ-TV KwaZulu){{Citation needed|date=April 2025}}

| {{flag|Brazil|1968}} (Fernando de Noronha (TV Nacional Fernando de Noronha)), {{flag|France|1830}} ({{flag|Corsica}} (({{ill|France 3 Corse|lt=FR3 Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur-Corse|fr}})), {{flagicon|Denmark}} Greenland (KNR), {{flag|Mauritania|1959}} (TV de Mauritanie),{{cite web |url=http://tvm.mr/ar/%D8%B9%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%B3%D8%B3%D8%A9/ |script-title=ar:عن المؤسسة - موقع التلفزة الموريتانية |website=tvm.mr |language=ar |access-date=2018-10-25}} {{flag|São Tomé and Príncipe}} (Televisão Experimental RDSTP, experimental), {{flag|Sri Lanka}} (Rupavahini, national), {{flag|KaNgwane}} (KaNgwane TV), {{flag|Transkei}} (TV-TS)

| {{flag|Bophuthatswana}} (Bop TV),{{efn|Only bantustan within Apartheid-era South Africa to have a local television service. After the dissolution of Bophuthatswana, the station was integrated into the SABC and later shut down.}} {{flagicon|Cambodia|1979}} Kampuchea (re-established, TVK), {{flag|Laos}} (LNTV){{efn|Television is available from Nong Khai city in Thailand since the mid-1970s.}} {{flagicon|Mali}} Mali (ORTM), {{flag|Seychelles|1977}} (RTS),{{cite web |title=Media in Seychelles |url=http://seymediacom.sc/about/media-in-seychelles |access-date=2022-12-22 |website=Seychelles Media Commission |language=en}} {{flag|Somalia}} (Telefishanka J. D. Soomaaliya),{{cite book |author=Louise M. Bourgault |title=Mass Media in Sub-Saharan Africa |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=egVLkASXCgC&pg=PA104 |date=22 June 1995 |publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=0-253-11309-1 |pages=104–}}{{efn|Off from 1991 to 2011 as the channel was suspended due to the civil war. During the interim, numerous private television stations appeared.}} {{flag|Tonga}} (VAP-TV18, now defunct),{{efn|Subscription service, shut down in 1987, during its existence it also faced competition from ASTL-TV3, itself a subscription service until the 1991 launch of the Oceania Broadcasting Network, ASTL-TV3 later shut down in 1996.}} {{flag|Vatican City}} (Centro Televisivo Vaticano),{{efn|Although the Vatican did not have a television service of its own until 1983, broadcasts from Italy had been received since 1954.}} {{flag|Saint Lucia}} (HTS, local)

| {{flag|Åland}} (TV Åland),http://www.radiotv.ax/om-alands-radio (Swedish). {{flag|Cape Verde|1975}} (TEVEC), {{flag|Faroe Islands}} (SvF), {{flagicon|Portugal}} Macau (TDM), {{flag|Tristan da Cunha}} (taped service),{{cite book |last=Winchester |first=Simon |title=Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire |year=2003 |page=85 |orig-year=originally published 1985}} {{flag|Lebowa}} (Lebowa TV)

| {{flag|Nepal}} (NTV), {{flag|Cameroon}} (CTV), {{flag|Norfolk Island}} (relays from mainland Australia)TV comes to Norfolk Islands, Pacific Islands Communication Journal, December 1984 {{flagicon image|Forces Libanaises Flag.svg}} Lebanese Forces (LBCI), {{flag|Ciskei}} (Television Ciskei)

| {{flag|Falkland Islands}} (SSVC Television Falkland Islands),{{efn|A prior service existed during the brief Argentine takeover of the islands in the Falklands War in 1982, sustained by ATC.}} {{flagicon|France|1974}} Mayotte ({{ill|Mayotte La Première (télévision)|lt=RFO Mayotte|fr}}), {{flag|Niue}} (Bliss Cablevision),{{efn|Assets sold to the government of Niue in 1989 and converted to a free-to-air terrestrial operation, TV Niue.}} {{flagicon|France|1974}} Wallis and Futuna ({{ill|Wallis-et-Futuna La Première (télévision)|lt=RFO Wallis-et-Futuna|fr}}), {{flag|Gazankulu}} (Gaz TV)

| {{flag|Chad}} (Télé Tchad), {{flag|Papua New Guinea}} (EM TV, Niugini Television Network), {{flag|Ceuta}} (La 1 Ceuta), {{flag|Melilla}} (La 1 Melilla)

| {{flag|Botswana}} (GBC TV, in Gaborone),{{cite web |title=Botswana Television (BTV) Negotiating Control and Cultural Production in a Globalising Context: A Political Economy of Media State Ownership in Africa |url=https://ccms.ukzn.ac.za/Files/articles/PhD_theses/sethunya%20mosime%20-%20botswana%20television.pdf |access-date=23 November 2023 |website=University of Kwa-Zulu Natal |date=March 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211203100243/https://ccms.ukzn.ac.za/Files/articles/PhD_theses/sethunya%20mosime%20-%20botswana%20television.pdf |archive-date=3 December 2021}} {{flag|Lesotho|1987}} (Lesotho Television),{{cite web |url=https://lesothotribune.co.ls/ltv-starts-broadcasting-for-the-first-time/ |title=LTV starts broadcasting for the first time - lesothotribune |date=7 September 2022}} {{flagicon|Azerbaijan SSR}} Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (Artsakh Public TV)

| {{flag|Cook Islands}} (Cook Islands Television), {{flag|Guinea-Bissau}} (TEGB),{{cite web |date=15 November 2006 |title=Guiné-Bissau: Televisão celebra 17º aniversário com 14 horas de emissão |url=http://www.portalangop.co.ao/angola/pt_pt/noticias/africa/2006/10/46/Guine-Bissau-Televisao-celebra-aniversario-com-horas-emissao,1aa7234a-a086-4312-bf44-602ec1476f01.html |access-date=9 October 2015 |publisher=Agência Angola Press}}{{cite web |author=LUSA (Agência de Notícias de Portugal, S.A.) |date=14 November 2007 |title=Único canal de televisão da Guiné-Bissau comemora 18 anos |url=http://www.rtp.pt/noticias/mundo/unico-canal-de-televisao-da-guine-bissau-comemora-18-anos_n142263 |access-date=9 October 2015 |publisher=Rádio e Televisão de Portugal}} {{flagicon|Moldavian SSR}} Gagauz ASSR ({{ill|Gagauziya Radio Televizionu|lt=Comrat Television|gag}})

! Year

! Countries and territories

| {{flag|Akrotiri and Dhekelia}} (SSVC TV Cyprus),{{cite web |title=Where it all began – 1980s and 1990s |url=https://about.bfbs.com/our-history |access-date=8 May 2024 |publisher=BFBS}} {{flag|Cayman Islands|old}} (Cayman 27, now defunct), {{flag|Falkland Islands|1948}} (FITV),{{efn|Television broadcasts had also been received from Argentina.}} {{flag|Fiji}} (FijiTV),{{efn|Television came to Fiji in part-time for the 1991 Rugby World Cup, and it arrived in full-time in 1994.}} {{flag|Nauru}} (NTV)

| {{flagcountry|Republika Srpska (1992–1995)}} (RTV Krajina Banja Luka), {{flag|São Tomé and Príncipe}} (TVS, regular), {{flag|Solomon Islands}} (TTV), {{flag|South Ossetia}} (Ir),{{cite web |date=2019-12-08 |title=They were the first: on December 8, 1992, television appeared in South Ossetia |url=http://cominf.org/en/node/1166526942 |access-date=2024-01-24 |website=Государственное информационное агентство "Рес" |language=ru}} {{flag|Transnistria}} (PMR TV), {{flag|Vanuatu}} (TBV, experimental), {{flag|Rwanda|1962}} (TVR)

| {{flag|Eritrea|1992}} (Eri-TV), {{flag|San Marino|1862}} (San Marino RTV), {{flag|Vanuatu}} (TBV), {{flag|Western Samoa}} (SBC Television 1)

| {{flag|Andorra}} (ATV),{{efn|ATV's origins trace back to the early 90s as an opt-out in the local relay of TVC's second channel, Canal 33.}} {{flag|Gambia}} (Gambia Radio & Television Service), Saint Helena (Sure South Atlantic Ltd), {{flag|Turks and Caicos Islands|1968}} (WIV Channel 4)

| {{flag|Palestine}} (PBC)

| {{flag|Montserrat}} (Peoples Television),{{efn|Previously relayed broadcasts from Antigua and Barbuda.}}{{cite web |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/BOOKSHELF-ARH/Business/World-Communicatiions-Unesco-1975.pdf |title=World Communications |date=1975 |publisher=UNESCO |accessdate=24 April 2024 |page=181}} {{flag|Somaliland}} (Somaliland Television){{cite web |title=Somaliland National Television |url=https://mingc.govsomaliland.org/article/somaliland-national-television |access-date=9 January 2004 |website=somalilandlaw.com |date= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230923141457/https://mingc.govsomaliland.org/article/somaliland-national-television |archive-date=23 September 2023 |url-status=live}}

| {{flag|Belgium}} ({{flag|German-speaking Community}} (KA3)),{{efn|Sporadic broadcasts in association with a local Francophone cable channel in 1993. Start of the German-language service. Excludes German TV received by overspill and cable and the adjacent services from RTBF in French.}} {{flag|Bhutan}} (BBS),{{cite news |title=Bhutan TV Follows Cyber Launch |work=BBC News |date=2 June 1999 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/358230.stm}} {{flag|Malawi}} (TVM),{{cite web |title=At the Crossroads: Freedom of Expression in Malawi |url=https://www.article19.org/data/files/pdfs/publications/malawi-at-the-crossroads.pdf |access-date=3 November 2023 |website=Article 19 |date=March 2000 |archive-url= |archive-date=}} {{flag|Tuvalu}} (limited service){{cite web |title=TUVALU: 2002 Economic and Public Sector Review |url=https://www.adb.org/sites/default/files/publication/28817/tuvalu-2002-epsr.pdf |access-date=8 April 2024 |website=Asian Development Bank |date=November 2002 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160318063229/https://www.adb.org/sites/default/files/publication/28817/tuvalu-2002-epsr.pdf |archive-date=18 March 2016 |url-status=live}}

! Year

! Countries and territories

| {{flag|Botswana}} (BTV, national), {{flag|Tonga}} (TV Tonga, national), {{flag|Saba|name=Saba Department}} (STN)

| {{flag|Tokelau}} (foreign channels, no local service),{{cite book |first=Narini |last=Rajan |title=The Digitized Imagination: Encounters with the Virtual World |date=23 April 2012 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-136-51633-7 |page=102}} {{flag|Tristan da Cunha}} (BFBS, live service)

| {{flag|Kiribati}} (TV Kiribati, native, but suspended from 2013 to 2018)

| {{flag|Christmas Island}} (experimental)

| {{flag|Comoros}} (ORTC), {{flag|Palau}} (OTV, returned),{{efn|Excluding the cable network installed by the PNCC in 1990.}} {{flag|Pitcairn Islands}},{{cite book |title=Pitcairn Island as a Port of Call |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_qYb8TcQEH8C&dq=%22Pitcairn+Island%22+%22Television%22&pg=PA311 |access-date=February 16, 2024 |publisher=McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers |date=March 23, 2012 |isbn=978-0-7864-8822-3}} {{flagicon|Hamas}} Gaza Strip (Al-Aqsa TV)

| {{flag|Liechtenstein}} (1 FL TV),{{efn|Liechtenstein previously received television broadcasts from Switzerland.}} {{flag|Bonaire}} (NOSTV Bonaire)){{cite web |title=About us |url=http://www.nostvbonaire.com/about/ |publisher=NOSTV Bonaire |access-date=13 June 2024}}

| {{flag|Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic}} (RASD TV){{efn|RASD TV was established in February 2004, but didn't broadcast its regular transmissions until 2009.}}{{cite news |title=Sahrawis launch national television |url=http://www.afrol.com/articles/33324 |publisher=Afrol News |date=2009-05-21 |accessdate=2012-06-03}}

| {{flag|Sint Maarten}} (TV-CARIB)),{{cite web |title=About TV-CARIB |url=http://www.wtntv.com/about.html |publisher=TV-CARIB |access-date=13 June 2024}} {{flag|South Sudan}} (South Sudan Television){{efn|Became the national broadcaster upon independence in 2011.}}

| {{flag|Norfolk Island}} (TVNI, local)

| {{flag|Sint Eustatius}} (NOSTV Sint Eustatius)

| {{flag|Donetsk People's Republic}} (Novorossiya TV),{{efn|name="LPRDPR"|Excludes local stations that existed before and were confiscated by the new regimes. Suspilne still has channels for the occupied areas, which as of 2024 are "temporarily occupied" according to the official stance of the Ukrainian government.}} {{flag|Luhansk People's Republic}} (Luhansk 24){{cite web |title=Occupied Territories of Ukraine: Russia propaganda machine continues to absorb local media |date=6 December 2023 |url=https://rsf.org/en/occupied-territories-ukraine-russia-propaganda-machine-continues-absorb-local-media |publisher=Reporters Without Borders |access-date=1 May 2024}}{{efn|name="LPRDPR"}}

| {{flag|Kiribati}} (Kiri 1 TV, returned){{cite web |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/356431/kiribati-tv-venture-hopes-to-connect-islands |title=Kiribati TV venture hopes to connect islands |publisher=RNZ |date=2 May 2018 |access-date=2 April 2023}}

| {{flag|Tuvalu}} (returned, Tuvalu.TV){{cite news |title=Tuvalu Parliament sessions go live |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/404419/tuvalu-parliament-sessions-go-live |accessdate=8 April 2024 |newspaper=Radio New Zealand |date=29 November 2019 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191129025317/https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/404419/tuvalu-parliament-sessions-go-live |archive-date=29 November 2019}}

| {{flag|Cocos (Keeling) Islands}}{{Citation needed|date=April 2025}}

| {{flag|Clipperton Island}}

| {{flag|Christmas Island}} (official launch on TV)