Yonhap News TV
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 Yonhap News TV logo | |
Native name | |
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| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 연합뉴스TV |
| RR | Yeonhap nyuseu TV |
| MR | Yŏnhap nyusŭ TV |
| Company type | Private |
| Founded | March 15, 2011 in Seoul, South Korea |
| Headquarters | Yulgok-ro, Jongno District, Seoul , South Korea |
Key people |
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| Total equity | 310,000,000,000 won (2014) |
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| Website | www |
Yonhap News TV (Korean: 연합뉴스TV), stylised as YONHAP NEWS TV, is a South Korean pay television network and broadcasting company, owned by the Yonhap News Agency-led consortium. It began broadcasting on 1 December 2011.[1] Yonhap News TV started broadcasting with four new South Korean nationwide generalist cable TV networks. Those are JoongAng Ilbo's JTBC, Dong-A Ilbo's Channel A, Chosun Ilbo's TV Chosun, and Maeil Kyungje's MBN in 2011.[2][3][4][5][6] The four new networks supplement existing conventional free-to-air TV networks like KBS, MBC, SBS, and other smaller channels launched following deregulation in 1990.
- 22 July 2009 - Amendment of Media law passed the South Korean national assembly to deregulate the media market of South Korea.
- 31 December 2010 - JTBC, TV Chosun, MBN, and Channel A elected as a General Cable Television Channel Broadcasters and Yonhap News TV elected as an All-News Cable Channel Broadcaster.
- 1 December 2011 – Yonhap News TV begins broadcasting.
