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Launch dates

Is the "launch date" of a station the first date it went on the air, or something else?

The following launch dates are copiously documented for (most of) the South Korean networks:

KBS (KBS1) - 1961 December 31

TBC (became KBS2) - 1964 December 7

MBC - 1969 August 8

KBS2 expropriated from TBC - 1980 December 1

SBS - 1991 December 9

See please the footnotes in the article "Korean drama" sv "History" (the only date above not given *and footnoted* in that article is the 1980 one for KBS2). Also see please the Korea Times for the relevant dates, except for KBS (1) which it didn't cover until the following October, and TBC which it didn't cover for the first week. Note the prominence of commemorative programming on the first dates of MBC and SBS.

I'm not correcting this article at this time just in case a "launch date" is actually the date a network got a license, or opened a corporate office, or held a parade, or whatever. But if it's first date on the air, the only date listed above that agrees with the article is the KBS2 one. Which leaves me suspicious of the claimed launch dates of EBS and the local stations, too.

Joe Bernstein joe@sfbooks.com not a registered Wikipedian, but author of the history section mentioned

66.212.78.203 (talk) 18:43, 7 January 2014 (UTC) 66.212.78.203 (talk) 18:44, 7 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

BTS V

Where's he ? 110.39.77.17 (talk) 17:24, 22 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]