Israeli Educational Television

History

IETV was established in 1965 as a joint project of the Israeli Ministry of Education and the Rothschild Foundation. It was the first television station in Israel, and its first broadcast, launched in March 1966, was the first television transmission in Israel. In those days the Israeli government was reluctant to introduce television transmissions claiming it would lead to cultural decadence. However limited broadcasts as an instructional tool were approved.

The first transmission was launched on 24 March 1966.

Within its first year of existence the IETV expanded its infrastructure, and began to broadcast nationwide. On 2 May 1968, it began to share its channel with the newly established IBA's general public channel. The two organizations would share a single channel for many years to come, the only Israeli television channel until the late 1980s, when the experimental transmissions of the Israeli Channel 2 started.

When the then Channel 2 commercial channel launched officially in 1993, IETV received dedicated slots with commercial inserts.

On June 6, 1995, IETV launched another 24/7 dedicated new channel "Educational 23" which ran exclusively on cable television and from 2001 also on YES - Israel's only DTH (pay satellite television) service.

The station remained an autonomous unit of the Ministry of Education, and broadcast more than 200 hours of programming every week.

In December 2013, the channel re-branded as Educational (simply Hinuchit, in Hebrew), and focused on a new children and educational programming schedule from 5:00am Israel Time, as well as adult educational schedule from 8:00pm Israel Time. The channel also started to upload its shows to their official YouTube channel even before they broadcast on television.

Following a reform in public broadcasting initiated by the government and approved by the Knesset in the summer of 2014, the Israeli Broadcasting Authority was replaced in 2017 by the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation (aka KAN).

On 14 August 2018, the Educational Network was shut down and replaced by a new kids and youth channel Kan Educational, a part of the Israel Public Broadcasting Corporation.

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References

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4. (15 August 2018). "Hebrew 'Sesame Street' channel goes off the air after 50 years {{!}} Jewish Telegraphic Agency". [[Jewish Telegraphic Agency]].