History
Asiavision was launched on January 16, 1984, with seven members: BTV, RTB, CCTV, TVRI-Indonesia, RTM, PTV and SLRC. Three other founder members, NHK, KBS/MBC-Korea and IRIB, joined in April 1984. It went fully digital in January 2001. The news exchange had one daily satellite feed until May 2005, when a second feed was launched to handle the growing number of offers from members.
The Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES) of Germany provided extensive support to the news exchange in its early years. In 1990 Dr Erich Vogt of FES wrote: "The launching of Asiavision has changed the whole scenario relating to the flow of information in the Asia-Pacific region."
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