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ETB1 is the flagship channel of Euskal Irrati Telebista (EITB), the Basque public broadcaster - the first television channel of the Basque Autonomous Community, broadcasting entirely in the Basque language (euskera).

The Channel That Broke the Monopoly

ETB1 began test transmissions on 31 December 1982 and officially launched on 16 February 1983 - the first regional channel in Spain and the first to break TVE's monopoly on Spanish television. It took the name ETB 1 when its sister channel ETB 2 launched on 31 May 1986. The channel was created under the Basque Statute of Autonomy with the mission of normalising the Basque language, and its reception area covers the Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre and the French Basque Country.

Programming in Euskera

The grid is generalist television in Basque: news, interviews, films, documentaries and a strong emphasis on sports and children's programming. The channel made Basque-language television history with Goenkale (1994-2015), the soap opera set in an imaginary Basque seaside town that became one of ETB 1's most successful programmes, and the sketch comedy Vaya Semanita.

Part of the EITB Group

ETB1 belongs to EITB Media, the Basque public communication group accountable to the Basque Parliament and Government, broadcasting from Bilbao. Its HD feed launched on 21 December 2016.

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