Talk:Korean Central Broadcasting Committee

Talk about boring!
And I thought USA television programming was insipid. Stephanie Weil 18:38, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Good Luck
Uh, 1973beijinger, good luck on that one! North Korea protects its stuff very carefully, and I'm even surprised that you got enough information to create an article about the channel, lol! Did you know that KCTV is only one of the only four TV channels in North Korea? I don't think I would survive..--Princess Janay (talk) 01:34, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Note
Part of the article states: "only around 40% of North Koreans own a television set," this is completely unsourced; my own personal search on the issue was able turned up this: Televisions: 1,200,000 [76th of 215 nations], Televisions (per capita): 52.3743 per 1,000 people [152nd of 209 nations]

Source: http://www.nationmaster.com/red/country/kn-korea-north/med-media&all=1 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.181.235.191 (talk) 06:25, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

TV
Guess what? I actually found a broadcast of North Korean TV. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gnx3b685asU —Preceding unsigned comment added by Princess Janay (talk • contribs) 01:38, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

"Typical Day's Broadcasting"
Interesting to note that 8th October 2006 is the anniversary of the day that Kim Jong-Il took the title of General Secretary of the Worker's Party and thus became official leader of North Korea, hardly a "typical day".

Reception of KCTV outside of the DPRK
There is now an unofficial LIVE Internet stream for KCTV which is hosted by Chosun.com. Would it be appropriate or inappropriate to include it in the article either as a * < /ref >* or under External links? TheGoofyGolfer (talk) 23:11, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

Callsigns?
Do the transmitters of KCTV ever identify by callsign? it should start with HM or P5 through P9. 68.227.174.198 (talk) 22:27, 27 May 2013 (UTC)

Oddly worded
Portions of this article are oddly worded to the point of being incomprehensible.

"KCTV was the first live colour television channel to broadcast the New Year's Eve in colour on 31 December 1974". The New Year's Eve what?

"There is another exception, for the emergency events in DPRK at night or daytime, it starts up without any announcers or the Voice of Korea interval signal. The station is still open until that event becomes normal."

"KCTV closes down at 23:00 KST with the last programme (usually news, weather forecast & music video), a next day schedule of listings, shut announcement, a shot of the national flag, fade-out in black screen of slowest pictures runtime and test pattern was broadcast at the end at 23:10 KST."

142.166.231.48 (talk) 00:12, 15 December 2013 (UTC)

Broadcast times
Am I the only one who feels that having the broadcast times listed in hours GMT, in addition to the presently listed Korean Standard Times, would be useful? I'd add it myself but the article appears to be locked. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.115.25.199 (talk) 06:46, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Just to know (for all IP editors) the article is apparently locked but it actually is not. The silver lock means that IP editing is possible, but that also means that your edit must be accepted by a reviewer. If your edit is not accepted, rewrite it to be more neutral.--89.216.56.7 (talk) 10:41, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Well, nobody seems to have any problems with it so I'll go ahead and do it, then. MXocrossIIB (So, you were saying?); 20:52, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

Live streams dead?
I've tried all the live streams (HTTP, MMS, RTSP) and I can no longer get them. It used to be easy to just copy the URLs into VLC player and play them, but it doesn't work at all any more. Did something happen to the server that was streaming these before? Animedude5555 (talk) 07:32, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
 * The HTTP and MMS streams work for me. —Psychonaut (talk) 09:50, 14 March 2015 (UTC)