Television in Turkey

overtaken both Mexico and Brazil as the world's second-highest television series exporter after the United States.

In 1972, TRT broadcast its service exclusively to Ankara four nights a week, yet viewers in border areas were enticed by TV channels from neighboring countries.

Sophisticated antennas were installed in Istanbul before the start of TRT's service in the city, aimed at Bulgaria, the closest country that had functional signals.

There was only one television channel controlled by the state until the wave of liberalization in the 1990s which began privately owned broadcasting.

In 2013, the broadcasting regulator awarded a license to a firm; this was cancelled in 2014 after the AYM upheld a complaint against the process.