TRT 2

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TRT 2

Launched	1986
Owned by	Turkish Radio and Television Corporation
Country	Turkey
Formerly called	2. Kanal, TV2
Website	www.trt.net.tr
Availability
Terrestrial
Full Listing
Satellite
Digiturk	Channel 39

TRT 2 is a Turkish television station.

Introduction

Test Card for TRT 2, October 1996, before it started broadcasting 24 hours

TRT 2 started test transmissions on September 15, 1986 as "2. Kanal", and is now TRT's second most watched TV station. It broadcasts documentaries, talk shows, and news at every 30 minutes.

The channel has a focus on culture and arts and offers highbrow programming.

Programmes and content include:

Sinema 7 - News about the latest cinema releases in Turkey, interviews with top directors plus other features.

Dunya sinemalarindan - A subtitled world cinema film every Friday night.

Documentaries produced by TRT and international broadcasters. Examples include "How Art Made The World", "Pilot Guides" and

Sinemasal - Selected examples of fine and more arty Turkish cinema, every Sunday night

Avrupa Viziyonu - Following Turkey's progress with regards to European Union membership, Avrupa Viziyonu provides expert advice and analysis on the process, covering all areas from agriculture to youth.

Rengahenk - Daily programme covering the latest news from the world of culture and art.

News - During the day TRT 2 functions mostly as a news channel with on the hour news plus analysis, local news, economic news, health advice, sports news and discussion. Prime time news programmes also exist in the form of Kirmizi Hat.

Music - Classical music concerts, ballet and opera, Turkish folk and classical music, world music.

On Screen Identity

Like other TRT channels, even TRT 2 broadcasts 24 hours, it broadcasts a short startup at 5:58 AM. On this start-up, first the TRT Ident is shown, followed by the programme list for the day, and Turkish National Anthem. TRT 2 aired many world-known series for the first time in Turkey. Anong them were Married… with Children, Wiseguy, 21 Jump Street, Hill Street Blues, Beauty and the Beast, Yesenia, The Young and the Restless, ALF, Los Ricos TambiÃ©n Lloran, Lovejoy, Small Wonder, Stingray, MacGyver, Airwolf, The Yellow Rose, Mike Hammer, Fame, The Twilight Zone, Magnum, P.I., Crime Story, Tour of Duty, Lottery!, Gimme a Break!, St. Elsewhere, Happy Days, My Secret Identity, Who's the Boss? and The Jeffersons.

External links

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Year 1986 (MCMLXXXVI
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TÃ¼rkiye Radyo Televizyon Kurumu

Type Television station
Country Turkey
Availability National
Owner TRT (TÃ¼rkiye Radyo Televizyon Kurumu)
Launch date 1964 (radio)
1967 (television)
Website www.
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Motto
Yurtta Sulh, Cihanda Sulh
Peace at Home, Peace in the World
Anthem
İstiklÃ¢l Marşı
The Anthem of Independence
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Digiturk

Type Satellite network (movies, sports, original programming)
Country Turkey
Availability National
Owner Ã‡ukurova Holding
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Events

668 - Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is assassinated in his bath at Syracuse, Italy.

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Wiseguy (1987-1990) was a U.S. television program about Vincent "Vinnie" Terranova, an undercover agent of the OCB (Organized Crime Bureau), a fictional division of the FBI. Produced by Stephen J.
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21 Jump Street (originally titled "Jump Street Chapel") was an hour long police drama television series, developed by Fox Television Network. It ran from April 12, 1987 to April 27, 1991, with a total of 103 episodes.

It was produced by the studio of Stephen J.
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Hill Street Blues was a serial police drama that was first aired on NBC in 1981 and ran for 146 episodes on primetime into 1987. [1] It received high critical acclaim and its innovations proved highly influential on serious dramatic television series produced in
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Beauty and the Beast is an American television series, originally broadcast in 1987, centered around the relationship between Catherine (Linda Hamilton), an Assistant District Attorney who lived in New York City, and Vincent (Ron Perlman), a gentle, but lion-faced "beast"
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The Young and the Restless

Creator(s) William J. Bell
Lee Philip Bell
Senior cast member(s) Jeanne Cooper
Doug Davidson
Melody Thomas Scott
Eric Braeden
Don Diamont
Kate Linder
Jess Walton
Peter Bergman
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ALF is a 30-minute television sitcom that originally ran on NBC from 1986 to 1990. The plot involves the title character Gordon Shumway, an alien nicknamed A.L.F.
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Los Ricos TambiÃ©n Lloran ("The rich also cry") is a popular "telenovela". It was produced in Mexico in 1979 and was starred by VerÃ³nica Castro, Rogelio Guerra and Rocio Banquells.
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Lovejoy is a series of picaresque novels by John Grant (under the pen name Jonathan Gash) about the adventures of Lovejoy, a British antiques dealer based in East Anglia whose scruples are not always the highest.
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Small Wonder is an American television sitcom that ran from 1985 to 1989.

Premise

The storylines revolved around V.I.C.I. (an acronym for "Voice Input Child Identicant", pronounced Vicki), an android in the form of a 10-year-old girl, built by Ted Lawson, an
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Stingray is the name of a short-lived NBC television series produced by Stephen J. Cannell that ran from 1985 to 1987. It starred Nick Mancuso, who played the mysterious character known only as Ray, whose trademark was a black 1965 Corvette Sting Ray.
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MacGyver is an American adventure television series, produced in Canada, about a , extremely resourceful secret agent Angus MacGyver played by Richard Dean Anderson. The series was created by Lee David Zlotoff and executive produced by Henry Winkler and John Rich.
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Airwolf is an American television series that ran from 1984 through 1987. The program concerned a supersonic military helicopter, codenamed Airwolf, and her crew as they undertook various missions, many involving espionage, with a Cold War theme.
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The Yellow Rose was an American television series that was broadcast on the NBC network during the 1983-1984 season.

The series was at least partly inspired by the more coltish elements of the smash hit soap opera Dallas
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Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer was the title used for two syndicated television series that followed the adventures of fictional private detective Mike Hammer. The gritty, crime fighting detective - created by American crime author Mickey Spillane - has also inspired several
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Fame is an American television series that ran from 1982 to 1987. The show was based on the 1980 motion picture of the same name that tells the stories of the students and faculty at the "New York City High School for the Performing Arts.
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The Twilight Zone is a television anthology series created (and often written) by its narrator and host Rod Serling. Each episode (156 in the original series) is a self-contained fantasy, science fiction, or horror/terror story, often concluding with an eerie or unexpected
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Magnum, P.I. is an American television show that followed the adventures of Thomas Magnum (played by Tom Selleck), a private investigator living in Hawaii. The show aired eight seasons on the CBS network from 1980 to 1988.
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Crime Story was an NBC TV drama created by Gustave Reininger and Chuck Adamson. It was executive produced by Michael Mann. The show premiered with a two hour pilot - a movie which had been exhibited theatrically - and was watched by over 30 million viewers.
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Tour of Duty was an American television drama series on CBS which ran from September 1987 to April 1990. The show follows an American infantry platoon on a tour of duty during the Vietnam War.
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Lottery! was an ABC television series that premiered on September 9, 1983, and aired for one season of 17 episodes. The episodes centered around ordinary people who have won the lottery--all of a sudden becoming millionaires--and how it changes their lives.
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Gimme a Break! is an American sitcom which aired on NBC from October 29, 1981 until May 12, 1987. It starred stage actress Nell Carter as the housekeeper for a police chief and his three daughters, whose mother had died.
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St. Elsewhere was a weekly drama series that originally ran on NBC from October 26, 1982 to May 25, 1988. The series was set in a decaying urban teaching hospital called St. Eligius Hospital (named for St.
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Happy Days was an American television sitcom that originally aired between 1974 and 1984 on the ABC television network. The show presents an idealized vision of American life in the 1950s and early 1960s America.
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My Secret Identity is a Canadian television series originally broadcast in the 1980s starring Jerry O'Connell as 14-year-old Andrew Clements, who, one day while looking for his friend, Dr.
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