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Retro: Lithuanian SSR, Wednesday 26 April 1989

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TV Vilnius
08.00 Information Program
08.20 Folk Music Concert
09.00 Documentary
09.30 Half an hour after class
10.00 School Programme. Russian language
10.30 Confrontation
11.30 USSR Men's Basketball Championship: "Žalgiris" Kaunas - "Budivelnyk" Kyiv
12.40 News
18.00 News
18.10 TV Movie - Concert
18.40 Chess Program
19.05 Musical Memory
19.45 Man and the Earth
20.30 Good Evening
21.00 Panorama, main evening news in Lithuanian; News in Russian
21.35 A Wave of Rebirth
23.05 News
 
Not a whole lot to see! Did they really get just one channel? I'd suppose they would also get the chance to watch ORT like it was common in Soviet nations.
 
Eduardo said:
Not a whole lot to see! Did they really get just one channel? I'd suppose they would also get the chance to watch ORT like it was common in Soviet nations.
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The entertainment value of that lineup is practically nil, although maybe the "TV movie - concert" was good, whatever the heck it was. That basketball game between teams from Lithuania and Ukraine might have had potential, but its time and length give it away as a condensed version of a past contest, the result of which was likely known to the Lithuanian sports fans.

Note also that the station appears to sign off in the middle of the day, after the 12:40 news, and does not reappear until 6 p.m. Presumably, there were few stay-at-home moms during the years that Lithuania was part of the USSR, so perhaps there was no need to program those hours -- everyone was at work.

I would bet the least-enjoyed program on the schedule was that daily Russian lesson forced upon the Vilnius at-school viewers by the Kremlin media commissars.
 
FreddyE1977 said:
"In Soviet Union there are only 2 TV channels. Channel 1 is propaganda, 24 hours a day.
Channel 2 is KGB Agent pointing gun at the camera saying "Turn back to Channel 1!"

- Yakov Smirnoff
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In fairness Western Europe didn't have much more choice, especially in the smaller countries. For example Ireland and Austria would only have had two channels at this point, and Norway only had one ( not launching a second until 1992!).

None of those countries ended the state broadcast monopoly until the 90s, probably about the same time Lithuania did!
 
BMR said:
In fairness Western Europe didn't have much more choice, especially in the smaller countries. For example Ireland and Austria would only have had two channels at this point, and Norway only had one ( not launching a second until 1992!).

None of those countries ended the state broadcast monopoly until the 90s, probably about the same time Lithuania did!
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In 1989 we had only three public channels in the Netherlands. Daytime TV was non-existent. It started at 3.30 pm but it had more entertainment.
 
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