Cyprus Broadcasting The Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation (CyBC) is Cyprus' public broadcasting service, transmitting island-wide on three radio and two television channels: RIK 1 (RIKEna) - broadcasted from Nicosia, Cyprus RIK 2 (RIKDyo)- broadcasted from Nicosia, Cyprus Cyprus Sat - broadcasted from Nicosia mainly for outside Cyprus Radio 1 (Proto) - First Greek Radio Radio 2 (Deutero) - Second International Radio Radio 3 (Trito) - Third (Trito) Greek Radio Radio 4 (Love Radio) History CyBC is a non-profit organization that utilises its entire income for the promotion of its main mission, which is the objective provision of information, culture and entertainment for the people of Cyprus. The CyBC started transmitting on radio in 1953 as the Cyprus Broadcasting Service. Television broadcasts followed three years later and it became a Corporation in 1960 when the island gained independence from Great Britain. The first TV programme in Cyprus was transmitted during the British Colonial era, in October 1957, when the station was known as the Cyprus Radio Service. During this period, its output was limited to a three-hour transmission, twice a week. In 1959, Cyprus Broadcasting Service changed its name to Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation and since then functions as a semi-governmental organisation. The first televised News Bulletin was introduced in February 1968. In 1982, transmission switched from black-and-white to colour (SECAM standard system) and from September 1991 to PAL (colour standard system). A second television channel, CyBC 2, was launched in 1992, at the same time as commercial television stations began operating. CyBC is a member of the international broadcasting community, belonging to most major organisations including the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the Broadcasting Organisation of Non-Aligned Countries (BONAC) and the Commonwealth Broadcasting Corporation (CBA). The CyBC has been a regular contributor to the CNN World Report since its inception in the late 1980s and in 1993 became a founding member of the European television news channel, Euronews, to which they send regular programme contributions. CyBC has recently installed a state-of-the-art satellite earth station. Through this it relays programmes and news footage of events in Cyprus which can then be taken up by TV stations all over Europe and, through there, the rest of the world. The CyBC was first linked to the Eurovision satellite in 1980 for live transmission from the Hague of the Eurovision Song Contest; they now send a participant every year. CyBC also broadcast via satellite (Hellas Sat) and takes part in the Eurovision Young Musicians' and Young Dancers' Contests. The CyBC newsroom takes daily feeds from the EBU for foreign stories to fill six television news bulletins a day, including the main half hour bulletin of the evening and news programmes in English and Turkish. Since December 1963, Turkish Cypriots no longer contribute to CyBC, and use their own broadcasting network (called BRTK, which is regarded as a pirate broadcaster by the Cyprus Government). ece and music of Turkey, and includes dances like the sousta, syrtos, zeimbekikos, tatsia, and the kartsilamadhes. Traditional music is modal based on the makams. Both turkish and greek cypriots use the violin as the main solo instrument, accompanied by laouto (form of lute) for greek cypriots and ud for turkish cypriots. Accordion, percussion and recorder (pithkiavli) are also used.