North Korean TV

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Fire up VLC. Then go to:

http://112.170.78.145:50000/chosun

And you'll have a live stream of North Korean TV to entertain you.

Thank's to @angrychap who used to post here or possibly still does under a different name. You know how name changes confuse me.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

It's some kind of dull film at the moment but earlier they had footy, JCB's, patriotic music + fireworks.

TheVision · **Posted:** Mon Mar 11, 2013 13:47

This sort of scares me a little bit.. We're watching, what they're watching? Madness..

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

TheVision wrote:

This sort of scares me a little bit.. We're watching, what they're watching? Madness..

The broadcast can be received in South Korea. Apparently this stream is broadcast by defectors.

Oddly North Korea use PAL, proving they are at least in this regard ahead of the South who use NTSC. Only 55 in every 1000 North Koreans have a TV.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Brilliant - I will take a look tonight. I've always wondered what NK state TV looked like, as the excerpts you occasionally see are brilliant. Excellent find, Chinny.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Mr Kissyfur wrote:

Brilliant - I will take a look tonight. I've always wondered what NK state TV looked like, as the excerpts you occasionally see are brilliant. Excellent find, Chinny.

Probably won't be broadcasting. Wiki suggests it only comes on at 5pm local time.

At 8:42 - The North Korean Cosby Show.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Man, this movie that's on now appears to be North Korean Rambo. Guy gives a quick burst of gunfire and 10 people just fall down dead.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Movie has ended. NK newsreader is wearing the same outfit as above thus proving they don't have a pot to piss in.

Morte · **Posted:** Mon Mar 11, 2013 14:48

I like how in the weather forecast there is no border shown but they only do the weather for the North of the Peninsula wilfully ignoring the South.

Also lovely music over the summary.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Off-air now for the night. Just colour bars.

Missed opportunity for a test card featuring the glorious leader and a sinister doll playing Naughts and Crosses I feel.

kalmar · **Posted:** Mon Mar 11, 2013 15:29

Test bars now. Does the station close down at night!?

edit, snap.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

kalmar wrote:

Test bars now. Does the station close down at night!?

edit, snap.

Yep. Here's a typical daily schedule:

Quote:

Brodacast time Broadcast programmes Aproximate broadcast durations
Welcome to KCTV at 17:00 KST
16:30-17:00 Test Pattern with digital clock (Music and clock ident with bell, Russian orthodox, Roman Catholic cathedral & clock) 30-minutes
17:00-17:10 National Anthem, Introduction Announcement, Kim Il-sung (instrumental and minus one anthem) & Kim Jong-il (instrumental version), Television Listings 10-minutes
17:10-17:20 News (Metropolitan Edition) 10-minutes
17:20-17:25 Weather Forecast (Metropolitan Edition) 5-minutes
17:25-17:30 Newspaper Review 5-minutes
17:30-18:00 Situation Comedy 30-minutes
18:00-18:20 Sports 20-minutes
18:20-18:40 Military 20-minutes
18:40-19:00 Law Enforcement 20-minutes
19:00-19:25 News (Local Edition) 25-minutes
19:25-19:30 Weather Forecast (Local Edition) 5-minutes
19:30-20:00 Music Video 30-minutes
20:00-21:00 Drama 1-hours
21:00-22:30 Movie Theater 90-minutes
22:30-22:45 Late News (Metropolitan & Local Edition) 15-minutes
22:40-22:45 Weather Forecast (Metropolitan & Local Edition) 5-minutes
22:45-23:00 Music Videos 15-minutes
23:00-23:10 TV Listings for Tomorrow, Farewell announcenent, National Flag 10-minutes
23:10-17:00 Fade Out Black, Test Pattern 18-hours and 10 minutes

I can't help but feel that life in this country would be far better if TV was off all day.

Bear or Bust · **Posted:** Mon Mar 11, 2013 17:08

Wot no teletext.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Bear or Bust wrote:

Wot no teletext.

Pages from Ceefax. Could be done. They seem to be running an analogue PAL system so feasible. Of course I suspect the reason they only run programming in the evening is not only cost, but also to stop the population sitting around on their arses all day "flicking themselves off while watching (North Korean) Trisha".

Their reason for using PAL is to ensure their TV owners can't accidentally receive broadcasts from the South who use NTSC. Otherwise it would be like the old days in Wales where everyone had a second aerial pointing at the nearest English transmitter to avoid the enforced Welsh programming on S4C.

TheVision · **Posted:** Mon Mar 11, 2013 17:55

I've said it before but probably not here... but North Korea fascinates me.

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Mar 11, 2013 18:37

TheVision wrote:

I've said it before but probably not here... but North Korea fascinates me.

It does ne, too.

kalmar · **Posted:** Mon Mar 11, 2013 18:44

chinnyhill10 wrote:

Bear or Bust wrote:

Wot no teletext.

Pages from Ceefax. Could be done. They seem to be running an analogue PAL system so feasible. Of course I suspect the reason they only run programming in the evening is not only cost, but also to stop the population sitting around on their arses all day "flicking themselves off while watching (North Korean) Trisha".

Their reason for using PAL is to ensure their TV owners can't accidentally receive broadcasts from the South who use NTSC. Otherwise it would be like the old days in Wales where everyone had a second aerial pointing at the nearest English transmitter to avoid the enforced Welsh programming on S4C.

I'm not convinced they actually have electricity on for much of that schedule.

Korea by night...

http://www.kida.re.kr/data/kjda/03_Jae-Young%20Yoon.pdf

Anonymous X · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 2046

MaliA wrote:

TheVision wrote:

I've said it before but probably not here... but North Korea fascinates me.

It does ne, too.

If you have a girlfriend from a former communist-y country, they can tell you some genuinely fascinating childhood stories. (Because really, my gf's life up until 1990 had far more in common with my parent's early childhoods than mine.)

TheVision · **Posted:** Mon Mar 11, 2013 19:24

You should get her to sign up here. I want Korean stories!

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

More info. North Korea actually has 4 TV stations, but 3 of them are for the capital city only. They also have funky testcard music.

Many of the videos on Youtube are picked up from satelliteand it looks like KCTV (the national station) has been available via the Thaicom 5 satellite since 2010. It has a wide footprint as well which is handy for educating the imperialist pig dogs. I'd also imagine the stream is being encoded from the same source.

lasermink · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 1883

kalmar wrote:

chinnyhill10 wrote:

Bear or Bust wrote:

Wot no teletext.

Pages from Ceefax. Could be done. They seem to be running an analogue PAL system so feasible. Of course I suspect the reason they only run programming in the evening is not only cost, but also to stop the population sitting around on their arses all day "flicking themselves off while watching (North Korean) Trisha".

Their reason for using PAL is to ensure their TV owners can't accidentally receive broadcasts from the South who use NTSC. Otherwise it would be like the old days in Wales where everyone had a second aerial pointing at the nearest English transmitter to avoid the enforced Welsh programming on S4C.

I'm not convinced they actually have electricity on for much of that schedule.

Korea by night...

http://www.kida.re.kr/data/kjda/03_Jae-Young%20Yoon.pdf

I wonder how they light up the coast lines and border like that.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

lasermink wrote:

I wonder how they light up the coast lines and border like that.

Big splurge, bottom right, inland (i.e second biggest inland city)....

ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!

That's where the CPC was manufactured.

I hope there is a blue plaque or something.

kalmar · **Posted:** Tue Mar 12, 2013 9:16

Wow. There's a televised version of Kim Jong-Il Looking At Things!

GovernmentYard · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5318

chinnyhill10 wrote:

Fire up VLC. Then go to:

http://112.170.78.145:50000/chosun

And you'll have a live stream of North Korean TV to entertain you.

Thank's to @angrychap who used to post here or possibly still does under a different name. You know how name changes confuse me.

You're welcome.

TheVision · **Posted:** Tue Mar 12, 2013 10:22

There was a firework display on a moment ago.. I bet that costs a fortune to put on a firework display every day. You'd think they'd invest in a screensaver wouldn't you?

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

GovernmentYard wrote:

chinnyhill10 wrote:

Fire up VLC. Then go to:

http://112.170.78.145:50000/chosun

And you'll have a live stream of North Korean TV to entertain you.

Thank's to @angrychap who used to post here or possibly still does under a different name. You know how name changes confuse me.

You're welcome.

Told you name changes confuse me.

Meanwhile over in NK everyone is waving flowers around and smiling.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Why are they fitting netting to everything? Their cars, themselves?

MaliA · **Posted:** Tue Mar 12, 2013 11:39

chinnyhill10 wrote:

Why are they fitting netting to everything? Their cars, themselves?

's camoflage, innit?

TheVision · **Posted:** Tue Mar 12, 2013 11:40

MaliA wrote:

chinnyhill10 wrote:

Why are they fitting netting to everything? Their cars, themselves?

's camoflage, innit?

Who said that?

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

MaliA wrote:

chinnyhill10 wrote:

Why are they fitting netting to everything? Their cars, themselves?

's camoflage, innit?

If it had something attached to it, then yes. But it appears to just be netting.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

The scene on the construction site is like the bit in Attack of the Cybermen where they have enslaved the humans to work in their sinister cyber quarry.

TheVision · **Posted:** Tue Mar 12, 2013 11:44

Have you done anything other than watch this for the past couple of days Chinny?

I must admit.. If I wasn't at work then I would be watching it all day. It's fascinating!

MaliA · **Posted:** Tue Mar 12, 2013 11:46

chinnyhill10 wrote:

MaliA wrote:

chinnyhill10 wrote:

Why are they fitting netting to everything? Their cars, themselves?

's camoflage, innit?

If it had something attached to it, then yes. But it appears to just be netting.

I did not say it was effective camoflage.

Then again, if I was living under the brutal heel of totalitarian autocracy and someone gave me a net and said "camoflage your self with this" I'd make every effort to not see anyone else with a net.

And this

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

TheVision wrote:

Have you done anything other than watch this for the past couple of days Chinny?

I must admit.. If I wasn't at work then I would be watching it all day. It's fascinating!

It's abit slack here.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Sports news now. Missing a trick by not GCI'ing in the glorious leader to score a hat trick in the football.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Football coverage now. Cameras carefully trying not to show how empty the stadium is but failing.

Also, finally a stadium with less atmosphere than The Emirates.

TheVision · **Posted:** Tue Mar 12, 2013 14:06

This TV stream seems a bit lacking in entertainment compared to what we have. So how many TV stations do they have over there? Is this typical of the country?

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

TheVision wrote:

This TV stream seems a bit lacking in entertainment compared to what we have. So how many TV stations do they have over there? Is this typical of the country?

1 national station (the one we are watching) and 3 more that are only available in the capital city. One is propoganda aimed at the South (don't understand how if its only in the capital), one is "cultural" and the other is "cultural and educational".

Basically you are seeing the best of it. Also looks like they all only broadcast in the evenings.

TheVision · **Posted:** Tue Mar 12, 2013 15:18

That's amazing. Imagine if they did that over here? What would people do with their evenings?

MaliA · **Posted:** Tue Mar 12, 2013 15:29

TheVision wrote:

That's amazing. Imagine if they did that over here? What would people do with their evenings?

I would visit the gin palaces and ferment revolt in the ranks of the prolatriat. Promises would be made to lift them from the basement of servitude and up into the eaves of the bourgoise. I would be carried around upon the shoulders of the workers, hailed as a great reformer, exalted as a change maker. A true friend of the poor. A bloody coup would follow, there would be many, many, casualties. Whole towns would stand burning and cities razed. After a generation of torment, the phoenix of my dreams, incubated by the warmth of the revolution would arise and I stand, staff raised to the heavens, to lead into a new era of prosperity.

Kern · **Posted:** Tue Mar 12, 2013 15:32

MaliA wrote:

TheVision wrote:

That's amazing. Imagine if they did that over here? What would people do with their evenings?

I would visit the gin palaces and ferment revolt in the ranks of the prolatriat. Promises would be made to lift them from servitude and up into the eaves of the bourgoise. I would be carried around upon the shoulders of the workers, hailed as a great reformer, exalted as a change maker. A true friend of the poor. A bloody coup would follow, there would be many, many casualties. Whole towns would stand burning and cities razed. After a generation of torment, the phoenix of my dreams, incubated by the warmth of the revolution would arise and I stand, staff raised to the heavens, to lead into a new era of prosperity.

But that already happened in the 1950s and now they're living in paradise! Apparently.

TheVision · **Posted:** Tue Mar 12, 2013 16:04

MaliA wrote:

TheVision wrote:

That's amazing. Imagine if they did that over here? What would people do with their evenings?

I would visit the gin palaces and ferment revolt in the ranks of the prolatriat. Promises would be made to lift them from the basement of servitude and up into the eaves of the bourgoise. I would be carried around upon the shoulders of the workers, hailed as a great reformer, exalted as a change maker. A true friend of the poor. A bloody coup would follow, there would be many, many, casualties. Whole towns would stand burning and cities razed. After a generation of torment, the phoenix of my dreams, incubated by the warmth of the revolution would arise and I stand, staff raised to the heavens, to lead into a new era of prosperity.

I think I'd just watch DVDs...

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

TheVision wrote:

I think I'd just watch DVDs...

They're banned along with everything else.

TheVision · **Posted:** Tue Mar 12, 2013 16:20

Fascinating.. I'm amazed by the place!

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

OK I admit it, I'm addicted. NK pop songs with footage of the glorious leader waving at the moment. If he's not careful his arm will fall off.

Crikey, he's on a boat and all the soldiers have jumped into the water to wave back. Its like a NK Take That Concert but with middle aged men.

Sir Taxalot · **Joined:** 5th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 4842

These cartoons are SHIT.

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Mar 14, 2013 21:03

TheVision wrote:

This sort of scares me a little bit.. We're watching, what they're watching? Madness..

The appeal of Suggs is far-reaching.

Took a while, that one.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Sir Taxalot wrote:

These cartoons are SHIT.

Ohh, tell more. I've not seen any cartoons as yet. It's mainly long reporting on where the glorious leader has visited recently. On Tuesday they did a half hour report on what he had visited that day using photos, the next day the same trip was covered but with video. Marvellous.

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