Yleisradio Oy, abbreviated as Yle, translated into English as the Finnish Broadcasting Company, is Finland's national public broadcasting company, founded in 1926. It is a joint-stock company, which is 99.98% owned by the Finnish state and employs around 3,200 people in Finland. Yle shares many of its organisational characteristics with its British counterpart, the BBC, on which it was largely modelled.
The Yankee Entertainment and Sports Network (YES) is an American pay television regional sports network owned by Yankee Global Enterprises, Main Street Sports Group, Amazon, and the Blackstone Group, RedBird Capital and Mubadala Investment Company, which each own 13%. Primarily serving New York City, New York and the surrounding metropolitan area, it broadcasts a variety of sports events, as well as magazine, documentary and discussion programs; however, its main emphasis is focused on games and team-related programs involving the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball, and the NBA's Brooklyn Nets.
Majeediyya School is the first Maldivian government school, located in Malé, Maldives. It only accepted boys until the introduction of Primary Education in 2010, which allowed girls to attend the school as well. The English medium is followed throughout all subjects, with the exception of Dhivehi and Islam.
SportsNet New York (SNY) is an American regional sports network owned by Sterling Entertainment Enterprises, LLC, itself a joint venture between Fred Wilpon's Sterling Equities, Charter Communications through its acquisition of Time Warner Cable in May 2016 and Comcast, through its NBC Sports Group subsidiary. The channel primarily broadcasts games and related programming involving the New York Mets, but also carries supplementary coverage of the Mets and the New York Jets as well as college sports events.
Television Maldives (TVM) is the public service broadcasting TV channel of the Maldives. It was formed on March 29 1978.
VTV is the second private TV channel of the Maldives. It was inaugurated in 2008. The channel is run under the umbrella of V Media Group which include VFM, Veekly and VNews. It was founded by famous businessman and politician of Maldives Hon. Qasim Ibrahim. It is one of the most watched channel in Maldives. VTV was one of the TV stations which introduced new features, such as an official app. VTV was the first Maldivian channel to show the FIFA World Cup in HD format. The channel was attacked many times during the revolution of Maldives in 2012. This channel's slogan is Aharenge TV. This channel brings many sports and political events to the local. Shows of VTV Fasmanzaru, Ameenge Malaafai, Nuvagadi, Kudakudhinge Bageechaa, V Kids, V select, Friday night with Hamysh, V Sports, VTV School singing competition, Kushuge Hafaraiy and many more.
Mohamed Arif, better known by his nickname Baka, was a Maldivian professional footballer who played as a midfielder for Myanmar National league club Kanbawza Football Club and the Maldives national team. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the Maldives, he was among the most successful players in the country.
Human rights in the Maldives, an archipelagic nation of 417,000 people off the coast of the Indian Subcontinent, is a contentious issue. In its 2011 Freedom in the World report, Freedom House declared the Maldives "Partly Free", claiming a reform process which had made headway in 2009 and 2010 had stalled. The United States Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor claims in their 2012 report on human rights practices in the country that the most significant problems are corruption, lack of religious freedom, and abuse and unequal treatment of women.
The following lists events that happened during 2024 in the Maldives.
PSM News is a Maldivian news channel. It was launched on May 3, 2017, in honour of World Press Freedom Day.
Raajje TV is a television channel based in the Maldives, known for its news coverage, entertainment programs, and cultural content. The channel started broadcasting on June 5, 2008 as Future TV, adopting its current name in 2011.
SSTV or Sun Siyam TV is the private service broadcasting TV channel of the Maldives. It was formed on February 15, 2023. by the founder of SS Media, Ahmed Siyam Mohamed, a Parliament's Meedhoo constituency and the owner of Sun Siyam Resorts who oparates Olhuveli, Iru fushi,Siyam World, etc.
Munnaaru TV is the public service broadcasting Islamic Religious TV channel of the Maldives.
TVM Qu'ran is the 24-hour only Qur'an broadcasting TV channel of the Maldives.
Maldives TV is the first International broadcasting TV channel of the Maldives launched in 2016.
Public Service Media (PSM) is the state-owned public service company formed by the Public Service Media Act.
Television was introduced in the Maldives on March 29, 1978 being picked up by an audience of 90 television sets in Male, the national capital. Until 2008, the Maldives only had Television Maldives as its national broadcaster.
