Channel 2 (Israel)

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Channel 2 (Hebrew: ערוץ שתיים, romanized: Arutz Shtaim), also called "The Second Channel" (Hebrew: הערוץ השני, romanized: HaArutz HaSheni) was an Israeli commercial television channel. It started doing experimental broadcasts funded through a television licence tax. The channel started commercial broadcasting on 4 November 1993 regulated and managed by the Second Authority for Television and Radio. In its first years, the channel was operated by three broadcasters (Keshet, Reshet, and Telad), and in 2005 only two broadcasters were left while Telad stopped broadcasting due to its loss in the Second Authority's auction. On 31 October 2017, 24 years after the channel started broadcasting, it was closed and split into two new channels: Keshet 12 and Reshet 13. The News Company that was founded alongside the channel continued to broadcast news to both of the channels in parallel despite the split, but a few months after, following a merger between the Reshet 13 and Arutz 10 channels, Reshet...

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