Telesaar is the designation of the first German

Germany

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 private television station. It was brought in 1954 by the European Broadcast and Television AG, which also operates the transmitter of Europe 1

Europe 1

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.

This was permitted, because until the end of 1956 the Saarland

Saarland

Saarland is one of the sixteen states of Germany. The capital is Saarbrücken. It has an area of 2570 km² and 1,045,000 inhabitants. In both area and population, it is the smallest state in Germany other than the city-states...

 was not part of the Federal Republic of Germany

West Germany

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and therefore not subject to German broadcast laws. Although Telesaar used the French television standard, which German televisions could not receive, the German authorities shut down the Telesaar, and the transmitter had to be adjusted in the middle of 1958. Film material of the transmissions of Telesaar are in archives of the Saarland broadcaster, the public broadcasting corporation of the Saarland.