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{{Infobox network
| network_name = Bulgarian National Television
| network_logo = [[File:
| country = [[Bulgaria]]
| network_type = [[Terrestrial television|Broadcast]] [[television]] and [[Website|internet]]
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[[File:БНТ.png|thumb|First BNT standalone logo used 1959–2008]]
[[File:BNT.png|thumb|Second BNT logo used 2008-2018]]
The '''Bulgarian National Television''' ({{lang-bg|Българска национална телевизия}}, ''Bŭlgarska natsionalna televiziya'') or '''BNT''' (БНТ) is the [[public broadcasting|public broadcaster]] of [[Bulgaria]]. The company was founded in 1959 and began [[broadcasting]] on December 26 of the same year.<ref>{{cite web|title=About Us|url=http://bnt.bg/za-bnt/za-nas/|publisher=Bulgarian National Television|accessdate=28 July 2014|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140728062934/http://bnt.bg/za-bnt/za-nas/|archivedate=28 July 2014|df=}}</ref> It began broadcasting in color in 1970. BNT's [[headquarters]] are located in [[Sofia, Bulgaria]], in a building located at the well-known address of 29 San Stefano Str.
BNT's first live broadcast was the parade on the occasion of the [[October Revolution]] anniversary.
BNT is funded from government funds (around 60%) with the rest coming from [[television commercial]]s.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Däther|first1=Kerstin|last2=Scheuer|first2=Alexander|last3=Tscholakov|first3=Radomir|title=The Financing of Public Service Broadcasting in Selected Central and Eastern European States|url=http://www.obs.coe.int/oea_publ/iris/iris_plus/focus6_2000.pdf.en|website=www.obs.coe.int|publisher=[[European Audiovisual Observatory]]|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20010629010159/http://www.obs.coe.int/oea_publ/iris/iris_plus/focus6_2000.pdf.en|archivedate=29 June 2001|page=2}}</ref> It broadcasts two [[television]] channels: the over-the-air [[BNT 1]] and the international [[BNT
BNT operates four regional broadcasting centres, based in [[Blagoevgrad]] (''Pirin'' programme), [[Varna]] (''More'' programme), [[Plovdiv]] (''Plovdiv'' programme) and [[Rousse]] (''Sever'' programme). They were merged to create the [[BNT 2]] channel in October 2011.
After Bulgaria started official [[DVB-T]] transmissions on March 1, 2013, BNT got its own multiplex, which is available nationally and is operated by First Digital Ltd. The multiplex includes [[BNT 1]] and [[BNT 2]]. The first new channel to be included to the multiplex is the new [[HDTV]] channel [[BNT
==History==
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