Telad

Telad is an Israeli production company. The company is mostly known for being one of the three concessionaires whom ran the Israeli commercial television channel Channel 2 between the years 1993–2005.

History

The company was founded in the 1960s as a small production company in Jerusalem named "Idan" and provided services to the Israeli channel 1 and to TV stations worldwide. “Idan” was reestablished In 1973 into “Telad” as part of a joint establishment with the Israeli investment firm Israel Discount Bank.

In the early 1990s "Telad" upgraded its position after winning the bid to operate the newly established Channel 2 and was the first of the three concessionaires to broadcast the first transmissions on the opening day of channel 2 on 4 November 1993. Later on, during the late 1990s, Telad acquired exclusive broadcasting rights of TV channels broadcast on the satellite TV and cable TV – among them The History Channel, E! channel, Biography Channel and the MGM channel. In 2008 Telad launched the SHE channel which was aimed for female viewers. Telad was also the owner of the sports website ONE .