The channel opened in 1957 as CBS TV, in 1959, the corporation changed its name to CyBC, RIK in Greek.
Until 1992, RIK was the only television channel in the country, a position it held for 34 and a half years until March 1992, when RIK 2 started broadcasting, and later in April, the private channel O Logos. By the early 1990s, RIK opened at 5pm and its programming was still relatively limited.[1]
RIK subtitled its foreign imports only in Greek, as RIK believed that adding Turkish subtitles would fill the screen with lines of text. As of 1979, the majority of the programming was in English and Greek, with Turkish-language programming being limited to daily news bulletins and a twice-weekly current affairs magazine programme. The Turkish-speaking output is now carried on RIK 2.[3]
