User blog:Colorband/The Funny Television Thing

I can do the thing as well!

RNT One

 * Your standard primary public television network.
 * "This just feels like a bizarro GRT One" - Anglosovic r/expats user
 * Has made some great Eurdecian drama this past decade.

RNT Two

 * Skews more towards a younger audience.
 * Blessed (cursed?) Rivland with the comedy troupe The Inside Men.

TVM

 * ...who?
 * Almost no one in the Rivlandian media cares, as they see TVM as nothing more than an upstart rabblerouser. Despite the fact that they went national 30 years ago!
 * This leaves them free to help other Eurdecian channels make... drama shows. Apparently, they think they can take the "home of drama" crown from RNT One if they work with their fellow nations. They cannot, but it's cute to see them try.
 * The network's name was inspired by IRL TV Tokyo (In Gapia, it's ITS).

Slash

 * Has always been - and will always be - gunning for the same audience RNT Two is aiming for. On good days, they win.
 * Don't ask anyone why they renamed themselves Slash - you're likely to get 10 different answers if you ask 10 different workers.
 * Listen, Network Six's ratings didn't rise post-merger because of the added heft Projection gave them - it was because they decided to try punching above their weight and succeeded. Just because you and Neptunic merged doesn't mean you'll immediately see ratings rise - you need to put in that effort.

RNT Arts

 * BBC Four, Sky Arts, Arte, that sort of thing.
 * Er...
 * That's it.

Channel 5

 * "Perché siamo a Rivlandia? Questo non ha molto senso..."
 * Stai crecendo come un gran imperio audiovisuale in tutta Eurdecia
 * It's... It's Channel 5. But in English now.
 * Don't tell anyone about how they used to have a late night anime block from '97-'04!

Network Six

 * NBC, how'd you get here? Wait, no, that's Projection...
 * They'd had a good working relationship with Projection even before the merger, given that they'd held a stake in the network.
 * Yeah, they're... they're basically just a Rivlandian NBC. That's where most of their Atlansian imports come from, actually!

Commercial Television (defunct)

 * Stupid! Dumb! Everyone hated it - except for the advertisers, who wondered why everyone wasn't watching it.
 * Their last year was in color - in fact, they were the first Rivlandian TV channel in color, which really showed you how much advertisers wanted them to succeed.
 * The Holy Grail for Whovians, in that their archives include most of the missing episodes of seasons 3-6... but no one knows where the damn things are, and fewer still have come out about them.
 * In recent years expeditions were made with grandiose success.

HiVision
Basically the idea was Colorband's and was accepted by the admins. Hokusei has been a bot country since 2017 or so.
 * Like WOWOW and Star Channel, it's made up of three channels.
 * Is named after the HDTV system it was (meant to be) a showcase for, but then some... anomalies were discovered in company finances, so the launch was delayed.

Ici

 * ...again, who?
 * It's surprisingly shocking how far a channel can get on repeats - after all, there's a reason why they managed to launch a channel in Cheyenne of all places.
 * Given the... popularity of the channel (read: almost nil), most of their original series are cult classics at best.
 * When Nouvelle Baie's Chaîne 5 was an independent network, before being bought by Mediaset, Ici ran in its multiplex there.