User:The Testcardiologist/TV channels in my countries

Une

 * Used to be known as Office Nationale de Télévision.
 * Nouvelle Baie had offices before Roterlaine in 1964.
 * Commercial advertising was allowed in 1964, five years before Roterlaine.
 * The RTNB still allows primetime advertising, though.
 * Une has more of an RTS Un flair to it, even though it still shows Quéstions pour un champion.

Deux

 * Has more of an RTP2 flair instead.
 * The director of programming is schizophrenic?
 * The lowest-rated channel.
 * TeeWee for pre-schoolers (mostly) occupies one third of the daily schedule. Compare it to Les Zouzous on TVR5.
 * Some programming for older kids is included, though.
 * Culotées kicked up a storm at the start of the summer of 2020 because of an episode about [Thèrese Clerc] and that RTNB was "indoctrinating children".
 * Someone on Twitter: "Ton œuvre à été censurée en Nouvelle Baie!"

Télécorporation

 * Name invented by DonOnce (initially in Spanish) when he controlled the country until 2017.
 * Abbreviated as TLC (also coined by DonOnce).

Galaxy

 * Name invented by DonOnce.
 * Influenced by M6 and TF1's reality show side.
 * How did Nouvelle Baie get a commercial TV channel months before Roterlaine got its first unscrambled private channels?
 * Galaxy is like the trashiest TV channel, as it airs those typically Roterlanese reality shows.
 * Oh and endless daytime shows about people finding new houses.
 * Back in the 90s it was the Baillean home of AB's butchered animes, under a block made by an AB subsidiary called Club Jacqueline.
 * While the CSA cancelled it because many people thought Hokuseiese animation was "too violent", in Nouvelle Baie it took a couple of years before the measures were implemented and the block was surrendered.
 * The final reprieve for both countries was the Mangas channel on cable.
 * Salut, bande de tarées! C'est super l'aprés-midi! Qu'est ce qu'on regarde à la télé? Biouman et Dorothée!
 * Used to be home of The Simpsons (especially when the M9 Group bought rights to it) until TLC took a surprise move in 2018.
 * TLC put it on La Zone.
 * Secret Story in Nouvelle Baie was inferior to Roterlaine's version.
 * Now they have Big Brother again.

Chaîne 5

 * The channel used to be for the youth.
 * At one stage it looked like the failed Chilean channel 3TV. Here the project in Nouvelle Baie went past but the ratings fell and it became a bit like a terrestrial Non Stop People.

Waller Television System

 * Broadcasts started in 1958, when it was still an Anglosovic colony.
 * First TV station in English-speaking Caribsia, ahead of ZBM-TV in Velina.
 * The first logo was used as a plaque in the entrance to the old building.
 * Upon the independence of the country, in order to distance from its colonial past, WTS signed a deal with CBS for technical equipment and resource sharing.
 * Like the other commercial channels in the WI, I was inspired by Trinidad and Tobago to get the overall gist of it.
 * CBS with some Hindi serials
 * "Need more bollywood movies in the world :p" -Gineki, 2018
 * The Simpsons aired here for many years until it moved to ABC in the early 2010s.

Channel 7

 * Mentally conservative.
 * Instead of relying on Fox News it relies on the Christian Broadcasting Network.
 * It broadcasts some UCKG programs too...
 * Does this mean that with the UCKG slots here, will Eliseu Macieiro win another luxury apartment, this time in Waller City?
 * Or a new offshore in Velina?
 * Basically NBC.

Associated Broadcasting Corporation

 * Also known as ABC or just ABC-9.
 * Basically EBC.
 * Used to have the "Still the One" campaign that was also used by the Four Network.
 * I wonder why Four was never bought by Capital Cities/Disney...

Waller Broadcasting Corporation

 * The corporation was set up with the independent government in mind, yet wasn't inspired by the GRT. On the other hand it looked after NET from the URA for inspiration.
 * This also echoes the launch of the television services in Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, both in 1962 or so, when they achieved independence. However here in the WI, there already was an existing channel, WTS.

Digicel Play

 * Formerly Cablevision and later Flow.
 * Euslon Communications bought it and merged it into the Flow brand, until Digicel bought it in 2014.
 * BTW, the IRL LIME became Flow, however in Gapia it still exists as a separate brand, here owned by Liberty Global.
 * Since it became Digicel Play, we'll safely admit that the service was made available in Digicel's home country.

SportsMax

 * Used to be just SportsMax when it broadcast from Capile.
 * Digicel bought it and it added an office in Waller City.
 * What about São João, Cataledony, San Rico? Is there some interference among rights holders?

KBC One

 * Inspired by TVNZ1 and some SABC1/2.
 * Used to be known as TV One until the massive 2016 rebrand.

KBC Two

 * Inspired by TVNZ2 and SABC3.
 * News at 8 inspired by when SABC3's evening news ran at that hour.
 * There was a Kaehian Top Billing too (though with traits of Só Visto!)

SBS

 * Took me longer to create the name of the company than creating the names Kaehia and Hopikua.

StarHub

 * Why did I bring StarHub to Kaehia? It's a long story.
 * Before January 2019, StarHub was Vradivan, not Pacifilavian. That role has since been taken over by Digsat in Vrádiva, with Vradtel TV acting as Singtel TV (and it still does, under the two-provider system). In 2017, when Malit was Malyra and owned by Lumogo, StarHub was there.
 * When I asked the admins to bring back StarHub to Malit, they rejected it, let alone being a subsidiary of i-Cable Gonghei. When I pitched Kaehia (initially unnamed), I included StarHub in my plans, provided that it started operating later than Pacifilavia. In a way it also bought a cable operator.
 * StarHub operates HubSports Kaehia, as an equivalent of beIN Sports (they believe that Kaehia is "too small a market" for a Qatiavi company and they have to look for a Pacifilavian one instead).

Mediacorp (kinda)
Although Pacifilavia is a bot country, I helped shape up Mediacorp in Gapia :W

Channel 5

 * Oldest TV channel in Pacifilavia, founded when the modern Federation of Pacifilavia occupied three quarters of what it is now or something. IDK, go ask Gineki.
 * Used to be a multilingual channel. By the 80s it was in English and Malay.
 * Starting January 1, 1994, all its contents were in English.
 * I wonder what would have happened if the PBC was never dismantled. Would it be like a mix between BCP1 and Suria instead?
 * Unlike IRL, Channel 5 is on channel 5 across all platforms.

Channel 8

 * 追潮流，看世界，第八波道最親切!!!
 * One of Mediacorp's golden channels, the other one being Suria.
 * Or is it NTV7?

Channel U

 * Used to be part of its own thing, with PPH and Channel I.
 * Channel 8's dumping ground.

Suria

 * Formerly Channel 12 (or Saluran 12 in Malay).
 * Starting 1994, all Malay programs were seen here. Blame the privatization of the PBC and the creation of the BCP.
 * Anda sedang Prime 12, sebuah saluran Televisyen Duabelas Pacifilavia.
 * Unlike the real Suria, the channel has an 18-hour schedule.
 * Selamat Pagi Pacifilavia is still being produced.
 * Currently its main competitors are RCTP, TV3 and BCP1.

Asulo

 * Suria's younger brother.
 * SMKtelevisyen (inspired by #SMKfastfood): sits next to Suria.
 * Broadcasting hours are same as Suria IRL.

Vasantham

 * Used to be known as Vasantham Central, before then it was on Prime 12.
 * Many people still call the standalone channel "Vasantham Central".
 * On the other hand, it was created due to the success of Shakthi TV (which used to shut down at the same time as Vasantham Central) and the launch of Nethra TV.

upcoming Kaehian channel

 * Recently a number of theories have emerged online saying that Mediacorp will open a channel in Kaehia, taking up the slot formerly occupied by E!, instead of giving it to ThreeHome.