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).
 * Basically an MV1.
 * When it started it predicted Télécinq's "try hard to be chic" phase. At least the channel survived.

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?
 * Back in the 90s they aired Texican and Rencuesian feuilletons.
 * Even TLC got in and aired some Talcian series in French, then the experiment failed.
 * 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.
 * Used to be aligned with Le Huit and Ici.
 * Since Mediaset bought the channel outright in late 2019, the channel stopped being aligned with any Roterlanese network, partly because of the Roterlanese experiment Télécinq (it failed).
 * Speaking of Télécinq, the transitional network started on November 1, 2019 and ended on January 5, 2020.
 * Oddly enough Mediaset's 5 became a fruitful network.
 * When Eurdevision was cancelled, ratings skyrocketed as they screened the first season of Eurdegames while the flop Eurdecia Shines a Light put Une at Trois levels.

Cable and satellite

 * Carte: although the idea was already in a country in Nara, the name was actually invented by Darryl Antoniw (or someone else) for the ephemerous Network Six roleplay game in 2006 or so. Carte comes from Télécarte Europeénne, the company's former name.
 * UPC: inspired by Cablecom. UPC also operates in Roterlaine, but the brand is at risk in parts of Eurdecia because of Vodafone.
 * Télécom NB: Proximus + some Swisscom. IPTV and satellite.
 * Wait, where is Canal? Oh putain, there is no Canal. Instead it's like Belgium (minus the BeTV) where sub-versions (not subversions) of the Canal+ suite are delivered to the Baillean operators.
 * Canal+ in Nouvelle Baie produces a local version of Le Grand Journal, but C13 and CNews are direct from Roterlaine.
 * Ligue NB is shared between Télécom NB and Canal+.

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.
 * WBC reportedly aired the Cheyennian English dub of Doraemon known as Albert and Sydney. (justified because there is no Barbados and Rihanna is from here, so I own her every Gapian step)
 * This dub is so obscure that Cheyenne barely has any memories of it. 4TV did air the Hisqish dub.
 * WTS probably had the same viewing figures as CBC TV8 (comparably so), meaning that actual chances of seeing Albert and Sydney in the WI are basically the same as in Barbados. The difference is that you already had four channels.

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.
 * 2 can make your longest night, twice as short, twice as bright, we're bringing the world to you on Twoooooooooooooooooooooooooooo~
 * 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!)
 * The best of the good life~
 * Kids on 2 in the 2000s was basically the same as TVNE2.
 * Because a mix of Zig Zag with Rollercoaster sounds depressing.
 * I already have TeeWee in Nouvelle Baie, what gives?
 * They used the 2002 CGeeries CGRT font from June 2002 to January 2004.
 * "I lowkey miss watching Ed, Edd n Eddy, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends and some Teletoon shows there." - my Kaehian self
 * Sometimes KBC Two airs Te Rongo (when KBC One is airing more important things).
 * Home of some of the best (worst?) Kaehian TV series like The Sentence.

TV3

 * Cursed by Chywest.
 * Therefore it became a part of MediaWorks.
 * Relations went sour as soon as an attack in New Eusland, emulating what happened in Taraiki in 2000, led to people complaining about Three and Newshub becoming so terrible and weak and that a Kiwi company was unable to handle control of the channel.
 * Therefore the sale.

Four (shut down ;_;)

 * One time in 2008 they made an animated ad burning the Temuranian flag. Remember when being politically incorrect was allowed?
 * The ad annoyed people who survived the 2000 attacks in Taraiki.
 * Replaced by E! because the channel lost its main stream of ratings, The Simpsons, to the KBC in 2013.

TVQ

 * Owned by Mediaquest.
 * Or owned by Hamins?
 * Also known as TBC Kaehia.
 * Kaehians are so addicted to Masterchef Neurcasia that they buy the license and force them to sell the Kaehian version alongside Masterchef NC and NE.
 * TFW when you see a Kaehian program for the first time in South Matamah, and sadly it's the local Masterchef

Taha Television

 * Māori Television but in te reo Taha, iTaukei and Rotan.
 * One of its prime shows is Kurahirūmu, literally Classroom in Taha, where students of the different tribes share their issues and later realize that they're pretty much the same.
 * At the end of the day, we're all Dolynesian.
 * Some shows have aired on the Māori Television channel in Aotearoa and on NITV in Niukēhia.
 * Some dubbed cartoons are shown but they're all in Taha.
 * What about iTaukei and Rota?
 * Same for the te reo Māori cartoons on Māori Television, mostly the Hisqish Nelvana, later Nickelodeon and now some "reversioned" Kiwi content.
 * Oddly enough, SpongeBob SquarePants is still SpongeBob SquarePants in Taha. The surname's the same. Patrick has a Taha surname (Patrick Fetu = Star in Taha). Mr. Krabs sounds like an angry guy from an anime.
 * Some foreign shows were "reversioned" in reo Taha.
 * You mean "dubbed"?

SBS

 * Took me longer to create the name of the company than creating the names Kaehia and Hopikua.
 * Initially I wanted to use it as a replacement of DirecTV, just like what happened in Hispanotransania and Hokusei, but I later dropped the idea.
 * Owns the local versions of the Corus kids channels from Hisqaida, YTV, Teletoon (my favorite) and Treehouse.

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.

Okto

 * Used to be known as Premiere 12, then Central.
 * There's a kid in me, like the kid that's in you...
 * Used to have a shadow audience in Quranim.

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.

Eurdecia

 * I helped Donaldo with the building of S4C's news channel

Meridecia

 * Gave a news channel to Jewinia in Hebrew
 * There was a plan for such a channel that never caught on

Asikai

 * Gave names to many Murakamese shows, at joint petition of Gineki and Donaldo
 * Helped build the Hokuseiese networks because I have a soft spot for the Japanese system
 * If only one of my countries was big enough to have decent local media...
 * Says you, who lives in a country without decent local TV
 * Brought Mediacorp to Pacifilavia under the assistance of Vengatio1

Transania

 * Suggested TVNE6's continuation (now as a knowledge and lifestyle channel) and TVNE International
 * Gave names for a few regional stations in Neurcasia at Gineki's request: Horizon Television (TBC), New Euslania Television (Four), Access Television (NTV) and Golden New Euslania (IBS)
 * Golden New Euslania = GNE = his username minus the K and the Is
 * Imagine if the state was called New Kaidills... (GNK)
 * Maybe the main station's call sign is GNK.

Atlansias

 * Gave Donaldo the idea to broadcast Neighbours and Home and Away in Eusloida, when the country wasn't oficially under his control, because TK said that Eusloidians have a Neurcasian accent. That being said I also came up with TMB as the Eusloidian EML "clone".
 * To the Celebrity Sharemarket now...
 * Gave DonOnce ideas for UHF independents because he was lazy with the UHF part. At least he had the basic networks finished (with Lumogo).
 * That led to Donaldo reacting and adding more independent stations to Eusloida. I also unanimously approved that all stations would be O&Os because the country, out of the Eusqainia three, is the smallest in everything (size and population).