User blog:The Testcardiologist/Horizon Television

Horizon Television is the name given to two commercial television stations (EHK and EXK) in the state of New Euslania and Kaidills, affiliated to the Transwest Broadcasting Company. The channel is owned by The Examiner-Horizon Company, who also owns the twin Etohart and Kaidills Examiner newspapers and local radio stations. Horizon broadcasts its multiplex on channel 6.

History
EXK-6 started broadcasting on December 11, 1961, two days after the first regional television station in Neurcasia ([GLV-10] in [Gippsland]) started broadcasting, and two days before the state government-backed Access (ATK-8 - now NTK). The Kaidills Examiner (from where the EX in the calls came) was interested in buying a television license as early as 1959, when television stations outside of larger state capitals were being conceived.

At 5:45pm on launch night, EXK-6 went live on air with a succession of speeches by Lord Wilcox, Examiner chairman Richard Southall (who also acted as channel president until 1974) and the chairmen of the two commercial networks of the time, the Neurcasian Television Network (IBS) and the National Television Network (Four), including a guest appearance from [Bruce Gyngell], who opened TCN-9 five years earlier. The evening consisted largely of Atlansian imports.