List of Major Television Networks of Alternate Countries, Version 2.0

Still inspired by the MrHuman's "Political Parties of ATL Countries", this is the second version of "Major TV Networks" thread that I posted more than a year ago.

Here's the instructions:

Country (official name)
One-paragraph description of the country.

Network #1 - Information about the channel (history, well-known programs, is it public or private, the main headquarters and studios..)
Network #2
Network #3

One user names an ATL country and describes the main networks, another gives different country and its major networks, and so on and so forth.

The maximum is five to six networks.

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Although this thread is under post-1900 forum, ATL countries from the other side (pre-1900 section) and even ASB are also allowed, so is cross posting from your own TLs.

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Country: United States of America

A semi-tolertarian state under the effective one party control under the Democratic Party. It's slide into tolertarianism began with the assassination of President Roosevelt by a communist and the rise of Huey Long. Long did not seize control of everything in the media but he dumped heavy money into his favored channels.

PIC- The Public Information Channel, part of the wider Public News Agency. The PIC revives all of its funding from the government and is in Long's words "intentionally biased" because it displays the governments veiws on things. It spouts support for the Share Our Wealth Movement and whatever party (always the democrats). That said it refrains from outright propoganda.

SOWN- The Share Our Wealth Channel. Recives most of its money from Long's War Chest, spouts almost pure propoganda.

PNN- Progressive News Network, part of the wider Progressive News Family. Owned by Long Sympathizers but has its share of dissent and is the most neutral.

ABS- American Brodcasting Service. The only real opposition to the Long Machine. Formed as a merger of pre-long networks. Is continually fined for disturbing the peace.

Country: Nazi Germany

Do I need to explain?

RCT- Reich Central Television, The official state owned broadcasting network, while it houses many affiliates across the Reich's territories, incorporated and unincorporated (the Reichskommissariats and Reichsprotektorats). All of it is managed directly from Berlin by Propaganda Minister Walter von Schmidt. A man who controls every facet of what goes over the airwaves from morning to night. While most news and documentary programs are basically government mouthpieces spouted Berlin's view of things. Reich Central Television does provide many hours of what could be called honest entertainment due to the need to keep citizens entertained (and thus less likely to cause trouble on the streets). Programs broadcasted include various Drama and Comedy series. In addition to various children's programming, Sporting events and other programming, including some acquired and dubbed (and sometimes edited) foreign programming.

Reich Central Television's main broadcasting language is German, but it offers broadcasting services in Dutch, French, Norwegian, Danish, Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian, Ukrainian, Georgian, Azeri, Armenian and Chechen where applicable.

Country: Aotearoa (formerly New Zealand)

OTL's New Zealand, with a POD where the third Labour Government embark on some mild free-market reforms after their election in 1972, and continue a gradual program of modernization (socially and economically) throughout the late 1970s.

Network #1 - ABS TV. A public service channel run by the ABS (Aoteroa Broadcasting Service), roughly along the lines of Australia's ABC TV with a high proportion of local content, but healthy content deals with the BBC & ABC.

Network #2 - ITC (Independent Television Corporation). A fully commercial, privately owned network launched in 1974 after Postmaster General Roger Douglas successfully argued to his cabinet colleagues to rubber-stamp the decision by the Broadcasting Authority for a privately owned TV channel - Programming schedule consisting of largely imported shows from the USA.
(In OTL, the Labour Govt over-ruled the Authority decision & granted the 2nd TV network to the NZBC)

Network #3 - South Pacific TV (SPTV). The second privately owned network, originally a local station in Auckland formed in 1977. In the late ‘70s small local TV stations started popping up in the main centres on the newly available UHF band. The station was bought by Australian investors in 1981 who secured program rights for some shows not screened by ABS & ITC, mixed in with local news & some imported Australian sport.
The success of the format in Auckland encouraged them to apply for a license to broadcast nationwide - mostly on the more popular VHF band - which was granted by the National Government of Brian Talboys in 1982. The expansion of coverage to 85% of the population was complete just in time for their unprecidented coverage of the 1984 Summer Olympics.

Network #4 - United Television (UTV) - co-operative of privately-owned local TV channels. Since the opening of the UHF band in New Zealand in the late-70s, many licenses for regional TV have been granted. Many failed, often by being unable to secure quality overseas content in-between the local productions of news, sport, current affairs & lifestyle shows. In 1986 Waitemata TV (Auckland) & Canterbury TV signed an agreement to pool resources to buy programming on the international market. Their first big deal was a risk - a number of un-tested shows from a new American network called Fox. However, the ratings success of those shows encouraged other regional stations to join the group, which became a fully-fledged network in 1992 and now screens a mix of networked shows and local content in each market.

Network #5 - Marae. A nationwide Maori Television service, launched just in time for the 1990 Sesquicentennial celebrations. This was the first fully national network to predominantly use the UHF band, and named after the traditional Maori meeting house.

Additional reminder:
You can also crosspost your entries from the previous Major TV Networks thread.

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The Empire of Japan
Major world power following victory in Asia against British, French, and Dutch forces, and later against the United States during World War II. Currently in a Cold War against Nazi Germany. Rules an Empire stretching from India to the Rocky Mountains. Ruled by Emperor Akihito.

1. NTV-1 (Nippon Television)- State Owned public Television station on the Home Islands. Founded in 1953 to welcome the new medium of Television to Japan. It airs the NTV News, a popular news program that airs not only in the Japanese empire, but is also followed internationally, particularly in Italy and Spain. It also produces children's educational programming, and documentaries. Called the "BBC of the East." Available only in Japanese.
2. NTV-2- Nippon TV Channel that airs extra programming geared more towards entertainment. Airs anime (largely propaganda, though has entertainment value), films, dramas, comedies, sports coverage, and game shows. Also airs foreign shows made in Japanese colonies (Korea, Hong Kong etc.),Puppet states (Manchuria, Thailand, etc.) or in Germany.
3. NTV-3- Foreign branch of NTV, cartering to colonial peoples. Available in Mandarin, Korean, Cantonese, Thai, Vietnamese, Hindi, Tamil, English, and many other languages. Largely airs local programming or programming previously aired on the other two NTVs. Many of the foreign shows that air on NTV-2 start on this network.

The Lone Star Republic of Texas and Louisiana

The Lone Star Republic of Texas and Louisiana..

Organized in the tenuous years after the assassination of Franklin Delano Roosevelt on 15 May 1935 which led the breakup of the United States of America. The Lone Star Republic of Texas declared itself as an independent nation in 1936, but stayed in a loose alliance of regional states into 1940s in the hopes that the United States of America could be reunited. When those hopes dimmed, Texas choose to stay independent, yet did send delegates the 1944 Birmingham Conference on the American South.

Rayburn was approached by Louisiana's governor Huey Long to be a part of a "Democratic Republic of the South". Rayburn refused joining the idea, but was open to the idea of a mutual defense and trade alliance.

However Long's hopes were dashed by the majority of the south who threw in with the idea of a reborn totalitarian second Confederate States of America, which led to Long and Rayburn bringing their states together to resist Strom Thurmond's aims to bring both states into the fold. Their mutual resistance led to formation of the Lone Star Republic of Texas and Louisiana in 1946.

Television in the LSR began in the early 1950s with technical aid from both the British Broadcasting Corporation and from the California-based Radio Corporation of America, which developed the RGC's first network, Golden State Television (now known as RCA Television California)

In 1954 the first network in LSR-Texas-Louisiana was born.



Lone Star Television (LSTV): The LSR's partially state-run broadcasting corporation (It was partially privatized in 1981, but under the National Public Broadcasting Act, LSTV most be at least 51% state-run. Currently a consortium led by Financier Jerry Jones owns 45% of LSTV.
Lone Star Television operates six subsidiary networks in total. It's main studios are based in Dallas.

LSTV-1: The main channel since 1954. Televises entertainment, news and sports. It is best known for being early home of some best in LSR entertainment, from the smash hit soap opera of the 1960s "Pecos Place" to worldwide phenomenon of the 1980s and 1990s tail of love, hate and silicon "Houston", which is wowing audiences of a new generation with the rebooted "Houston 2.0"
LSTV-1 is also the lead network of TFA Football since the formation of the Texas Football Association in 1960, from the first college games, to the inaugural Super Bowl victory to the 1972 Dallas Cowboys to today, in addition to being the LSR's Olympic Broadcaster. LSTV-1 Sports is best known for two personalities, Verne Lundquist, the Plainsian-born radio voice of the Dallas Cowboys, who has been the face and voice of TFA on LSTV for over 30 years, and Dale Hansen, who has been face of LSTV's Olympic coverage since 1984.


LSTV-2: Coverage of the National Legislature and expanding coverage of the 2014 General Election campaign.

LSTV-3: The LSR's Arts and Culture channel.

LSTV-4: LSTV 4 SportsNet: Expanded coverage of LSR professional and collegiate athletics and full coverage of the LSR Olympic Teams. LSTV-4 must recently covered the entire slate of games from both FIBA Men's and Women's championships, which were swept by LSR Basketball.

LSTV-5: The LSR Educational Television Network. Historical programming, youth programming and continuing education programming. LSTV-4 is underwritten by LSTV in cooperation with the National Education Department, and the LSR Guild of Colleges and Universities.

LSTV-6: "TV Tejas" LSTV's Spanish Language service, highly popular in Southern and Western Texas. A network that will broadcast entirely in Acadian-French Creole (one of three official languages of the LSR) LSTV-7 will start in 2015.

The LSR National Legislature approved privatization of television broadcasting in 1968. In 1976 lawmakers gave final approval regulations for satellite broadcasting based in the LSR.

Republic Broadcasting Network (RBN) -- Started in 1969 as a cooperative between Schramm Productions and the Lone Star Baptist Convention, RBN is best known as a "family-friendly, Church-friendly" broadcasting corporation. The main headquarters are based in Waco. In the 1970s, RBN was best known for a Texan version of the well-known British show "Songs of Praise", and the long-running gospel-christian showcase "Singing For Him" (which has returned 2014) as a competition show, and the very popular dramatic series "The Walk" (The late, great Michael Landon plays a reverend turned county sheriff who foils crooks and preaches the word -- The show has been rebooted for this new season, with accomplished stage actor and former LSR Olympian James Maness as the lead.)

Ironically, this conservative network was the home of one of the most controversial, and popular shows of 1970s LSR, "Wendy: Texas Ranger" Wendy Royal (played by Angie Dickenson) was among the first women to be recruited in the new elite Texas Rangers, and became a down-home SuperSpy who fought crime, terrorism and the CSS...and managed to look good doing it. in the shows run from 1971-1981, it was consistently a hit, along with being touchstone for a generation of women in the nation from Dorothy Willis to Barbara Jordan. The show is still popular with young women today.

RBN also boosts a strong, if somewhat right-biased news division with Lisa Welchel, a former Miss LSR, turned reporter, as the lead anchor of RBN NewsNight Texas

RBN is also one of the official networks for TEX-MEX Baseball, Lone Star Basketball League and the Lone Star Stock Car Series.

Hightower Broadcasting Corporation (HBC) -- Started in 1974 as a radio network by longtime Texan progressive activist Jim Hightower, who later served in the National Legislature and as the nation's Railroad Commissioner. Hightower led an investment group that turned the Hightower radio network into HBC, which went on the on the air as a television network on January 1, 1987. The main headquarters are based in Austin

HBC has, in some respects, a left-bias and tends to play more to multicultural and multilingual themes in its broadcasting. It's news department, led by a Texan-born icon Dan Rather, who was lured back to lead HBC news after a 20 -year career as a foreign correspondent for the BBC, is perhaps the best as detailed long-form reporting on the continent. Their newsmagazine show Dan Rather's Rundown is seen a measuring stick, in addition to their nightly news, now anchored by award winning-reporter Charlene McClinton. HBC is also the television home for columnist-agitator Molly Ivins, who never met an opinion she wouldn't say, which can tick off all the right people...including her husband (we'll get to him in a minute).

In 2002, HBC News starting a cable-satellite service HBC News 24, as a direct competitor to LSTV-2, which by 2002 was running constant news-public affairs programming and of course to CNN/CNN2

This network can entertain too, although it took a few years for it to find its footing outside of news, educational programming and public affairs, yet even its entertainment offering tend to be a but more intellectual, and they've become a home for good sci-fi on LSR Television, from being the LSR's home of the iconic UK "Firefly" series, to their first hit "Longhorn 1" (1993-2000 -- Set in the 23rd century, Commander Darrell K Bradley (Bruce Boxleitner) is the administrator of Longhorn 1, an LSR Deep Space Station that is at the frontline of Earth's defense against a hostile alien system. The show touches on deeper themes of war, peace, humanity, and at the same time celebrates honor traditions of the Lone Star State and the Lone Star Republic and how they've changed to fit the future. People best remember the show for Kinky Friedman's role as Suds Brody. The wise, if crazy, owner-bartender of the Space Station's watering hole.

For the coming season, HBC is looking at a new sci-fi offering and an action-adventure show coming from the newly formed MMDT DreamWorks stable. A production company formed by Texan actor-producer Matthew McConaughey, and British actor-turned-producer David Tennant.

"Gemini-Ranger" -- An ensemble cast led by Kip Pardue (who is getting massive Cannes-Oscar buzz for his portrayal of a young Archie Manning in the smash feature film "Number 18") as Col. Frankie Hash, the head astronaut of a group of the TDA's elite in an effort to get the LSR to the moon in the 1960s, A different 1960s we're these brave astronauts find out that we aren't alone in the universe, after all.

"Pistoleros" -- A buddy-PI drama based on two men needing redemption. Leland Mickey (Jamie Foxx) was an outstanding Texas Ranger, who was framed by a corrupt Cmdr. Harrington Burns (Richard Belzer) on the take with a corrupt Senator Craig Cove (Randy Quaid, who said he studied hundreds of hours of former IGG political operative Karl Rove to prepare for the role). The cover-up and set-up cost Mickey his Ranger badge.

Agent Diogenes Suarez (Gael Garcia Bernal) was part the Grupo Antidrogas of the Mexican Policia Federal. He was good as pissing off the cartels and his superiors who secretly cut deal with them. He was as ruthless as the cartels himself with his tactics. The head of the Mexico most powerful cartel, led by crime boss Moises Celinas (Danny Trejo), got revenge on Suarez, first by paying off the politicians and superiors to get him chucked out of the Federales...and then by ordering a hit on his future wife, a crusading anti-cartel activist running for office.

For Diogenes the trail of his fiance's killer extends across the border to Texas, and leads toward the same men Leland Mickey wants to take down, and that's what brings them together.

Turner Broadcasting Services -- Cable/Satellite Television in ITTL was born in the LSR, because of enterprising man in Houston named Ted Turner.

As the LSR, along with much of Free North America was making their push into space and toward the Moon, communications satellites began dotting the heavens, and Ted Turner sought to ride on the wings of these birds, with a plan to bring television not just to Texas and Mexico, but to the whole continent and the world.

In 1970, using money taken from a share of his father's energy business, Turner started Turner Broadcasting Systems from his garage in Houston. Later that year, he bought a small Houston television station and began buying rights to older programming, UK programming, classic movies and scored with it to build some original programming, while pouring other profit into buiulding earth station and creating a fund to buy satellite time. That station changed its called letters in 1972 to form KTBS..With the goal of becoming what Turner called a "superstaion.
In 1973, Turner scored a major coup with winning broadcast rights for Southwest Conference Football and Houston Astro Baseball, and with those properties began to push for rights to broadcast KTBS via Satellite to free nations from Maine to Hawaii.

In 1976, Turner received permission from the governments of Texas, the Southwest Confederation, Rocky Mountain Republic and the Great Plains to broadcast content via satellite to cable television providers, effectively starting cable television west of the Mississippi.
His Superstation KTBS was carried across the continent, spearheaded by a show that is still popular today -- The TWA on Superstation KTBS The first regularly-scheduled continent-wide broadcasts of professional wrestling in North America

Pro wrestling, combined with his college football package, and owning a formidable library classic pre-Mid North American War films gave him the means to invest in his next big idea.

Turner's greatest ambition was a 24-hour news operation. It took four years of planning, but that ambition came to life on June 1, 1980 as Cable News Network went on the air from their Houston studios. CNN had live footage of a major story on their first day. Covering GPUR air strike against invading IRNA troops on the Missouri-Illinois border at the start of the 1980-1981 Border Crisis between the two nations.

In 1982, Turner started CNN2, the 24-hour wheel of newscasts every half-hour.

In 1988, Turner Sports began with an expanded schedule of college athletics, scoring another coup by gaining priority rights to LSR Pro Basketball, TEX-MEX baseball, the Lone Star Stock Car Series, and LSR rights to the North American Indy Car Series, which made them an immediately competitor to LSTV 4, that started in 1986.

Ted Turner is still running TBS today, and he seems to have everything, except one thing. His wife, the plucky, opinionated, and authoritative Molly Ivins, no matter how much he tries, won't move to CNN, because her loyalty to old friend Jim Hightower.


Televisa de Texas -- One of two private Spanish-language networks in the LSR. TdT is co-owned by the Salinas Group and ArbustoCom (the media branch of conglomerate founded and ran by venture capitalist George W. Bush). The Houston-based network's claim to fame are its quirky half country-half mexican "Tex-Mex" telenovelas (Spanglish broken here), the best of the bunch, the hit spoof of the novela "Caldera De Loco" Which is set amid the loves, lies and double crosses in a San Antonio psychiatry practice (Imagine if "Nip/Tuck" was done as a novela)

TV Azteca LSR Corpus Christi-based Azteca LSR is seen by some as a Spanish language version of HBC (and HBC News is a strategic partner with Azteca LSR). Azteca's top shows include the sci-fi horror series "Lujuria De La Sangre", a Robbie Rodriguez-produce series between a battle between time-crossing vampires and vampire hunters trying to stop them from taking over by trying to change key events in Texan and Mexican history.

The network is also the LSR home of LuchaMex Pro Wrestling.

Fleur de Lis Television (FdL) -- The newest terrestrial network in the LSR started in March 2013 from its sparkling headquarters campus in New Orleans It was built by a group of Louisiana investors led by longtime New Orleans newsman and co-owner the largest independent television station in Louisiana, Ro Brown and financier/Louisiana nationalist activist Bobby Hebert. FdL's programming centered heavily on the culture and people of Louisiana, many of whom feels the get lost in the shuffle in the greater LSR, which is dominated by landmass and population by Texas. Louisiana has a high level of devolution and cultural autonomy within the system of the LSR, and that cultural autonomy and pride is ingrained in FdL programming. From the popular music show "Bourbon Street Blues", Sitcoms such as Boudreauxs of the Bayou (The story of a multigeneration, mixed-race family who run a large bed and breakfast in Baton Rouge), the networks coverage of Mardi Gras (which is done with an intensity equal to coverage of New Years Eve), and their coverage of LSR College Baseball (which won a Tex Schramm Broadcasting Award in its first year), and its nightly news anchored by another Schramm Award winner, Charlie Molineaux.

Among offerings for the new season is the latest crime-and-punishment creation of Donald Bellisario, a spinoff of the popular "NCIS" universe series. "TISA: New Orleans" which will be co-produced by FdL.

Channel Four LSR (Set to begin broadcasting on January 1, 2015) UK Channel Four aims to start four North American networks by 2017. Four LSR, which is structure to be an exchange bridge for Four programming from the UK to shown in the LSR and original LSR programming in the UK. The other Four network in North America will be based in the UCNE. Networks for the RGC-Hawaii and GPUR-RMR and slated for 2016 and 2017

Would you like to visit this world? Willa Cather Landing: The GPUR, LSR, and points West into Asia

Land Of Confusion: The IRNA, UNCE, points East and Europe, Africa and Middle East

Winter Of Discontent: The story of the Second Confederate Republic or Sweet Home, North Korea...where the skies aren't so blue....

Here is what I did for my Empire of America Shared World

British Republic said:

Broadcasting

The main (and dominant broadcaster) is the American Broadcasting Service (ABS), it has 8 national radio networks, 5 national television networks and multiple speciality channels (most of which are multi-channel, for example ABS History, ABS Sports, ABS Gold etc.), the national radio and television networks all have local affiliates (which are all owned and operated by ABS), it was formed in 1925 (Next year in ATL would be their 90th Anniversary).

The 4 main television networks are:

ABS One

ABS Two

ABS Three

ABS Four

ABS Five (In French, Spanish and Portuguese speaking areas this network as programming in those languages, in English speaking areas, the programming is a mix of all 3)

There are the following speciality television networks (with the exception to ABS News, they consist of multiple channels eg ABS Gold 1, ABS Gold 2 etc):

ABS News

ABS Gold

ABS Comedy

ABS Drama

ABS Knowledge

ABS History

ABS Movies

ABS also jointly runs the Anglo World Service with the BBC, it also distributes the service in the Americas, not only that but since the 60s, it also dominates the film industry (by taking over the major Hollywood Studios at the end of the 60s, as well as most of the minor ones in the 70s).

ABS has shown all BBC Television and Radio programming in the Americas since its formation and this continues to this day.

ABS is funded by a television licence, the share of the electricity bills (the rates of which is decided by the broadcaster itself) and the VAT on electronic items, it is is a not-for-profit public broadcaster (commercial free) regulated by the American Broadcasting and Film Authority (ABFA), a agency of the Ministry of Media, Culture and Communications.

There is also a commercial radio and television network known American Independent Broadcasting (AIB), which was founded and still owned by a consortium of newspapers and electronics companies, it also runs several radio and television networks, as well as various speciality networks.

It is a commercial broadcaster which has to operate with certain Public Service Obligations (thus it is similar to ITV and C4 before 1990 in OTL), like ABS it is regulated by the American Broadcasting and Film Authority (ABFA), a agency of the Ministry of Media, Culture and Communications.

Lastly, I would allow OTL television shows and films, although I would encourage them to be different than in ATL, as well as ATL television shows and films.

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https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=322026

Jumpstarting this thread by contributing to my own thread:

Crossposting from the previous thread:

Country:
Kingdom of Prussia (German:Königreich Preußen)
Formerly known as the German Democratic Republic or East Germany. Its destiny changed when Erich Honecker was ousted in June 1985 and replaced by Egon Krenz, who initiated major economic and political reforms. Krenz announced in 1989 that the German Democratic Republic will be replaced by the Kingdom of Prussia and Louis Ferdinand of Hohenzollern will be the new monarch. The following year, the new monarch was installed in the reunified Berlin (coronation was a big no-no in times of post-Soviet economic crisis) and simultaneously promulgated the new 1990 Prussian Constitution.
In 1994, King Louis Ferdinand I died. Because his son George Frederick was too young to reign, her daughter Marie Cecile served as Regent until 2001, when George Frederick was crowned as King George I of Prussia. In both the Regency and the reign of King George I, Prussia recovered economically steadily.

Network # 1:
Preußischen Rundfunk:
The public television network of Prussia, it was created in 1991 by combining the former Rundfunk der DDR and Fernsehen der DDR under a new law well-known as "Preußischen Rundfunk Law". Its new image won most Prussians to the new public broadcaster. It was financed by a license fee (90%) and advertisement (10%)

The Preußischen Rundfunk has three television channels under Preußischen Fernsehen division:
PF1
The flagship channel of the public broadcaster. It offers news and current affairs, drama, and sports. Among its most popular programs are the Prussian classic series "Frederick the Great", the post-1990 Aktuelle Kamera (patterned after ARD's Taggeschau) and Sandmännchen.

PF2
The secondary channel of the public broadcaster. Established in 1969, it offers more niche programming, like culture and arts, children's programming and educational programs. The 22:00 newscast Aktuell Heute was well-known for its in-depth reporting.

PF-Sender Länder
Dedicated channel for each of the states of Prussia.

Network # 2:
RTL Preußen
The first of the two private broadcasters that were allowed to operate under the Private Broadcasters Law of 1995. Established in 1996, it became one of most popular channels in Prussia, offering entertainment programs and news. The most popular programs of are the soap opera Für Guten oder zum Schlechten, RTL Nachtricten and the sitcom Freundschaft über alles .

Network # 3:
Sat.1 Preußen
The second of the two private broadcasters that were allowed to operate under the Private Broadcasters Law of 1995. Established in 1996, it pioneered reality television in Prussia ("Big Brother Preußen" and "Expedition Robinson"). Today, reality programming is still the staple of its programming, complementing it with dramas and sitcoms.

Network # 4:
DieSieben:
Considered the youngest of the major Prussian television networks (established in 2002), it is also the most sensational (most rubbish, as their critics pointed) because of ample amount of reality shows, celebrity gossip shows and after midnight 18+ movie block (originally shown daily, it was restrained by the Prussian Supreme Court in 2011 to a single Saturday night)

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Kingdom of Frisia (Fryske Ryk)
(OTL: northernmost North Holland, Friesland, Groningen, Drenthe, East Frisia, North Frisia)

Modern Frisia was formed by the Treaty of Vienna in 1815. Already ruled by the House of Saxe-Meiningen since 1680 as a principality, the said treaty elevated its status into a kingdom, with Bernhard II proclaimed as King of Frisia. Constitutional rule was introduced in the late 1820s, with the promulgation of the first constitution of the country, and the increasing role of the Office of Prime Minister as head of the government. The province of North Frisia was ceded to the Kingdom by the Treaty of Versailles after World War I. Today, Frisia is regarded as one of the most prosperous countries in Europe, played an occasionally important role in the European Union, despite problems such as North Frisian separatism and the threat of climate change.

Network #1:
Omrop Fryslân
The public broadcaster of the Kingdom of Frisia. Modeled on the BBC, it is financed by a yearly licence fee. Established in 1926, its Charter emphasized its independence from the Frisian government as it promised to serve the Frisians well through its radio and television services.

OF has three television channels under OF Tillevyzje, its television broadcasting arm:
OFT-1
Established in 1952, it's the flagship television channel of Omrop Fryslân. Its programming included news, current affairs, drama, entertainment and major sporting events. Its most popular programs included OF Nijs (includes main bulletin Nijs Hjoed (News Today, 13:30, 19:00 and 23:30)], the daily drama "Poldermole Strjitte", the period drama series about Industrial Revolution era Frisia "De wikselje gesicht" and "1 vs. 100 Fryslân".

OFT-2
Established in 1967, it is the second channel of the public broadcaster. It offered more niche and alternative programming (culture and arts, religion, children's programming on weekdays, minor sports events, educational programming and imports). Its award-winning flagship newscast Krante (Journal, 21:00) offers an hour of more in-depth reporting on the day's major stories.

OFT-3
Launched and organized in 1979, the channel provided dedicated programming to the Frisian provinces, North Frisia included. Considered as the television counterpart of OF Radio Fjouwer, established ten years earlier.


Network#2:
RTL Fryslân
One of the first two private broadcasters that were allowed to operate under the Commercial Television Law of 1989. Launched in 1990, it soon became one of the most popular channel among Frisian viewers, offering entertainment, news and public affairs. Held the position of most-viewed channel in the country (1997-2008), despite the resurgence of OFT1 in the recent years. Some of RTL-F's most popular programs (aside from RTL Nijs) included soap operas "Goed Tiid, String Tiid" and "ûnder ús", crime investigation series "CSI: Ljouwert" and recently, the reality talent show "The Voice: Frisia".

Network#3:
Sat.1 Fryslân
The other broadcaster that was allowed to operate a broadcast licence. Established in the same year as RTL-F, (two months later), they pioneered the reality television phenomena in Frisia in 2001 by broadcasting the Frisian version of "Big Brother" and "Expedition Robinson". Today, Sat.1 is competing with RTL-F as the most-watched Frisian commercial television channel as it enforced its strong programming mix of reality TV,dramas, sitcoms and some of well-known sporting events in Frisia.

Network#4:
Kanaal 5 Fryslân
Owned by the SBS Group, it was in 1995 as the third commercial television network in Frisia. Originally relied on imports, which was severely criticized in the press, they caught the attention of the viewers in 1997 with their sitcom "Keamer 28761", with its tongue-in-cheek adult Frisian humor and a plot of four young adults sharing a flat; the sitcom lasted until 2007 with a audience share of 21.2%. Still, Kanaal 5 is still notorious (and gaining cult following) for its Saturday midnight movie slot, which features erotic movies, both Frisian-made and foreign.

The Roman Commonwealth
-Formed following the the 30 Year's Crisis between the Imperial and Republican factions of the Roman Empire which resulted in a constitutional imperial system of government where the power of government is divided between the Imperial, Patrician, and Plebeian branches of government. Ever since then, the Roman Commonwealth has been a major world power on the stage with colonies in Atlantis (the Americas), Elysium (Australia), and Africa.

Network #1: Roman Public Broadcasting Corporation
The premier broadcasting corporation in the Commonwealth was founded under the reign of Emperor Licinius as one of his "Great Reforms". It is the largest of all the television networks in the commonwealth and the only publicly financed one. Has a variety of specialty channels such as RPB Sports, RPB Foreign News, and RPB Movies. The flagship channel is RPB-I where the the majority of the flagship and popular shows are aired.
Some such shows include
-Eagles and Wolves: Centered around the lives of workers and staff under two fictional consuls from opposite political parties and a fictional Emperor (think West Wing if there was a Republican co-President with his own staff). Known for it's optimistic outlook on the daily grind of Roman politics.
-Agent of the Legion: Centered around a rogue spy who suffers from amnesia and is being hunted down by covert agents of the Roman government and military. Episodes divide into either him coming to a new town and using his skills to solve a local problem or episodes finding out something about his previous identity (think the Bourne movie series meets The Fugitive TV show)
-The Late Night Show: the oldest political news show in the Commonwealth. While it leans conservative, it has been praised for it's journalistic integrity by people from all over the political spectrum.

Edit: I'll include the other channels at a late time.

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British Federation Broadcasting BFB

POD: 1922: Whole of Ireland secedes from UK. England, Scotland and Wales embark on "quests of identities" where they think what it means to be British, English etc.

The Royal charter that creates BFB states that while the company must serve the whole of the nation as well as the Empire and the world they must also ensure a strong regional stance. The national hq is in London

BFB CHANNELS
British Federated Radio (BFR) based on the original 2LO station of the BBC. 90% network programming but with legal requirement that at least 3 hours per day must be broadcasted from regional services;

BFR Scotland from Edinburgh
BFR Wales from Cardiff

BFR North from Leeds
BFR Northwest from Manchester (including IOM)
BFR Northeast from Newcastle

BFR Midlands from Birmingham
BFR West from Bristol
BFR Southwest from Plymouth

BFR South from Southampton (Including Channel Islands)
BFR Southeast from Canterbury
BFR London
BFR East from Norwich

Also BFR Empire service and BFR World

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United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos)
(OTL - Mexico, Southern California, Arizona and New Mexico)

This TL survived into 20th century: One of the most influential countries in the whole world, Mexico served as a leader among the Latin American nations, representing them in international affairs, especially those who were affecting their common interests.

Network #1:
Radiotelevisión Federal Mexicana (RTFM):
Established on 1930 by an act of the Mexican Congress, the RTFM is one of most prestigious Latin American public broadcasters. Its Charters emphasized neutrality and impartiality of its news service, promoting Mexican culture and arts and reflecting the ever-changing Mexican society. It is financed by a combination of federal grants (20%), advertising (20%) and the 10% of the electricity bill (60%).

RTFM, through its television arm Televisión Federal Mexicana (TFM), has two national networks, both of which were watched in most of the Mexican territory (except New Mexico and Oaxaca), a confederated channel of dedicated statewide channels.

TFM Uno:
The flagship channel of TFM. Established on 1959 on channel 11 on the District of Anahuac, its presence were soon felt with five to seven years in most of Mexico. Its programming included news, sports, current affairs, fiction (dramas and comedies), popular films and special events. Well known programs included the newscast Diario Federal, morning show Café México, sitcom "Paco, Debí y compañia" and the telenovela "Solteros con chusma".

TFM Dos:
Established on 1973, it was the first UHF channel in the country. Its programming included niche and cultural programming, foreign shows, educational programming and minor sporting events. Well-known programs included the newscast "Diario de las Nueve", the weekday midnight news program "Ánalisis Nocturnal", which analyzed the major national and international events, and TFM Niños.

TFM Tres:
Umbrella brand for almost all the statewide television channels across the country (e.g. TeleSonora, Baja California Televisión and Cadena 3 Poza Rica).


Network #2:
Televisa
The main commercial network not just in the country, but also in the rest of Latin America. Established on 1952 on XEW-TV channel 2 in the District of Anahuac, its programming are predominantly populist, including telenovelas, which made Televisa very popular in Mexico and beyond. Other well-known programs included "Siempre en domingo", a variety show hosted by Raúl Velasco, the sitcom "Familia P. Luche", the daytime program "Almuerzo con Verónica Castro" and the late-night talk show "Madruga2".

Network #3:
Televisión Azteca/TV Azteca
The other major commercial network in Mexico. Established in 1950 as XHTV, it was considered as the first television station to operate in the country. Like its rival Televisa, their programming is also populist in nature, leading to criticisms of dumbing down the average Mexican viewer. Well-known programs included the classic TV series "Los Inmigrantes" and its sequel "El saga de la familia McKraken", sitcom "Dos por dos son cuatro" and "Oaxacana y Tojariana", and telenovelas like "El amor no es como lo pintan", "Catalina y Sebastián", and "Cielo Rojo".

Network #4:
Televisión Independiente de México/Cadena TIM
Originally a regional network, it became a national network in 1968 when they started broadcasting on Channel 8 in the capital through XHTIM. Although the network was well-known for sitcoms "El Chavo" and "Chapulín", as well as the primetime variety show "El Sabado del TIM", Cadena TIM received a boost when Argos Comunicación became a major player in the network's programming in the early 2000s, with telenovelas such as "Daniela", "Gitanas" and "Los Miserables", as well as programs such as the Mexican franchise of "Caiga Quien Caiga", reality talent shows like "El Idolo Méxicano" and "Mexico's Next Top Model".