Channel 4 (Porowon)

Channel 4 is the flagship English channel of the Media Corporation of Porowon. It has no competition (though there was a very brief period in December 2004 where it competed against the defunct TVI).

As of now it's the only channel of the MCP as per a 2022 media rationing affair.

History

The channel started broadcasting on December 6, 1975 using outdated Great Scorria Broadcasting Corporation equipment sent to Porowon as a dumping ground. For its first dozen years on air, Channel 4 and all television channels in Porowon broadcast in black and white.

For now, all programs will be in English. We will soon expect the launch of channels 7 and 9 to ease ethnic tensions in this country. We are assuring that all television sets in Porowon are pre-set to channels 4, 7 and 9.

One of the effects of receiving black and white equipment when other broadcasters were changing to color was because of the amount of canned foreign series that were acquired for planned "TV viewing centers" in 1973 but were scrapped upon the greenlight of the national television network. Moreover, GSBC's cameras were proven inefficient even at the short term, which led to limited schedules and days without any programming at all.

Moreover, the 1980 dictatorship deteriorated the country's economic situation and more money was put in the production of officialist programming for air on the three channels. Funding wasn't received from license fees, but rather from government propaganda, and announcers spoke in broken English (Poronglish) regularly.

A small technical failure at the old black and white equipment led to the introduction of color equipment only to play out tapes, where color television was introduced in an unofficial manner. In 1987 color cameras arrived and by the next year, at the time of the Sandong Olympics, broadcasts were in full color for the first time. This was the "coming of age" phase of Porowonian TV, due in part to modernization efforts by the government. Up until then, viewers had to tune their antennas west for Television Great Scorria's Kotaro signals, depending on weather conditions. There was also UHF channel 32, supposedly owned by Radio Free Porowon, the frequency was later used by PBC in 1995 to launch World 11.