Genovian Broadcasting Corporation

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The Genovian Broadcasting Corporation (GBC), also known as Radiodiffusion Nationale Genoviénne (RNG) and Radiotelevisione Genoviana (RTG) or under the combined name GBC-RNG-RTG, is Genovia's public service broadcaster. It is run at an arms-length by the principality and was founded in 1935.

GBC has competed against Michillian radio and television services for most of the past thirty years, meaning that GBC has been viewed by many as "near-obsolete". Efforts to reverse this, despite the lack of population and resources, have been made by the broadcaster over time, such as the unique ways the country participates in the Eurectivision Song Contest.

History[edit | edit source]

Radio Genovia was founded in 1935. The trilingual radio station was created at the benefit of the absolutist administration of the time.

Following the end of the Second World War, the broadcaster was reorganized as GBC. Until 1984 it was immersed in an age of isolation due to the Catholic state the Michillies experienced. Television was introduced in 1953, a year before the Michillies.

The board[edit | edit source]

GBC Radio[edit | edit source]

GBC Television[edit | edit source]

Operating since 1960, GBC Television is the country's only domestic television channel. It broadcasts between 7pm and 11pm. The bulk of its programming (2 to 2 1/2 daily hours) is in English, with the rest divided equally for both French and Italian languages. The country is "well served" by relays of Étienne 1, Étienne 2, Étienne 3, arte and TV5MONDE for French speakers and Rai 1, Rai 2, Rai 3, Rai News 24 and Canale 5 for Italian speakers, so the programming in these languages is nearly considered "obsolete". These programs are still carried for regulatory purposes. Dutch-language programming was made available between 1995 and 2000, this was discontinued after Genovia Telecom made BVO TV available on its television service.

Imported films are also shown on GBC Television. It is reported that these films came from extensions of sales to Michillian television channels.