Honest and accurate summary of Flarlandian television

Channels sorted by Freeview LCN.

The Big 5

FBC 1

The oldest TV channel in Flarland, home of the corporation's most-popular (and populist) programming. Currently like most "first channels" in Eurectipheria it is positioned as a "family channel" that somehow targets the elderly. Many longtime viewers (depending on your definition of "long") have since been lured away from the channel.

Being the main channel of the FBC, and like 80% of the FBC, it is prone to the highly-conservative Standards & Practices department (especially starting in 2011, averted following the 2020 presidential elections) depending on either the government or president in charge, including the lousy 2010 legislative government many Flarlandians want to forget. Sometimes the FBC censors the word "sex" just like modern YouTube does for the sake of monetization.

Don't expect many imports to run on the channel. Whatever imports are shown get dumped to 12am+. This also angered viewers of Longmire, considering that the series never ran on any cable network, and like they always say: imports never get the VIP treatment they deserve.

You won't expect any black people hosting news bulletins, and many people think that the corporation is unappealing to them. That's why they prefer UWB's networks instead. Oh, merpeople aren't allowed to either, ever since Khyber was kicked off.

Inspirations: RTP 1, BBC One

FBC 2

Started in 1959, FBC 2 wasalways considered as an "elitist" secondary channel. The channel frequently gets abysmal shares of under 0,5% ~ technically less than one million out of a country of 130 million ~ and is often considered one of the many reasons why Flarlandians are uncultured people.

Inspirations: RTP 2, BBC Two (Alan Yentob administration), BBC Four

IBC

The oldest commercial TV channel in the wheel of epheons that make up the 5+3.

Used to be the family channel in the 90s, now the channel is basically populist. No, the news aren't, they're unbiased (with a slight bit of censorship from its S&P), the programming is aimed at middle-to-lower class people ages 40+, with terrible and crass jokes taking over the so-called "comedy" slots.

IBC has always been positioned to run like ITV in the UK, as it started out as a decentralized mesh of regional programming - however the IBC brand was used in Wembley and the North West regions (consider the old setup akin to Japanese TV in terms of branding). However the homogenization started around 1996, and the equivalent of the 1990 Broadcasting Act was passed at the same time as the legislative elections of that year. Small companies were fortunate enough to survive on their own, until IBC bought them for a sum of a few million dollars.