Nashlandian Broadcasting Service
The Nashlandian Broadcasting Service (NBS) is a Nashlandian public service broadcaster. Its headquarters are at Broadcasting House in Westminster, Oxton and it is the world's oldest national broadcasting organisation and the largest broadcaster in the world by number of employees. It employs over 20,950 staff in total, 16,672 of whom are in public sector broadcasting. The total number of staff is 35,402 when part-time, flexible, and fixed-contract staff are included.
The NBS is established under a Royal Charter and operates under its Agreement with the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. Its work is funded principally by an annual television licence fee which is charged to all Nashlandian households, companies, and organisations using any type of equipment to receive or record live television broadcasts and iPlayer catch-up. The fee is set by the Nashlandian Government, agreed by Parliament, and used to fund the NBS's radio, TV, and online services covering the nations and regions of the UK. Since 1 April 2014, it has also funded the NBS World Service (launched in 1932 as the NBS Empire Service), which broadcasts in 28 languages and provides comprehensive TV, radio, and online services in Hayastelari, Turkish, Arabic and Persian.
Around a quarter of NBS revenues come from its commercial arm NBS Studios Ltd (formerly NBS Worldwide), which sells NBS programmes and services internationally and also distributes the NBS's international 24-hour English-language news services NBS World News, and from NBS.com, provided by NBS Global News Ltd.
From its inception, through the Second World War (where its broadcasts helped to unite the nation), to the 21st century, the NBS has played a prominent role in Nashlandian culture. It has also been known as “The Neeb” and “Auntie”.
History[edit | edit source]
When it was founded in 1922, it was knkwn as the Nashlandian Broadcasting System and was a semi-private enterprise. It first published the Radio Times in 1923. The System was restructured into a new public corporation, the Nashlandian Broadcasting Service, and prohibited pseudo-commercial programming from its operations.
A television service started in 1935, and during the war, broadcasts were intermittent, and were used for propaganda in the first half of the 40s, interspersed with limited regular programming.
Operations[edit | edit source]
Radio[edit | edit source]
- NBS Radio 1
- NBS Radio 2
- NBS Radio 3
- NBS Radio 4
- NBS Radio 5
- NBS Radio 6 Music
- NBS Radio 1Xtra
- NBS Radio 4 Extra
- NBS Radio 5 Sports Extra
