National Broadcasting Network

The National Broadcasting Network (NBN) is a commercial radio and television network in Hopeland. Founded in 1927, four years after IBS, it later branched into television in 1952, as the second television network in the country.

NBN was acquired by Capital Cities in 1991, and in 1993 became integrated into The Walt Disney Company. Of the main television networks in the country, it is the only one operated entirely by a foreign company and clears most of ABC's prime time schedule.

NBN operates four terrestrial television networks, NBN, NBN News Now, NBN Lifestyle and the children's entertainment channel Kingson. It is also part of two joint-venture networks, Antena Latina and TVMax. On cable it operates the Disney channels, NBN Sports and NBN Business.

History

Radio

NBN was set up in 1927 to defeat IBS's radio hegemony.

Television

Although it was rather easy for NBN to enter the radio market, television was not at a relatively high priority in the 1940s, as television in Hopeland was known for its rather slow development.

A licensing freeze (similar to that of the United States) was done so that the television service would "test the waters" and IBS's radio stations in Albany and Palmerston applied for their respective TV licenses in the late 40s.

In April 1952, the freeze was lifted and NBN applied for four television stations in larger populational centers: HWOF in Albany, HXOF in Palmerston, HXBM in New Cardiff and HWIX in Garden City. The first of these stations, HWOF, signed on for the first time on December 21, 1952. It broadcast for two and a half hours on its first night and included a handful of features imported from the radio station, including a radio newscast sponsored by Hopeoil (the sponsorship was dropped in 1956 due to disagreements). New stations signed on in 1953 and subsequent years, most of them owned by third-party companies.

HWOF and HXBM were both acquired by Capital Cities Hopeland in 1979 and began to take the form of a "Hopelandian ABC". Their newscast, already known as NBN World News Tonight, was adapted to feature some elements of the Sierran program of the same name. Two years later, Capital Cities Hopeland bought the five remaining stations that belonged to the old NBN.

In 1995, NBN was acquired by Disney. oficially breaking HCC regulations on foreign ownership.

In 2017, following the international acquisition of most 21st Century Fox assets, NBN took MTN's control and refocused its content, with an emphasis on more "serious content".

Identity

NBN's initial identity consisted of just the letters NBN appearing over a map of Hopeland. This changed over time when NBN's network began to grow. As they developed their microwave relay network over the first few years a line was added passing through the various dots on the map representing the coverage area of the relay network. This changed towards the end of the 50s when NBN adopted a simple wordmark consisting of the network's initials inside a circle. By 1964, NBN unveiled a new logo consisting of a ring of eight colored circles with the initials in white, representing their newly-created color television circuit. This was to be used until 1978.

The logo adopted during this period was a simple "NBN" wordmark with each color represented by a color on the national flag. The following year, upon their acquisition by Capital Cities, they adopted an ABC-esque logo in which the NBN wordmark was put inside a circle. By 1986, NBN had changed to another logo of their creation, consisting of the NBN initials in gold.

A new logo was created in 1990 and was to be used until 1999, even after Disney's full-scale acquisition. The logo consisted of a white square with two triangles, a red one and a blue one, forming the angles of the N, with the letters "NB" to the left. By the mid-90s the logo had become blue and was often seen without the NB.

In 1999, NBN unveiled a logo featuring lowercase initials for the first time, with the nbn initials appearing over geometrical shapes. By the mid-2000s it often appeared in a circle. In 2006, NBN unveiled a simpler logo featuring a new lowercase wordmark inside of a blue circle. In 2017, the network's logo changed slightly.

Some of these logos from the mid-90s onward were used by the Napionese television network TVN, as NBN holds aroud 25% of the shares.

Slogans

• 2001: the one to watch
• 2002-2014: It's more
• 2017: Live it.
• 2018: Hopeland's Network: NBN.

Mascot

NBN's mascot is a black-skinned merman called Milo who mainly serves as a mascot for children's programming and relief efforts made by the NBN Cares sub-division. He also serves as the mascot of Kingson and also has his own animated series. Milo canonically lives underwater but has been seen living around the headquarters of NBN, where there's a room dedicated to him and his friends.

Milo was introduced in 1952, when the network launched, but got retired in 1999. In 2011, new management brought Milo back, updating his design "for the sake of modern times", with an animated series to accompany his return. Since then he has become Hopeland's most popular mascot. He also has a Twitter account and toys featuring him are popular in Hopeland and even abroad. He is also the mascot of Kingson.

Programming

News

• NBN Morning News
• NBN News at 12
• NBN World News
• NBN News at 11:30
• 20/20

Talk-shows

• The View
• The Chew

Soap operas

• General Hospital

Primetime fiction from the USS

• Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Quantico
• Once Upon a Time
• Good Doctor

Other imports

• Housemates
• Home and Away

Adaptations of talent show formats

• Dancing with the Stars
• Shark Tank
• Hopelandian Idol

Sports

• The League
• Coverage of the Summer and Winter Olympics
• Coverage of the World Cup

Original primetime fiction

• Someone Like Me
• Them Next Door

Playhouse Disney/Disney Junior programming (6-8am on weekends)

• Mickey and the Roadster Racers
• Sofia the First
• Mickey Mouse Clubhouse
• Choopies
• Jungle Junction
• Handy Manny
• Little Einsteins
• VocabuLARRY
• Rabbids Invasion
• Stitches
• Lale Ki Lolu
• Angry Birds Blues

Toon Disney/Jetix/Disney Channel/Disney XD programming (weekends)

• Star vs. the Forces of Evil
• Hannah Montana
• Stuck in the Middle
• The Proud Family
• Phineas and Ferb
• Fish Hooks
• Pucca
• Kim Possible
• Angry Birds Toons
• Piggy Tales
• Angry Birds Stella