Television Great Scorria
Television Great Scorria (TVGS) is the main broadcaster of television in Great Scorria, established in 1980 following the separation of the two entities that made up the now-inefficient Great Scorria Broadcasting Corporation. It is funded by advertising and some public funding, before 1999 the public funding was through the "broadcasting fee", after which it was through individual program production.
History[edit | edit source]
What is now TVGS started off in July 1968 as GSBC Television, a black and white television service operated by the GSBC. In its first years of operation, each state had its own television station, though by 1974, a network was created in the mainland, except for Pearl due to limited infrastructure. Upon its dissolution in 1980, broadcasts switched to color and a second channel was being studied. Said channel started broadcasting in 1982.
On March 1, 1980, Television Great Scorria opened, using the infrastructure of the former KITV-1 in Kimberly. The launch of TVGS was seen as troubling and unprofessional, as the purpose-built television studio created for the new television corporation only hired a small number of staff - a mere 8 - who worked at the former GSBC Television network, the rest were from overseas, mainly from Northulia, who provided assistance.
In the same year, Pearl linked itself to the mainland as Great Scorria now had satellite connections for television broadcasts. A satellite link was built with assistance from Orience in June 1973, though it was not fit for the broadcast of a television signal, but rather foreign events.
TVGS now had a nationwide network of two terrestrial channels and still had a relative monopoly in accordance with the broadcasting laws at the time. When Great Scorria's New Democracy won the elections in 1986, one of the things that were restructured was TVGS. Despite not having a structure similar to RGS, TVGS had two similar channels and as a consequence was forced to rejuvenate the second channel rather than complementing the first. It was believed that TV2 was a "false complement". The failure of TV3's initial years of operation with local backing had led to TVGS's growing influence on Great Scorrian lives. In the mid-1980s, tapes of TV One were made available by means of an illegal television station in Porowon.
TVGS started a teletext service in 1985, this later became the digital service Gateway.
TVGS moved from the former Charlotte Street facilities in 2004 to the current one at Baker Street, close to RGS's current building, where it muved there in 2001.
The long-awaited third channel launched with Freeview on September 17, 2007 as TVGS News 24. The idea of the news channel has been on the cards since 2002 at the very least
Operations[edit | edit source]
- TVGS 1 started in 1968. It is the oldest television channel in the country, it has a broad range of programming, including news, sport, food, drama, and comedy. Its news service is 1 News and its sports division is 1 Sport.
- TVGS 2 started in 1982. The channel targets a younger audience than that of TVGS 1, its line up consists of dramas, sitcoms, comedies, children's programming, and reality shows.
- TVGS News launched in 2007 as part of the DTT plan. It is the first entirely-national news channel in Great Scorria. It broadcasts over 20 live daily news bulletins in English and Naenian (Tarambono).
- TVGS Kids is the children's channel, launched in 2011. Although it primarily targets the pre-school demographic, it also shows programming for older kids.
- TVGS Zone (formerly TVGS Bloke until 2018) is the newest channel, launched in 2016. It broadcasts between the hours of 4pm and midnight, although it occasionally screens live sport events outside of these hours. It screens programming targeted at the youth in general, after a 2018 revision.
All five channels are available nationwide on the Freeview service.
Network[edit | edit source]
During the television monopoly, all television transmitters were operated by the GSBC (later TVGS). The launch of TV3 eventually led to the creation of a joint-venture to handle all terrestrial transmitters: Great Scorria Networks. When color broadcasts started, Great Scorria selected the PAL standard in order to match some of its neighbor countries: the New Michillies, Northulia, Lenapore, Hindolania, and many others.
Even though there were plans for TVGS to introduce HD broadcasts in 2007, they unfortunately launched in 2011, due to budgetary limitations.
