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Three was a Great Scorrian television channel owned by MediaWorks Great Scorria, a consortium led by Southern Cross Broadcasting. From February 15, 1991 to its shutdown on April 26, 2025, the channel broadcast nationwide using the DTB transmitter network. It broadcast on analog television until December 2, 2013, when the Kimberly transmitter was the last to turn off all analog signals.

History[edit | edit source]

Establishment[edit | edit source]

Applications to apply for a warrant to operate the third televison channel of Great Scorria opened on February 1, 1989, when the government relaxed ownerships of commercial broadcasting. There were four regional channel warrants - Region 1 serving Kimberly, Region 2 serving Ajoe, Bikini and Triton, Region 3 serving Wade and Neptune, and Region 4 serving the Kotaro, Senya, Kawuro and Pearl. Applicants for the warrants included Straits Broadcasting, Network East (region 4 only), Capital Television, Kimberly Broadcasting, Media and Impact (region 1 only), Southern Cross Television (except region 2), Network Three group, and United Telecast Corporation (region 2 only). Hearings began in March 1989. The Broadcasting Tribunal announced in 1990 that TV3 had won the warrant.

The initial plan for TV3 was to broadcast a federalized system, similar to what the former GSBC operated until nearly a decade earlier, but eventually there were problems with the logistics needed for the new service. These problems resulted in the ambitious regional plans being rationalized before being shelved completely. The network was to be based in Hawkland with limited studios and news and sales teams in the other main centers.

Although TV3 started broadcasting in 1992, the company set up to broadcast the channel was registered in 1987. Using funding from the now-bankrupt Cirnegossai Bank, TV3 planned to operate four or five television channels, one for each major city, but the plan turned out to be unviable.

On February 15, 1991, TV3 began broadcasting. The channel was initially only receivable in Kimberly, in November it expanded its signal to other larger cities, not getting nationwide terrestrial coverage until April 1994. TV3 had to wait until Showtime had to launch and later use Showtime's signal of TV3 to bounce towards the Pearl Islands.

Even during the channel's first years, there were many struggles. In October, the channel was put into administration and was sold to Northulia's Seven Network in December 1994.

Later administrations[edit | edit source]

Seven later sold its assets off in 1998, selling them to Hopeland's Independent Broadcasting System. Viacom became part-owners in 2001, but later dropped the shares, and said shares were later given to Keithwest Mediaworks, who also bought a television channel in the New Michillies.

Keithwest left Mediaworks leaving IBS as their sole owner in 2003. IBS then left Mediaworks in 2007 and the company became owned by Great Scorrians for the first time in thirteen years.

Rename[edit | edit source]

In February 2017, it rebranded itself to become Three, targeting a younger demographic, following the shutdown of Channel 4 on June 30, 2016.

Mediaworks crisis, Robert Ulm scandal and closure[edit | edit source]

On April 24, 2025, allegations of sexual misconduct by former Three presenter Robert Ulm were made public, causing the network to determine an emergency plan.

On April 26, 2025, Three announced that it would withdraw its three channels (Three, Threelife and Rush) from all television platforms after the Robert Ulm scandal, terminating all television broadcasts at 7pm, after the final news bulletin had finished. The move came as a massive surprise and caused confusion among viewers. In the morning, the social media profiles of the three channels changed to grayscale versions, before becoming pitch black at 7pm and subsequently deleted.

It's unlikely that Three will resume its broadcasts. A final decision by the GSBA is still pending.

On May 1, 2025, Prime announced that it would take over the rights of some of its primetime formats.

Programming[edit | edit source]

Due to the massive divestments in several sectors since 2023, Three's national productions were limited to Three News (produced by Our News since 2024) and limited piblic service programs.

The rest of the schedule consisted largely of reality shows, movies and occasional drama series.

  • Three News
  • Below Deck (foreign versions)

Former programming[edit | edit source]

Original[edit | edit source]

  • Tragley High (1991-2004)
  • Target (current affairs/consumer protection, 2000-2013)
  • Underbelly GS (2011)

Foreign[edit | edit source]

  • Oggy and the Cockroaches (2001)
  • Jacob Two-Two
  • Rubbadubbers