United Broadcasting Service

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The United Broadcasting Service is a Hopelandian English-language commercial terrestrial radio and television network that is a flagship property of UBS Media, an overseas subsidiary/investment of Comcast. It has headquarters in Albany and owns eight television stations.

UBS falls usually in third place and is considered to be the worst of the so-called Big Three networks, in terms of standard and competition tactics. Such a humiliation was witnessed in 2015, when the OK Network had two of its shows (one domestic and one foreign) surpassing the most-viewed UBS show.

History[edit | edit source]

Beginnings in radio[edit | edit source]

See also: UBS Radio Compared to its competitors, UBS entered a little late to the radio game, more specifically in 1929 - by then it was the third national radio network, known as HWEA (the EA in the calls came from "hear" as opposed to an inversion of the initials of its founder, Albany Electric). Initially it was known as the AEN (Albany Electric Network), setting up four more stations mostly in eastern states. In 1930, HWWE owned by the Radio Corporation of Hopeland signed on. The two were losing ground to the extant players in Albany to the extent that, over antitrust charges, RCH would buy the potent IBS radio network and would lead to a merger of the managements of both HWAE and HWWE, with HWWE's staff moving to HWAE and HWWE being sold off to the Albany Chronicle.

Jump to television[edit | edit source]

In 1946, the Hopelandian government issued two television licences, one for Albany and one for Palmerston. While not a network per se, the RCH-controlled IBS decided to use the stations, much to the dismay of UBS, who was interested in joining television.

It wasn't until 1953 that IBS started its television operations. Upon its start it was seen with humiliation from its competitors, as the UBS stations only ran for three hours a day - the others ran for a period of between six and eight hours.

By 1955, UBS Television started earning profits.

Divisions[edit | edit source]

Programming[edit | edit source]

As of 2013, UBS provides 87 hours of regularly scheduled network programming each week. The network provides 22 hours of prime time programming to affiliated stations Monday through Saturdays from 8:00–11:00 pm and Sundays from 7:00–11:00 pm Eastern and Northulic Time.

Controversy[edit | edit source]

Allegations to the Nationalist Front[edit | edit source]