We Television
We Television (PRWE-TV), formerly known as WETV, Warang Network, E-Warang and Warang Educational is a non-commercial television station headquartered in and licensed to Camden, Warang, and is the public television station for the state. It holds a dual affiliation with Culture Television and TV Bensonia. It operates on physical channel 36 (virtual channel 9) and is owned by the state government.
Throughout its history, it was at the center of numerous changes within its administration, for the most part related to internal meddling between state governors and network administrators.
History[edit | edit source]
Preceding licenses[edit | edit source]
The first license round for channel 9 in Camden started in 1973. At the time, there were three television stations available, PRCM-TV (channel 4), PRMW-TV (channel 6) and PRWA-TV (channel 12). All three stations were commercial. The government, eyeing emulations from other states, wanted to give the channel 9 license to itself, but due to government shortages, said station was unable to broadcast on said frequency. Bids for channels 2 and 7 were proven to be weaker.
In 1976, the bid for channel 9 was reactivated. Since no commercial entity was interested, the state government won by default. Warang Educational Television was given a 12-month license to begin operating, initially in Camden, and then to the rest of the state by microwave links, starting June 1976.
Founding[edit | edit source]
Months after the state governor Robert Samuels signed the contract with the federal president, equipment from Grand Rapids arrived. The first test broadcasts were conducted in October 1976.
WETV[edit | edit source]
The channel adopted the WETV branding in 1990.
Warang Network[edit | edit source]
Warang Educational[edit | edit source]
The channel was renamed Warang Educational in late 2004. Beginning in December 2007, it became a "charter affiliate" of TV Bensonia.
In 2010, its license got renewed for another ten years.
Accusations of government bias[edit | edit source]
Robert Richardson, governor of Warang, had his own television program upon being elected (Call for Warang). The program was considered "fraudulent" to the eyes of the opposition.
Warang Educational got its broadcasts suspended on January 22, 2008 and resumed at 10:40pm that same day. Warang Educational was forbidden from carrying programming from Culture for an "undisclosed period of time".
E-Warang[edit | edit source]
After an opposition leader defeated Richardson, he set up a modernization plan for Warang Educational, adopting the E-Warang brand name. This was made official in 2011. Robert Richardson was later banned from the station.
Return to Warang Educational[edit | edit source]
We Television[edit | edit source]
In October 2018, following the election of the new state governor, a trademark appeared, saying that the channel was to be renamed "We Television". This sparked angers from a Sierran channel called WE TV, unrelated in concept to the Warangian channel. An official said that "the idea of the rename was to turn our initials into a word, "We", to reflect its position in Warangian life".
The new We Television signed on for the first time on May 14, 2019. As compensation, We had to call its main channel "We One".
Digital signal[edit | edit source]
The channel's signal is multiplexed:
- 9.1 - We One
- 9.2 - We Tourism
We (then Warang Educational) shut down its analog signal at 23:59 on January 31, 2018, in accordance with the federal government's chronogram.
