Your TV (Ashtalaia)

Your TV is an Ashtalaian commercial television channel owned by the JTS Group and Central Eurectipherian Media Enterprises. It is the main property of the Your Media Group and attracts high ratings.

History[edit | edit source]

The channel's ancestry traces all the way back to 1992, when TV4 started broadcasting as a nationwide network, taking advantage of the nationwide commercial license that ATK did not get in time. The channel was owned by the Vico company, which specialized in video releases of movies, usually terrible ones. Broadcasts started on December 1, 1992 with a quick, improvised innauguratoon followed by an old Ashtalaian cartoon. Broadcasts ran for eight hours a day starting at 16:30. From 19:00 to 23:00 it relayed Network 7 from Flarland under a special agreement. The channel had no news operation at launch and it initially broadcast old Ashtalaian movies, international B-movies, local concerts of trash bands and improvised newscasts. The crown jewel at launch was an Iterian game show called Colpo Grosso, which was shown on Saturday nights.

On December 31, 1992, Colpo Grosso was selected to be the channel's end of year show. It was interrupted for ten minutes at 23:55 by the president's message, after the national anthem it was followed by a quick shot of the channel's presenters "celebrating" the new years, some of them looked visibly depressing. When the program resumed, it was minutes behind the stopping point.

In June 1993, TV4 was now broadcasting during primwtime as the agreement with Network 7 was broken, largely due to the growing penetration of Flarlandian television channels on terrestrial and cable networks. TV4 began investing in quality international content. The channel premiered two Northulian series in 1993: Prisoner amd Neighbours, which were really popular.

By 1994, TV4 was already in a stable condition, as the shadow management of the