Media of Mascylla

The media of Mascylla are a broad mass consumed array of products and formats: in type of online, print, and broadcast media, such as radio, television, newspapers, magazines, and websites. It also developed a strong and varied music industry. Mascylla at large has a wide field of providers, both state-owned, financed by national tax revenues, and for-profit organizations and companies which rely and depend on advertising, subscription, and other generated revenues. Freedom of speech is protected by the constitution, while journalists enjoy an extensive governmental catalogue of protection and encouragement. This leads to a variety of different formats and outlets and a large consumption of media by Mascylla's populous.

Magazines

July 2019 cover of Erkunder

9 February 2018 cover of Exact

A large range of magazines are sold in Mascylla convering most interests and potential topics for current affairs, politics, economics, sciences, and many others. Certain magazines and journals have achieved worldwide circulation and have been translated into multiple languages, most notably Erkunder, Natur, Handelsblatt, Exact and Zeiten.

Magazine	Abbreviation	Circulation (December, 2019)	Political alignment	Frequency	Publisher/Parent company
Exact	EX	464,393	left-liberal / centre-left	weekly (every Saturday)	—
Aurora	AUR	397,026	left-liberal / centre-left	weekly (every Monday)	—
Erkunder	ERK	343,933	left-liberal / centre-left	monthly	—
Die Schau	DS	275,278	liberal-conservative	weekly (every Monday)	—
Natur	NA	220,835	left-liberal / centre-left	monthly	—
Handelsblatt	HB	131,229	economically liberal	monthly	—
Zeiten	ZT	116,670	centre-right / liberal-conservative	weekly (every Friday)	—

Gallery of magazine covers

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  November 2019 cover of Natur

Newspapers

Major newspapers (national)

Logo of the Langquaider Zeitung

Logo of the Allgemeines Blatt

Logo of Globus

Newspaper	Abbreviation	Circulation (December, 2019)	Political alignment	Frequency	Publisher/Parent company
Langquaider Zeitung	LQZ	131,507	left-liberal / centre-left	Monday - Saturday	Gottfried Heinker Publishing Group
Allgemeines Blatt	AB	94,263	centre-right / "conservative liberalism"	Monday - Saturday	Monika Schölf Publishings
Globus	GL	85,686	centre-left	Monday - Friday	Globas Media Group
Der Tagesbote	tgb	51,873	left-liberal	Monday - Saturday	MAIXextra-Stiftung
Rehner Spiegel	RS	45,158	centre-right / conservative to liberal	Monday - Saturday	Monika Schölf Publishings

Regional or local newspapers

Regional and local newspapers of cities, regions, towns, municipalities, and other also achieve note-worthy circulation numbers and are historically popular. These are a few popular ones (the list is not exhaustive): Augusthaler Kurier (110,107 copies; December 2019), Jusländer Volkskurier (96,772), Königsreher Allgemeine (127,284), Flussmunder Schau (107,610), Königlicher Bote (85,000), Mögdpresse (30,498), Nordbote (136,201), Öhrenlandpost (83,505), Pereuther Zeitung (87,463), Weidenauer Zeitung (25,948), and Wilhelmshagener Anzeiger (75,675).

Tabloid newspapers (Boulevard style)

21 August 2018 front page of Faktor

Tabloid newspapers are a style of newspapers, characterised by big headlines, bright colours, attention-grabbers, sensational stories and controversial topics. In Mascylla, they are referred to as Schreizeitungen (literally "screaming newspapers" for their evasive design) or Palettenpresse ("palette press" for its colourful imagery and wide mix of topics), rarely also Boulevardzeitungen (roughly translated as "popular papers").

• Faktor (1,102,374 copies), with several sister newspaper suited for certain regions or cities (such as WeidenFaktor or AugusFaktor) and a Sunday newspaper (SonntagsFaktor; 725,483 copies). Its page format is unusually large for a tabloid newspaper, but is not counted as a broadsheet newspaper for its contents and design.
• Express (483,021)
• Aktuelle (426,352), with its sister newspapers Aktuelle am Sonntag (198,271) and Aktueller Sport (93,488)
• Schau (232,896), with its sister newspaper Monatsschau (165,750)
• Welt am Morgen (173,928)
• Skandal (82,346)
• Kontrovers (75,028)
• Sterne (56,552)
• Königsreher Post (21,479)

Radio

Mascyllary public broadcaster service area map

Radio in Mascylla is largely dominated by the public broadcasters of the state, which operate radio stations throughout the country. The domestic services of these broadcasters and all their revenue are funded by their television and broadcasting license. Rather than operating as independent entities, many radio studios are owned by large radio groups which broadcast a similar format to multiple regions. These are either the state-owned NMR, MBR, RKN or RBK, ZMR, RW, SRF, DMR and AR, and the privately owned Maskradio, Urbaner Rundfunk, various FM and Radio formats, and StudioNation.

Mascylla has eight regional public radio broadcasters in service, though all are also thoroughly active in broadcasting their own television channels as well. They cooperate in production value, general themes or topics, branding and advertisement and cultural event planning. These broadcasters are:

• Nordmaskillischer Rundfunk – North Mascyllary Broadcasting – incorporating the states of Aldia, Halstein, Jusland, and Pereuth
• Maschkenbuchter Rundfunk – Mask Bight Broadcasting – Flussmund, Kreshia, Langquaid, Laurenz, and Nelgery
• Rundfunk Königsnah (or Rundfunk beim König) – Broadcasting near the King – Kronlande and Eustria
• Zentralmaskillischer Rundfunk – Central Mascyllary Broadcasting – Elspland, Falia, Folnery, and Shwesia
• Rundfunk an der Warne – Broadcasting at the Worne – Terunder-Welsbach and Tudonia
• Südlicher Rundfunk – Southern Broadcasting – Gotia, Holnia, and Sigismund
• Delchsmaskillischer Rundfunk – Dalxish Mascyllary Broadcasting – Ihlarn
• Adwhischer Rundfunk – Adwhinish Broadcasting – Adwhin

Television

Most-viewed channels

ENS logo

Kanal+ logo

Telemax logo

Signal 5 logo

The channels with the largest shares of national television viewing in 2010 and 2018 in comparison were:

Number	Channel	Owner/Parent company	Share of total viewing (%) in 2010	Share of total viewing (%) in 2018	Comparison 2010-2018
1	ENS	ENS	14.1	14.8	0.7
2	Kanal+	Kanal+ Media Group	12.3	11.2	1.1
3	Telemax	Telemax Group	12.4	7.9	4.5
4	ARF	NationalPF	6.8	7.2	0.4
5	Signal 5	Signal Media	6.9	6.6	0.3
6	Orbit.1	Kanal+ Media Group	4.3	4.1	0.2
7	RTele	Telemax Group	1.2	3.3	2.1