Colchester Landing State Broadcasting Network
The Colchester Landing State Broadcasting Network, often referred to simply and colloquially as CLSBN, is the sole broadcasting company within the city-state of Colchester Landing, and supplies the city’s inhabitants both with television and radio.
CLSBN was founded during the 1920s, when the first radios arrived in Hesperidesia, brought over from Europe and America. Seeing the great success that these products were attaining in those countries, Joshua Graham Anthony II, a wealthy aristocrat and owner of several large casinos, founded the Colchester Landing State Broadcasting Network, and through his ruthless monopoly of the market, attained the role as sole broadcasting network. Following the advent of widespread television in the 1950s and 60s, CLSBN once again saw an opportunity for profit, and it was this company which introduced the first television channels to the state. Today, while numerous television and radio manufacturers exist, no other television or radio broadcasting service has been able to compete with CLSBN, which has been a state funded organization since the 80s.
History
While the concept of radio was not wholly novel, nor foreign during the years prior to the 1920s, telegram lines having connected Colchester Landing with the rest of Hesperidesia and, later, the world as a whole from around 1848, nothing of a real industry or demand for radio had really taken off. This changed after the boom in radio around the 1920s, when several radio manufacturing companies began importing and manufacturing their own brands. These radios quickly spread. A noticeable gap existed, however, in the market, as at this early time, no local channels nor broadcasting networks existed, instead, Colchester’s inhabitants listened to stations from the Empire of Exponent or elsewhere. Seeing this, and a possible additional line of income, Joshua Graham Anthony II, son to wealthy automotive producer and part-time resident of Colchester Landing, Gerard William Anthony, and wealthy heiress Samantha Graham Tindel, set about founding the first local station, which he named the Colchester Landing Broadcasting Network (CLBN). This initial station served to supply local Colchester Landing citizens with news, music and a method of advertisement, as well as a wide variety of other audio entertainment. It quickly became the most popular station in the state, and before long, was bought by the Colchester government, who thereafter renamed the network the Colchester Landing State Broadcasting Network (CLSBN), a name which it still holds until this day.
Things would continue smoothly for the company for the next ten years, until in 1948, television arrived on the scene. From this point on, radio, while still a popular medium, began to pale in comparison to the excitement generated by the new television, and CLSBN, not wishing to relinquish their monopoly on broadcasting, began manufacturing their own televisions, as well as producing their own media. These were thereafter placed under the command and direction of the child company CTANN (The Colchester Television and News Network).
The first widely available television set was thus produced in 1950 and quickly became a success, in part due to the numerous ad campaigns on radio. These early televisions relied, as had the radios before them, on predominantly foreign presentations, such as several documentary, entertainment and educational broadcasts from the Blackhelm Confederacy’s BCNN. However, in time, CLSBN also produced its own shows, and before long, a thriving production culture took root.
Today, several channels, both local and foreign, are aired by CLSBN, and moderated by CTANN. Seeing as nearly 60% of Colchester make regular use of television, this has given the company a great deal of wealth, with the only real competitor having arisen somewhat recently, with the advent of the internet and streaming services such as Mov4U and video-sharing sites such as YouTube.