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− | '''The Eurasian Broadcasting Group''' (EBG) is [[ | + | '''The Eurasian Broadcasting Group''' (EBG) is [[British Londinium]]'s response to the great [[:Category:International news broadcasting|international news networks]] of developed, powerful nations, as well as Eurasia's attempt to promote public diplomacy and soft power. Founded in 1922 by the Wireless Telegraphy and International Media Act, the corporation employs 104,900 individuals with a budget of 79 million [[eura]]s. The EBG places particular focus on nations that Eurasia interacts with frequency. |
− | The [http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=516162 EBG] is an independent hybrid between a public corporation and a private corporation, run by [[EBG Trust]]. EBG Trust operates to ensure that the EBG is held accountable to the regulations of the [[ | + | The [http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=516162 EBG] is an independent hybrid between a public corporation and a private corporation, run by [[EBG Trust]]. EBG Trust operates to ensure that the EBG is held accountable to the regulations of the [[Londinian Broadcasting Quality and Standards Board]], in addition to ensuring journalistic excellence and fulfillment of the EBG's core values. |
− | Throughout the years, the EBG has been embraced by the people of Eurasia, and it is viewed with a great | + | Throughout the years, the EBG has been embraced by the people of Eurasia, and it is viewed with a great British Londinium of pride and patriotism; indeed, the EBG has become synonymous with Eurasia in dozens of nations, becoming a key national institution in Eurasia through its well-earned reputation as a disseminator of objective, reliable information and high calibre programming. |
==History== | ==History== | ||
− | The Eurasian Broadcasting Group was created in 1922 by His Majesty's | + | The Eurasian Broadcasting Group was created in 1922 by His Majesty's Londinian Government as both a shortwave civilian station and a longwave military communications array, after significant influencing committed by the ''Organisation for Londinian Radio''. The 1922 Wireless Telegraphy and International Media Act forged the foundation for the EBG, placing it under a charter that made the EBG directly accountable to Parliament so that levels of journalistic excellence and objectivity could be maintained. Whilst the charter did not explicitly call for the EBG to be financed by the government, the charter stipulated that the organization must remain free of "political and commercial bias", ruling out advertisements as a revenue source. Therefore, the Prime Minister at the time, Victor al-Babik, created the television licence system - a system in which all individuals utilising a broadcast reciever in British Londinium must pay a small fee each month. The organization was not named the "Londinian Broadcasting Group" as the 1922 Parliament wished to see a more inclusive broadcasting group. |
===Humble Beginnings=== | ===Humble Beginnings=== | ||
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===Blazing Forward=== | ===Blazing Forward=== | ||
− | {{Image|http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/2991/oldebghm7.png|right|Trein|The 1960s EBG ident that would be displayed before a programming schedule as the announcer would declare "Number One In | + | {{Image|http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/2991/oldebghm7.png|right|Trein|The 1960s EBG ident that would be displayed before a programming schedule as the announcer would declare "Number One In British Londinium!" This ident was the first colour ident utilised in Eurasian broadcasting.}} |
− | The post [[Wikipedia:World War II|World War II]] era saw a significant rise in the purchase of televisons, though there was one problem: most broadcasters perceived the television to be a passing whim, not worthy of investing in. As a result, millions of | + | The post [[Wikipedia:World War II|World War II]] era saw a significant rise in the purchase of televisons, though there was one problem: most broadcasters perceived the television to be a passing whim, not worthy of investing in. As a result, millions of Londinians had televisions...but no programming worth watching. In effect, televisions were made out to be nothing more than expensive hulks that either displayed static or banal community programming. |
Pressure mounted from the ''Council for the Advancement of Broadcasting'', which forcefully lobbyed for the expansion of television broadcasting, and the EBG obliged after noting the alarming rate at which [[Pacitalia]] and [[Ariddia]] were founding their networks. On [[Wikipedia:November 5|5 November]], [[Wikipedia:1957|1957]] the EBG began its first colour television broadcasts, transmitting long-wave television signals to two hundred million people. Two channels were created by the corporation at the time: [[EBG News24]] and [[EBG One|the standard EBG channel]]. Television proved to be widely popular, and the EBG thrived within the new market, especially after acquiring ''Victorian Telecast'', which infused new ideas and vigor into the corporation. | Pressure mounted from the ''Council for the Advancement of Broadcasting'', which forcefully lobbyed for the expansion of television broadcasting, and the EBG obliged after noting the alarming rate at which [[Pacitalia]] and [[Ariddia]] were founding their networks. On [[Wikipedia:November 5|5 November]], [[Wikipedia:1957|1957]] the EBG began its first colour television broadcasts, transmitting long-wave television signals to two hundred million people. Two channels were created by the corporation at the time: [[EBG News24]] and [[EBG One|the standard EBG channel]]. Television proved to be widely popular, and the EBG thrived within the new market, especially after acquiring ''Victorian Telecast'', which infused new ideas and vigor into the corporation. | ||
− | Competition to the EBG was introduced in 1972 with the commercially and independently operated ETC ( | + | Competition to the EBG was introduced in 1972 with the commercially and independently operated ETC (Londinian Television Corporation). As a result of the Parliamentary Committee for the EBG report of 1976, in which the EBG was lauded and ETC was very heavily criticised for not providing enough quality programming, the EBG was awarded additional channels, adding [[EBG Two]], [[EBG Three]], [[EBG Finance]], and [[EBG Weather]], while renaming the original, primary channel [[EBG One]]. |
At the end of the 1970s, the EBG was considering displaying rather salacious films late at night on EBG One. However, EBG executives were deterred from this as they watched uproar in [[Pacitalia]] over a similar incident. As a result, the EBG created [[EBG Cinématographe]], a movie-oriented channel, which, due to its declared status, was exempt from certain regulations. | At the end of the 1970s, the EBG was considering displaying rather salacious films late at night on EBG One. However, EBG executives were deterred from this as they watched uproar in [[Pacitalia]] over a similar incident. As a result, the EBG created [[EBG Cinématographe]], a movie-oriented channel, which, due to its declared status, was exempt from certain regulations. | ||
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{{Image|http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/4081/cnbcgfx3lx6.jpg|right|Trein|Mike Huckman discusses the merger of GlaxoSinclairKline and Eisai Pharmaceuticals. Displayed is the current on-air look of [[EBG Finance]], differing from most other news channels through its extra usage of tickers.}} | {{Image|http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/4081/cnbcgfx3lx6.jpg|right|Trein|Mike Huckman discusses the merger of GlaxoSinclairKline and Eisai Pharmaceuticals. Displayed is the current on-air look of [[EBG Finance]], differing from most other news channels through its extra usage of tickers.}} | ||
− | EBG has three methods of expression. It is, above all, a television channel, broadcasting internationally. But it also has a website ([http://ebg.co. | + | EBG has three methods of expression. It is, above all, a television channel, broadcasting internationally. But it also has a website ([http://ebg.co.ukbl/ ebg.co.ukbl]), which includes both written articles and a continuous video feed, displaying the same as the television channels, along with hundreds of radio channels. |
===Services=== | ===Services=== | ||
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*[[EBG Three]] - art and science documentaries, vintage drama (including many rare black-and-white programmes), and non-English language productions | *[[EBG Three]] - art and science documentaries, vintage drama (including many rare black-and-white programmes), and non-English language productions | ||
*[[EBG Four]] - children's and youth programming | *[[EBG Four]] - children's and youth programming | ||
− | *[[EBG Five]] - New drama, New talent, | + | *[[EBG Five]] - New drama, New talent, Londinian comedy, top films and accessible news |
*[[EBG Finance]] - financial, economic news | *[[EBG Finance]] - financial, economic news | ||
*[[EBG Weather]] - meterology | *[[EBG Weather]] - meterology | ||
− | *[[EBG Parliament]] - | + | *[[EBG Parliament]] - Londinian politics-oriented broadcasting |
*[[EBG Armed Forces]] - broadcasting designed for soldiers serving overseas | *[[EBG Armed Forces]] - broadcasting designed for soldiers serving overseas | ||
*[[VLE]] - ''Videritransmissios en le Lingua Eurasi'' - the EBG's [[Eurasian]]-language channel | *[[VLE]] - ''Videritransmissios en le Lingua Eurasi'' - the EBG's [[Eurasian]]-language channel | ||
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{{image|http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/8861/bbctelevisioncentreev8.jpg|right||EBG Television Centre|}} | {{image|http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/8861/bbctelevisioncentreev8.jpg|right||EBG Television Centre|}} | ||
{{image|http://img164.imageshack.us/img164/3276/ebgnewsplayerwi1kv2.jpg|right|Trein|The EBG News Player, available at http://ebg.co.uke|}} | {{image|http://img164.imageshack.us/img164/3276/ebgnewsplayerwi1kv2.jpg|right|Trein|The EBG News Player, available at http://ebg.co.uke|}} | ||
− | * [[ | + | * [[British Londinium]] |
* [[Altanar]] | * [[Altanar]] | ||
* [[Animarnia]] | * [[Animarnia]] | ||
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==Opinions on the EBG== | ==Opinions on the EBG== | ||
− | The | + | The Londinian Minister for Culture, Media, and Sport, the Right Honourable Chloe Yuhjijad wrote in a [[Wikipedia:White paper|white paper]] regarding the [http://www.ebg.co.uke/rd/pubs/whp/sept07/whp142.pdf upcoming renewal of the EBG's royal charter] that "the EBG is crucial to maintaining Eurasian power. As Joseph S. Nye puts it, 'The basic concept of power is the ability to influence others to get them to do what you want. There are three major ways to do that: one is to threaten them with sticks; the second is to pay them with carrots; the third is to attract them or co-opt them, so that they want what you want. If you can get others to be attracted, to want what you want, it costs you much less in carrots and sticks.' Soft power is the third method. It is vital that we maintain and expand Londinian soft power in the world. Whilst some will argue that we must invest more in our military to preserve power, soft power is more than just persuasion or the ability to move people by argument, though that is an important part of it. It is also the ability to attract, and attraction often leads to acquiescence. The EBG is a disseminator of both objective, reliable information and high calibre programming, but also Londinian soft power." |
− | Prime Minister [[Phillip Sinclair|Sir Phillip Sinclair]] has stated that the EBG is "the primary cause for | + | Prime Minister [[Phillip Sinclair|Sir Phillip Sinclair]] has stated that the EBG is "the primary cause for British Londinium's good reputation throughout the world...the EBG shows the world a new perspective, furthering diversity." |
− | However, some individuals, such as the current Minister for Defence have stated that "the EBG is a waste of the | + | However, some individuals, such as the current Minister for Defence have stated that "the EBG is a waste of the Londinian taxpayers' money. We spent millions of euras on expansion throughout the course of the past decade. That money would have been far better spent on a new tank division." |
==Broadcasted languages== | ==Broadcasted languages== | ||
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==Links== | ==Links== | ||
− | + | *[http://img125.imageshack.us/img125/2641/ebgpromo2vn8.png Newspaper EBG advert] - Found in newspapers. | |
− | *[http://img125.imageshack.us/img125/2641/ebgpromo2vn8.png | + | |
*[http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=516162 Getting the EBG in your nation] | *[http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=516162 Getting the EBG in your nation] | ||
Revision as of 18:41, 23 May 2007
Eurasian Broadcasting Group | |
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Type |
Broadcast radio and digital high-definition television network |
Country | UKE |
Availability |
Nationally; internationally via EBG World, the EBG Global Service, and ebg.co.ukbl |
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Slogan | Because the world deserves better. (2009— ) |
Motto | Quæstaceti les ariaondes (Eurasian for "Ruling the Airwaves") |
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Workforce | 104,900 (2009) |
Operating budget | ₰ 79,000,000,000 (2009) |
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Established |
1922 (radio) 1957 (television) |
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Audience statistics | |
Audience share -- National -- Peak -- Pan -- Best performer |
37.1% (National, 2009) 47.0% (Londinium) 25.9% (Viridis Foresti) EBG World -- National: 33.6% |
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Key people |
Giovanni Alkyl, director-general James Blair, trust chair Elizabeth Batra, VP operations Eric Orwell, VP news |
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Website | http://www.ebg.co.uke |
The Eurasian Broadcasting Group (EBG) is British Londinium's response to the great international news networks of developed, powerful nations, as well as Eurasia's attempt to promote public diplomacy and soft power. Founded in 1922 by the Wireless Telegraphy and International Media Act, the corporation employs 104,900 individuals with a budget of 79 million euras. The EBG places particular focus on nations that Eurasia interacts with frequency.
The EBG is an independent hybrid between a public corporation and a private corporation, run by EBG Trust. EBG Trust operates to ensure that the EBG is held accountable to the regulations of the Londinian Broadcasting Quality and Standards Board, in addition to ensuring journalistic excellence and fulfillment of the EBG's core values.
Throughout the years, the EBG has been embraced by the people of Eurasia, and it is viewed with a great British Londinium of pride and patriotism; indeed, the EBG has become synonymous with Eurasia in dozens of nations, becoming a key national institution in Eurasia through its well-earned reputation as a disseminator of objective, reliable information and high calibre programming.
Contents
History
The Eurasian Broadcasting Group was created in 1922 by His Majesty's Londinian Government as both a shortwave civilian station and a longwave military communications array, after significant influencing committed by the Organisation for Londinian Radio. The 1922 Wireless Telegraphy and International Media Act forged the foundation for the EBG, placing it under a charter that made the EBG directly accountable to Parliament so that levels of journalistic excellence and objectivity could be maintained. Whilst the charter did not explicitly call for the EBG to be financed by the government, the charter stipulated that the organization must remain free of "political and commercial bias", ruling out advertisements as a revenue source. Therefore, the Prime Minister at the time, Victor al-Babik, created the television licence system - a system in which all individuals utilising a broadcast reciever in British Londinium must pay a small fee each month. The organization was not named the "Londinian Broadcasting Group" as the 1922 Parliament wished to see a more inclusive broadcasting group.
Humble Beginnings
2 May 1922 saw the first EBG broadcasts from stations in Kensington, Chelsea, Argyll, Oxford, Westminster, and Newcastle. The EBG forged a strong listener base within the next five years by broadcasting quality programming that featured interesting hosts and topics. News was a major focus of the EBG, with fifteen minute bulletins at 0700, 0900, 1200, 1500, 1800, and 2100 hours.
March 1925 saw major growth for the EBG, with smaller stations sprouting in cities such as Worchester, Waltham Forest, Piccadilly, Cambridge, and Northolt. The estimated average daily reach (ADR) for the EBG was twenty-nine million, a number which steadily rose throughout the years, despite the economic slump of the 1930s. When FM radio debuted in 1933, the EBG was one of the first corporations to implement the utilisation of the technology, allowing for stronger, clearer broadcasts that could reach far more people.
1936 was privy to major reform within the EBG. Many felt that Parliament's direct role with the EBG could eventually lead to bias or misinformation. After months of pressure, Parliament created EBG Trust, an organization that would be held accountable to Parliament and to the Eurasian people for the actions of the EBG; however, the trust would not have the capacity to directly influence the workings of the EBG. Although a 'state broadcaster', the EBG is protected from government interference due to the statutory role of EBG Trust.
Blazing Forward
</div>The post World War II era saw a significant rise in the purchase of televisons, though there was one problem: most broadcasters perceived the television to be a passing whim, not worthy of investing in. As a result, millions of Londinians had televisions...but no programming worth watching. In effect, televisions were made out to be nothing more than expensive hulks that either displayed static or banal community programming.
Pressure mounted from the Council for the Advancement of Broadcasting, which forcefully lobbyed for the expansion of television broadcasting, and the EBG obliged after noting the alarming rate at which Pacitalia and Ariddia were founding their networks. On 5 November, 1957 the EBG began its first colour television broadcasts, transmitting long-wave television signals to two hundred million people. Two channels were created by the corporation at the time: EBG News24 and the standard EBG channel. Television proved to be widely popular, and the EBG thrived within the new market, especially after acquiring Victorian Telecast, which infused new ideas and vigor into the corporation.
Competition to the EBG was introduced in 1972 with the commercially and independently operated ETC (Londinian Television Corporation). As a result of the Parliamentary Committee for the EBG report of 1976, in which the EBG was lauded and ETC was very heavily criticised for not providing enough quality programming, the EBG was awarded additional channels, adding EBG Two, EBG Three, EBG Finance, and EBG Weather, while renaming the original, primary channel EBG One.
At the end of the 1970s, the EBG was considering displaying rather salacious films late at night on EBG One. However, EBG executives were deterred from this as they watched uproar in Pacitalia over a similar incident. As a result, the EBG created EBG Cinématographe, a movie-oriented channel, which, due to its declared status, was exempt from certain regulations.
By 1999, the group had created EBG Four, EBG Five, and a number of speciality radio and television channels, and had expanded into ten other nations.
The Modern EBG
</div>The EBG has built upon its worldwide reputation of high-calibre news programming, rivalled only abroad by such organizations as PINA and the PBC. As of now, the EBG transmits radio broadcasts in over eighty-eight languages, with Pacitalian, Hindi, Arabic, and English stations recieving the most listeners; the EBG also broadcasts television channels in thirty-two languages abroad.
Currently, the EBG is in the process to fully converting to digital television.
Purposes & Core Values
Values
- Trust is the very foundation of the EBG and our reputation: we shall strive to be independent, impartial and honest.
- Audiences shall be the crux of any programme.
- We find honour in delivering quality and value.
- Creativity is the heart and soul of the EBG.
- The EBG shall be united in diversity to provide the best, most unique programming.
- We are one as the EBG: great things happen when we cooperate.
Purposes
- to be the most creative, respected news agency in the world.
- to enrich people’s lives with great programmes and services provided from the EBG.
- to inform, educate and entertain the people of the world.
- to make engaging digital content and services available on a wide range of digital platforms and devices.
- to promote the values necessary to the continuance of a civil society.
Broadcasting
</div>EBG has three methods of expression. It is, above all, a television channel, broadcasting internationally. But it also has a website (ebg.co.ukbl), which includes both written articles and a continuous video feed, displaying the same as the television channels, along with hundreds of radio channels.
Services
Television
- EBG World - constant international news programming
- EBG One - premier programming and high-rated content
- EBG Two - current affairs, documentaries, educational programming, culture-oriented broadcasts
- EBG Three - art and science documentaries, vintage drama (including many rare black-and-white programmes), and non-English language productions
- EBG Four - children's and youth programming
- EBG Five - New drama, New talent, Londinian comedy, top films and accessible news
- EBG Finance - financial, economic news
- EBG Weather - meterology
- EBG Parliament - Londinian politics-oriented broadcasting
- EBG Armed Forces - broadcasting designed for soldiers serving overseas
- VLE - Videritransmissios en le Lingua Eurasi - the EBG's Eurasian-language channel
- EBG Cinématographe - movie channel
- EBG News24 - 24 hour domestic news
Radio
</div>- EBG Global Service - international broadcast, orientation on news, current affairs, documentaries
- EBG Radio 1 - the latest music
- EBG Radio 2 - broad scopes of musical genres, with music-related documentaries
- EBG Radio 3 - classical music
- EBG Radio 4 - news, drama, comedy, science and history
- EBG Radio 5 - sports programming
- EBG Radio 6 - alternative programming
- EBG Radio 7 - comedy
- EBG Radio Eurasi - Eurasian-language station
- EBG Radio Pacitaliana - Pacitalian-language station
- EBG Radio Arabic - Arabic-language station
- EBG Radio India - Indian-languages station
A list of countries in which EBG is broadcast:
</div> </div>- British Londinium
- Altanar
- Animarnia
- Aqua Anu
- Ariddia
- Aunesia
- Brydog
- Boico
- Censovenia
- Cookesland
- Cravan
- Developing Nations
- Granate
- Havvy
- Jaredcohenia
- Kanami
- Khemari
- Laquasa Isle
- Maraque
- Masgtaia
- Neo-Erusea
- Newer Kiwiland
- Nuevo Italia
- Praetonia
- The Scandinvans
- Seventh Avenue
- Swilatia
- Somethingey
- Ubundi
- United Kingdom2
- Vault 10
- Vetaka
- Vontanas
- Vuhifellian Federation
- Zaire (Congo--Kinhasa)
Opinions on the EBG
The Londinian Minister for Culture, Media, and Sport, the Right Honourable Chloe Yuhjijad wrote in a white paper regarding the upcoming renewal of the EBG's royal charter that "the EBG is crucial to maintaining Eurasian power. As Joseph S. Nye puts it, 'The basic concept of power is the ability to influence others to get them to do what you want. There are three major ways to do that: one is to threaten them with sticks; the second is to pay them with carrots; the third is to attract them or co-opt them, so that they want what you want. If you can get others to be attracted, to want what you want, it costs you much less in carrots and sticks.' Soft power is the third method. It is vital that we maintain and expand Londinian soft power in the world. Whilst some will argue that we must invest more in our military to preserve power, soft power is more than just persuasion or the ability to move people by argument, though that is an important part of it. It is also the ability to attract, and attraction often leads to acquiescence. The EBG is a disseminator of both objective, reliable information and high calibre programming, but also Londinian soft power."
Prime Minister Sir Phillip Sinclair has stated that the EBG is "the primary cause for British Londinium's good reputation throughout the world...the EBG shows the world a new perspective, furthering diversity."
However, some individuals, such as the current Minister for Defence have stated that "the EBG is a waste of the Londinian taxpayers' money. We spent millions of euras on expansion throughout the course of the past decade. That money would have been far better spent on a new tank division."
Broadcasted languages
See Also
- Sophie Windsor - EBG World newsreader
- Olivia Azzopardi - EBG Parliament reporter
- Mike Huckman - EBG Finance reporter
- Andrew Mizrachi - EBG Three science and art reporter
- Ashley Taylor - EBG Sport reporter
- Jack Ryan - EBG Two culture reporter
- Mitsuki Tanaka - EBG Five entertainment reporter
Links
- Newspaper EBG advert - Found in newspapers.
- Getting the EBG in your nation
The People's Sovereign Republic of British Londinium | ||
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Main article: British Londinium | ||
Individuals: Alistair Davidson • Adélaïde Azzopardi | ||
Miscellaneous: Volscian • Londinian Armed Forces • Flag of British Londinium • Denarii • Colonies of British Londinium • Kensington • Londinian Democratic Socialists • Londinian Broadcasting Group • List of Londinian Prime Ministers • Londinian history • Londinian Immigration Clearance Level • List of Londinian Sovereigns |
Londinian Broadcasting Group (LBG) | |
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Television: LBG World · LBG One · LBG Two · LBG Three · LBG Four · LBG Five · LBG Finance · LBG Weather · LBG Parliament · LBG Armed Forces · VLV · LBG Cinématographe · LBG News24 | |
Radio: LBG Global Service · LBG Radio 1 · LBG Radio 2 · LBG Radio 3 · LBG Radio 4 · LBG Radio 5 · LBG Radio 6 · LBG Radio 7 · LBG Radio Eurasi · LBG Radio Pacitaliana · LBG Radio Arabic · LBG Radio India | |
Other assets / info: lbg.co.uke · LBG News · LBG Worldwide · LBGi |