Sphere Television Networks

Intro
Sphere Television is a British company which specialises in producing, well, television content. They own a numerous amount of channels involving the 3 main brands of Sphere, Alto, and UwU TV.

Origin
The story of how Sphere was founded goes back to at least 1911, when the Guild of Broadcast Films was formed. This company would link a group of theatres across London together into an idea not too unlike a television network in the modern day. This early network would air new short films from around the world to help the creators with publicity. This service, dubbed "The Movie Network", would finally debut on the 23rd of December, 1912, at 6pm. By early 1927, they had formed a joint-venture with the BBC to bring Britain into the world of television. This service would run from 4pm to 10pm and would be named "The National Telefírome Teledetender Service". In January 1928, the service was fully bought out by GBF, soon re-launching it as the "Sphere Television Network". This commenced at 6pm on the 28th of June, 1928, simultaneously launching a schedule which lasted for an impressive 11 years. This being, a performance of God Save the King at 6pm, segueing into a variable 4.5 hour-long slot of programming including a film, with watershed programming from then until its daily closedown at 9am.

In October 1939, the channel would have to close along with BBC TV due to the start of World War II, though unlike the BBC's channel, STN would be able to immediately relaunch on the 9th of May, 1945. This commenced with a brand-new schedule, coinciding with the channel's shift in broadcasting hours to 2pm-3am. This meant the premiere of the company's flagship news show, "News at 6".

Not much changed until the year 1964, when the now-famous show known as "Funniest Things on Telly" began. This would premiere a new episode every Friday at 4pm and ran for 34 years until it was finally put to rest. The very next year would lead to a new era for the GBF as the company were to launch their second channel ever and the first British TV channel not to broadcast in monochrome, simply titled "GBF Colour Television", which lasted until the year 1994.