Neon Radio and Television Network

Neon Radio and Television Network, simply known as NRTN, is a media corporation based in Neon District, and is the leading media company in Neon District. The country was founded in 1902 as a film production company under the name "BL Films" and was renamed to NDRB and started radio production. In 1952 television communications were launched, with the opening of NDRB TV, which renamed itself to NDRB TV1 in 1964 with the opening of NDRB TV2. In 1965 NDRB TV1 got part-time color with NDRB TV2 only getting it in 1967. Both channels achieved full-time color in 1971, only going part-time again around mid 1973 during the ecomony crash of Neon District. In 1975 NDRB split into two entities, NTS (Neon Television System) going to television and NRS (Neon Radio System) going to radio. The two companies were comercially owned until 1983 whenever they re-merged into government-owned NRT (Neon Radio and Television) in 1983, and was re-named to NRTN in November of 1989.

A third channel was also opened on November 13th, 1989, with NRTN K and NRTN24 being launched on Janurary 1st, 2000. NRTN 4 was launched in 2002, and NRTN 5, a local channel, was estimated to launch in November 2020, then being extended to Janurary 2021 and then March 2021. Currently, NRTN 5 is on hiatus and it majorly forgotten about.

History
NRTN had it's roots with the film production company BL Films founded somewhere in 1902, by the Japanese businessman Takuya Umemura and his wife Shiroi Matsumura. Takuya Umemura opened NDRB, known simply as Neon District Radio Broadcasting in March 1939, first operating with 3 stations only, JO1XN, B02TM and X03DF. Previously, people in Neon District had to rely on Imperial Matsushita Radio to recieve radio broadcats. BL Films declared bankcruptcy in 1940. In March of 1952 NDRB started to broadcast television, with NDRB TV being the first television channel of NRTN and the first one in Neon District. A children's block launched in 1963. In March of 1964, NDRB launched a second channel, NDRB Program 2, and renamed the already-existing NDRB TV to NDRB Program 1. Part-time color broadcasts began on NDRB TV1 (it was renamed just a year later) in March 1965, but started color broadcasting full-time on both NDRB TV1 and NDRB TV2 (which had no color programming prior to then) in May 1968. NDRB also did not broadcast on October 14th, 1969 due to the newly-formed insurgent communist state in North-Central Neon District. Color broadcasts for the KTB block began in 1971, following a rebrand for both TV1 and TV2.

NDRB aquired Neon Books and the newspaper National News in 1967.

NDRB's profits began to decline in early 1973, following the military coup of Juan Francisco de Kumamoto, who took over the already-leading western secular military government. NDRB's profits were at it's lowest since 1952 during the economy crash of August 1973. Following the impeachment of Juan Francisco, the profits of NDRB and Neon District in itself began to rise again after Gertjan van Akimori was restored as the leader of the DROND.

NDRB was split into 2 entities, NTS (Neon Television System) and NRS (Neon Radio System) after the revolutions of Janurary - March 1975 which restored the previous secular dynasty. With this profits began to rise twice as fast, with more advances graphics being used. In April 1976, NTS and NRS both rebranded and gained new scanimate-made logos/idents made both in-house and by Dolphin Productions following the striking of oil on April 7th, 1976 which quadrupled the economy's growth and made the Imperial State of Neonia the Singapore of non-Vlokozu Arito.

NTS stopped broadcasting for the second half of April 1980 due to the attack on Shiguto City, which resumed the war that had originally halted following the revolution of the winter of 1975. NTS returned broadcasting on May 1st, 1980, with new graphics but the same 1976 - 1983 branding.

Following the 1983 revolution, the military dictatorship was restored under Shōsan Shizoku and NTS and NRS were merged into one entity to create state-owned NRT in March of 1983. The 2 main television channels were renamed locally; what was NTS 1 in Shiguto Prefecture would now be NRT S1, for Cochuga it would be NRT C1, vice verca.

A noticeable downgrade in branding quality was also noticed; The sign-on/sign-off ident, the main ident and commercial break idents and the main news intro at the time were commisioned by Japan 3D Graphics Lab, but most program openers were made in-house with low-budget CGI (until 1985 mostly without reflections, and until 1986 with screen-tearing) and cheap-looking 2D graphics, and chryoned-on text was in the OSD font, although the on-screen bug was in Arial Black.

NRT was reformed and renamed to NRTN on November 11th, 1989 following the annexation of the Amery Socialist Citystate, with a rebrand aswell. A third channel, NRTN 3 was launched on November 13th, 1989. Profits started to rise quickly and graphics and general television quality improved. 21 days after NRT was rebranded, the PDROND was dissolved on Janurary 1st, 1990, transitioning the country into a parlimentary republic.

NRTN announced a rebrand in May of 1991.

In June 1991, NRTN rebranded after a quintuplation of NRTN and all of Neon District's revenue between Janurary - May of 1991.

Another rebrand (keeping the original logo and branding of 1991) was issused in May 1995, at the time when Neon District was ranked the 2nd largest media group in the El Kadsreian Archipelago.

NRTN announced a major rebrand around November 1999, with a test rebrand (1 day of programming with a false concept; the main concept that was revealed in 2000 actually dated to early as 1997) on December 23rd, 1999.

On Janurary 1st, 2000, NRTN rebranded to concide with the new millenium and launched 2 new channels (NRTN K and NRTN 24). They had also announced a building of a new television studio 3 years later, and proceeded to move operations from the Goarodamanga Television Building (used 1952 - 2000) to the newly-built (at the time) NRTN Television Center.

In 2004, NRTN launched a 5th channel, NRTN 4.

In 2007, NRTN aquired Grupul Mihail KănaPhexonia for $17 billion, only to sell it back in 2013.

In 2008, NRTN announced the launch of single-language channels (NRTN Japanese, NRTN Chinese, NRTN Spanish, NRTN Korean and NRTN Portuguese).

Between 2008 - 2012, when Neon District's democratically-elected 3 conserative/republican/nationalist prime ministers at the time were all prime ministers, NRTN, being state-owned and public-owned had a lot of controversy. (See also: 2012 Neon Districian prime ministerian election protests.) NRTN's profits also slightly declined as a result of the 2008 worldwide economy crash.)

In March of 2017, NRTN and El TV Kadsre signed an agreement to share logo fonts. NRTN then later rebranded on March 10th, 2017 and El TV Kadsre on April 1st, 2017.

In 2023, NRTN will soon-to open offices in El Kadsre, Sentan and Mahri, aswell as Pan-Continential offices in Gwardamanġa, Valleta, Malta (along-side El TV Kadsre), in Istanbul, Turkey and in Tokyo, Japan. From this office the operations of the regional European versions of NRTN channels NRTN 1, NRTN 2, NRTN K and the newspaper National News will be controlled (with the actual technical operations in Neon District).

Content
NRTN has a first-run and re-run contract with HD source material.

United States

 * Disney Media Distribution
 * NBCUniversal
 * MGM/UA
 * Paramount Networks
 * FOX Corporation
 * PBS
 * Starz

El Kadsreian Islands

 * El TV Kadsre Television Network (EK)
 * Banushen Media Corporation (EK)
 * Regal Group Network (EK)
 * CPN Media Group (EK)
 * SBC (Sentan) (NN)
 * Treet Television Network (RM)

United Kingdom

 * BBC
 * ITV
 * Channel 4

Worldwide

 * Netflix
 * Prime Video

Australia

 * Australian Broadcasting Corporation
 * Seven Network Australia

New Zealand

 * TVNZ

Eruowood

 * ERPT

Japan

 * Fuji Television Network
 * TV Asahi
 * TBS
 * NHK
 * TV Tokyo (also with Toei and Toho)

Canada

 * Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 * Corus Entertainment
 * WildBrain

Middle East

 * Saudi Broadcasting Authority (SA)
 * MBC Group (SA/International)
 * Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TR)

Exclusive contracts with ABC News (US), NBC News (US), BBC News, ITV News, Channel 4 News (UK), FNN, ANN, JNN (JP), ABC News (AU), Seven News (AU) and One News (NZ) for international news coverage.

Free-to-air television

 * NRTN 1
 * NRTN 2
 * NRTN 3
 * NRTN 4
 * NRTN K
 * NRTN 24
 * NRTN Japanese
 * NRTN Chinese
 * NRTN Spanish
 * NRTN Korean
 * NRTN Portuguese

Pay television

 * TBA

Streaming & on-demand services (Neon District only)

 * NRTN Player

International television

 * NRTN International

Trivia

 * Like El TV Kadsre, NRTN has never practiced wiping of programmes they've broadcasted, and maintains an (almost) complete archive of all programming they've broadcast on their channels.