Neon Radio and Television Network

Neon Radio and Television, simply known as NRT, is a television network based in Neon District, USOR and is the leading television network 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 and NDRB was renamed to NRT, with the opening of NRT Television, which renamed itself to it's current name in 1965 with the opening of NRT2. In 1965 (again) NRT1 got part-time color with NRT2 only getting it in 1967. With this both channels achieved full-time color in 1971 only going part-time between 1973 and 1974 during the ecomony crash of Neon District. In 2000, the third channel launched. In 2001, NRT3 launched and brought 24-hour news. 2004 saw NRT4, the archive channel and 2008 with NRTen. Two years later saw NRT Chinese and in 2013 both brought NRTK Mini, NRT Religion, NRT Music and NRT Art.

BL Films, NDRB and NRT's beginning. (1902 - 1964)
NRT had it's roots with the film production company BL Films founded somewhere in 1902, by the Palauan Japanese businessman Takuya Umemura and his wife Shiroi Matsumura. NRT's current CEO is Ryota Ohashi. BL Films declared bankcruptcy in 1940 and was replaced with NDRB in 1945. This kicked off radio broadcasting in Neon District with Japanese-English station KN1 and Chinese station KC1. In 1952, the NRT headquarters in Robloxia Hills was built, forcing NDRB to rename themselves to NRT. In July 1952, NRT Television (now NRT1) started broadcasting, ending Neon District's 1949 - 1952 ecomony cripple.

NRT2 and color (1964 - 1975)
In 1962, a contest between NRT and the Chinese channel Amery TV (Now Cybervision) was held. The rules were simple. NRT1 broadcasted between 5:00pm to 10:30pm. Amery TV broadcasted between 7:00pm to 9:00pm. Whichever station fit the most programs in between 5:00pm to 10:30pm won. Obvilously, NRT won, and won the choice for a second channel. On April 25th, 1964, NRT2 was scheduled to launch at 6:00pm until Neon District Power Station had a fire, cutting out power and delaying the launch.

Next day, programs resumed for NRT2 and it officially opened. This renamed NRT Television to it's current name.

Color television was brought part-time to NRT1 in 1965 and NRT2 in 1967. Full time color started in 1971. NRT's profits declined and hit rock bottom during the Neon District Economic Decline from 1973 - 1975, forcing them to start using slides and start using part-time color again. Their funds went so low to the point where they abandoned color television for a week in 1974 and even almost declared bankruptcy. Color television returned in 1975 when the economic miracle from 1975 - 2008 started in Neon District, making NRT rich.

Silver age for NRT (1975 - 1983)
NRT had been waiting to buy these since they were introduced. Scanimate machines. When they saw their revenue go up at least 750,000 dollars and looked around, seeing the slums start being modernized and skyscrapers being built, they instantly bought the best scanimate machine avaviable, and took their time until August 1975 to rebrand. Animation was smooth. Audience share was high. But they had to deal with a new competitor, NDCTV, which had just launched as an educational television network. But since it was extreme-left much like Cybervision, it was only popular with the Neon District Bolshevicks and people in Amery at the time. Sadly other people started watching NDCTV too, even though hijacks telling everyone not to listen to NRT were very common. NRT's current audience share at the time (in Shiguto) was about 70% with NDCTV's being 50%. Let's move on from this, shall we? Yeah.