Fortlese State Television

Fortlese State Television (FSTV) is a television service operated by the Fortlese Central Broadcasting Committee, a state-owned broadcaster in Fortland, and in turn part of the Bureau of Media and Entertainment. It is the first and the main broadcaster of the FCBC's Television Association, the others being NET (National Education Television), and TVS (Television Sport). The channel largely acted as a propaganda mouthpiece for the former one-party state, but these restrictions were later lifted with the fall of the Fortnite Party.
== History ==
=== Early FSTV ===
FSTV was established on 1 September 1948 as Henders Television after the Great War ended. Connor Lonch - the minister of media appointed by Levi Kopfman - personally envisioned that the time was ripe for television broadcasting in Fortland, but this was not yet to happen. Thus, the young service began an 8-year period of preparation for commencement of television broadcasts, with the help of the national government.
The station later was renamed as State Television Broadcasting System in 1957, and conducted on 1 September the same year its first test broadcasts.
The STBS officially began operations on 3 March 1963 at 19:00 (7:00 pm) based in St. Henderson, broadcasting two hours between 19:00 (7:00 pm) until 21:00 (9:00 pm) on weekdays only, and then expanding to 4 and later 6 hours.
The STBS would later be renamed Fortlese State Television (FSTV) and was officially relaunched at 17:00 (5:00 pm) local time on 3 January 1973 (the first working day in 1973 in Fortland). The broadcasting hours were only on weekdays (workdays in Fortland) and closed on weekends and national holidays.
FSTV officially began color television broadcasts on 1 July 1974 and broadcast the first live color telecast in preparation for the 1974 Olympics held in Krakow via satellite transmission on 1 September 1974, the first network to do so. FSTV was the first live color television channel to broadcast the New Year's Eve in color on 31 December 1974, and in 1975 began weekend broadcasts as well. FSTV started their full-time color broadcasts on 1 September 1977.
thumb|An FSTV test card from 2020.
The station began natively broadcasting in 16:9 widescreen with stereophonic sound on 4 December 2017, one of the last state-run broadcasters to do so, albeit several years after other developed nations have done so. To reflect this change, the station's graphics have been refreshed and its test card has been changed for the first time since 1980.
On 26 August 2020, FSTV broadcast through the night, for the first time, to monitor the progress of Hurricane Lachie. This included live reports from the State Hydro-Meteorological Administration and outdoors.
=== Post-communism era ===
FSTV became a largely independent station following the fall of the Fortlese Union, though some government regulation remained to make sure the broadcaster didn't begin broadcasting what the Fortlese government deemed "inappropriate". Clips of Jayden Albert, the last High Chancellor, were removed, and the national anthem no longer played; in it's place played the Patriotic Song.
== Programming schedule ==
The following illustrates part of what a typical day's broadcasting on FSTV looked like prior to the revolution. The schedule has since been revised and now varies between days.
Broadcast times	Broadcast programmes 	Approximate broadcast durations
8:30 - 9:00 	Highly modified version of the Philips PM5544 (4:3), Philips PM5644 (16:9), Test Pattern with digital clock and multiple elements including color bars, resolution grids and other markings (the audio is music – usually classical or patriotic – and clock ident with the 13-note chime of "Song of the Land" as time signal) 	30 minutes
9:00 - 9:10 	National anthem, introduction announcement, television listings 	10 minutes
9:10 - 10:00 	A mid-morning news briefing. 	50 minutes
10:00 - 11:30 	Documentary specials 	90 minutes
11:30 - 12:00 	Law enforcement show 	30 minutes
12:00 - 12:30 	Health information, including an exercise session, health tips and tricks, and teachings of "good eating habits". 	30 minutes
12:30 - 13:30 	Midday news briefing. 	60 minutes
13:30 - 14:45 	Music videos 	75 minutes
14:45 - 15:00 	Military show (chorus, parade, exercises, etc.) 	15 minutes
15:00 - 16:00 	Children's Broadcast time (cartoons, anecdotes of Fortlese leaders, past and present.) 	60 minutes
16:00 - 17:00 	Drama show 	60 minutes
17:00 - 18:00 	Evening news briefing 	60 minutes
18:00 - 18:30 	Sitcom (usually revolutionary or daily life themed TV series) 	30 minutes
18:30 - 20:00 	Feature film 	90 minutes
20:00 - 20:25 	Late night news briefing 	25 minutes
20:25 - 20:30 	Weather forecast 	5 minutes
20:30 - 20:40 	TV listings for tomorrow, sign-off announcement, flag and national anthem 	10 minutes
20:40 - 20:41 	A blue and white screen containing the words "Warning: Do not forget!" and "Turn your TV off!" in red, reminding viewers to switch their television sets off. This message is not displayed on the public viewing boards variant of the broadcast, who instead broadcast a curfew notice. 	1 minute
20:41 - 8:30 	Off the air. 8-bar Test Pattern with 1 kHz tone (tone but still black screen starts about 1.5 minutes after black screen start and lasts about 10 seconds at which point RF signal is completely cut; RF transmission begins again 21 minutes later the content of this transmission is bars+tone; bars without tone starts 1.25 minutes before beginning of next program cycle)	11 hours and 49 minutes (709 minutes)
== Availiability ==
=== Outside Fortland ===
On August 1, 2010, FSTV was broadcast free-to-air on Polcom 5 until February 25, 2020 so with the appropriate equipment can be picked up in Eurapolian nations. On April 2015, FSTV expanded its satellite broadcast coverage globally via Intelsat 21.
On January 18, 2020, FSTV moved its satellite broadcast on Reusat 12 as the Polcom 5 began experiencing technical difficulties around December 2019.
The daily FSTV news bulletin is also distributed online with Jonish subtitles through a Fortlese-supported website.
Some television sets in border areas between Jonathia, Lyvena, and Fortland are capable of recieving FSTV through a UHF aerial.
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