Norfolk Broadcasting Company

The Norfolk Broadcasting Company (acronymized as NBC) is a regional broadcaster serving Norfolk, an island-based province in northern Commolacia. The company operates three television networks (CSFL, CNFN, and CFSO) as well as a statewide radio network that broadcasts under the NBC name.
The company was founded in December 1968 by a group of television enthusiasts in Bowen Bay, and made it's first transmission via radio on May 1st, 1969. The company later achieved a television license and on 10 September 1972 began broadcasting via the callsigns CSFL, CNFN, and CNWT. CNWT would later be sold to Strike Television while the company moved to using the present-day callsign CFSO. NBC's current headquarters, in the western half of Sanctuary Point, were inaugurated in 1989 after a two-year construction effort that was hindered by a blizzard on November 6th, 1988.
NBC creates and broadcasts a number of programs relating to or based in Norfolk. The company's most popular exported program, Lament of a Fisherman, a soap opera which has aired since 1980, was picked up in 1986 by CRTC and continues to be broadcast nationally via the latter. On occasions, NBC also rents out it's facilities to other broadcasters, and assists filmmakers and television show creators with filming scenes in the Norfolk area. The current value of the company is $46.5mil CMD. The company also trades on the Commolacian stock markets under the NBC name.
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