Network Six Broadcasting

Network Six Broadcasting (acronymized as NSB), often shortened to just Network Six, is a commercial broadcaster in Derkasia. The channel was launched on June 6th, 1996, and was the third television channel to launch in Derkasia, after DBC1 (1962) and Channel 13 (1990). The channel currently broadcasts nationally (with regional advertising targeting four markets) in digital free-to-air form on terrestrial and satellite. Vodafone also carries the channel for their cable subscribers. It previously broadcast nationally on analogue television until that was switched off on 1 August 2015.
Network Six is an independently-owned commercial general entertainment broadcaster, with a significant news and current affairs element under the banner of SixInfo. Network Six carries a significant amount of local content, most of which airs at prime-time.
== History ==
=== Establishment ===
Applications to apply for a warrant to operate what was then North Derkasia's third national television network opened in 1993. The Communications Ministry announced later that year that Network Six Broadcasting, a consortium led by businessman Walt Conrado, had won the warrant.
There were numerous delays to the launch date of NSB. Litigation from the losers of the auction, radio broadcaster URD, surrounded the granting of the warrant, as did a market crash in February of 1995, which wiped out a large proportion of the capital that NSB required to establish the channel. As well as this, Channel 13's former chairman, Michael Greenborough, had just been appointed communications minister by the then-SRP-led government. Facing collapse, NSB was forced to take out a loan from the Derkasian Central Bank.
Broadcasting started on June 6th, 1996 at 5:00 pm with a preview of what viewers could expect to see. About an hour later, the first broadcast was played, a news report from SixInfo, NSB's news service, followed up thirty minutes later by a two-hour special previewing the network's programmes hosted by Walt Conrado. Regular broadcasts began the following day, June 7th, 1996, at 6:00am.
== Programming ==
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Much of NSB's programming consists of foreign imports, particularly from other Tapanthian broadcasters like JBC, LRT, UnitedMedia, and CBC. NSB does make original programming, under the moniker NSB Originals.
=== Original programming ===
* Close Up (current affairs, 2005 - present)
* Quizzo (game show, 2018 - present; adaption of the Canadish franchise)
* SixInfo (news, 1996 - present)
* Up in the Hills (soap opera, 1998 - present)
=== Imported programming ===
* Dir Abingen (science fiction / comedy, 2013 - 2021; produced by RTA)
* Dream (drama, 2020 - 2022; produced by TCA and JBC)
* Normal People (comedy, 2009; produced by 4NET)
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