GTV

Gotswana Television (often referred to as GTV) is a Gotswanan free-to-air television station owned by GTV Studios Limited. It broadcasts from 5.30am-2am daily, and airs mainly comedy based programming.
== History ==
=== Launch ===
GTV was launched on 4th July 1946 at 9pm GCT. After the devastating effects of the Gotswanian War in 1943, many of the country was still in fallout, and struggled to make deals with television companies such as FTV to provide residents with entertainment. As well as this, Gotswana struggled financially, and couldn’t gain the funds to support a multi-channel Network such as the as-before mentioned FTV. So they had to compromise. When GTV was launched in 1946, many programmes were poorly made with whatever budget they had. Despite this, viewership skyrocketed. Audience share showed that 70% of households with access to a television set were tuning in to GTV every day. 
=== Funding ===
At the time, commercials in the United Federation were seen as a novelty. FTV was the only commercial broadcaster, and Chadian Television was still a number of years away. With this in mind, GTV introduced the license fee in 1947 in order to secure funds to keep the channel on the air.
===Branding===
GTV has had 5 logos over its time as a tv channel
=== 1946-1949 ===
The first logo is very similar to the logo used from 1949-1986, albeit with no colour on the lettering and 2 coloured dots splitting up the letters.
=== 1949-1986 ===
In 1949, the dots were dropped and the lettering was given a coloured look. It was the longest living logo in GTV history.
=== 1986-2002 ===
The third logo was introduced in November 1986. The multi-coloured logo was finally retired for a more modern and polished look, with yellow chrome lettering.
=== 2002-2009 ===
In 2002, GTV decided to make their logo lowercase, giving a more modern day and viewer friendly look on the channel, with the uppercase lettering swapped out for lowercase, and with a dark blue shade. This logo has been heavily critiqued for being too simplistic, and would only last for 7 years. It is sometimes still used on products to this day. 
=== 2009-present ===
GTV’s current logo was introduced in March 2009, and has been used ever since. It retained the dark blue colour from the 2002 logo, but returns to using capital lettering, complete with the logo rotated -10 degrees. It also uses a bevel effect. GTV’s cooperate logo however is simply a colourless flat logo
=== 2016 ===
In 2016, to celebrate GTV’s 70th birthday, a special logo with 1949 branding was used for 1 day only.
== “Alien” Hijack (1973) ==
On 9th September 1973, at around 5.45am, during a Loony Tunes cartoon, viewers who were watching on a certain kind of satellite dish heard a strange message coming through their TV’s. The alien, which had a Southern English accent, incidentally said it was head of Galactic Command, and had come to Earth to ask us to give up our weapons of mass destruction. GTV swiftly informed viewers that the broadcast was definitely a hoax, and we weren’t actually being contacted by some sort of extraterrestrial being. Eerily though, the hoaxer was never caught, and there are some people who think the broadcast was a genuine alien.