Hopelandian National Broadcasting

Hopelandian National Broadcasting (HNB) is a Hopelandian state broadcaster created from the profitization of Hopelandian Public Radio and Hopelandian Public Television upon the victory of President Michael K. Gilligan in the 2022 elections. HNB absorbed the separate radio and television units, which were now branded with the umbrella HNB brand, and has as its primary difference the inclusion of a limited number of commercial advertisements (two minutes per hour) and the creation of a new network that "unites Hopelandians by means of an apolitical broadcasting agency". Voice of Hopeland remains as a separate unit, but affiliated to HNB.
HNB is headquartered in Gatwick, the federal capital. Its operations are based in the existing HPR-HPT compound, which has since been renamed The HNB Complex. The HNB Complex is also responsible for generating local programming in the Gatwick area.
==History==
===The social rift and the idea of redefining public broadcasting===
The creation of HNB stems from rising mistrust of HPR, which was labelled "too progressive" by right-wing political organizations, accused of "stoking division in a country facing an international dilemma that doesn't have a solution". Around June, following mass repression in Hopeland over protests seen by the government as "communist", given the country's long history of opposition to communism and having made its communist party illegal in June 2019 after a scandal involving flame wars between members of the HCP who had sexual divergences, HPT started to fall in "disrepute" because of its non-alignment with the ruling government.
Around this time, the social rift between progressives, conservatives and "regressives" (who are a small but noticeable movement of people who demand one step back in society, before the 2010s events that caused what the conservatives call "the fall of civilization", known by regressives as "the fall of sanity") began to worsen.
Gilligan is a self-taught regerssive and HPR, more so than HPT, has been, in his own words, "accused of promoting attacks to Hopelandian national identity", without directly referencing sexual minority rights, but emphasizing more on instigations concerning situations such as wars, the Plenestine conflict and a religious divide. Moreover, HPR was closer to NPR, and was far from the initial model of "hard news".
===Finding a national structure===
For Gilligan, in case of election, he would appoint a board of former HPT and HPR executive, who left the broadcaster in the progressive conversion of the late 2000s and early 2010s. The broadcaster would avoid using the word "public", which had been in use since the 1990s, and replace it by "national", "stoking a sense of national unity". The reintroduction of commercial advertising (granted that infomercials would be prohibited) would help the new broadcaster recoup its ongoing losses due to the pandemic, and make it "attractive, but not competitive". There were also goals to set for an 80 to 90% Hopelandian content quota on the main channel during the week.
===Determination of the creation of HNB===
===Transitional phase===
===HNB in full swing===
==Branding==
==Services==
==Criticism==
===Political connections===