Television in Namu Labaki

Television arrived to Namu Labaki in October 1975, less than a month before the country became fully-independent from North Arlesbury. Today, the market is higlhy competitive, with three television companies: the Namu Labaki Broadcasting Corporation, the Starlight Television Network and Viasat.
==History==
The first television company was founded by a company linked to Television North Arlesbury. The company, known as Namu Labaki Television, was founded on June 27, 1973, and was registered on the same day by the North Arlesburian Companies House. State enteprises were still counted as actual companies until the fall of the New State.
Eventually NLTV began its regular operations on October 18, 1975. Just a few weeks later, Namu Labaki became independent (on November 11) and issues between North Arlesbury and the local government were high. Eventually the former management was overrun by the government of Namu Labaki. NLTV became a mouthpiece of the government.
A Michillian newspaper reported in 1980 that NLTV was still operating a precarious black and white television service. The governments of North Arlesbury, the Michillies and South Bulungi invest in the arrival of a color television service. The efforts led by the state broadcasters of these countries, despite internal pressure, were a reality by 1983.
In the 80s, a typical weekday on NLTV started at 6pm and ended before 11pm. This situation changed in the 90s with broadcasts starting in the middle of the afternoon, and in 1991, the channel started satellite broadcasting in order to reach a nationwide audience.
TNA International was made available in 1994. The terrestrial signal was replaced by TNA Bulungi in 1998 when an agreement was signed. Nonetheless, even with a second channel from a foreign broadcaster, there was a limitation of choice. In 1997, Radio Namu Labaki and Namu Labaki Television merged to create the Namu Labaki Broadcasting Corporation.
Subscription television arrived in the late 90s when DSTV landed in the country. Eventually the Namu Labaki Broadcasting Corporation launched its second channel in 2000, initially in an experimental phase. Both channels were made available on DSTV. In 2002, the NLBC rebranded and NLBC 2 became a regular channel.
NLBC 2's license was auctioned off in 2007. While the NLBC was still able to broadcast the channel over its network of transmitters, the company that owned the channel was Waraki Investments Limited. This also led to the launch of NLBC International, with the combined efforts of the NLBC and Waraki. On December 13, 2008, Starlight Television launched as the first commercial television channel.
In 2010, the digital terrestrial network was launched with Viasat obtaining its first license exclusive to the service. The channel, TV6, was dedicated to telenovelas from Latin Sierra dubbed in English. A second, more general network, TV3, was launched in January 2013.
The NLBC exonerated the controllers of both its second channel and its international channel. All channels were now under NLBC administration on January 1, 2018.
An experimental DTT platform started operations in 2019. The channel order is as follows: NLBC 1/NLBC 2/TV3/Starlight/NLBC International/TV6. The government selected the Oriencian ISDB-T format as the second country in Bulungi to do so after Bophutatswana. However the services are only available in the capital and signal is normally weak.
==Channels==
*NLBC 1
*NLBC 2
*NLBC International
*Starlight
*TV3
*TV6
All these channels are available terrestrially on a local DTT platform.