Comtel TV

Comtel TV is a private television station located in Rilchide. It's signal is RCOM-TV.

## History

### Beginnings, as NTS 14 (1962)

NTS decided to not only promote to it's company one sole station, due to the majority of the people being inmigrants from Spain and the United States, and because of the equality plans to expand it's television services to the Southern audiences, For that, they made a channel, named "NTS 14 RNWT-TV", whereas it's signals meant "National Worldwide Television", due to it being an international television channel.

Because the station of their channel 4 not having enough space to broadcast it's programs, the first transmission of this channel was broadcasted live at the National Stadium (now demolished), in the outsides of the Michiton Province, with an overall attendance of 14,000 people. Since then, it was the most preserved moment in the Rilchidian television history.

NTS 14 was responsible for all the Spanish programming provenient from Rilchide in the 1960's to 1974, until they had an agreement with Radio Internacional, the owner of Canal R, to move all of it's programs to the Spanish-speaking channel.

### Independence from the NTS (1975)

Because of the lack of negociation support and some of it's international programs moving to other channels, the channel 14 was experiencing serious trouble with the National Television Services back then. The director of the company, James Bernard, demanded 5 million bucks to the station for it's low budget in one single week. Since then, the station gave them a poor price (29 dollars) because they wasted their money on their original programs, and thus, letting the director threaten to end the television station.

Things have changed when, after leaving the NTS and six weeks of blackout, when the Channel 14 was starting all over, and changing it's signal to RMCN-TV. It had it's own company, called Michiton Capital Television, which administered not only the television station itself, but youth banks and several radio stations all across the micronation. It was situated in the center of the capital, on which is now the Modern Theatre.

Although it did not transmit international content, it was the close competitor to the most watched television station at the time, GTC-5, with original, experimental and musical programs having a rating to over 89% in that time. It's most viewed program, Judge Cotton, starring Cotton Ribeth, has been declared "one of the most sensational programs in the 70's" by the newspapers of Rilchide, despite the network having a very short run.

The police station liquidated the headquarters of Channel 14 because some of it's staff were either not licensed or not approved by the government in 1977.

### Rebrand as WBC (1977)

The Michiton Capital Television, with it's television station shutting down, had a state of alert, as described on it's radio stations. For that, they had to make negotiation with two companies: the Rilchidian Intermicronational Resources Foundation and Hasker and Associates, to create a new television station, which can transmit international content, which was the same that the NTS 14 station did.

It has been transmitted for the first time in December 30th, 1977, with it's programming fully in color. It is the second television station to do so, the first one being RIF-TV in 1973.

A name contest was made in August, in the National Palace, and many college students and ex-employees participated in the event. The winning name, created by Symonne Darling, "Worldwide Broadcasting Corporation", was held as the official name of the new television station.
It has been transmitting freely since it's first 3 years, with very good critics from the newspapers, until, in November of 1980, the japanese station called NHK was holding a case against the company because of it's illegal distribution of some live-action series. The WBC won the case, only by an episode of an educational program called "Six Wings", about the troubles with a Japanese person, and the NHK lost 30 yen in response.

In 1984, several employees from the company had a plan to "Americanize" it's programation, and change it's brand entirely.
It's campaign, called "Bringing the World to You", transmitted a new set of entertainment, as well as being the first television station to transmit the Copa America, the Miss Universe, and the Rai singing contest. It also had the permission to broadcast Zaurian programs, along with Australian original films. Since then, it had won 5 million dollars in revenue.

### Privatization (1987)

The company that owns WBC, Michiton Capital Television, has been experiencing debt longage, which led to the station to slowly decrease in viewership. At the exact same moment that happened, they had issues on winning a case against Comtel, which would buy the television station to upgrade it's company. WBC, then, lost the case, and moved a large amount of it's programming to ETT, channel 10. It changed it's signal to RCOM-TV, which is still used today.

After 48 hours of color bars, the network was reestablished as Stars Television, and most of it's programming consisted on comedy during the late 80's. It was the first television station in Rilchide to broadcast 24 hours a day, whereas the other television stations were broadcasting 18 hours.

Stars Television had realized it's own jingle to support the national football team of Rilchide in the 1991 Micro-Cup, which was a retailed version of Rede Globo's football jingle.

### Comtel Television (2004)

TBA

Comtel Television has been producing a streaming service called Mega Comtel, on which will be released in 2022, and will feature only experimental films and satire news programs.