Al'quri Media Network

* Profits
* Ownership

**Al'quri International LLC** or more commonly known as just **Al'quri** is a Illkursiee multinational mass media conglomerate with offices in Kobenhagen and Al'Kaj, Illqurivati. The company is the largest mutlinational telecommunications conglomerate in the world. Al'quri owns the news channels Al'quri International News, Al'quri Southern, Al'quri Magnitude, and Al'quri Football, Al'quri Parliament, and the commercial production studio Al'quri Studios.

Originally launched as a national news and current affairs television channel, the company has since expanded itself to a major network with multiple outlets and business units focusing on entertainment and mass media, with regional television channels broadcasting in multiple languages. Al'quri is notable for their apolitical and independent journalism and reporting, and it's channel outlets can be considered as one of the most factually cited sources.

Al'quri has also faced numerous controversies and criticism in it's 5 decades of history regarding many topics, with the company under scrutiny for a liberal and left-wing bias and it's controversial negative reporting of many conservative countries such as Virtaria, Ambrosia, and Merisovin, although the network has since acknowledged the criticism and controversy and has worked to eliminate a liberal and negative bias in the institution.

## History

### Early years

Al'quri International News or then known originally as Illkursiee International Broadcast (IIB) was launched on February 4th, 1986 as a joint venture between the business magnate Sebastian Sharp and the Government of Illqurivati, with Sebastian Sharp being the chairman of the IIB. The IIB was originally meant to be a state-owned enterprise under the Government of Illqurivati, but it was decided by both parties that the government will be only funding the national broadcaster in order to prevent bias.

The IIB began it's own regular television programming on the Vanhaus Park building in Haikto on Feburary 6th, 1986. During it's early years, the channel had offered over 12 hours of programming, which became 24 hours only 3 years later on January 24th, 1989. As the IIB was the first television channel in Illqurivati, viewership of the channel quickly skyrocketed with a approximate viewership of 25 million on average on every broadcast. The IIB also began massive employment around this time, enlarging it's original 2,400 employees to 55,600 at the channel's height. The IIB also quickly gained fame and recognition beyond Illqurivati, with the television channel beginning to operate in Wasimaw, the first outside Illqurivati.

During 1994, the network changed it's name to Illqurivati International News (IIN) and established the Illqurivati Media Network as the parent company of IIN after a major restructuring of the network. IIN and Tym-IB, which was the 2nd and one of the only television channels of Illqurivati at the time, also gained broadcasting rights to first edition of the Sahurle World Cup, being the only channels to have broadcasting rights of the Sahurle World Cup in the entirety of Illqurivati to this day. It was later transferred to Al'quri Football when the channel was launched during late 2023.

During 1996, the network acquired Tym-IB for 24.4 billion SHD and F0ur Television for 12.6 billion SHD, with the latter being merged with IIN in order to retain it's monopoly in Illkursiee television, which were controversial and frowned upon among the public at the time, which has been denied as the reason of the network acquiring the channels. The Illqurivati Media Network also around this time began opening channel outlets in all countries with the exception of Salmonelia, Eiskareburg, and Virtaria, which all of them were under the new television channel outlet IIN Southern (now Al'quri Southern).

### Ashur Awolowo & present years

In September 1st, 2003, it was reported that Sharp will be resigning as chairman of the company and will leave withn the next month, which was later confirmed a month later on December 14th, 2003. Sharp appointed the chief financial officer of the company, Ashur Awolowo, as the new chairman, which Awolowo agreed. As chairman of the company, Awolowo promised to begin rapidly modernizing the company and beginning to transition the network to become more apolitical.

As his first major decision withn 2 days of him being appointed as such, the company had rebranded all of it's services under Al'quri. IIN was changed to Al'quri International News, IIN Southern was changed to Al'quri Southern, and the parent company, Illqurivati Media Network was changed to Al'quri Media Network. The change was met with mixed to positive opinions among viewers, to which Awolowo has said that the change was "necessary" and to "distance the network itself from being biased towards Illqurivati."

The network during this time opened their commercial production arm, Al'quri Studios on February 16th, 2004 and another outlet called Al'quri EAS Magnitude, which was later changed to just Al'quri Magnitude. On it's 2005 report, all channels of the Al'quri Media Network received a total viewership of over 370 million throughout 2005, with it increasing to 400 million in 2006 and 470 million in 2008. Much like the company chairman's predecessor, Awolowo in 2012 announced the acquisitions of the Päikesetuul Report for 21.8 billion SHD and later in 2015, the International News Central for 17.6 billion SHD, which both were the national broadcasters for Merisovin and New Demoria. Awolowo has said that the acquisitions are part of it's globalization efforts.

During the 2010s and later, the 2020s, viewership of all Al'quri channels minus subsidiaries were stagnating over the years. It has been reported that the company lost 10 to 15 million viewers in it's 2016 report, notably due to competition and the launch of more popular sites and television channels like Alblino Stories by Alblino and the 2nd incarnation of Four Television under Foxofour. Awolowo has also said it himself that he "may had done enough for the network" due to Al'quri possibly losing it's 100 billion dollar valuation withn the 2030s, but has continued to become the chairman of Al'quri. The loss in viewership also led to mass layoffs in the company during the period. On 2018, the company announced that it will become publicly listed on the Illqurivati Stock Exchange Association under the ticker symbol ALQI with a direct listing, with the company going public a few days later with a market capitalization of over 104 billion.

In 2019, it had reported that for the first time, there were more people using Al'quri services in Takanesato and Merisovin than in Illqurivati. In December 2023, Al'quri Football was launched, which is a television/news site that focuses on sport and sports culture, with the company saying that all future broadcasts of the Sahurle World Cup and other sporting events will instead be on Al'quri Football instead on Al'quri International News, along side the launch of Al'quri Parliament, a broadcast television channel that records and streams live coverage of Illkursiee National Parliament and Illkursiee Advisory Parliament sessions. In January 2024, the company had rebranded itself to Al'quri International LLC and has moved it's offices to Alotower in Al'Kaj and the Al'quri Searidge Towers in Kobenhagen. All Al'quri channels in the same month had also begun the use of subtitles in all of it's programming for viewers with hearing difficulties, along side audio descriptions for visually impaired viewers.