Network 54

Network News 54, or Network 54, is an American media Megacorporation that broadcasts throughout the NUSA. Network 54 has held a monopoly operating on the same frequency across the entire country since 2010, when it amassed control of over 62% of all American broadcasting, and produces news, films, and television shows.
Network News 54 is on Channel 54, although since the Fourth Corporate War their reach into the broadcast markets has been severely curtailed. Despite its name, News 54 offers many diversions in addition to news. Every regional office offers a slightly different schedule to its district, with syndicated series, non-prime-time movies, and independent local news programs. Certain elements of the broadcasting are universal nationwide, such as prime-time series and bi-hourly national and world news shows.
History
Network News 54 (or Net 54) was born in 1991 as a cable news service similar to the venerable CNN. Known then as CableNews 54, it gave CNN and C-SPAN rough competition, developing a reputation for tough, accurate, hard-hitting journalism. CableNews 54's quality earned it spectacular success, from which it was able to diversify and expand. As a fledgling corporation, CN54 gained control of several smaller cable networks and pioneered the small-scale development of several new broadcasting and production technologies.
The real big break, however, came in 1998 when CN54 bought the ailing NBC from General Electric, hereby expanding its influence from cable to the broadcast airwaves. With this action, CableNews 54 became Network News 54. Under the guidance of a young programming genius named Howard Wong, Net 54 diversified its programming into all varieties of entertainment, becoming the first Mediacorp to exert major control over both the cable and broadcast domains. Although the reputation for outstanding video journalism continued, "News" became an anachronistic word in the title, kept for style only.
This expansion is what really gave Net 54 the resources to compete with dedicated technology corporations in the development of new media tech. Until the NBC buyout, Net 54's tech research and development had been small-scale and largely theoretical. The corporation's broadcast and production facilities had never relied on cutting edge tech as cable and broadcast video had been established long before the corporation's birth. Although such things as first generation HDTV broadcasting and read-write digital video disc production were used, these technologies had been imported from corporations such as Sony, Microtech and Nippon-Gakki. This changed with Net 54's financial maturity. Using profits from the broadcasting, advertising and recording divisions, as well as several other departments, Net 54 financed the creation of a new subsidiary: International Media Technologies (IMT).
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Network News 54 was a wavelength monopolizer before the Fourth Corporate War, operating on the same frequency across the NUSA. No matter the part of the country, Network News 54 would be on Channel 54, although after the War their reach into the broadcast markets had been severely curtailed. Despite its name, News 54 still offered many diversions in addition to news. Every regional office offered a slightly different schedule to its district, with syndicated series, non-prime-time movies, and independent local news programs. Certain elements of the broadcasting were universal nationwide, such as prime-time series and bi-hourly national and world news shows. Under the control of Michelle Dreyer, widow of the original founder, the actual Corporate offices were located on the vast prairie spread at Fifty Pines Ranch near Santa Fe, New Mexico.