Association of Commercial Broadcasters of the Federation of Phinbella

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ARF - Association of Commercial Broadcasters of the Federation of Phinbella

Logo since April RP 2617
Type	Radio and terrestrial television network commercial broadcaster
Country	Phinbella
Broadcast area	Free area of the Federation, Kota Hilir, Tri-State Area and Tanah Baharu
Headquarters	Pos Appat, Negara Awan
Programming
Picture format	1080i HDTV
Ownership
Owner	Dōmoyuchi Group through Fourteen Television Holdings
Key people	Kai Ishikami, Chairman
History
Launched	5 June -25BP (-25BP-06-05)
Founder	Matsuhiro Takamayaki, Tun Sahar Muhammad and Kang Dong-seul
Links
Website	phinfanmade/broadcasting/arf

ARF – Association of Commercial Broadcasters of the Federation of Phinbella (Sangunese: フィンベラ連邦の商業放送局の作業部会, translit.: Finbera renpō no shōgyō hōsōkyoku no sagyō bukai, Germanian: Arbeitsgemeinschaft der kommerziellen Rundfunkanstalten der Föderation von Phinbella; Phineaner: Persatuan Penyiar Komersial Persekutuan; Taesongean: 핀벨라연방의상업방송국의작업부회; Hanja: 핀벨라連邦의商業放送局의作業部会; RR: Phinbella Yeonbang-ui Sangeop Bangsongguk-ui Jakeobbuhoe; Batavian: Vereniging van de Commerciële Omroepinstellingen van de Federatie van Phinbella; Afrikaans: Vereniging van die kommersiële uitsaaiers-instellings van die federasie van Phinbella) is a joint organization of Phinbellan regional commercial radio and television network broadcasters, the television network is fully controlled by the Dōmoyuchi Shimbun newspaper. It was founded in -25BP as a commercial broadcasting network to represent the common interests of new and decentralized broadcasting services – in particular the introduction of joint broadcasting networks in the Free area of the Federation, dependencies and the special administrative territories. The network's responsibilities include the syndication of entity-wide non-news television programs and television news programs to its regional affiliates, and the exchange of news between stations.

ARF maintains and operates a Federation-wide television network known as De Veertiende ("The Fourteenth") where it is broadcast terrestrially on Channel 14 in Negara Awan. The ARF network – De Veertiende began broadcasting on 14 September -28BP under the name Phinbellasche Commerciële Televisie (フィンベラの商業テレビ, Finbera no shōgyō terebi, Kommerzielles Fernsehen von Phinbellan; Televisyen Komersial Phinbella), later renamed Federatie Eerste Commerciële Televisie – Kanaal 14 (連邦最初の商業テレビ – 第14チャンネル, Renpō saisho no shōgyō terebi – Dai 14 Chan'neru, Föderation Erstes Kommerzielles Fernsehen – Kanal 14; Televisyen Komersial Pertama Persekutuan – Saluran 14) in -10BP corporate redesign in the same year; after that it adopted its current short name of De Veertiende in RP 2606. ARF also operates a 24-hour news channel, EineNews, which is available on subscription television platforms and also broadcasts on selected ARF affiliates during the night. The programmes produced by the ARF are broadcast through its terrestrial broadcasting network throughout the Free area of the Federation, and it can also be broadcast outside of this entity and abroad via satellite services.

De Veertiende is also a key station for this network, until now ARF has approximately 16 affiliated stations throughout the territories of the Free area of the Federation and special administrative territories (except Oriental Hispanioéire Taemhwan), and it also has satellite stations for programs that were once broadcast by ARF stations. ARF affiliate stations operate over 50 regional and local radio stations and 16 regional television networks, some of which have opted out of nationwide daytime programming.

History

Name

• Germanian: "Arbeitsgemeinschaft – der kommerziellen Rundfunkanstalten – der Föderation von Phinbella"
• 'Consortium' ("Working group") or Association – of the commercial broadcasting institutions^‡ – of the Federation of Phinbella'

^‡commercial broadcasting institution means a broadcaster that is not owned by the government, nor a government-owned company, but is owned by a public company that is commercially generated and traded freely on the stock exchange. This means that ARF can be 'owned' by anyone.

Early stages

The history of ARF begins in -43BP, where a broadcaster and radio presenter at the time, Steve van Sterich-chan (best known as the main supporter of Voice of Free Forajasaki) stated that commercial broadcasting would be established in the Phineonesian region, especially in Phinbella and Forajasaki. The structure of local broadcasting in the Phineonesian region, the rejection of government influence, and also affiliation with the press and their respective ideologies are key to commercial and private radio and television institutions. According to the Kunapuran-Forajasakian writer, Ferdinand Muragan, Steve had recommended a prominent newspaper publishing company owner, Matsuhiro Takamayaki along with other local newspaper agency executives to form an institution for commercial broadcasters under the newspaper agency. Matsuhiro then persuaded the government authorities of the time to establish a commercial broadcasting network in the Phinbellan area only, and not in the rest of the Phinbellan region, especially in Taemhwanian area. As a result of that discussion, the first commercial radio station was launched in Melekeok in -42BP. Since the first commercial radio station was launched, there have been several local commercial radio stations launched during that period and merged with the first radio station. Until -34BP, as many as 10 local commercial radio stations were launched.

In -32BP, the first TV broadcasting license for a commercial broadcaster was granted to Matsuhiro through Dōmoyuchi Press, and since then, the Phinbellan Commercial Television Network Corporation was established on January 10, -30BP. However, due to delays in delivering the equipment used for broadcasting, testing was postponed with significant from the scheduled initial date. It led to public broadcasters AVRO, PPAR, SPIP, FKTRV and FCRV establishing the Phinbellan Television Foundation (PhTF-PhTS; now known as FPPO 1) and becoming the first to start broadcasting TV programs on 20 December -29BP. On September 8, -28BP, KFP began broadcasting trials and eight days later, on September 14, KFP officially began broadcasting TV programs as the first commercial broadcaster in Phinbella, and it was also the second commercial television channel in the Phineonesian region after Media Sinar TV5 in Forajasaki.

KFP noticed that the large number of new TV licenses issued by the Inter-Phinbella Postal Authority in the late -30BPs, although plans to expand ARF's radio and television broadcasts throughout Phinbella did not proceed because the licenses granted to KFP were limited to the Kernsopolis and Tampines areas only, a broadcasting station for the Nah'yok Bouki sector based in Providenciales was established by the Dōmoyuchi Shimbun Group and granted a separate broadcasting license for the entire Keijinshin metropolitan area under the name Sender Freies Providenciales. In early -27BP, Dōmoyuchi Shimbun and Phinbellan Commercial Television began to establish TV stations outside the Kernsopolis-Tampines area, and in the same year SFP-TV began broadcasting on March 10 which marked the beginning of KFP's expansion to the Keijinshin area including Danville and its surroundings.

Programming

Radio

Like radio stations in other public and commercial broadcasting networks, ARF member stations also usually produce their own radio programming. Some ARF member stations usually partner with ARF centralized radio stations for common radio service in most of their market areas. Most ARF affiliate stations have at least three to five radio stations including FM radio stations for different programming, be it news, youth and music oriented. At night several member stations will deliver regular evening programming produced on a rotating system by the ARF stations themselves, the programming is divided into four services which are: ヒットナイト hittonaito (light music), 夜のコンサート yoru no konsāto (classical music), インフォナイト infonaito (all news) and ポップナイト poppunaito (pop music). Most services in ARF member radio stations are on both the AM and FM broadcast bands, although some services are also available on DAB.

ARF only has more than 50 radio stations provided by regional affiliate broadcasters, but ARF does not have a radio service for national coverage compared to its television service.

Television

ARF's main television channels are the nationwide De Veertiende and fourteen regional channels operated by different regional affiliate broadcasting institutions. The channel is available on analogue terrestrial transmitters and is still broadcast until now, moreover the channel has also been available on digital terrestrial transmitters since RP 2607. De Veertiende and third programs (regional syndicated programmes), like local radio stations, as a commercial broadcaster, are basically financed by on-air advertising, where ads are usually aired during non-news broadcast times, including on ARF non-news programs, but the amount of on-air advertising on news programs is very limited.

De Veertiende broadcasts across Phinbella at least 20 to 21 hours a day like the other commercial Phinbellan broadcasters. ARF affiliates all, jointly or usually separately, operate their own regional channels, known collectively as the Dai San-kai puroguramu (第3回プログラム, "Third Programme"; "Program Ketiga"; "제3프로그램") – but all local broadcasts are branded with the number 14 after the broadcaster's name including regional broadcasts not broadcast on channel 14, such as HR14 in Kota Hilir which is broadcast on channel 14, and also DR14 in Drusselstein which is broadcast on channel 9. This regional channel schedule also includes sub-regional allocations at certain times, specifically for local news including RDP Politama sub-regional for territory of Politama and RDP Dong Ping for the territory of the Islands of Dong Ping.

• HSR TV which has regional opt-outs including in Territory of Flower and remote islands
• SFP-Terebi
• PEO Televisie (opt-outs: territorial programmes for Maritime Kachi Kochi, Springwind Islands, Boninki Islands, Phinéas Padolski, Paju Cantonment and Tannyeugwa Refugee Settlements)
• DIBS-TV (opt-outs: territorial programmes for Permata Mutiara, Tanah Tōnán'hyôrï and Oystra Stoorskerið)
• HR Television
• STV (sub-regional opt-outs: Soekarnograd Capital Region, Korandang, Southern (Labuan Alperen), Northeastern (Hastinapura), Teluk Delungun and Kallang Baharu)
• Radio Dindings Fernsehen
• THF Terebi
• DR Fernsehen (4 local opt-outs within Drusselstein)
• SHR Fernsehen (3 local opt-outs within Manschūhōria)
• RPD Television (opt-outs: separate territorial programmes)
• TR Fernsehen (sub-regional opt-outs: seperated local programmes)
• UIO Televisie – in collaboration with CR Television (have a local opt-out including CR Television from Cyberayanischer Rundfunk)
• RSB Television (opt-outs: territorial programmes for Soccsksargen (formerly sub-regional Mainland Soccsksargen) and Koitchhi State (formerly sub-regional Kernsopol Island))

Each regional channel of the regional broadcaster ARF will co-broadcast with De Veertiende including news programs and also certain programming, it includes four and a half hours of co-programming with other commercial broadcasters (including linguistic regional commercial broadcasters in the Oriental Hispanioéire Taemhwan) every weekday. Hallim Broadcasting (HBC) also has its own television station but because this broadcaster is a cross-net broadcaster that is also affiliated with THN, it is expected that HBC only has programming time from De Veertiende and does not have a dedicated television station for local programming.

Digital terrestrial LCN is usually "14" including De Veertiende nationwide, but there are regional broadcasting stations that use LCN channels other than channel 14 such as Rundfunk Politama-Dongping and Hallim Broadcasting which use channel 9, Soekarnograd TV uses channel 5, Drusselsteinischer Rundfunk uses channel 8 and Radio Dindings use channel 10. Of the broadcast stations that do not use "14" for the remote control key ID, except for RDP (UHF analog master channel channel 37) and RD in Dindings (VHF channel analog master station channel 11), the channel number analog master station transmission is inherited.

ARF also has three additional channels as part of the ARF Digital World Service Initiative package, among them EineNews which is a television news channel and Var14 which is an entertainment channel that broadcasts local dramas, anime and reality shows. In addition, ARF has a BS satellite channel known as BS-ARF which was launched in RP 2600, this satellite channel broadcasts programs that used to be broadcast on De Veertiende and ARF regional stations, and also has CS satellite channels among which ARF NatPlus (CS301) and also ARF NatSportsG (CS267).

Institutions and member organizations

Current broadcasters

Broadcasting area(s)		Station			LCN	Start date of broadcast	Date of affiliation	Note(s)
Territory	Region	On air branding	Abbr.	Call sign
Nationwide		De Veertiende	14TV	TQFX	14	September 14, -28BP (-28BP-09-14)	June 5, -25BP (-25BP-06-05)	Nationwide flagship station; core station
Capital Area (including remote islands)	Gangwol	Hauptstadtrundfunk	HSR	TQHF	14	December 1, -42BP (-42BP-12-01)	June 5, -25BP (-25BP-06-05)	Western flagship station; core station
Keijinshin Metropolitan Region	Keiki	Sender Freies Providenciales	SFP	TQIX	14	March 10, -35BP (-35BP-03-10)	June 5, -25BP (-25BP-06-05)	Eastern flagship station; core station
Maritime Territories (except Providenciales)		Pan-Eilandbewoners Omroep	PEO	TQOS	14	April 26, -31BP (-31BP-04-26)	June 5, -25BP (-25BP-06-05)	Core station
Phinbellan dependencies		Isonkankei Kokusai Hōsō	DIBS	TQPI	14	April 16, -12BP (-12BP-04-16)	April 16, -12BP (-12BP-04-16)
Kota Hilir	Haeseo	Hilirischer Rundfunk	HR	TQRK	14	November 14, -27BP (-27BP-11-14)	June 5, -25BP (-25BP-06-05)	Core station
Tanah Baharu		Soekarnograd TV	STV	TQVX	5	April 1, -35BP (-35BP-04-01)	June 5, -25BP (-25BP-06-05)	Core station
Dindings	Tempasuku	Radio Dindings	RD	TQRD	10	August 10, -34BP (-34BP-08-10)	June 5, -25BP (-25BP-06-05)	Core station
Turku and Hōri	Tempasuku	Tsurukuhōri Hōsō	THF	TQXN	14	November 14, -32BP (-32BP-11-14)	June 5, -25BP (-25BP-06-05)	Core station
Drusselstein	Tempasuku	Drusselsteinischer Rundfunk	DR	TQDS	8	October 8, -22BP (-22BP-10-08)	October 8, -22BP (-22BP-10-08)
Manschūhōria	Tempasuku	Shinhōdokyō Hōsō	SHR	TQSX	14	January 10, -30BP (-30BP-01-10)	June 5, -25BP (-25BP-06-05)	Core station
Politama	Kepulauan	Rundfunk Politama-Dongping	RPD	TQJX	9	November 11, -25BP (-25BP-11-11)	November 11, -25BP (-25BP-11-11)
Islands of Dong Ping	Kepulauan
Halim	Jifū	Hallim Broadcasting	HBC	TQBH	9	July 1, -16BP (-16BP-07-01)	July 1, -16BP (-16BP-07-01)	Primary affiliate; also affiliated with THN
Tanintʃhourim		Tanintschurimischer Rundfunk	TR	TQTR	14	December 8, -22BP (-22BP-12-08)	October 1, RP 2619 (RP 2619-10-01)
Cyberaya	Haeseo	Cyberayanischer Rundfunk	CR	TQCR	14	January 26, -5BP (-5BP-01-26)	January 26, -5BP (-5BP-01-26)
Orange Free State	Haeseo	Uitsaai Internasionale Oranje	UIO	TQXH	14	July 1, -23BP (-23BP-07-01)	July 1, -23BP (-23BP-07-01)
Soccsksargen	Seopin	Seophinbella Bangsong	RSB	TQKF	14	January 23, -37BP (-37BP-01-23)	June 5, -25BP (-25BP-06-05)	Core station
Koitchhi State	Seopin
Shandānø'kaí	PES
Aziziyah	PES
Paminorshan Free State	PES
Nationwide (Broadcasting Satellite)		BS-ARF	BS-14		14	December 1, RP 2600 (RP 2600-12-01)	December 1, RP 2600 (RP 2600-12-01)

Areas without an ARF stations

Prefecture	Region	Station(s) from neighbouring prefecture	News gathering
Nabor Klafterschft	Keiki	PEO (Maritime Territories), SFP (Keijinshin)	PEO (Maritime Territories)
Kantō-shū Islands	Gwandong-ju	For radio programming: Hauptstadtradio (FSCT), RD (Dindings)	Hauptstadtradio (FSCT)
		For TV programming on cable providers: 14TV (FSCT), RD (Dindings)	14TV (FSCT)
Western Nijima	Nijima	PEO (Maritime Territories)	ARF Ever Grande Bureau
Oriental Hispanioéire Taemhwan		N/A	ARF Ҭvuҟovarь Bureau

Overseas bureau and other organizations

Apart from 17 affiliated members, ARF also has 25 correspondent offices throughout Phinbella including in Kota Hilir, Tri-State Area, Tanah Baharu and Oriental Hispanioéire Taemhwan, and outside Phinbella including in Forajasaki, Plazas de Irian, Sanpantul (Çakaristan), Hurmu, Craitland and some other countries.