Media of Kalgachia

The media of Kalgachia is resourced and managed by the Directorate of Education and Outreach, with specialist input from other authorities. Although a rigorous editorial control is exercised with regard to coverage of the Kalgachi state and church, the absence of commercial pressures allows for a wide diversity of artistic and experimental content in other areas which often strays into the outright avant garde, as well as a subtle but persistent input from the Troglodyti for whom the Kalgachi media complex is the primary means to memetically cultivate the population through symbolic invocation and subliminal messaging.

Both radio and television are broadcast through NVIS propagation on the HF spectrum, bouncing signals off the ionosphere to reach Kalgachia's many deep valleys from above. Continuity of broadcast during national emergencies can be achieved by the electronic warfare units of the The Kalgachi Defence Force, operational priorities permitting.

Newspapers

The Snowflake Banner

The official state journal, based in Oktavyan. Mainly concerned with the gazetting of government orders and tame editorials explaining their place within wider state policy. Some of the latter pieces are rumoured to be authored by the Perfecti themselves, although the rumour itself is said to be a ploy by the editorial staff to increase the circulation of their sober-toned publication.

Private Ear

A tabloid publication, also based in Oktavyan. As well as its bawdy eviscerations of foreign personalities, Private Ear enjoys an unusual freedom to pillory certain figures of the Kalgachi state and church, such selective character assassinations apparently serving as a means for those authorities to throw their own dissenters under the bus. The appearance of one's name anywhere in this publication is considered to be a career-ending event.

The Crampon

The official journal of the Kalgachi Defence Force, analysing military developments across Benacia and passing on various messages from the KDF command. The Crampon is popular among enlisted soldiers for its 'Wench of the Week' full-colour pin-up centrefold, and the 'Brass Farce' readers column featuring anonymous parodies, criticisms and rants against named officers subject to their political vulnerability a la Private Ear.

The Inner Light

The official publication of the Church of Kalgachia, traditionally leading with a transcript of the latest sermon from the Cathedral of Heaven's Conquest in Oktavyan. The Inner Light also examines innovations by the provincial clergy and the entire back half is devoted to agony columns lending wholesome advice to spiritually-anguished readers.

The Hacksaw

The medical journal of the Directorate of Health and Public Walfare, its title alluding to the less-than-complete resourcing of Kalgachi medical services in the nation's early days. The Hacksaw is distributed to all hospitals and clinics, with a relatively small readership on account of its impenetrably academic descriptions of advances in Kalgachi medicine, not to mention vividly-detailed photographs of certain procedures which are unsuitable for delicate stomachs.

Vibrant Vexations

A publication exclusively devoted to crosswords and other brain puzzles, each copy issued with a pencil to complete them. Rumoured to be controlled by the Troglodyti who incorporate their sigil workings into the puzzles' geometry and use winners of the publication's regular competitions as a recruitment pool.

Bergburger Tagblatt

A Yiddish language publication based in the Lieutenancy of Bergburg. An unusually large section of this publication is occupied by the 'Letters to the Editor' column, wherein readers engage in vociferous debates with each other across a span of years, on subjects mainly pertaining to the process and implications of Judeo-Minarboreal-Ketherist syncresis. The back three pages are assigned to mathematical and chess problems for readers to solve.

Radio

Summit 1

National station for news, analysis and documentaries.

Summit 2

National station for classical music, literary/poetic recitations and opera.

Summit 3

National station for popular/folk music and entertainment.

Righteous Thunder

Religious affairs station controlled by the Church of Kalgachia. Of similar format to The Inner Light newspaper, albeit more fiery and eschatological in tone.

Berg-Kol (Mountain Voice)

Yiddish language station featuring news from the Bergburg region, incredibly long dissertations by Ketherist Kohanim and even longer telephone debates between listeners.

Elektruchak (Electric Campfire)

Laqi language station, featuring news from Schleopgora/Abrek region and interviews with local partisan warlords between relentless streams of Lezginka.

Lög Fyrir Vinnu (Music for Work)

Music to motivate contractually-obliged Froyalanish labourers in their work. Broadcasted to factories, lumber mills and other industrial premises, Lög Fyrir Vinnu features traditional Froyalanish folk music lyrically reworked to inspire the foreign labour force throughout their 14-16 hour shifts. Analysis has concluded that the classically upbeat numbers 'The Heat Of Your Toil Will Melt Away The Sins Of Your Ancestors' and 'No Time For Groping' are particularly effective at increasing productivity.

Television

Blizzard 1

National channel for news and documentary programming.

Blizzard 2

National channel for arts, theatre, operatic and other high cultural programming.

Blizzard 3

National channel for drama, entertainment and sports programming.

Netherlight

Religious affairs station, broadcasting live services from churches across Kalgachia and theological analyses by senior Abbots and Credents. Also provides news and general documentary programming on affairs under the Church's authority such as provincial economics, judicial matters and partisan warfare.

Salvo

Military affairs station, broadcasting in short bursts during barrack messing times. Broadcasts begin with a recitation of the KDF command's standing orders and other administrative news followed by a roundup of the strategic military situation on the Benacian continent. Concludes with a cinematic feature, the most popular being imported Jingdaoese action serials.

Look and Learn

Educational programming for broadcast to schools (in the morning) colleges (in the afternoon) and universities (through the night).

???

Although only receivable in Kalgachia and its immediate limitrophes, this station does not appear on public television listings and Kalgachi authorities refuse to confirm or deny involvement in it, although the occupants of some senior positions are said to be profoundly unnerved by its existence. It appears and disappears from the air at random intervals and frequencies, sometimes overpowering another channel. The station is devoid of branding or continuity and consists entirely of random, sparsely worded and inexplicable scenes with a consistent theme of what Kalgachi arcanists call 'entropic gradients' - namely events of a traumatic or catastrophic nature such as wartime bombardments, mass executions, natal miscarriages, violent accidents, rapes and murders. The scenes depict an assortment of historical periods and geographic locations throughout the Benacian continent, although in some scenes these locations and times are implausibly mixed together. The most popular speculations for the station's purpose are DEO broadcast tests, arcane workings of the Troglodyti, electronic psyops by Shireroth, or the collective trauma of Benacia's violent past spontaneously leaking onto the RF spectrum in a 625-line television format. All attempts at public research of the phenomenon have been suppressed and/or classified.