Grid Broadcasting Company

The Grid Broadcasting Company is a Second Life broadcasting network. It streams shows online through YouTube and broadcasts on K-Ace TV channel 3 in-world. Its studios are located in the NTBI Celaeno Compound.

Programming Lineup

GBC is working primarily on its news program. After the pilot episode has launched, its other shows will start filming. All shows are released on Friday night at 11 PM SLT - every week there is a GBC News and either a Prim & Proper or Canadian Cooking (alternates), and every month 100 Throttle is released (although this schedule is subject to change).

GBC News at 11

GBC News at 11 is the flagship weekly news program for GBC. Each episode is released every Friday night at 11 PM SLT. It relays three categories of news:

• In-character roleplay news from the Second Life urban roleplay world
• Out-of-character roleplay news such as opening/closing cities, administrative drama, etc.
• General Second Life and Linden Lab news

GBC News is committed to being impartial and neutral in sensitive matters, and as such, refrains from making accusations in dramatic stories. They try to report the facts and nothing else. Additionally, it provides weather reports, which are actually measured in lag and sim FPS. Participating regions host small weather stations which constantly measure sim statistics. Reported values on the news program are typically average values over the past 24 hours. Some impromptu forecasting is added, such as "lag fronts" and "script storms". GBC News also provides traffic reports from their Eye in the Sky traffic helicopter, which "monitors" autonomous traffic on the mainland. It is mostly impromptu, added mainly for humor.

Reporter Hosting Program

GBC encourages roleplay region owners to participate in the Reporter Hosting Program. Regions that don't participate are not mentioned in the in-character roleplay news section; instead, they are only mentioned in the OOC stories due to fair use limitations. If a region chooses to participate, the following terms are put into effect:

• GBC News is given permission to mention the region and its inhabitants in its in-character stories. They are allowed to create minor stories to fill time, and to report major roleplay events that actually occur. City departments are encouraged to report events to GBC local correspondents.
• GBC News is given permission to rez a single object in the region telehub (or each telehub, if multiple regions are owned) that monitors lag data for the weather report and advertises the network to visitors. GBC is also given permission to use the region's name in the weather reports.
• Region owners are given a professionally-run TV news program for their residents.
• Region owners enjoy free advertising for their roleplay environment through a widely-watched news program.

There is no monetary cost to the region owner to participate in this program.

Advertising

GBC News offers some advertising slots during its advertising break to help cover the costs of purchasing & using stock music for its programs.

Prim & Proper

Prim & Proper is GBC's syndicated talk show. It is hosted by Will Szymborska and offers content similar to most other talk shows - commentary on current events, celebrity guests, and other entertainment. It is generally filmed and released bi-weekly. Guests are interviewed about their jobs, accomplishments, and other details about their real and virtual lives.

Canadian Cooking with Uncle DK

Canadian Cooking is a bi-weekly comedy show hosted by DriverKid Baxter. It features Uncle DK, a somewhat-incompetent Canadian veteran. The show is focused around his slightly crazy cooking experiments, almost all of which incorporate maple syrup in some way. Occasionally, DK will be joined by a celebrity guest.

100 Throttle

100 Throttle is a usually-monthly comedy show hosted by Nelson Jenkins, aaps59 Aeon, and Hal Berkmans. The presenters are typically faced with a challenge involving cheap cars or specific vehicles that need to be run through a variety of different tests. Often, the presenters will be limited to a certain budget, and instructed to buy a vehicle on the Marketplace at that price that fits certain qualifications.