WBC

WBC
Basic Information
Founded	26 July 2020, AbruptFern
Key People	AbruptFern (Director General) Kregular (Head of WBC Productions)
Staff	8
Status	Active
Official Links
Discord	Discord Link
YouTube	YouTube Link
Location
HQ Location	Undecided Dynmap Link

WBC is a public broadcaster which operates within the RTGame Survival Server. Originally made to be a parody of the BBC, WBC started in New Earth. Due to build server drama, AbruptFern took over WBC and rebranded itself to focus on survival server. The public could pitch and complain about the programs in their discord.

WBC is funded by the public from donations. The donation system of WBC operates within the mall world, which has not been setup yet in 1.16. WBC formerly ran on the archive website before it was shut down, now focuses on YouTube as their platform of choice.

History

Founded on the first build stream of New Earth, the concept of WBC was a desire to replicate some of BBC's best buildings. The idea of making a BBC Television Centre in West London area was due to it's architecture, not to parody the BBC. Epicnohamdeluxe took the idea further and alongside Callsign_sndwhich, they created the WBC Television Centre in Western Europe. AbruptFern joined afterwards, creating the role Head of Studios and Post Production (a play on BBC Studioworks). During Russia, WBC continued to build more concrete buildings and caused some issues along the way.

AbruptFern's Channel Three, which was created to compete against WBC even though working for them as well, merged with WBC and AbruptFern took over as Director General. AbruptFern took WBC out of build server, onto survival server to rebuild the brand reputation. WBC was first on recording the RT United Nations's second meeting. Establishing the brand as a trustworthy and part of the survival experience. There were plans to build a studio center in Ravenholm/Dynawing, but due to the arrival of Stress Test it was never completed.

The start of the Stress Test didn't have WBC envolved until Pocketoe started to created minigames with PVP. Four games were recorded, but two only made it out of post production. WBC continued to follow Pocketoe for trivia gameshows, but not many were finished in post production. WBC was also split into two subsidiaries, WBC Productions and WBC Resources. WBC Productions handled the production work and helping approve series to be made. WBC Resources was made to help rent out studios and production resources. Around the end of the Stress Test, the RT United Nations occupied the WBC Fortree Centre for the fourth meeting before the 1.16 server was open to the public.

Productions

Recorded in-game events and productions. Commissions are managed by WBC Productions.

Productions

Title	Releases	Active
Town Of...	1	21 February 2021 - Present
UN Meetings	4	19 September 2020 - Present
Pocketoe's Gameshows	3 (4 Unreleased)	1 November 2020 - 10 November 2020
Faulty Floors	1	29 November 2020

Subsidiaries

Following the change to survival server, multiple departments were created to simplify WBC. Although there were three started from the beginning, two of them still survive. WBC Creative, the build group department was created originally to ease the transition towards the survival server. The department was eventually closed since no one had interest running it.

WBC Productions

WBC Productions is the production department that manages how productions are created. Anyone could join WBC Productions via the discord and there are no requirements. There are very few restrictions when creating or pitching a program. As long as they follow server rules, the program has a high chance of being put out to air.

WBC Resources

WBC Resources is the production resources department which manages studios, post production, and more. The studios are available to use for anyone else, as they are not restricted to WBC Productions. Over 3 hours of archival footage which spans from 1.14/1.15 Survival Server to the present day is available within the WBC Resources.