Harry Potter and the Great Old Ones

Chapter 636 Preparations
Setting up a television station is an extremely troublesome matter, involving a whole host of problems such as program schedules, broadcast times, advertising sales, program review, program rehearsals, reporter recruitment, recruitment of a professional filming team, and so on.

So Tyella handed all this mess over to Xenophiulius, and then sent him to find someone to prepare it—

Otherwise, given Xenophilius's love of excitement and his doting fatherly nature, how could he possibly miss Horace Slughorn's Christmas ball tonight?

Even if you don't dare to do anything, it's still great to see your daughter.

He was held up by a bunch of messy things that Tyella had dumped on him, like starting a TV station.

Fortunately, he also enjoyed doing this kind of thing, and it only took nine days from when Tierra made the arrangements to when he submitted a rough program list.

Tierra was very satisfied with his efficiency and deeply moved by such a hardworking employee, so—

Ninety percent of the programs he submitted, which were about strange animals, strange plants, and vague myths and legends, were scrapped. Only one program called "Tales of the Strange and Unusual" was left for the late-night slot. Then, a whole host of demands were made, including adding historical programs, adding news programs, adding talk shows, programs explaining the Muggle world, importing Muggle TV series, attracting advertising revenue, preparing for the filming of wizarding world TV series and scripts, and so on. He was then sent back to continue making changes.

Then Xenophilius, busy with paperwork and burning the midnight oil, has been working day and night until now, and has not even had time to attend Horace Slughorn's Christmas ball.

Meanwhile, Tyrell stayed at Hogwarts, playing chess and drinking tea with the centenarian, empty-nest Dumbledore, and disciplining the foolish savior.

Now, Tierra finally understands a little about how he felt as the lab boss in his previous life.

Why did he insist on making me go to the lab to work even during his home quarantine due to the pandemic?

It feels so good to watch others busy while I relax.

Even though Tiera had become a divine being, these human emotions still brought him a faint sense of pleasure.

Of course, starting a television station involves much more than just software.

He needs a television, a signal tower, and a transmitter.

It is impossible to start from zero keys.

Fortunately, he is currently in Britain, which is a capitalist country, where money makes things easier.

And what Tierra has in abundance is money—

In countries like the UK and the US, there's only one major hurdle to owning a private television station—

money.

Besides substantial financial support, only two conditions are needed—

1. The British government has agreed to your broadcast.

Second, there are channels to broadcast it to various television stations.

First and foremost, Tierra needs to be registered and approved by the BBC, the British Broadcasting Corporation.

Although the BBC is called a company, it is actually a semi-independent, semi-governmental media organization.

Besides producing documentaries, filming TV series, and broadcasting news, their role is also similar to that of traffic police on the highway.

In other words, to prevent interference and duplication between broadcast television signals, the BBC is responsible for planning and allocating relevant communication frequency bands within the UK. Of course, it also produces fake news to smear other countries and launch propaganda attacks.

But most importantly, the BBC will publish the television channels available for sale for people to choose from and hold auctions. As long as you are a legal entity, regardless of nationality, you can buy them, sign a contract with the BBC, and then register with it.

The second point is, through what channels will the broadcast be broadcast to the televisions of each household?
This mainly depends on one's own financial situation.

Whether Tierra's television station is cable or terrestrial, a franchised network, or a satellite leased at its own expense, depends on the amount of money invested.

Renting high-quality channels with good transmission equipment offers wide coverage and stable picture quality, but it's expensive. Partnering with small, privately-run television organizations to purchase channels and time slots is relatively cheaper, but coverage is limited.

In summary, the most important hurdle is money; as long as the budget is sufficient, it can be accomplished.

Coincidentally, Tierra may lack many things, but she never lacks money.

Leaving aside the enormous impact his vast Galleons would have on the international economy if all of them were refined into pure gold and released onto the international market, there is no question of what kind of impact they would have on the global economy.

With a single, determined thought and a gritted tongue, he managed to turn fifty-odd Tierras into gold in just over a month without doing anything else, simply by turning lead into gold—more gold than the combined gold reserves of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council (US, China, Russia, the UK, and France).

Sorry, having money means you can do whatever you want.
If Tiera so desires, she could even place herself into low Earth orbit to serve as a magical satellite for signal relay.

In any case, in the eyes of Tyrell, who had become a god, even electromagnetic waves, which are invisible to the naked eye, could be traced.

Even without electromagnetic waves, Tiera could use other, more magical methods to transmit signals.

Aside from money and the two main points mentioned above, any other requirements are really just bits and pieces of "political correctness."

—Although it's only 1996 now, just four years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, and a long time before China's rise, political correctness in Europe and America has already begun to emerge.—

Of course, this target has nothing to do with Black Lives Matter, feminism, LGBTQ+ rights, transgender athletes, or the free and fragrant atmosphere of democracy in later generations; in fact, it is quite the opposite.

The mainstream voice of "political correctness" in Europe and America now is—

Black people are considered inferior, not smart, and only good for manual labor.

Women should be housewives and not go out to work. Women who fight in the workplace are considered abnormal and will be criticized behind their backs.

Furthermore, LGBT individuals are considered monsters, and transgender people are the monsters among monsters.
There are countless examples of "political correctness" like this.

The majority of the British population is still Puritan, and the British public and media remain quite conservative.

Anyone who dares to say "I support LGBT" or "Black Lives Matter" in public or in the media will face social death.

In better cases, the victim may simply die from social isolation. However, if the victim has conservative family members, they may be forced to undergo a so-called "same-sex test" and then be taken to a so-called "treatment facility" without a proper business license for treatment and rehabilitation.

Tierra had two main purposes in establishing the television station—

First, play Voldemort's biography on a loop, which contains real memories about Voldemort, providing a long-term, stable, and firm anchor for Voldemort's ascension to godhood.

After all, although Voldemort had excellent professional knowledge, his brain was really not that great. Tyrell was terrified that Voldemort would die before he could finish his business.

(End of this chapter)