The Galt Media Scene
As the Federation’s largest city, Galt has a burgeoning mass communications industry that serves both the nearly 35 million people of the surrounding region and the rest of the United Federation. It is part of the “Media Decade,” a string of ten major cities across the Federation that are the hubs for broadcast and publishing. Other cities include Marshall Yard, Amorsolo, Rockford, Pascalene, Hudson Point, Bram, Liberation City, Arachis, and Dorivan.
Television
All six of the major players in the United Federation have a presence in Galt; the city hosts the headquarters of three of the major commercial networks and the government-centered Public Television Network. As per regulation, all six major networks have broadcast feeds in both Esperanto and Standard. Legally, monolingual networks must specify which market they intend to cater and are restricted to a local or regional broadcast area.
The commercial television networks are sponsored by advertising and merchandising whereas PTN and its broadcasts are funded largely by television and radio licensing fees.
Radio
The local radio scene is predominated by ten major stations (including Federation Public Radio) broadcasting from Municipal Galt, with other local stations becoming more prominent the further out one goes from the radius of Smith Park. In general, news stations use amplitude modulation whereas commercial music stations prefer frequency modulation.
A government station, FPR is the only news radio station that broadcasts using frequency modulation, although it uses amplitude modulation away from the city center.
Publishing
Despite the proliferation of broadcast media channels, newspapers and news magazines maintain a presence in Galt and the Federation at large. Five dailies and three news magazines publish in Galt, with three of the largest dailies having editions available nationwide. Many major noteworthy national publications are headquartered in Galt, including the parent company of the Galtan Courier, the Lassiter Media Group. Newsstands remain common throughout Galt both at the Catacombs and the boroughs topside.
The Galtan Courier maintains an annual bestseller’s list of the most widely sold books. The Courier Bestseller List is often criticized for being biased toward popular literature but remains a sought-after distinction for many writers across the Federation.
FedNet
Galt is home to the central node of the FedNet System, a network of computers connected through telecommunication wires that is available for limited public viewing through temporary (though renewable) academic and commercial access. The main users of the FedNet are collegiate students, journalists, and military and government personnel.
FedNet is available in 22 of the 23 cantons of the United Federation and the Principality of Barrie. The sole unconnected canton, Sakoro, has a commercial Internet that serves the same purpose. The Sakoroan cantonal government receives their share of sensitive communiques through the office of their representatives in Galt.
Plans to set up a commercial Internet in Galt like the one available in Sakoro were put on hold indefinitely following the electoral crisis of last year.










