BBC Gielinor

BBC Gielinor is a 24-hour digital television channel created by the BBC which displays RuneScape related television programmes. It officially went live at midnight on the 11th July.

Creation
Towards the end of 2007, the BBC realized the amount of revenue they could make if they made a television channel based on a MMO. During Feburary-September 2008, the BBC started to vote on which popular MMO they would base their channel on. By July, they had narrowed the shortlist down to RuneScape and World of Warcraft. The BBC eventually chose RuneScape as the project's focus. Naming the channel BBC Gielinor, it was publicly announced on Christmas 2008 scheduled for release in July 2009. Jagex later confirmed this at E3 2009 claiming that the 11th July was the release date.

Programming
Prior to the television channel's release, lots of television programmes were created, the most notable and the first of which being Space Oddity, the RuneScape equivalent of Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes, a time travel/police procedral series telling the story of Sir Amik Varze getting stabbed by a Black Knight, causing Varze to wake up in the year 129 of the Fifth Age, which is logical since the David Bowie song Space Oddity was released 40 years before on the same day of the release of BBC Gielinor. Other notable programmes include The God Wars, a documentuary which chronicles the events leading up to and during the God Wars, and BBC News Gielinor, which is a news channel specific to the events that occur for the Kingdoms of Misthalin, Asgarnia, and Kandarin. BBC Look North Gielinor has news specific to the Wilderness, Troll Country, Keldagrim, the Fremennik Province, the Fremennik Isles, Miscellania and Etceteria, Pirates' Cove and Lunar Isle. BBC News Gielinor Worldwide has news relating to all other places in Gielinor.

Availability
BBC Gielinor can be viewed by televsions using Sky Digital (Channel 118), Freeview (Channel 17), or Virgin Media (Channel 153).

Radio
The BBC plan on creating a RuneScape related radio service, due to the popularity of the television channel.