Jack of Harts

The major five networks had been built on expensive transmission towers that only major corporations or the government could afford to build. But in the waning years of the Twentieth Century, city cable companies and national satellite companies began collecting network transmissions and sending them directly to homes with the right equipment. And soon much smaller companies began forming small networks of their own and broadcast their news and entertainment via these two much cheaper options. First dozens and then hundreds of these smaller networks appeared and many people turned off the major networks to listen to these new voices that sometimes spoke very differently. That changed the world.