Union Broadcasting System

The Union Broadcasting System (UBS) is a television network that is mosted noted for appearing in the 1976 film Network, written by Paddy Chayevsky.

At the time the film was relased, UBS is in fourth place among the four major networks (NBC, ABC, CBS, UBS) and is considered an industry joke when the network's parent company, UBS Systems, was bought by Arthur Jensen's CCA (the Communication Corporation of America). UBS' luck begins to change when network anchorman Howard Beale becomes a hit after suffering a breakdown live on the air, or as Diana Christensen puts it, "articulating the popular rage".

UBS has at least 67 affiliates including stations in Albuquerque, New Mexico; Sandusky, Ohio; Louisville, Kentucky; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Los Angeles, California; as well as KGIM (Boise, Idaho), KTNS (Kansas City, Missouri) and WCGG in Atlanta, Georgia. (The Atlanta station's call letters are very similar to Ted Turner's WTCG - now WPCH-TV - and during one of Beale's on-air rants, the New York offices even field a call from a WCGG employee named Ted.)

UBS is not limited to its television network (it also has an Owned-and-Operated Stations Division) and controls UBS Radio Division, UBS Records Group, UBS Publishing Group, and the UBS Theater Chain.