Television network

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A television network is a distribution network for television content whereby a central operation provides programming for many television stations. Until the mid-1980s, television programming in most countries of the world was dominated by a small number of broadcast networks, but with the advent of cable television the cost of creating a television network has been reduced and there has been a huge increase in the number of networks with most of the newer networks catering to a small group (eg. CNN, CNBC, Fox News etc). Many early television networks (e.g NBC) evolved from earlier radio networks.

Within the industry, a tiering is sometimes created among groups of networks based on whether their programming is simultaneously originated from a central point (eg. CNBC), and whether the network master control has the technical and administrative capability to take over the programming of their affiliates in real-time when it deems this necessary— the most common example being breaking national news events.

In countries where most networks broadcast identical, centrally originated content from all their stations and where most individual stations are therefore nothing more than large antennas, the terms television network, television channel and television station have become interchangeable in everyday language, with only professionals in TV-related occupations continuing to make a difference between them. This applies to most countries outside North America.

Broadcast television networks:

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Argentina

Australia

Austria

Belgium




Brazil

Bulgaria

Over-the-air analog channels:

Cable/satellite channels:

Canada

List of Canadian television channels

Chile

Chinese language

List of Chinese language television channels

China, Republic of

See entry for Taiwan below.

Colombia

France

Finland

  • Yleisradio (YLE, Finnish Broadcasting Company) - state broadcaster
  • MTV3 (Mainos-TV) - commercial station
  • Nelonen (Channel Four Finland) - commercial station

Germany

Germany's many other TV channels are not networks since they do not consist of easily identifiable individual stations but broadcast identical contents, nationwide or within their single local area.

in addition there are numerous local, digital, cable and satelite channels

Hong Kong

See also: Pay television services (Hong Kong), Free television services (Hong Kong)

India

Indonesia

National

After the fall of President Soeharto government, suddenly Indonesia become one of few countries in Asia with free press. Currently there are 11 nation-wide broadcasting network which consist of 10 private ones and 1 state-owned TV. Please see more uptodate list of Indonesian television channels or on this list.

Regional/Local

In provincial autonomy era, provinces did not want to be left behind. Currently there are 60 local TVs (source: AC Nielsen Report-1st Semester 2005). 40s of them are listed here in list of Indonesian television channels or over here.

Cable TV

Ireland

note: BBC NI and UTV are based in Northern Ireland, RTÉ and TV 3 in the Republic of Ireland. However all four are available to most viewers throughout the island of Ireland, with UTV now accepting advertising from the Republic and targeting some of its programmes specifically at viewers in the Republic. Access to the Republic's stations (but in particular RTÉ) in Northern Ireland was a requirement of the Good Friday Agreement peace deal in 1998.

Japan

Korea

List of Korean Broadcasting networks

Malaysia

List of Malaysian television stations

Mexico

Monaco

Pakistan

Panama

Paraguay

Peru

Philippines

Portuguese language

List of Portuguese language television channels

Qatar

Serbia

  • Radio Television of Serbia state owned network (6 channels)
  • RTV Pink previously state owned, has recently expanded into several other countries and is considered the MTV of Eastern Europe (particularly Slavic countries)
  • BKTV
  • Info-TV

Singapore

Spain

Spanish language

List of Spanish language television channels

Sweden

Taiwan

United Arab Emirates

United Kingdom

United States

Over-the-air

See List of United States over-the-air television networks.

Cable & Satellite

See List of United States cable and satellite television networks.

Venezuela

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