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A television station broadcasts video and audio to television receivers in a particular area.
Traditionally, TV stations made their broadcasts by sending specially-encoded radio
signals over the air. Individual television stations
are usually granted licenses to use a particular section of the radio spectrum (a channel) through
which they send their signals. The term television channel has become synonymous with "TV station" and even television
network, leading to confusion. Television stations, at least in the United States, usually just have one transmitter, but are
also generally associated with a nationwide television network, through which they get significant amounts of programming. Because some regions have had difficulty picking up
over-the-air signals (particularly in mountainous areas), satellite and cable television has been introduced. Television stations specifically
built to run on cable or satellite blur the line between TV station and TV network. That fact led some early cable networks to
call themselves superstations.
In the United States, each nationwide terrestrial broadcast network can have a few "O & O's", stations it owns and
operates, usually in the larger markets. Satellite and cable have created changes. Broadcast stations in an area can sign up to be carried
on cable, but content providers like TLC Network can too. They aren't
licensed to run broadcast equipment like a station and they don't regularly provide content to licensed broadcasters either.
Furthermore, a distributor like TNT may begin
producing its own programming, and shows presented exclusively on cable by one distributor may be syndicated to broadcast stations.
A person viewing by cable or satellite may not know what kind of organization is responsible for the program. So what seems to
be a station or a network may be neither.
See Lists of television
channels, for lists by country and language.
Major television stations (alphabetically listed)
- 3sat - German Culture channel with
contribution of german, swiss and austrian TV Stations (ARD, ZDF, ORF, SFR)
- Aaj Tak - Hindi news channel, India
- Aasthaa - Spiritual/Hindu religious
programming, India
- Abu Dhabi TV - Arabic 24 hour news and lifestyle channel, from Saudi Arabia
- ABC - American Broadcasting Company,
USA, Canada
- ABC - Australian
Broadcasting Corporation, Australia
- The Amp - Indie music videos, UK
- Adult Channel - Adult
programming
- Animal Planet - Programmes about animals, owned by the Discovery Channel
- Antena 3 - Spain
- ANT1 - Greek Language
- ARY Digital - Pakistani
channel - asian programmes, UK Europe, Middle East & Asian Subcontinent, most of the world
- Al Arabiyya - Arabic 24 hour
news channel, from Saudi Arabia
- Al Jazeera - Arabic 24 hour news channel, from Qatar
- Alpha TV GUJARATI -
Gujrati channel, India
- Alpha TV PUNJABI -
Punjabi channel, India
- Atlantic Television System (ATV) - Canada
- ARD Arbeitsgemeinschaft Rundfunk Deutschland - German TV Network with
contribution of regional TV stations (BR NDR, MDR, RB, RBB, SWR, WDR)
- Associated Television
Network Limited (ATV) - UK
- Asia Television Ltd (ATV) - Asia, Hong Kong
- AXN - Entertainment, India
- Radio Bremen - German TV for
Bremen and Bremerhafen
- BR - Bayrischer Rundfunk - German TV channel for Bavaria
- BR-alpha - German Education TV
Channel from Bayrischer Rundfunk
- BBC America - British Broadcasting Corporation US lifestyle channel, US
- BBC Canada - British Broadcasting Corporation Canadian lifestyle channel,
Canada
- BBC Kids - British Broadcasting Corporation Canadian children's channel,
Canada
- BBC ONE - British Broadcasting Corporation primary analogue channel, UK
- BBC TWO - British Broadcasting Corporation secondary analogue channel, UK
- BBC THREE - British Broadcasting Corporation digital channel, UK
- BBC FOUR - British Broadcasting Corporation digital channel, UK
- BBC News 24 - British Broadcasting Corporation 24-hour news channel,
UK
- BBC Parliament - British Broadcasting Corporation political
channel, UK
- BBC Prime - British Broadcasting Corporation European lifestyle channel
- BBC World - British Broadcasting Corporation international news channel
- Biography Channel - Biographies, UK
- Bollywood 4U - 2 Indian movie
and music channels, UK
- Boomerang - Cartoons, US, UK
- The Box - Interective Popular Music Channel, UK
- Bravo - 1980s TV shows like Knightrider and The A-Team, UK
- Bravo! - Arts and entertainment themed
channel, Canada.
- Canal Plus - Cable, France
- Carlton Television - ITV London regional, UK
- Cartoon Network - Cartoons, US, worldwide
- CBBC - British Broadcasting Corporation Children's, digital channel,
UK
- CBC - Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation, Canada
- CBeebies - British Broadcasting Corporation digital channel for young children,
UK
- CBS - Columbia Broadcasting System, US, Canada
- CCTV - Chinese Central Television,
worldwide
- Challenge - Game Shows Channel,
UK
- Chart Show TV - Continuous
music videos and charts, UK
- Channel 4 - Channel 4, UK
- Channel 5 - MediaCorp Channel 5, Singapore. Broadcast in English
- Channel 8 - MediaCorp Channel 8, Singapore. Broadcast in
Mandarin.
- Channel V - Music channel,
India
- Classic FM TV - Classical
music (part of the Classic FM brand), UK
- CNBC TV18 - Business news channel,
India
- CNN - Cable News network, worldwide
- C-Span - Government programming, US
- CTV - Canadian Television Network, Canada
- Deutsche Welle TV -
Internatinal Broadcast Service from Germany
- Disney Channel - Disney Cartoons and other shows, UK--outlet of a
production company, which also owns ABC network.
- Discovery - Documentary Channels, UK
- Doordarshan
National - National Broadcaster, India
- Doordarshan National Gujarat - State owned Gujrati language entertainment channel
- Doordarshan News -
State owned News channel, India
- Doordarshan
Sports - State owned sports channel, India
- E4 - Entertainment & Comedy Channel, UK
- ERT - Greek language,
worldwide
- ETV Gujarati - Gujarati
language, India
- Eurosport - European Sports Channel, UK
- FilmFour - Channel for specialist, rare and independent films, UK
- five - Channel Five, UK
- FOX Network - US
- FOX News Channel - US
- FOX Sports - US
- France 2 - France
- France 3 - France
- Front Row - 4 Pay Per View Movie
Channels (cable only), UK
- Fuji Television - Japan
- Galavision - US, parts of Latin
America
- Global Television Network - National Canadian
network, Canada
- Globo
(television) - Brazil
- GOD Channel - Christian
Channel, UK
- Grampian Television - Regional television channel for
Northern Scotland
- Granada - Series of TV Channels, UK
- History Channel - Documentaries, UK
- HBO - Home Box Office, movie channel, USA
- HR - Hessischer Rundfunk, German TV for Hesse
- HBO Family - family/children, USA
- HSN - Home Shopping Network, retailing, USA
- ITV1 - Independent Television analogue channel,
UK
- ITV2 - Independent Television digital channel, UK
- Kerrang! - Interactive Alternative Music Channel, UK
- KIKA - Der Kinderkanal - German noncomercial
TV Station
- Kiss - Interactive R&B, Rap and Dance Music Channel, UK
- Liberty TV - Family
Entertainment, UK
- Living - Women's TV shows, UK
- Magic - Interactive Easy Listening
and Jazz Music Channel, UK
- Mega Channel - Greek Language
- MDR - Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk - German TV for
Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia
- MTV - Music Television
- MTV2 - Alternative Music Television
- MTV Hits - Popular Music Television
- MTV Base - Rap, Garage and R&B Music Television
- MTV Dance - Dance Music Television
- MUTV - Manchester United (Football Club) TV,
UK
- National Geographic - Documentaries (also National
Geogrpahic +1), and (National Geographic Channel), US, UK, worldwide
- NBC - National Broadcast company, US, Canada
- NDTV 24x7 - News channel,
India
- NDTV India - News channel,
India
- NDR - Nordeutscher Rundfunk - German TV network
for Hambourgh, Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Schlewig-Holstein,
- Network 2 - Radio Telefís Éireann, Network 2, Ireland
- NHK - Public broadcaster, Japan
- Nickelodeon - Children's programs
- NTV - Japan Television,
Japan
- Paramount
Comedy Channel - US & UK sitcoms
- PBS - Public Broadcasting Service, US
- Phoenix - Public Documentary and Event Channel for Germany
- Phoenix TV - based in Hong
Kong, broadcast worldwide for Chinese viewers.
- Playboy TV - Adult entertainment
channel from the makers of Playboy
- Playhouse Disney -
Younger children's programming
- PlayJam - Interactive Games Channel,
UK
- PRO TV - Romanian language
- Pub Channel - Channel for
people in the restaurant and pub trades, UK
- Q - Interactive Indie Music Channel, UK
- QVC - Home shopping channel
- RAI - Italian language, Italy
- RBB - Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg, German TV
for Berlin and Brandenburg
- Record - Brazil
- Red Hot TV - 5 adult
entertainment channels, UK
- RTE ONE - Radio Telefís Éireann,
Ireland
- RTP - Portugal
- S4C - Sianel Pedwar Cymru, Entertainment and News (in Welsh language), UK
- S4C2 - Sianel Pedwar Cymru 2, Political coverage (in Welsh language), UK
- Sab TV - Entertainment channel,
India
- Sanskar - Hindu religious/spiritual
programming, India
- Scottish TV - Independent TV for Central Scotland
- Scuzz - Rock music station, UK
- SET MAX - Hindi movie/entertainment
channel, India
- Showtime - movie channel, USA
- SIC - SIC TV, private TV for Portugal
- Sky Box Office - Pay Per
View Movies and Events, UK
- Sky Cinema - 2 Movie Channels,
UK
- Sky Moviemax - 5 Movie
Channels, UK
- Sky News - 24 hour news, UK
- Sky One - UK Entertainment Channel
- Sky One Mix - UK Entertainment Channel
- Sky Premier - 5 Movie Channels,
UK
- Sky Sports - 5 Sports Channels,
UK
- Sky Travel - 2 travel channels,
UK
- Smash Hits - Interactive Music
Channel, UK:
- Sony Entertainment Television - Entertainment channel, India
- Sony TV - Entertainment channel,
India
- STAR GOLD - Hindi movie channel,
India
- STAR MOVIES - English movies
channel, India
- STAR NEWS - Hindi news channel,
India
- STAR PLUS - Hindi entertainment
channel, India
- Star World - Entertainment channel, India & South-East Asia
- Starz! - movie channel, USA
- SWR - Südwestrundfunk - German TV station for Baden-Wuerttemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate,
Saarland
- TBS - Tokyo Broadcasting, Japan
- TBS Superstation - Turner Broadcasting System, US
- TCM - Turner Classic Movies, UK
- TeleG - Gaelic language channel,
Scotland
- Telemundo - US, parts of Latin America
- Television Asahi - Japan
- Televista - Spanish language,
Mexico
- TEN Sports - Sports channel,
India
- TF1 - Tèlèvision France 1, France
- TG4 - Entertainment and News (in Irish), Ireland
- TMF - The Music Factory - Music
videos, owned by MTV
- TNT - Turner Network Television, US, UK
- Toon Disney - Disney cartoons
- TQS - Television Quatre Saisons, Canada
- Travel Channel - 2 travel
channels, UK
- TV3 - Entertainment and News, Ireland
- TVB - Television Broadcast Hong Kong
- TVBS - TVBS Taiwan
- TV Cabo - TV Cabo Portugal, private Pay
TV accessible by cable or satellite
- TV Chile - Chile (Spanish
language)
- TVE - Spain
- TVI - Televisao Independente, Portugal
- TVM - Television Malta, Malta
- UKTV BrightIdeas -
- UKTV Documentary - Documentaries, UK
- UKTV Drama - Classic TV Drama, UK
- UKTV Food - Cookery programming, UK
- UKTV Gold - Classic TV Series, UK
- UKTV G2 - Comedy programming, UK
- UKTV History - History programming, UK
- UKTV People -
- UKTV Style - Home, garden and cookery programming, UK
- Univision - Spanish Language, US, parts of Latin America
- UPN - US
- UTV - Ulster Television (Part of the ITV network),
UK
- VH1 - Rock Music & Older Music Television (Owned by MTV)
- VH1 Classic - Older easy
listening and rock music
- WB - Warner Bros. TV, US--both a small
network and a production company.
- WDR - Westdeutscher Rundfunk German, TV network for Northrhine Westfalia
- WE: Women's Entertainment - US
- Weather Channel - US
- ZDF - public TV channel, Germany
- Zee Cinema - Hindi movie channel,
India
- Zee English - English language
entertainment channel, India
- Zee MGM - English movie channel,
India
- Zee MUSIC - Hindi music channel,
India
- Zee NEWS - Hindi news channel,
India
- Zee TV - Entertainment channel, India
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