Television network

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 the United States 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 have been a huge increase in the number of networks with most of the newer networks catering to a small group. Many early television networks evolved from earlier radio networks.

Broadcast television networks:

Table of contents

1 Australia 2 Canada 3 China, Peoples Republic of 4 China, Republic of 5 Finland 6 India 7 Ireland 8 Japan 9 Sweden 10 Taiwan 11 United Kingdom 12 United States 12.1 U.S. Broadcast television networks 12.2 U.S. Cable and Satellite television networks 12.2.1 Major: 12.2.2 Premium: 13 See also

Australia

• Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) http://www.abc.net.au
• Seven network http://i7.aol.com.au
• Nine network http://ninemsn.com.au
• Ten network http://www.ten.com.au
• Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) http://www.sbs.com.au
• Channel 31 (c31) http://www.channel31.org.au/

Canada

• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) - http://www.cbc.ca
• CTV Television Network (CTV) http://www.ctv.ca
• Global Television Network (Global) - http://www.canada.com/globaltv/
• Citytv - http://www.citytv.com
• Prime - http://www.canada.com
• SRC - http://www.radio-canada.ca
• TQS - http://www.tqs.ca
• NTV - http://www.ntv.ca
• TVOntario - http://www.tvo.org
• NewVR - http://www.thenewvr.com
• Atlantic Television (ATV) - http://www.atv.ca

China, Peoples Republic of

• Chinese Central Television (CCTV)

China, Republic of

See entry for Taiwan below.

Finland

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

India

• Doordarshan - State owned network (19 channels)
• Star TV
• Zee Network
• Sun Network
• See also List of Indian television stations

Ireland

• Radio Telifís Éireann (RTÉ) - state broadcaster
  • TG 4 (Irish language semi-independent station)
• TV 3 - independent station
• Sky (BSkyB - satellite network)
• Ulster Television (UTV) - part of the ITV network
• BBC Northern 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

• Nihon Housou Kyoukai (NHK) (web site:http://www.nhk.or.jp)
• Nippon Television Network Corporation (web site:http://www.ntv.co.jp)
• Tokyo Broadcasting System, Inc (TBS) (web site:http://www.tbs.co.jp)
• Fuji Television (web site:http://www.fujitv.co.jp)
• Asahi Broadcasting Corporation (web site:http://www.asahi.co.jp)
• TV Tokyo (web site:http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp)
• Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation (YTV) (web site:http://www.ytv.co.jp)
• Mainichi Broadcasting System, Inc (MBS) (web site:http://www.mbs.jp)
• Kansai Telecasting Corporation (KTV) (web site:http://www.ktv.co.jp)

Sweden

• Sveriges Television
• TV4
• Viasat

Taiwan

• China Television Company (CTV) - (need chinese terms)
• Chinese Television Service (CTS)
• Taiwan Television Company (TTV)

United Kingdom

• British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) www.bbc.co.uk
• Independent Television (ITV) www.itv.com
• Channel 4 www.channel4.com
• Sianel Pedwar Cymru (S4C - in Welsh) www.s4c.co.uk
• five www.five.tv
• Sky (BSkyB - satellite network) www.sky.com

United States

U.S. Broadcast television networks

• American Broadcasting Company (ABC)
• Azteca America Spanish language network
• Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)
• DuMont Network went defunct after 1956
• Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) Religious - Catholic
• Fox Broadcasting Network (Fox)
• National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
• National Educational Television (NET) defunct in 1969 - merged into PBS
• PAX Network (PAX)
• Public Broadcasting System (PBS)
• Telefutura (TFT) Spanish language network
• Telemundo (TDO) Spanish language network
• Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) Religious - Protestant
• United Paramount Network (UPN)
• Univision (UVN) Spanish language network
• Warner Brothers Network (WB)

U.S. Cable and Satellite television networks

Major:

• A&E Network
• ABC Family (FAM)
• Animal Planet (ANIM)
• Bravo
• Black Entertainment Television (BET)
• C-SPAN (CSPN)
• CNBC
• Cable News Network (CNN)
• Cartoon Network
• Comedy Central (COM)
• Court TV - associated: The Smoking Gun
• Discovery Channel (DISC)
• Disney Channel (DISN)
• E! Entertainment Television
• ESPN
• ESPN2
• ESPN Classic
• Food Network (FOOD)
• Fox News Channel (FNC)
• Fox Sports Net
• Fuse (MuchMusic USA renamed in 2003)
• FX Netowrk
• History Channel
• Home and Garden Television (HGTV)
• MSNBC
• MTV
• Nickelodeon (NIK)
• Sci Fi Channel
• Spike TV
• TBS Superstation
• TLC
• TNT
• Trio
• USA Network
• VH1
• The Weather Channel
• WGN Superstaion

Premium:

• Cinemax (MAX)
• Home Box Office (HBO)
• Showtime (SHO)
• Starz (STRZ)
• The Movie Channel (TMC)

See also

• Lists of television channels