Television/Stations

A network (US) is an entity that provides programs to individual television stations, which are only licensed to broadcast in a specific area. Each network can hold a few "O & O's", stations it owns and operates, usually in the big markets.

Satellite and cable have created changes. Broadcast stations in an area can sign up to be carried on cable, but content providers like the Learning Channel 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.

Alphabetically listed

ABC - American Broadcasting Company, US--a network

ABC - Australian Broadcasting Corporation, AU

[Animal Planet]? - Programmes about animals, UK

ARY Digital - Pakistani channel - asian programmes, UK, EU Middle East & Asian Subconinent

ATV? - Asia TV, HK

BBC - British Broadcasting Corporation, UK

[Biography Channel]? - Biographies, UK

[Bollywood 4U]? - Indian Movie Channel, UK

Boomerang - Cartoons, UK

[The Box]? - Interective Music Channel, UK

Bravo? - 80's TV shows like Knightrider? and The A-Team?, UK

Carlton? - Series of TV Channels, UK

[Cartoon Network]? - Cartoons, UK

CBS? - Columbia Broadcasting Company, US

[Challenge TV]? - Game Shows Channel, UK

[Channel 4]? - Channel 4, UK

[Channel 5]? - Channel 5, UK

CNN - Cable News network, worlwide

Disney? - Disney Cartoons and other shows, UK--outlet of a production company, which also owns ABC network.

Discovery? - Documentary Channels, UK

E4? - Entertainment & Comedy Channel, UK

Eurosport? - European Sports Channel, UK

FilmFour? - Independant Film Channel ([[FilmFour? +1]], [FilmFour World]? and [FilmFour Extreme]?), UK

[Fox Television]?

[Front Row]? - 4 Pay Per View Movie Channels (cable only), UK

[GOD Channel]? - Christian Channel, UK

Granada? - Series of TV Channels, UK

[History Channel]? - Documentaries, UK

ITV? - Independent Television Network

Kerrang? - Interactive Music Channel, UK

Kiss? - Interactive Music Channel, UK

[Liberty TV]? - Family Entertainment, UK

Living? - Women's TV shows, UK

MTV - Music Television

MUTV? - Manchester United (Football Club) TV, UK

[National Geographic]? - Documentaries (also National Geogrpahic +1), UK

NBC - National Broadcast company, US

[Network 2]? - Radio Telefís Éireann, Network 2, Ireland

Nickelodeon? - Children's programmes

[Paramount Comedy Channel]? - US & UK Sitcoms

PlayJam? - Interactive Games Channel, UK

PBS - Public Broadcasting Service, US

[Play UK]? - Music and Comedy Channel

Q - Interactive Music Channel, UK

[RTE ONE]? - Radio Telefís Éireann, RTE ONE, Ireland

[Sky Box Office]? - Pay Per View Movies and Events, UK

[Sky One]? - UK Entertainment Channel

[Sky Premier]? - 5 Movie Channels, UK

[Sky Sports]? - 5 Sports Channels, UK

[Sky Moviemax]? - 5 Movie Channels, UK

[Sky News]? - 24 hour news, UK

[Sky Cinema]? - 2 Movie Channels, UK

[Smash Hits]? - Interactive Music Channel, UK

TCM? - Turner Classic Movies, UK

TG4? - Entertainment and News (in Irish Gaelic), Ireland

TNT? - Turner Network Television, US & UK

.tv? - Technology Channel, UK

TV3? - Entertainment and News, Ireland

TVB? - Television Broadcast Hong Kong

[UK Drama]? - Classic TV Drama, UK

[UK Gold]? - Classic TV Series, UK

[UK Horizons]? - Documentaries, UK

UPN? - US

UTV? - Ulster Television (Syndicated with ITV?)

WB? - Warner Bros. TV, US--both a small network and a production company.

add your local stations!

Is it realistic to list every TV station/network here?

In the U.S., these are called networks, not stations.

I was under the impression that a television network was something more than a station (singular), that with syndication, different states and so on...?

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Stations are members of networks or are independent in the U.S.A. /Talk