List of quiz channels

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This is a list of notable quiz channels.

South America

Argentina

Brazil

Chile

Peru

Puerto Rico

Colombia

North America

Although there are no quiz channels in North America, these are interactive programs similar to quiz channels:

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Canada

Mexico

United States

Europe

Belgium

The games started airing as from 2004. In Flanders the main TV channels already banned the games between 2008 and 2010, except vtm and 2BE who stopped in 2011. In Wallonia the games are still broadcast.

The Belgian cabaret Neveneffecten had a TV-show Basta in January 2011 on channel Eén. In their second episode, Basta could prove these games were a fraud. Neveneffecten found a job posting as host for such games and they asked Maxime De Winne to apply for the job and to go undercover. De Winne got the job and was a host for about 4 months and used hidden cameras to record conversations with the management. Neveneffecten also hired a math expert: Gaeten de Weert. After some months, De Weert was able to solve every math puzzle, but noticed the answer of the puzzle is incorrect in 16% of the cases due to miscalculation of the producers. De Weert called the studio during a live game and was able to give the correct answer. He also said the show was a fraud and he was going to publish the solution key on the Internet, which he actually did. The episode was aired on 17 January 2011, vtm and 2BE decided to stop the games as from 20 January 2011. [10] [11]

The broadcast did not have effect in Wallonia although De Weert was also able to break the solution keys of the call games on these channels in August 2013. [12] The games are no more aired since March 2014. [13]

France

No more call-tv shows are aired since 2007, these games are prohibited by the French law. [15]

Germany

Till 2011, Sat.1, ProSieben and kabeleins had quick Quiz Shows, called "Quiz Breaks" or "Quiz Time". These Shows only lasted few minutes and interrupted TV-sitcoms like "Scrubs" in the morning to get viewers to call the phone numbers.

Shortly after adoption of the Rundfunkstaatsvertrag (broadcast treaty) in September 2008, which allows the regulators to impose fines to the channels in case of irregularity, several channels announced the end of phone-in quizzes.

Israel

Netherlands

In the Netherlands, call-in quizzes were officially banned by law after losing all network support in November 2007. These programs were cancelled in the Flemish part of Belgium as from January 2011. De Neveneffecten revealed in their television show "Basta" fraud on large scale.[ citation needed ] The games are still aired in the Wallon part of Belgium.

Switzerland

Czechia

Romania

Hungary

Croatia

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Finland

Estonia

Greece

Serbia

North Macedonia

Slovenia

Slovakia

Italy

Poland

Portugal

Russia

Spain

United Kingdom

Former Quiz Programmes & Channels

Africa

Nigeria

South Africa

Asia

Philippines

Iran

References

  1. ↑ "Ringcaja". Archived from the original on 17 May 2008.
  2. ↑ "Llama y Gana - CHILE". Archived from the original on 18 May 2008.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "G2PTV".
  4. ↑ "ESO Tv".
  5. ↑ "Llama y Gana - CHILE". Archived from the original on 6 May 2008.
  6. ↑ "::: Aquí Se Gana ::::::". Archived from the original on 29 May 2008.
  7. ↑ "::: Ring Ring Gana ::::::". Archived from the original on 17 June 2008.
  8. ↑ "::: Ring Ring Gana ::::::". Archived from the original on 18 May 2008.
  9. ↑ "::: Aquí Se Gana ::::::". Archived from the original on 4 May 2008.
  10. ↑ "De mol in het belspel" [The mole in the call game] (in Dutch). 18 January 2011. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
  11. ↑ "Hoe los ik een belspel op?" [How to solve a call game?](PDF) (in Dutch). 18 January 2011. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
  12. ↑ "Bastakraker rekent ook of met Waalse belspelletjes" [Basta-squattor now deals with Wallonian call games] (in Dutch). 18 January 2011. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
  13. ↑ "RTL met un terme à la call TV".
  14. ↑ "france". 2 April 2007. Archived from the original on 2 April 2007.
  15. ↑ CSA. "CSA.fr - Délibération du 4 décembre 2007 relative aux incitations à utiliser des services SMS ou téléphoniques surtaxés / Recommandations et délibérations du CSA relatives à d'autres sujets / Délibérations et recommandations du CSA / Espace juridique / Accueil".
  16. ↑ "Teilnahmebedingungen von Quizexpress!". 11 August 2014. Archived from the original on 11 August 2014. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
  17. ↑ "tiedajavoita.com". 12 August 2014. Archived from the original on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
  18. ↑ "Eurominúty | PLUS.sk | Televízia PLUS - keď chceš viac". 18 August 2014. Archived from the original on 18 August 2014. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
  19. ↑ "Wspomnienia programów Call TV i Ezo : Serwis InteractiveWorld.pl" . Retrieved 2 February 2025.
  20. 1 2 "* * * * * C A L L T V * * * * *". 24 April 2007. Archived from the original on 24 April 2007.
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