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This is a list of television networks by country. For lists of television stations by country, see Lists of television channels (sorted by continent and country) or Lists of television channels by country.
AMC Networks International Southern Europe
Generalista
NBCUniversal International Networks
The Walt Disney Company Portugal
Television broadcast stations in Antarctica
Public Channel
Private Channel
Public Channel
Commercial Channel
Here's the full high definition (HD) digital terrestrial television channels in Australia :
Public Channel
Private Channel
Public channel
Disney Network Group Asia Pacific
Name | Owner | Description | Language | Availability |
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Arte Belgique | Cooperation between RTBF and ARTE | Cultural network | French | Cable networks in Wallonia, Brussels and Flanders Satellite |
Ketnet | VRT | Daytime children's network, after 8 pm: additional VRT-channel | Dutch | Cable networks in Flanders, Brussels and Wallonia Satellite DVB-T in Flanders and Brussels |
Prime & Sporting Telenet | Telenet | Pay-TV with the channels Prime Star, Prime Action, Prime Fezztival, Prime Family, Prime Series, Sporting 1–8, Sporting Golf | Dutch | Telenet cable network in Flanders and Brussels (Prime Star, Sporting 1 & Sporting 2 in HD) |
Public Channel
Ranking | Network | Founder | Currently | Notes |
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#1 | TV Globo | Roberto Marinho | Roberto Irineu Marinho | Membership Chairman |
#2 | RecordTV | Paulo Machado de Carvalho | Edir Macedo | Edir Macedo 90% and Ester Bezerra 10% |
#3 | SBT | Silvio Santos | Família Abravanel | |
#4 | Band | João Jorge Saad | Johnny Saad | 1999–present |
#5 | RedeTV! | Amilcare Dallevo and Marcelo de Carvalho | Amilcare Dallevo and Marcelo de Carvalho | 50% each |
#6 | Cultura | Assis Chateaubriand | Marcos Mendonça | Belongs to Fundação Padre Anchieta. Owner Government of the State of São Paulo |
#7 | Gazeta | Emílio Garrastazu Médici | Fundação Cásper Líbero | |
#8 | Record News | Edir Macedo | Luiz Claudio Costa |
Public Channel
Free To Air
Public channel
Yle (Finnish Broadcasting Company)
Most channels from France are available in French Guiana.
On cable TV (SFR Caraïbe), the local channels are:
Terrestrial
VHF
UHF
Satellite
Note: All transmissions in Guyana are in NTSC and ATSC 1.0
Analog stations:
Digital stations:
Free-to-air television networks include:
Television station groups
Most channels from the United Kingdom are available in Ireland.
Plus, a wide variety of pay television channels from Orbit Showtime, ADD, Cablevision, Econet, Digitek...
On cable TV (SFR Caraïbe) – more local channels :
AMC Networks International Southern Europe
Generalista
NBCUniversal International Networks
The Walt Disney Company Portugal
In the Netherlands, the television market is divided between a number of commercial networks and a system of public broadcasters sharing three channels.
Other channel
GVD Caribbean 115 Flow Sarrot Bexon St Lucia
SABC (South African Broadcasting Corporation)
Community Stations
Independent Stations
BBC Studios (Africa)
NBCUniversal International Networks
TPG Inc. (Trace Partners)
Name | Owner | Launch | Genre | Description |
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KBS1 | Korean Broadcasting System | 1 October 1961 | News, drama, culture, kids and sports | The channel's callsign is HLKA-DTV and HLKA-UHDTV. |
KBS2 | Korean Broadcasting System | 1 December 1964 | Variety, sports and entertainment | Formerly known as TBC , renamed to KBS 2TV in 1980. The channel's callsign is HLSA-DTV. |
KBS News D | Korean Broadcasting System | 19 July 2021 | News, live events, emergency alerts | ATSC 3.0 only channel, broadcasting in HD format. The channel's callsign is HLKA-UHDTV. |
EBS1 | Educational Broadcasting System | 27 December 1990 | Education, News, Kids Entertainment | Formerly known as KBS 3TV, renamed to EBS in 1990. The channel's callsign is HLQL-DTV. |
EBS2 | Educational Broadcasting System | 11 February 2015 | Education | ATSC 3.0 only channel, broadcasting in HD format. The channel's callsign is HLQL-DTV. |
MBC TV | Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation | 8 August 1969 | News and entertainment | The Channel's callsign is HLKV-DTV and HLKV-UHDTV. |
Free-to-air television channels include:
Free to Air
Saint Helena
Ascension
National Channel
Private Channel
Through its two radio channels, TVBC delivers comprehensive programs and services which reflect the interests of the people of Tuvalu. There is no television on the island and all programmes are broadcast in English and Tuvaluan.
Alaska Region
(Anchorage and Fairbanks and Juneau)
Hawaii Region
Several Honolulu local stations are available on cable (converted from ATSC to DVB-T):
Commercial broadcasting is the broadcasting of television programs and radio programming by privately owned corporate media, as opposed to state sponsorship, for example. It was the United States' first model of radio during the 1920s, in contrast with the public television model during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, which prevailed worldwide, except in the United States, Mexico, and Brazil, until the 1980s.
Canal Digital was a Nordic pay TV and internet service provider in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland that was founded in March 1997 as a joint venture between the French pay TV company Canal+ and the Norwegian telecommunications operator Telenor.
Orbit Communications Company was a privately owned pay television network headquartered in Bahrain. Owned by Saudi Arabia–based Mawarid Holding, it was the first fully digital, multi-channel, multilingual, pay television service in the Middle East and North Africa and was also the world's first fully end-to-end digital TV network. Launched in 1994, it was originally situated in Tor Sapienza, Rome, Italy as the location was considered entirely suitable to build a satellite farm. Orbit employed around 600 employees who were largely a combination of British and Italian staff with several Arabic speaking nations also represented. Orbit broadcast in several languages around the world including English, Arabic, French and Filipino.
NTV Plus is the brand name for the Russian digital satellite television service from NTV, transmitted from Eutelsat's W4 satellite at 36.0°E and from Bonum 1 at 56.0°E. Previously a part of Vladimir Gusinsky's media empire, now it is included in the Gazprom Media holding.
EE TV is a subscription IPTV service offered by EE; a brand of British telecommunications company BT Group. It requires the signing up to and use of the EE Broadband internet and phone service, with connection via EE's official router, the EE Smart Hub.
Television was introduced in Czechoslovakia in 1953. Experimental projects with DVB-T started in 2000. Finally on 21 October 2005, multiplex A (DVB-T) was launched with three channels of Czech Television and one of TV Nova and radio channels of Czech Radio.
Digital terrestrial television was launched in Sweden in 1999. The shutdown of the analogue equivalent started on September 19, 2005, and was finalized on October 15, 2007.
Television in Romania started in August 1955. State television started to broadcast on 31 December 1956. The second television channel followed in 1968, but between 1985 and 1990, there was only one Romanian channel before the return of the second channel. Color television was introduced in 1983. Private broadcasters arrived in December 1991, with SOTI which was the first private nationwide television station in Central and Eastern Europe. Romania has the highest penetration rates for pay television in the world, with over 98% of all households watching television through cable or satellite.
Canal+ Afrique, originally Canal+ Horizons or Canal Horizons, is an African version of subscription TV provider Canal+. It was originally available mainly in the francophone countries of Central and West Africa, as well as some non-francophone countries such as Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Ghana, and Cape Verde, but has expanded considerably since its first broadcasts in December 1991. Groupe Canal+ has its biggest market in Africa since its acquisition of 32.6% of South African provider MultiChoice in June 2023.
Boxer TV A/S is a company that is broadcasting pay television channels on the digital terrestrial television network in Denmark since February 1, 2009. It is a subsidiary of Boxer TV Access, a Swedish company which is owned by Com Hem.
Satellite television varies in the different regions around the world.