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BBC One. Flagship channel and broadcasts a variety of mainstream programming. 24 hours. BBC Two. Secondary channel and broadcasts a range of alternative programming. BBC Three. Broadcasts a variety of youthful programming. 9 hours (19:00 to 04:00) BBC Four.
NBC. CBS. ABC. Fox. The CW. PBS. The five major commercial broadcast television networks, along with PBS. In the United States, for most of the history of broadcasting, there were only three or four major commercial national terrestrial networks. From 1946 to 1956, these were ABC, CBS, NBC and DuMont (though the Paramount Television Network had ...
The following is a list of stations owned or operated by Sinclair Broadcast Group. Sinclair owns or operates 294 television stations across the United States in 89 markets ranging in size from as large as Washington, D.C. to as small as Ottumwa, Iowa / Kirksville, Missouri. [ 1] Several of these stations are owned by affiliate companies with ...
Television is one of the major mass media outlets in the United States. In 2011, 96.7% of households owned television sets; [ 1] about 114,200,000 American households owned at least one television set each in August 2013. [ 2] Most households have more than one set. The percentage of households owning at least one television set peaked at 98.4% ...
A breakdown is impossible due to a) the number of platforms, b) duplication of services, c) regional services, d) part time operations, and e) audio. For the Sky platform alone, there were 485 TV stations, additionally 57 "timeshifted versions", 36 HDTV versions, 42 regional TV options, 81 audio channels, and 5 promotion channels as of mid-2010.
Television broadcasts in the United Kingdom began in 1932, however, regular broadcasts would only begin four years later. Television began as a public service which was free of advertising, which followed the first demonstration of a transmitted moving image in 1926. Currently, the United Kingdom has a collection of free-to-air, free-to-view ...
As of March 2015, PBS maintains current memberships with 354 television stations encompassing 50 states, the District of Columbia and four U.S. possessions; [4] [69] as such, it is the only television broadcaster in the United States—commercial or non-commercial—which has station partners licensed in every U.S. state (by comparison, none of ...
The pages below contain lists of television stations in the U.S. by call sign . Historically, stations to the east of the Mississippi River were given call signs beginning with the letter W, stations to the west K. However, there are exceptions. See the article on North American call signs for more information.