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Television network

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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 Argentina
2 Chile
3 China, Republic of
4 Colombia
5 Finland
6 Germany
7 India
8 Indonesia
9 Ireland
10 Japan
11 Mexico
12 Panama
13 Paraguay
14 Peru
15 Serbia
16 Spain
17 Sweden
18 Taiwan
19 United Kingdom
20 U.S. Cable and Satellite television networks
21 Venezuela
22 See also

Argentina

List of Australian television channels

List of Portuguese language television channels

List of Canadian television channels

Chile

List of Chinese language television channels

China, Republic of

See entry for Taiwan below.

Colombia

Finland

Germany

Germany's many other TV channels are not networks since they do not consist of individual stations but brodcast identical contents, nationwide or within their single local area.

India

Indonesia

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

Mexico

Panama

Paraguay

Peru

Serbia

Spain

List of Spanish language television channels

Sweden

Taiwan

United Kingdom

U.S. Cable and Satellite television networks

List of United States television networks.

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Premium:

Venezuela

See also

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