List of fictional television stations
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This is a list of fictional television stations, including fictional television networks.
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[edit] United States stations
- Amfeed - The City (Transmetropolitan graphic novels)
- Cable 10 - Aurora, Illinois community access station, Wayne's World (The public access station in Aurora does exist on channel 10, but is called ACTV.)
- Cable 54 - Broadcasting hypnotic signal in John Carpenter's They Live
- Channel √2 - appears in Futurama.
- Channel 3 - out of the Washington, D.C. on American Dad
- Channel 4, an HBC affiliate (see Networks below), appears in South Park. The primary anchor on News 4 is named Tom Pusslicker. (Note: The actual channel 4 received in the area of South Park is KCNC-TV, a CBS affiliate in Denver.)
- Channel 5, presumably a Fox affiliate - Quahog, Rhode Island (Family Guy) (note: the actual Channel 5 received in Rhode Island is WCVB-TV, an ABC affiliate in Needham, Massachusetts).
- Channel 5 - out of Jefferton - Tom Goes to the Mayor
- Channel 6 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 TV series) and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures
- Channel 7 - out of Dimmsdale (Fairly OddParents) Possibly an ABC affiliate
- Channel 8- appears in UHF as the competitor for Channel 62.
- Channel 8- appears in kid sitcom Clarissa Explains It All.
- Channel 10 - Reno 911!
- Channel 12 - Backyard Baseball 2005 (Since Johnny Bravo is in it, it is probably something owned by Warner Bros., possibly a new Cartoon Network.)
- Channel 62- appears in UHF
- Channel 84 - cable channel, out of Arlen, Texas on King of the Hill, where Nancy Gribble is a local weatherperson. There is no channel 84 in broadcast; the former channels 70 to 83 were auctioned to mobile phone services in the 1980s.
- Channel Umptee-3 - Pirate station, supposedly broadcasting "between two other channels", from the animated TV show Channel Umptee-3
- Continental Sports Channel - Sports Night
- Newschannel 7 - Stroker & Hoop
- KAJE-TV Channel 12 - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Outside Violet Beauregarde's house in Atlanta, Georgia
- KBBL-TV Channel 6 - Springfield (local channel in The Simpsons, probably a Fox affiliate)
- KBAY-TV - Another World (presumably an NBC affiliate)
- KBEX-TV - Charlie's Angels,The Brady Bunch,Emergency!,Moving Violation,Runaway,Starsky & Hutch
- KCCY-TV - Minneapolis, Minnesota (Coach)
- KCPY-TV Channel 7 - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Outside Violet Beauregarde's house in Atlanta, Georgia
- KGIM-TV - Dallas, Texas (Dallas; presumably a CBS affiliate)
- KHBX - Spokane, Washington (Dog Bites Man)
- KLXX-TV - California?, channel 70 in The China Syndrome
- KMDN-TV 11 Alive - in various Madonna music videos of the 1980s
- KMEX-TV Channel Ocho (Eight) - Springfield (Spanish language channel in The Simpsons, based heavily on the real Spanish-language station KMEX-TV of Los Angeles, owned by Univisión, )
- KMTV MTV Music Videos, probably on UHF channel 60 - video from Janet Jackson's hit song Nasty (There's an actual KMTV, in Omaha, Nebraska, and it's unrelated with MTV; it is affiliated with the CBS television network and owned by Journal Broadcast Group. There is another KMTV, in the Republic of Korea, a music cable networks, established in 1995 at the birth of Korean cable networks. Together with m.net, the other music cable station, once a rival to each other, they are now both owned by CJ Sound.)
- KMUP - Muppets Tonight (probably an ABC affiliate)
- KNLA - Station recording Everything staring Professor Hathaway in Real Genius
- KORP - Shake, Rattle & Rock TV movie
- KPET - Newshounds webcomic
- KQMO-TV - Seattle, Washington (Life or Something Like It) -- based heavily on real KOMO-TV of Seattle, the logo is barely different.
- KRAY - Raytown,(Mama's Family)
- KROP - Bubba Ho-Tep
- KRVL - Newshounds webcomic
- KQHS Channel 9 - San Diego, California (Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy)
- KSVN (K-7) Channel 7 - Lizzie McGuire (probably an ABC affiliate)
- KTMB - California (A Day Without a Mexican)
- KTNS Channel 8 - Sacramento, California (Eight is Enough)
- KVWN Channel Four - San Diego, California (Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy)
- KWHZ - Fawcett City, DC Universe
- PTV - Short-lived station run out of Peter Griffin's garage, Family Guy
- Q-USA - Chicago, Illinois Pirate TV station in the comic book "American Flagg!"
- SPKF - The City (Transmetropolitan graphic novels)
- SWCBS - Santa Modesta's TV station in the video game Destroy All Humans!.
- U-62 - (UHF)
- WACK - ("Doowatchyalike" video by Digital Underground)
- WBFL-TV - Buffalo Bill TV show
- WBOR-TV - Garfield and Friends, as well as the Garfield TV specials that preceded it; presumably a CBS affiliate
- WCH-TV Channel 6 - Chicago, Illinois (The Weather Man) – based heavily on real WGN-TV (channel 9) of Chicago
- WCTR - Fictional radio station in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
- WGBS - Metropolis television station in the Superman comics, flagship station of the fictional Galaxy Broadcasting System (note: in real life, the calls were used until 1995 by WPSG, a UPN owned and operated station)
- WGON - the television station that Fran and Steven work for in the 1978 Dawn of the Dead (Callsign had been issued to an AM radio station in Munsing, Michigan that had gone dark before filming began. The callsign is presently issued to a Christian FM Radio station in Slidell, Louisiana)
- WHDC-TV (channel 11) - A fictional television station on the sitcom Wanda At Large.
- WHHZ Channel 9 - Hensonville from Muppets from Space
- WJM-TV Channel 12 - Minneapolis, Minnesota (Mary Tyler Moore)
- WKID-TV Channel 1 - Boston, Massachusetts, former 'call letters' for the mock studio at the Boston Children's Museum
- WKS Channel 3 - public TV - Columbus, Ohio (Family Ties)
- WNDY - WIOU
- WOAK - As the World Turns (probably a CBS affiliate)
- WORM-TV - Sesame Street (probably a PBS affiliate)
- WPBH-TV - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Groundhog Day)
- WPIXL - Located in the fictional town of Pixley in the TV Series Green Acres.
- WPIT - Flashdance
- WPIV - Norwich, Vermont (Newhart) (probably a CBS affiliate)
- WPIV - in Special Bulletin, the RBS affiliate in Charleston, South Carolina
- WPJT-TV - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Outside Mike Teevee's house in Denver, Colorado
- WRCW - All My Children (probably an ABC affiliate)
- WSF - Miami, Florida (The Golden Girls) (probably an NBC affiliate)
- WSPDR - City of Villains
- WSPR - Guiding Light (probably a CBS affiliate)
- WTOP-TV - 101 Dalmatians: The Series (note: the actual WTOP-TV (in Washington, DC) changed its call sign to WDVM in 1978, and in 1986 to its current call letters, WUSA)
- WUSA - From the 1970 film of this title, not the real station referenced above
- WWEN - Miami, Florida (Good Morning Miami)
- WXYY - Sky High (2005 film)
- WYN - Boston, Massachusetts - Goodnight, Beantown
- WZAZ - Happy Days, Grease, and Airplane!
[edit] Canadian stations
- Channel 83 Civic TV - Toronto (Videodrome)
- SCTV - Melonville (Second City Television)
- CCTV a CTV affiliate- Toronto (SpongeBob SquarePants) [citation needed]
- CQJH - Toronto (Degrassi: The Next Generation)
[edit] United Kingdom stations
- BBC 3 - Doctor Who serial "The Daemons". BBC3 was also the name of a 1960s BBC TV programme, famous for Kenneth Tynan saying fuck live on TV, and the supposed channel the BBC gave Roland Rat to himself in the 1980s. BBC Three now really exists as a digital channel.
- BBC 4 through BBC 8 - named in a song from the movie Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery. BBC Four is now a digital TV channel. BBC7 now exists as a digital radio station. There are also BBC Radio Five Live and BBC 6 Music, both BBC radio stations.
- BBC 12 - 2001: A Space Odyssey
- British Global Press - Contact (movie)
- BTN (British Television Network) - State run television network in the film V for Vendetta
- GBTV - The Core
- Goliath Cable Channel - Thursday Next novels
- GlobeLink News - Drop the Dead Donkey
- Groovy Channel 27 - Red Dwarf
- KYTV - KYTV
- Mole TV - Thursday Next novels
- Neanderthal Network - Thursday Next novels
- Network Toad - Thursday Next novels
- Outer Hebrides Broadcasting Corporation - Naked Video
- OwlVision - Thursday Next novels
- Pennine Television - Focus North
- PPC TV - Pinky and Perky
- RWT - Rutland Weekend Television
- UK Conquest - I'm Alan Partridge
- Broken News:-
- ESN - A triumph of style over content where news is forever coming up but never arrives.
- IBS - News of Americans, for Americans, by Americans.
- PVS - The earnest, no-frills network.
- Look Out East - The surreal side of local news, where you're local tonight.
- Aronovitz Business News - More rolling, spinning business news.
- Go Sports - Live news behind the news behind the sport with the stats you really need to know – which Premiership club owns the most Dido CDs and who are the top football lovers this season.
- So News - Everything you ever wanted to know about the world of celebrity, parodying the BBC 3 show Liquid News.
- Film And Movie News - Interviews with all the star names in the movie industry. The running gag was that the reviewer would later slate his interviewee's film to camera after the interview was over.
- 15 Second News - A round-up of world news in fifteen seconds. A parody of BBC 3's 60 Seconds bulletins.
- Traffic Round Up Date - Round-up of the latest traffic conditions, even if there's nothing much to talk about. This satirised the bizarre names of road junctions.
[edit] Dutch stations
- BNN (Bart's News Network) was featured as a fictional commercial television station in Bart de Graaff's show BNN on Veronica before it became a real public broadcaster. The name is inspired by CNN.
- RTL 6, a television station run by Paul de Leeuw's character Bob de Rooij, featured in his New Year's Eve show on December 31, 1993. A parody of RTL 4 and RTL 5.
[edit] Mediterranean stations
- Chanel 9 - Parody of Mediterranean Television on The Fast Show
[edit] Soviet Union stations
- SSSR-1 "3SR1, Russian Television" - SCTV - The Soviet station that took over SCTV's signal
[edit] Networks
- 30th Century Fox - future incarnation of 20th Century Fox in Futurama
- Antediluvian Broadcasting Company, a spoof of ABC, whose slogan "Pangaea's Watching" is taken from the real network's 1990 slogan "America's Watching" - Dinosaurs
- Bad Wolf TV - Doctor Who episode The Long Game
- Bearly Broadcasting - The Shari Lewis Show
- BHO - a parody of HBO, The Simpsons
- The Blockbuster Channel - movie channel, The Simpsons
- Breakthru TV- Exploitative TV news network from Max Headroom
- Cartoon Central - South Park, a combination of Cartoon Network and Comedy Central, which airs South Park
- Carver Media Group Network (CMGN) - Elliot Carver's 24-hour news channel in the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies
- CBN - The Day Today spoof of American News channels such as CNN (no relation to the real life CBN)
- Channel 44,000 - Doctor Who episode Bad Wolf
- Channel One - The Groove Tube
- Cloud Nine - Satellite channel owned by Derek Leech in Kim Newman's fiction (note; there is a Cloud Nine [1] production company [though not a network] in New Zealand)
- Channel Umptee-3 - Underground TV station from the Children's animated show "Channel Umptee-3"
- CN3 - News channel shown on 24
- CNNBCBS (a joint venture of CNN, NBC and CBS, which is purchased by ABC), in the year 2010 - The Simpsons
- CNNNN - Chaser Non-stop News Network on the Australian news satire CNNNN.
- Continental Network System - Bamboozled
- Continental Sports Channel (CSC) - "Sports Night"
- The Convoluted Network - Mr. Show with Bob and David - runs confusing programs such as "Pre-Taped Call-In Show" and "The Return of the Curse of the Creature's Ghost."
- C-SPAN9 - Futurama
- DinoMusic TeleVision - reference to MTV, Dinosaurs
- DNN - reference to CNN, Dinosaurs
- EAPN (Euro-Asian Public Network)- Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere
- EBS - The Stepford Wives (2004)
- Empire Network - The Big Time TV movie (Former actual sports network serving Western New York)
- ENN (Eminem News Network) - parody of CNN in Eminem's "Without Me" video clip.
- ESPN 8: The Ocho - Dodgeball: The Movie Spoof of over-expanding ESPN.
- Eyeball Network - Fast Forward
- Federal Broadcasting Company - Desk Set
- Federal Network - Starship Troopers
- FNW (First News Wire) - Splinter Cell
- Free Amerika Broadcasting - Title underground TV network from the film Free Amerika Broadcasting
- Freedom Network - V - Underground news network of the resistance
- FYI News Network - Murphy Brown
- GBS - [[Network (film)
- GBS (General Broadcasting Services) - Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere
- GFTV (Galactic Federation Television) - Doctor Who Virgin New Adventures: Legacy
- GNB - Less Than Perfect
- Galaxy Broadcasting System - a major television network in the Superman comics that once owned the Daily Planet
- Global News Network - Left Behind
- GlobeLink News - Drop the Dead Donkey
- HBC - a cross between NBC/ABC and HBO, South Park (its logo is sometimes shown as a multicolored turtle, similar to the NBC peacock, and sometimes shown as a circle with circular letters, like ABC)
- Homeboy Shopping Network - Parody of Home Shopping Network on In Living Color
- IBC - Two IBC's have existed in fiction, the first from Special Bulletin (mentioned as an aside -- the main network was called RBS), the second from Scrooged
- ICS - The Running Man - the network that carried the deadly survival program
- Interstellar Network News - Babylon 5
- Kidnet - Death to Smoochy
- KidzTube' - The Sims 2
- MBC - The Ratings Game
- Meson Broadcasting System/The Network - Doctor Who Virgin Missing Adventures: Time of Your Life (the ITV to Torrok Television's BBC)
- Meow TV - music videos for cats, Garfield and Friends
- MMMTV - parody of MTV in Futurama.
- MTV - Mirror Television. In Red Dwarf novels the Cat use this to admire his reflection in his Better Than Life fantasy (Actual cable music network based in the United States, with international operations)
- MTV4 - Saturday Night Live, spoof of over-expanding MTV.
- NBS (Probably "National Broadcasting System" or "Service") - Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
- Network 23 - Max Headroom
- Network 66 - Max Headroom - Network 23's main competition
- NTC (probably "National Television Corporation") - network from HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon
- NTV (Norsefire Television) - The fascist government's replacement of BBC in V for Vendetta
- NVS (Neucom Visual Network) - Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere
- OCP (Omni Consumer Products) - television station (and omnipresent business conglomerate) in RoboCop
- Omnicom Corporation - the company which legally adopted Truman Burbank (The Truman Show)
- ONBS - The television news network of Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness
- Pan American Broadcasting Company (PABC) - in many Mariah Carey music videos of the 1990s
- Public Pearl TV - Network set up by Pearl Forrester on one episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000
- RBS - Special Bulletin TV movie
- Rok TV - The Day Today spoof of MTV
- SAFN (Soviet Armed Forces Network) - Freedom Fighters videogame
- SCTV - SCTV - The fictional network the comedy show is based around (Second City Television)
- Shitsu-Tonka - DAAS Kapital
- Sim Broadcasting Network (SBN) - The Sims 2
- SimStation Dance - The Sims 2
- SimStation Sports - The Sims 2
- SNN (South Park News Network) - reference to CNN, South Park
- TCN - The Crap Network - Beavis and Butt-head
- TeeVee TV - Mr. Show with Bob and David
- The Reality Channel - The Simpsons
- The Scenery Channel - Broadcasts beautiful views 24 hours a day in the year 2015 (Back to the Future Part II)
- The Tar Channel - Futurama
- Torrok Television Company (TTC) - Doctor Who Virgin Missing Adventures: Time of Your Life]] (light take-off/tribute to the BBC)
- The Top Hat Channel - pornography channel, The Simpsons
- The Tree Channel - Johnny Bravo
- The Yummy Channel - a spoof of the Food Network in The Sims 2
- Tunnel Vision - The title TV network from the Neal Israel film Tunnel Vision
- UBS-TV (Union Broadcasting System) - Network
- Univisión in English - Saturday Night Live
- UTV - From the Firesign Theatre comedy album Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers ("This is UTV for You, the Viewer!")
- WPCBCN (White People Co-opting Black Culture Network) - (Mr. Show with Bob and David)
- Zoblotnic Broadcasting Company - On the Air (album)
- ZNN - Cable News Channel on JAG and NCIS
