List of television stations in Sweden
This is a list of television channels that broadcast for a Swedish language audience.
Channels holding a broadcasting license for the terrestrial network are marked "(DTT)."
Public non-commercial networks
SVT
- SVT1 (general) (DTT) (HD)
- SVT2 (general) (DTT) (HD)
- SVT24 (news, sports, reruns) (DTT)
- Barnkanalen (children) (DTT)
- Kunskapskanalen (educational) (DTT)
- UR - public service educational programming, broadcasting in time slots allocated by SVT1 and SVT2
- SVT World (international) terrestrial only in Finland
The public television channels are mostly funded by a license fee and broadcast free-to-air.
SVT has 21 local news districts.
Swedish private commercial networks
These are privately owned television channels that are solely, or almost solely, directed at Sweden. Many such channels don't broadcast from Sweden, but nevertheless target a Swedish audience.
TV4 is the only commercial channel ever to have broadcast nationally in the Swedish analogue terrestrial network, but the arrival of digital terrestrial television saw the TV4 monopoly on commercial television broken.
TV4 Group
- TV4 (general entertainment) (DTT) (HD)
- Sjuan (general entertainment) (DTT)
- TV12 (DTT) (HD)
- TV4 Film (movies) (DTT)
- TV4 Fakta (documentaries) (DTT)
- TV4 Sport (sports) (DTT) (HD)
- TV4 Guld ("classic" programming)
- TV4 Komedi (sitcoms)
- TV4 Fakta XL (documentaries)
- C More Sport Sweden (sports) (DTT)
Viasat / MTG
- TV3 (general entertainment) (DTT) (HD)
- TV6 (entertainment) (DTT) (HD)
- TV8 (news and documentaries) (DTT)
- TV10 (sport and documentaries) (DTT)
- Viasat Sport (HD)
- Viasat Fotboll (HD)
- Viasat Hockey
SBS Discovery Media
- Kanal 5 (entertainment) (DTT) (HD)
- Kanal 9 (entertainment) (DTT) (HD)
- Kanal 11 (entertainment, formerly TV400) (DTT)
- Discovery Channel Sweden (documentaries) (DTT)
- TLC Sweden (lifestyle) (DTT)
Viacom International Media Networks Europe
- Comedy Central Sweden (DTT)
- MTV Sweden (music/entertainment) (DTT)
- Nickelodeon Sweden (children) (DTT)
- Nick Jr. (DTT)
- Nicktoons (DTT)
Other
- Axess TV (culture and information) - owned by Axel och Margaret Ax:son Johnsons stiftelse för allmännyttiga ändamål (DTT)
- Kanal 10 (Christian) (DTT)
- Fox (DTT) (HD)
- Horse1 (DTT)
- Kanal Global (DTT)
Regional terrestrial channels:
- 24Corren (DTT)
- 24nt (DTT)
- 24Norrbotten (DTT)
- Kanal 12 (DTT)
Pan-Nordic channels
These channels mostly target the Nordic countries. Most channels carry subtitles and/or audio in Swedish.
Viasat / MTG
- Viasat Explore (documentaries) (HD)
- Viasat Film (movies) (HD)
- Viasat Film Action (HD) - previously known as Cinema
- Viasat Film Classic (HD)
- Viasat Film Comedy (HD)
- Viasat Film Drama (HD)
- Viasat Film Family (HD)
- Viasat Golf (HD)
- Viasat History (documentaries) (HD)
- Viasat Hockey (HD)
- Viasat Motor (HD)
- Viasat Nature/Crime (documentaries and crime series) (HD)
- Viasat Ticket (HD)
TV4 Group
- C More Action
- C More Emotion
- C More Extreme
- C More First (HD) (movies) (DTT, HD partial)
- C More Fotboll (DTT, partial) (HD)
- C More Hits (HD) (DTT, partial)
- C More Hockey (DTT, partial)
- C More Kids (DTT, partial)
- C More Live
- C More Live HD (DTT, partial)
- C More Series (HD)
- C More Sport HD
- C More Tennis
- SF-kanalen
Turner Broadcasting System Europe
- Boomerang (Nordic), Swedish audio
- Cartoon Network Nordic, Swedish audio (DTT, partial)
- Showtime Scandinavia, Swedish subtitles (movies) (DTT, partial)
- Silver, Swedish subtitles (movies) (DTT)
- Silver HD, Swedish subtitles (movies)
- Star! Scandinavia, Swedish subtitles (entertainment news) (DTT)
- TCM Nordic, Swedish subtitles (DTT, partial)
- TNT (Sweden), Swedish subtitles (general entertainment) (DTT)
Disney–ABC Television Group
The video streams are pan-Nordic, but audio streams and subtitles are separate:
- Disney Channel Scandinavia (DTT) (HD)
- Disney Junior Scandinavia
- Disney XD Scandinavia (DTT, partial)
BBC Worldwide
- BBC Entertainment Scandinavia, Swedish subtitles
- BBC HD Scandinavia, Swedish subtitles
- BBC Knowledge Scandinavia, Swedish subtitles
- BBC Lifestyle Scandinavia, Swedish subtitles
Others
- Animal Planet HD
- Animal Planet Nordic, Swedish subtitles (DTT)
- CNBC Nordic
- Eurosport, Swedish audio (DTT)
- Eurosport 2, Swedish audio (DTT)
- National Geographic Channel HD Scandinavia, Swedish subtitles
- National Geographic Channel Scandinavia, Swedish subtitles (DTT)
- Hallmark Channel Scandilux, Swedish subtitles
- The History Channel HD Scandinavia, Swedish subtitles
- The History Channel Scandinavia, Swedish subtitles
- LifeStyle TV (religious)
- TV Shop Europe (home shopping)
- Tvins.com (home shopping)
Pan-European channels
These are channels targeting all of Europe. This section may include virtually all channels available from any satellite that can be received in Sweden, but this list mostly concerns encrypted channels that are available from Swedish satellite distributors. Some have Swedish subtitles.
- Al Jazeera English (DTT)
- BBC World News (DTT)
- Bloomberg TV Europe
- Blue Hustler
- CBS Reality, Swedish subtitles
- Chelsea TV
- CNN International (DTT)
- Deutsche Welle
- Discovery HD Showcase, Swedish subtitles
- Discovery Science Europe, Swedish subtitles (DTT)
- Discovery Travel & Living Europe, Swedish subtitles (DTT)
- Discovery World Europe, Swedish subtitles
- E!, Swedish subtitles
- ESPN Classic Sports Europe
- EuroNews
- Eurosport HD
- Extreme Sports Channel
- Fashion TV
- Fuel TV
- Ginx
- GOD TV
- Horse & Country
- Hustler TV
- Investigation Discovery
- Mezzo
- Mezzo Live HD
- Motors TV
- MTV Hits
- MTV Live HD
- MTV Rocks
- MUTV
- Nat Geo Wild (HD)
- Nautical Channel
- Outdoor Channel
- OutTV
- Playboy TV
- RT
- Rush HD
- SABC News International
- Sky News
- Spice Platinum
- Trace Urban HD
- Travel Channel Europe, Swedish subtitles (HD)
- TV5Monde
- VH1 (DTT, partial)
- VH1 Classic
See also: Lists of television channels, List of television channels in Europe
Public access stations
- Jönköpings lokal-TV - Jönköping Municipality
- Steve - Lund Municipality
- TV Malmö - Malmö Municipality
- Öppna Kanalen Göteborg - Gothenburg Municipality
- Öppna Kanalen Skövde - Skövde Municipality
- Öppna Kanalen Stockholm - Stockholm Municipality
Cable operators with more than 100 households are required by law to carry extra space for a local cable channel.
Defunct channels
- Big TV (2006)
- Discovery Mix (2002–2007)
- DiTV (2005–2008)
- Fan TV
- Filmmax (-1995)
- Hallmark Channel (-2009)
- Jetix (1998–2009)
- Kanal Lokal Göteborg (2005–2009)
- Kanal Lokal Skåne (2005–2009)
- Kanal Lokal Stockholm (2005–2009)
- Kanal Lokal Östergötland (1995–2009)
- Med i tv (2001–2005)
- ONE Television (2006–2007)
- SF Succé
- Sportkanalen
- SuperSport
- SVT HD (2006–2010)
- Toon Disney (2005–2009)
- TV Plus
- TV1000 Cinema (1995–2004)
- TV21 (1993–2000)
- TVG (1994–1997)
- TV6 (1994-1998/2002)
- The Voice TV Sweden (2004–2008)
- ZTV (1992-2010)
Distributors
Television packages and distributors in Sweden:
- Digital terrestrial:
- Satellite:
- Cable:
- Com Hem
- Canal Digital
- Tele2Vision
- Various local cable distributors
- AB Sappa
- IPTV
- Telia Digital-tv
- FastTV (Disbanded in may 2010)
- Bredbandsbolaget
- Canal Digital
- IP Sweden
- AB Sappa
See also
External links
- AB Sappa - cable and IPTV television distributor
- tvplaneten.se - timetables
- tvprogram.nu - timetables
- TV-Guide.nu - Swedish TV guide online
- tvinfo.se - detailed TV guide with lots of information, images and member functions
- tv.nu - Timetables
- DagensTV.com - "Today's TV"
- Radiotjänst - license fee collector for public service television
- Teracom - terrestrial broadcast operator
- Boxer - terrestrial digital broadcast distributor
- Canal Digital cable and satellite television distributor
- Com Hem - cable television distributor
- Tele2Vision - cable television distributor
- Viasat - satellite television distributor