List of fictional television stations

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This is a list of notable fictional television stations, including fictional television networks.

United States local stations[edit]

• Canal Ocho (Channel 8) – Springfield Spanish language station where Bumblebee Man works in The Simpsons
• Channel 3 (News 3) – Royal Woods, Michigan station in The Loud House
• Channel 4 Houston, Texas, where Melvin P. Thorpe launches his crusade against The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
• Channel 5 
  • Public access channel on Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job and Check It Out! with Dr. Steve Brule. Located in Los Angeles, California, as seen in the Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job episode "Choices".
  • Family Guy News station in Quahog, Rhode Island with anchors Tom Tucker, and Diane Simmons.
• Channel 6 
  • Los Angeles News/Sports station in the Nickelodeon sitcoms Sam & Cat and Victorious.
  • New York City station where April O'Neil worked in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
  • Springfield news station where Kent Brockman works in The Simpsons
• Channel 6 ½ – The setting for a series of comedic sketches in the Nickelodeon variety show All That.
• Channel 7 (7 News) – Philadelphia TV station in the 1996 film Up Close and Personal
• Channel 8
  • Minneapolis, Minnesota station in The Mary Tyler Moore Show episode WJM Tries Harder^[1]
  • San Francisco, California station where Danny Tanner and Rebecca Donaldson Katsopolis worked in Full House.^[2]
  • Local TV station run by R.J. Fletcher in the 1989 film UHF^[3]
• Channel 9 (Westview 9) – Westview, New Jersey news station in the WandaVision episode Breaking the Fourth Wall.
• Channel 10 (Cable 10) – Aurora, Illinois station seen in the films Wayne's World (1992) & Wayne's World 2 (1993) as well as the Wayne's World comedic sketches on the NBC variety show Saturday Night Live
• Channel 11 (Tough 11) – Royal Woods, Michigan station in The Loud House
• Channel 54 (Cable 54) – Los Angeles, California station in the 1988 film They Live.
• Channel 84 – Local TV station on the animated sitcom King of the Hill. Located in the fictional city of Arlen, Texas. Is definitely not a Fox station, as Fox is blocked in the Hill family's house, and they still watch channel 84. The UHF band never went as high as 84, only as high as 83.
• HTS (Houston Television Service) - Houston, Texas news channel in Space Brothers.
• KBEX-TV (in film)
  • Dawn of the Dead (as a Milwaukee TV station)^[4]
  • Moving Violation
  • Runaway
• KBEX-TV (in television)
  • Barnaby Jones^[5]
  • Brady Bunch^[6]
  • Cannon (in "Perfect Fit For A Frame")
  • Charlie's Angels (as TV and radio)^[7]
  • Columbo (Season 2, Episode 6)
  • Crazy Like a Fox (Channel 6, San Francisco)
  • Dante's Peak (Channel 5)
  • Emergency!
  • Here's Lucy (in "Milton Berle is the Life of the Party")
  • MacGyver (as TV and radio)
  • Mannix
  • Mission: Impossible
  • The Rockford Files (in "The No-Cut Contract")
  • Starsky & Hutch
  • The Streets of San Francisco (in "Flags of Terror")
  • $weepstake$ (Channel 6, Hollywood)^[8]
  • Vega$ (Season 1, Episode 13)
  • Walker, Texas Ranger^[9]
  • What's Happening!!^[10]
• KCBR – (Channel 5) South Park, Colorado CBS affiliate in episode "1% (South Park)".
• KCSF (Channel 8) – San Francisco TV station in Charmed heavily featured in the Season 3 finale
• KDAJ (Channel 10) – Los Angeles area TV station seen in episodes of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law
• KEJH (Channel 3) - Los Angeles TV station in Mr. Mayor
• KEVW3 (Channel 3) - Local TV station in the 1997 film Dante's Peak
• KFLW-TV (Channel 14) – seen in Die Hard
• KFPB (Channel 8) - is a Los Angeles television station in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
• KFUK (Phoenix, Arizona, Channel 7) – Used Cars
• KFVD (Odessa, Texas) – Heroes
• KGGY (Channel 8) – Denver, Colorado station in the 1991 Perry Mason TV movie The Case of the Ruthless Reporter
• KGIM
  • Boise, Idaho station in the 1976 film Network
  • Dallas, Texas station in Dallas (original TV series)
• KGOD (Channel 17, formerly KRUD) – The setting of the 1980 film Pray TV
• KIKA (Channel 13) – San Francisco TV station used in the Monk episode "Mr. Monk and the TV Star", first aired on January 30, 2004
• KKGB - a local Boulder TV station appeared in the Mork & Mindy episode "Looney Tunes and Morkie Melodies"
• KLMN - a local TV station appeared in the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! episode "Don't Fool with a Phantom"
• KLMV/ KTMV – (Channel 6), San Francisco TV station in Charmed
• KLVY (Channel 7) - is a television station in Henry Danger and Danger Force
• KMAB (Channel 10) – San Francisco TV station in Charmed episode "That Old Black Magic"
• KMAQ (Channel 6) – Los Angeles TV station in Predator 2
• KMUP: - Station run by the Muppets in Muppets Tonight
• KNBS (News 6) – Los Angeles area TV station in the She-Hulk: Attorney at Law episode The People vs. Emil Blonsky
• KNCW (Channel 3) – Los Angeles TV station in The Great Los Angeles Earthquake
• KNKW (Channel 12) – Los Angeles TV station in D-War
• KNLA (Channel 3) – Los Angeles TV station in Predator 2 (A real station with these call letters exists in the Los Angeles market on channel 20.)
• KNRG – Los Angeles TV station used in Alien Nation: The Enemy Within, first aired November 12, 1995
• KNSB – Los Angeles TV station used in Columbo episode "Candidate for a Crime", first aired on November 4, 1973
• KPOV – Seattle, Washington, mentioned on Frasier in the episode "Frasier's Curse", first aired on October 1, 1998
• KPVK (Channel 15) – "Action News" station in the She-Hulk: Attorney at Law episode Superhuman Law
• KQRZ (Channel 4) – Los Angeles station on the TV show Adam-12 episode "Pickup", originally aired December 29, 1971
• KRLH Los Angeles station.
  • 24 Channel 19
  • Any Given Sunday Channel 8
• KQSF (Channel 3) – San Francisco TV station in Charmed
• KRKW – "Action News" station in The Stand (1994 TV mini-series)
• KSFF (channel 6) – in the Monk episode "Mr. Monk and the Man Who Shot Santa Claus"
• KSPC – (Channel 4) South Park, Colorado NBC affiliate in episode "Le Petit Tourette".
• KSXP (Channel 2) – Sacramento, California station featured in the movie The Ugly Truth
• KTGP (Channel 8) – Los Angeles station in Skyline
• KTML (Channel 6) – Pines Valley, Colorado station in Terror in the Mall, Fresno, California in ‘’The West Wing’’ Season 7 Episode 14.
• KTNS (Kansas City, Missouri) – Network
• KTNS-31 - a local Independent TV Station in Boulder appeared in the Mork & Mindy episode "Mindy Gets Her Job" and other multiple episodes over Season 3/4
• KVKC (Channel 4) – Las Vegas, Nevada station which was featured in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation episode "Dead Air", originally aired January 16, 2013
• KVKC (Channel 16) – presumably Denver, Colorado station which was featured in Resident Alien repisode S2:16, "I Believe in Aliens"
• KVWN (Channel 4) – San Diego, California station featured in the 2004 film Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
• KWAP (Channel 3) – Los Angeles, California station in the Remington Steele episode Steele in the News
• KWAT (Channel 8) – Seattle, Washington news station seen in the iCarly episodes iBelieve In Bigfoot, iFight Shelby Marx, and iRue the Day.
• KWLA (Channel 6) — Los Angeles station. Nightcrawler
• KXIU - California station seen in the episode "Old Scrapmouth" of The Partridge Family.
• KXIU-TV - Station broadcasting "Amateur Hour" program in "Too Many Girls" episode of The Monkees
• KXIW – Los Angeles station seen in several episodes of The Monkees (in some episodes as KXIU) and at least one episode of Gidget (both produced by Columbia Pictures' TV subsidiary Screen Gems), the movie Kill the Umpire, and the 1955 movie Creature With The Atom Brain.
• KXLA (Channel 3) — Los Angeles station in The China Syndrome. (A real station with these call letters exists in the Los Angeles market on channel 44.)
• KYPN (Channel 2) — A fictional news channel in the film Into the Storm and Godzilla 2014
• KZRE (Channel 5) - Seattle, Washington station seen in Ghost Whisperer.
• KZYO (Channel 12) – Local TV station in the She-Hulk: Attorney at Law episode Superhuman Law
• Metro News 1 - a low-budget news station and recurrent location of How I Met Your Mother.
• News Los Angeles Now – Los Angeles area news station seen in episodes of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law
• TRS-TV (Channel 5) – television station seen in the "No Mercy" level of Left 4 Dead
• U62 (Channel 62) – The setting of the 1989 film UHF
• WATP - Chicago, Illinois station in Jack Reed: Death and Vengeance
• WBFL (Channel 12): Buffalo, New York station featured in Buffalo Bill (a real station with this callsign exists in Valdosta, Georgia)
• WBOR - Muncie, Indiana station in Garfield Goes Hollywood
• WCGG – Atlanta, Georgia station in the 1976 film Network
• WCLV-TV – Mason County, West Virginia television station depicted in "Local 58," a YouTube series by Kris Straub
• WDCN (Channel 8)– Washington, D.C. station in Scary Movie 3
• WDHB – Kingston Falls station in the 1984 film Gremlins
• WEBG – Starling City station in Arrow; Gotham City station in Gotham
• WEBV - Seen in Castle Rock
• WGDM (Channel 8) - Boston station featured in Godmothered
• WGJZ – Washington, D.C. station in the NCIS episode House Rules
• WGNI (Channel 4) – in Resident Evil: Apocalypse
• WGVO  – Tampa, Florida station in Greenland
• WHGP (Channel 5) – Indianapolis station in Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul
• WIAW (Channel 24) – Lady Ballers
• WIDF (Channel 12) – New York City station in Godzilla
• WJM-TV (Channel 12) – Minneapolis, Minnesota station featured in The Mary Tyler Moore Show
• WKBW-TV – Buffalo, New York station in Bruce Almighty where Bruce Nolan, Evan Baxter, & Susan Ortega work (a real station with the call-sign exists in Buffalo)
• WKJH – in Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Heatwave
• WKS
  • Columbus, Ohio PBS station where Steven Keaton worked in Family Ties
  • Minneapolis, Minnesota station in The Mary Tyler Moore Show episode Party Is Such Sweet Sorrow^[11]
  • Local TV station in the Mission: Impossible episode Takeover^[12]
• WLDH – Royal Woods, Michigan station in The Loud House
• WLUK – station namedropped on the Missouri Lottery game show Fun & Fortune, stated as broadcasting from Luckytown (a real station with this callsign exists in Green Bay, Wisconsin)
• WMIA (9 News) – Mami, Florida station in the 1996 film Up Close and Personal
• WMNY (Channel 8) – New York City station in Spider-Man 3
• WNMZ (Channel 4) - Boston station in Godmothered
• WNDY – the setting for the TV drama WIOU (a real station with this call-sign exists in Indianapolis, Indiana)
• WNKW 
  • Chicago, Illinois station seen in How I Met Your Mother
  • Gotham City station seen In some Batman stories; WNKW is the NBC affiliate for Gotham City
  • Washington, D.C. news station in Madam Secretary
• WNUF (Channel 28): River Hill; station shown in “WNUF Halloween Special”, and its sequel “Out There Halloween Mega Tape”.
• WNYM (Channel 5)  – a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, television station in Signs
• WNYW (Channel 5)  – a fictional television station which was shown in the Futurama season one episode When Aliens Attack (The real life television station is in New York City)
• WOHN (Channel 8) – Lima, Ohio station seen in Glee
• WPBH (Channel 9) – the TV station in Pittsburgh that Bill Murray worked as a weatherman for in the movie Groundhog Day (1993)
• WPBS-TV (Channel 13) – New York City station in National Lampoon's "Precious Broadcasting Service", a parody of PBS (a real station with this callsign exists in Watertown, New York)
• WPIV
  • (Channel 3) – Charleston, South Carolina affiliate of the fictional RBS network in Special Bulletin; reference to WCIV, then the NBC affiliate in Charleston
  • (Channel 8) – Vermont TV station featured in Newhart
• WPIXL-TV – Pixley TV station seen and heard in Green Acres, co-owned with WPIXL radio
• WPLP - Milwaukee, Wisconsin station seen in A Whole New Ballgame
• WQHG (Channel 5) – Quahog, Rhode Island station in Family Guy
• WQPB (Channel 24) - television station in Ordinary Joe
• WSVD
  • Grandview, New York station in Ghost Whisperer
  • (Channel 7)  – Boston station in Knowing
• WTRL (Channel 3) – New York City station seen in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and its sequel Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
• WTTQ (Channel 10) – television station in Riverside in Left 4 Dead; its existence is revealed by a news van seen in the town
• WTVH Buffalo (Channel 5) – cross-town rival of WKBW-TV 7 Buffalo, New York in Bruce Almighty (a real station with this callsign and channel number exists in Syracuse, New York)
• WURG-TV (News 9) – Pittsburgh news station and main setting in the FOX sitcom Back to You
• WUSA – New Orleans TV station in the 1970 film WUSA (a real station with this callsign exists in Washington, D.C.)
• WWED (Channel 3) – New York City station in Final Destination 2
• WXIU-TV – TV station seen in Close Encounters of the Third Kind and the TV series Hazel (in "Campaign Manager") and Bewitched (in "Remember the Main", s1/ep34 1965, and "A Very Special Delivery", s2/ep02) and Dennis the Menace (in "Dennis, the Campaign Manager" , S2 E15), and The Monkees (in "Monkey Mayor", s2/e4 1967)
• WXT (Channel 10)  - New York City station on the TV show Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "October Surprise", originally aired October 23, 2013
• WXYP (Channel 6) - Local TV station in the films Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules and Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
• WYBS (Channel 6) - Local TV station in Murder Live!
• WYN-TV (Channel 11) - Boston, Massachusetts station seen in Goodnight, Beantown
• WZAB (Channel 3)  - Valdosta, Georgia station where reporter Cindy Swanson worked in the 1998 film Ernest in the Army
• WZAZ (in film)
  • The Big Bus, call sign on side of news reporter's station wagon and reporter's camera at the bus terminal's front doors filming passengers
• WZAZ (in television)
  • One Day At A Time Indianapolis (in "Peabody's War")
  • The Andy Griffith Show channel 12 TV station (in "The Mayberry Chef")
  • Happy Days (in "Fonzie Loves Pinky (Part 1)," "Big Money" and Weezer's Happy Days music video, "Buddy Holly")
• WZDC-TV – TV station seen in Die Hard 2 (a real station with this callsign exists in Washington, D.C.)
• Zaka TV (Channel 51) – Chicago, Illinois TV station in Michigan: Report from Hell

United States networks[edit]

• √2 Television Network – Futurama
• AAN (All American Network) – Heroman
• ABS – F Is for Family
• ABX – Roseanne
• Ace: Out There Halloween Mega Tape, which counts WNUF as an affiliate in 1996.
• ACN (Atlantis Cable Network) – a fictional news channel on the American HBO drama television series The Newsroom
• Americana – a fictional TV network on which Daphne Blake's series Coast To Coast with Daphne Blake aired in the movie Scooby Doo on Zombie Island
• AMNN (AMN Network) – Doctor Who
• Animal World Channel (AWC) - a television channel that broadcasts animal-related shows seen in The Simpsons episode "Hardly Kirk-ing"
• ARN (America's Reporter Network) – Skyscraper
• ATN News Channel (American Television Network) – a fictional news channel on the American HBO drama television series Succession
• BDN (Broadcast of Digital Networks) – Babylon
• BFN (Broadcasting Frontline Network) – GR: Giant Robo
• Cartoon Central – a mashup of Cartoon Network and Comedy Central seen in the South Park episode "Death"
• CBC Network (Christian Broadcasting Channel) - a Christian television network seen in the South Park episode "Starvin' Marvin in Space"
• CCN (Clamp Cable Network) – Gremlins 2: The New Batch
• CDE (spoof of ABC) – The Muppets
• Channel 4 News - a popular news cable television network from South Park
• Channel 326 - a Pay-per-view sports channel featured in the iCarly two-part special episode iFight Shelby Marx
• Channel Umptee-3
• CNNBCBS (A division of ABC) – The Simpsons
• CNT (Conglomerated National Television) - television network in Grand Theft Auto IV and Grand Theft Auto V; a parody of Fox and ABC.
• Country and Wenceslas - a country music channel seen in The Simpsons episode "I Won't Be Home for Christmas"
• CSC (Continental Sports Channel) – an ESPN-style cable sports channel on the sitcom Sports Night.
• CTN News – The Powerpuff Girls Movie
• DBC – Ultimate Spider-Man
• Dingo Channel - a Teen/Kids oriented network and a parody of Disney Channel in the iCarly episodes iBattle Chip, iTake on Dingo, and iToe Fat Cakes
• Eagle News Network - a Fox News style cable news network in For All Mankind
• EBC (Emergency Broadcasting Channel) – used in the Johnny Test episode "JTV"; also used as the name for the channel that cable systems use to show EBS and weather alerts
• ƎNN (Eminem News Network) - a parody of CNN seen in the Eminem music video Without Me
• ENN World Network - a television network seen in Resident Evil: Vendetta
• ESBN - a sports television network and a parody of ESPN seen in The Simpsons episode "22 for 30"
• ESPN 8 – a.k.a. "The Ocho" (DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story)
• Estrogen Network a television channel exclusive for female audiences seen in The Simpsons episode "Bye, Bye, Nerdie"
• Fashion Television (later renamed Fashion Buzz likely to reduce confusion with the actual Canadian series of the same name) – a cable channel featured in Ugly Betty
• Federal Broadcasting Network – The setting for the 1957 film Desk Set
• Ferb TV - Phineas and Ferb create a cable station which features many TV shows that parody real shows.
• Fright TV - The Loud House, it features Lucy's favorite show Vampires of Melancholia in the episode "Fandom Pains".
• FUX NEWS 5 – News station seen in "Teenagers from Uranus: Sloppy Seconds" (2006) and a parody of Fox News Channel.
• FXXX - a parody of FXX seen in The Simpsons episode Simpsorama
• FXXXXXX - a parody of FXX seen in The Simpsons special halloween-themed episode "Treehouse of Horror XXV"
• Galaxy Broadcasting System (GBS) – a television network in various Superman stories by DC Comics
• GNN
  • GoAnimate
  • CNN-style news outlet in the 1996 TV movie Special Report: Journey to Mars
  • The setting of the 2013 film Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
  • Galaxy News Network, a fictional pre-Great War television station in the video game series Fallout
  • Global Network News, a fictional news network in Vantage Point
• Gotham News Network (GNN) – seen in Christopher Nolan Batman films Batman Begins and The Dark Night; a rival station is also seen in some scenes, GCN (Gotham City News). GNN was also featured in the Batman: Arkham franchise.
• HBC – South Park
• HB News - a news channel seen in Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon
• HBOWTIME - a premium cable television network and a parody of HBO and Showtime seen in The Simpsons episode The Ten-Per-Cent Solution
• HBTV (Hanna-Barbera Television) - TV station seen in A Pup Named Scooby-Doo episode "For Letter or Worse".
• The Heartmark Channel - a TV channel that produces original films, appears in The Simpsons episode A Springfield Summer Christmas for Christmas and is a parody of Hallmark Channel
• HG Cooking Channel - a Cooking show channel seen in the iCarly episode iLost My Mind.
• Hip Hop Hosannas - a hip hop music channel seen in The Simpsons episode "I Won't Be Home for Christmas"
• IBC – Scrooged
• IBS – Morning Glory
• ICS – The Running Man
• Impulse Buying Network - a home shopping channel seen in The Simpsons episode Lady Bouvier's Lover
• J&G Shopping Network - a home shopping channel seen in the South Park episodes Cash For Gold, A Scause For Applause, Hummels & Heroin and Basic Cable
• Kidnet - a kids' TV channel from Death to Smoochy
• The Kid-Tacular Kids Channel - a kids' TV channel from Codename: Kids Next Door episodes Operation: C.A.B.L.E.-T.V. and Operation: C.O.L.L.E.G.E.
• LSBC - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
• MBC – The Ratings Game
• MMN - a fictional cable news and the main setting of Great News
• NBS
  • Married With Children
  • Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
• Nerve News Network (NNN) - a news network in the City of Frank that is seen in Osmosis Jones
• Network 23 – Max Headroom
• News Net (NN)  – cable network in The Second Civil War (a real, free-to-air American television network with a similar name, NewsNet, exists)
• National News Channel (NNC) - cable news network in For All Mankind —
• NNT Channel - a Cable TV network in Ghost Whisperer.
• NTV – a TV channel in the segment from Sesame Street; a parody of MTV
• Norwegian Death Metal Holiday Hymns - a channel that features death metal music from Norway seen in The Simpsons episode "I Won't Be Home for Christmas"
• Public Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) - Grand Theft Auto IV; is a parody of ABC, BBC, RTÉ, CBC and PBS.
• PGM (Pierce Global Media) – a fictional news channel on the American HBO drama television series Succession
• PTV – Peter Griffin's TV network from a Family Guy episode of the same name
• Puppet Television Network - the main TV network from 2018 black comedy film The Happytime Murders
• Q-USA – pirate television station in the comic book American Flagg!
• Racing Sports Network – in Cars and Cars 3; a parody of Speed, Fox Sports and ESPN.
• RBS – Special Bulletin
• RBTV (Really Bad Television) - The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (film)
• Rerunland - a television channel seen in The Simpsons episode "The Girl Who Slept Too Little"
• Satellite News Network (SNN) - a fictitious cable TV news channel from Switching Channels
• SENN (Southeast News Network) - network on The Morning Show
• Sporty Penguin Entertainment Network (SPEN)  – Surf's Up
• Sunshine Network - a Christian television network from upcoming Filthy Rich TV series (a real network with this name existed until 2002)
• SSSN (Super Secret Spy Network) – Phineas and Ferb
• S-SPAN - an American pay television channel run by the federal government and a parody of C-SPAN seen in The Simpsons episode "Opposites A-Frack"
• Testosterone Network - a television channel exclusive for male audiences seen in The Simpsons episodes "Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade" and "I, (Annoyed Grunt)-bot"
• The Comedy Cable Channel - a parody of Comedy Central seen in The Simpsons episode Clown in the Dumps
• The Chew Network - an American premium cable network about food seen in The Simpsons episode "'Cue Detective"
• The Learning Network - a parody of Discovery Channel and TLC seen in The Simpsons episode Frink Gets Testy
• The Vintage Network - a classic television network seen in the iCarly episode iToe Fat Cakes.
• The Warner Brothers Network - a parody of Warner Bros. and The WB Television Network seen in The Simpsons episode Lisa's Sax
• Top Hat Channel - an adult channel seen in The Simpsons episode "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment"
• Tube Town - a TV channel specialized in reruns of classic sitcoms and a parody of TV Land seen in The Simpsons episode "Homer the Father"
• TVS (TVS Records) – a parody of CBS in the iCarly episode iCarly Saves TV.
• UBA (United Broadcast Association) - network that airs The Morning Show morning news program on The Morning Show
• UBC – The Barefoot Executive
• UBN – Dead Rising: Watchtower
• UBS – The setting of the Norman Lear sitcom America 2-Night; a parody of CBS
• UFO HD - an alien television channel seen in The Simpsons episode "The Man Who Came to Be Dinner"
• UIC Network – Archie Comics
• Union Broadcasting System (UBS) – the setting of the 1976 film Network (once referred to as "UBS-TV")
• VBC (Vice Broadcasting Channel) - used in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City; a parody of CBS.
• VBS (The Vice Broadcasting Service) - used in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City; a parody of NBC.
• Video Game Channel - an Esports network featured in the iCarly episode iStage An Intervention.
• WBC (World Broadcasting Corporation) – news network in Rampage 2: Universal Tour and Rampage Through Time.
• WZL (Weazel) - television channel in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, Grand Theft Auto IV, Grand Theft Auto: The Lost and Damned, Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto Online; a parody of NBC, CBS, TNT and The CW.
• Weazel News – a news channel in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, Grand Theft Auto IV and Grand Theft Auto V; a parody of BBC News and Fox News Channel.
• WHIH World News - a recurring news network in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
  • The Incredible Hulk
  • Iron Man 2
  • Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
  • Daredevil
  • WHIH Newsfront
  • Jessica Jones
  • Luke Cage
  • Iron Fist
  • Inhumans
  • The Punisher
  • Runaways
  • WandaVision
  • The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
  • Black Widow
  • Eternals
• WNN 
  • Fictional news outlet in the 1998 film Apocalypse
  • CNN-style news network in Skybound.^[13]
  • Weather News Network  – Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
  • World News Network  – Love Wrecked and The Happening
• World Wide News – How I Met Your Mother
• XTZ TV – used in the Diana Ross music video Chain Reaction
• Yum! Network – A Food Network style channel in The Loud House
• ZNN – a CNN-style news network, first seen in the second season of JAG; ZNN also appears in Hawaii Five-0, NCIS, Seven Days, Blackout 2018 (Syfy) and Zootopia

United Kingdom[edit]

• Aronovitz Business News, ESN News, Film and Movie News, GO Sports 1, IBS News, and several other parodies of news channels – Broken News
• BBC 3 TV - A fictional channel seen in the Doctor Who serial "The Daemons"; and another unrelated channel that supposedly broadcast Roland Rat: The Series; both decades before the creation of the real BBC Three.
• BBC 12 - A fictional channel seen in 2001: A Space Odyssey, with an ident based on the contemporary BBC 2 logo.
• BNN – A fictional news station in the film Quantum Apocalypse and King of Thorn
• DDC News – A parody of BBC News used in Diddy Movies, Diddy TV and the Danger Mouse reboot series
• Diddy TV (Channel 6597423) - Diddy Dick and Dom's very own TV station
• EBC1 – in Emu's Broadcasting Company, a children's TV show 1975–80
• GBB (Global British Broadcasting) - a national television broadcaster in Watch Dogs Legion
• GBBN - Hero Mask
• GBTV - a fictional news channel featured in The Core (a real online news channel with the same name existed in the United States from 2011-2012).
• HHTV (Horrible Histories Television) - Horrible Histories
• KYTV – KYTV
• Network 7 – a fictional satellite network used for a groundbreaking Channel 4 youth news programme
• Network Six – a role-playing game with regional television areas^[14]
• Outer Hebrides Broadcasting Corporation – a small-scale TV station in the Outer Hebrides, whose programmes are all performed by a single person named Highlander Angus in a small hut; featured in Naked Video
• PPC TV (Channel 2 ½) - a TV station from Pinky and Perky
• Rutland Weekend Television – a 1970s sketch show written by Eric Idle; RWT was the United Kingdom's smallest television station for the country's smallest county
• Teatime Television (TTV)  – a cartoon channel watched by the puppet cat Scragtag in the CBBC series Scragtag and his Teatime Telly.
• Troutbridge TV – a television station in Portsmouth that was the setting for The TV Lark, effectively the fifth series of The Navy Lark
• UKN - a fictional news channel in Black Mirror
• UNN (UK News Network) - Eve
• VBBC – parody of BBC One and name parodying CBBC, seen in Phineas and Ferb
• W&G TV - Wallace and Gromit's World of Invention

Other countries[edit]

Antarctica[edit]

• Antarctica Television – spoof channel

Argentina[edit]

• Mega News – Los Exitosos Pells
• M Noticias – Los Exitosos Pells

Brazil[edit]

• INC (International News Conglomerate) - a fictional TV network in the 2012 video game Max Payne 3
• Parker TV - a fictional cable network from 2014 Brazilian telenovela Now Generation
• PopTV - a fictional TV network from 2019 Brazilian telenovela Verão 90 and a parody of MTV Brasil
• SPBC TV - a fictional São Paulo TV station in the 2012 video game Max Payne 3
• TV Mundial - a fictional TV network in the 2017 Brazilian film Bingo: The King of the Mornings and parody of Rede Globo
• TV Salt Cover – a parody of Rede Globo on YouTube
• TV Alvorada – fictional TV station in São Paulo on YouTube
• TVP - a fictional TV network in the 2017 Brazilian film Bingo: The King of the Mornings and parody of SBT

Canada[edit]

• The Canada Channel – appears on the South Park episode "Eat, Pray, Queef"
• CFCE (Channel 12)  – Montreal TV station in movie Keeping Track, based on real station CFCF-TV.
• CIVIC-TV (UHF Channel 83/Cable channel 12): in the film Videodrome, a Toronto UHF station, likely a reference to real station CITY-TV.
• CRQC (Channel 3)  – Montreal TV station in Urban Angel.
• CTLS (Channel 10)  – for the Canadian TV series E.N.G., the Toronto station where the characters work on the news program.
• Météo+ – Francophone cable weather channel based in Sudbury, Ontario, in the Canadian TV series Météo+
• SCTV – for Second City Television, the titular local television station, later network, in the fictional town of Melonville

China[edit]

• 8TV – Hong Kong TV station in One Second Champion
• APTV (All People Television) – Hong Kong TV station in Over Run Over
• BJNTV (Beijing New TV) – Beijing TV station in From Hong Kong to Beijing
• Daddy TV – Hong Kong TV station in Come On, Cousin
• HKTV – Hong Kong TV station in Happy Together
• HKWN (Hong Kong World News) – Hong Kong news channel in Skyscraper
• Kowloon TV – Hong Kong TV station in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
• NTHK 24 - Hong Kong news channel in Skyscraper
• SNK News - Hong Kong news channel in The Queen of News
• TNN (Television Network News) – Hong Kong news channel in Big White Duel and Big White Duel 2
• TVI (Television International) – Hong Kong TV station in Come Home Love: Dinner at 8
• TV News Shanghai – Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir ("Miraculous Shanghai")

Cuba[edit]

• CBS – The Cuban Broadcasting System (Network) mentioned in jest by Ricky in the episode "Getting Ready" of I Love Lucy

France[edit]

• FR1 – TV station in King of Thorn
• Kidz+ – a children's television network seen in Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir
• I – News network, it features star anchorwoman France de Meurs (Léa Seydoux) in France
• TVi – A fictional counterpart of TF1 in the series Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir
• VTF (Video Tele France) – seen in the 1980 film Superman II

India[edit]

• Al Johara – TV channel based on Al Jazeera in the 2008 Indian film Mission Istanbul
• Bharat Live – a Hindi-language TV channel in the 2010 Indian comedy film Peepli Live
• Bharath Vision – a TV channel in the 2012 Indian Run Baby Run
• Bharosa 24/7 – a TV channel based in Mumbai in the 2021 Indian thriller film Dhamaka
• Galaxy TV – a TV channel based in Mumbai in the 2000 Indian film Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani
• KTV – a TV channel based in Mumbai in the 2000 Indian film Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani
• NC Channel – a TV channel in the 2012 Indian film Cameraman Gangatho Rambabu
• QTV – a TV channel based in Mumbai in the 2001 Indian film Nayak
• Spy TV – a TV channel in the 2017 Indian film Athiratha
• News Bureau of India – a TV channel in the 2012 Indian Run Baby Run

Indonesia[edit]

• OKTV – a TV station based in Jakarta from sitcom OB (Office Boy)

International waters[edit]

• WRAB – off-shore TV station in the Matt Howarth graphic novel WRAB: Pirate Television

Italy[edit]

• TVR 24 – a TV channel in Rome seen in the 2003 film The Core

Japan[edit]

• ABG News - Futari wa Pretty Cure Episode 2.
• ANNN – Sailor Moon episode "Sailor V Makes the Scene. Enter Venus, the Last Sailor Guardian"
• APC (Channel 10) – Time of Eve
• Asakusa Sara TV (浅草皿電視台) – Sarazanmai
• BNN – Sailor Moon R episode "Defeat Rubeus: The Battle in Space"
• Delta TV – Library War
• EJT (東日本TV; East Japan TV) – Asobi no jikan wa owaranai
• FQX - Excel Saga
• Ginga TV (銀河TV; Galaxy TV) – Tokyo headquarters of Shadow Galactica in Sailor Moon Sailor Stars
• HBS – Ghost Sweeper Mikami Episode 4 "Ghost Sweeper in Space"
• JBC – Noragami
• JWNN – Parasite Dolls
• Kanto TV (関東TV) – Blue Seed
• KNN – Terror in Resonance
• KTV (Home of the Digital Puppet News Team) – seen in The Simpsons episode "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo"
• Nichiuri TV (日売TV) – Case Closed
• TLS (Tokyo Location Services) – Before We Vanish
• TVA – Sailor Moon episode "So You Want to Be a Superstar".
• TV Okutokyo (TV奥東京) – Keroro Gunso

Malaysia[edit]

• CH6 - an Islamic TV station based in Kota Kinabalu
• New China News (新华人新闻台) - a News channel in The Leakers
• P-HD - a TV station based in Johor Bahru from Network 10 in Australia

Mexico[edit]

• Global News – Los Exitosos Perez
• RS News – Los Exitosos Perez
• TVMX – La dictadura perfecta

Romania[edit]

• TVTV (Transylvanian Television) – used in the Count Duckula episode, "Prime-Time Duck".

Singapore[edit]

• ABC-ZNN – Equivalent of real-world television channel ABS-CBN, featured in the Singaporean animated series Trese

South Korea[edit]

• EATV – The Terror Live
• SNC – The Terror Live and Tunnel

Spain[edit]

• Canal 99 – Alpha Males

Vietnam[edit]

• THFFFVN (Truyen Hinh Fun Fun Fun Viet Nam) – from episode 12 of STB comedy

Fictional or extinct places[edit]

The following television states come from fictional locations or locations from prehistoric times:

Bedrock[edit]

• CNN (Cave News Network) – a Stone Age counterpart of CNN seen in the 1994 film The Flintstones

Bikini Bottom[edit]

• BBTV Bikini Bottom Television (BBTV) – "Model Sponge."
• Bikini Bottom Public Access – "Tentacle-Vision"
• BBN (Bikini Bottom News) – SpongeBob SquarePants; a parody of CNN.
• Clarinet channel
• KNKC – New Kelp City. "What Ever Happened to SpongeBob?" (a real station with this callsign exists in Lubbock, Texas)
• WSEA TV – Rock Bottom. It appears in SpongeBob SquarePants: Employee of the Month

Boiling Isles[edit]

• BBN/HXN – The Owl House

Osea[edit]

• OBC (Osean Broadcasting Corporation) – Ace Combat

Outer space[edit]

• Channel 27, also known as "Funky, Groovy Channel 27" in Red Dwarf
• FNN (Federation News Network) – a CNN-style news outlet seen in episodes of Star Trek: Lower Decks and Star Trek: Picard
• Interstellar Network News – Babylon 5

Pangaea[edit]

• DNN (Dinosaur News Network) - a cable news network in the TV series Dinosaurs

Remnant[edit]

• ABN (Atlas Broadcasting Network) – RWBY
• VNN (Vale News Network) – RWBY and RWBY: Ice Queendom

Republicca[edit]

• Chanel 9 – a TV station from the fictional island dictatorship of Republicca featured in The Fast Show

Tamagotchi Town[edit]

• TAMAX-TV - a TV station in the Tamagotchi series by Bandai, particularly the Tamagotchi! animated series. Best known for being the home station of the famed idol singer and actress Lovelin.

Two Point County[edit]

• TPCNN (Two Point County News Network) - a news network in the video game Two Point Hospital

Zamunda[edit]

• ZNN (Zamunda News Network) - a news network seen in the Coming to America sequel Coming 2 America

See also[edit]

• List of fictional radio stations

References[edit]