Does every location use the same number for the same channel? Are there local stations, or is everything produced as if it were being viewed by the whole country?
For example I live near New York City and the channels are CBS: 2, NBC: 4, and ABC: 7. However if I go an hour south the channels for Philadelphia are CBS: 3, NBC: 10, and ABC: 6
We (and many other European countries) use LCN (Logical Channel Number) for terrestrial television. Here’s a list of all TV channels in Poland with an LCN assigned. So no matter where you are, if you didn’t disable LCN or reordered the channels, they will use the same number.
Cable providers can of course rearrange the list to their liking.
Our main channels have a number in their name so that’s probably the order you’re going to find them
I don’t even know if there still exists old analog tv in Slovenia. As for IP-TV every service provider has his own numbering but I think that everybody has our national TV program on 1 and 2.
I looked it up and I think there is no analog TV in Slovenia.
analog broadcasting ended 10 years ago, these days we are using digital broadcast with multiple stations on same channel.
and no, same stations or multiplexes don’t use same channel as it would make interferences from near transmitters.
And even our small country has local stations, but don’t expect full sized tv with movies, shows, it is just all about the relevant region, news, weather, traffic etc…
No, usually the channels are programmed according to your TV-package, but most of the time, the National Broadcasting Corporation’s 1st channel, DR1, is number 1, and often, the largest private TV-channel, TV2’s, main channel, also called TV2, is number 2. But nowadays, you can program your channels on your TV-box, and most people do something to have it so it fits with their preferences, or at least to make ease-of-use their priority.
Basically old-fashioned flow-TV is dead in Denmark, both sattelite and cabel are seen as outdated, and most things are broadcast over the internet.
Uh, I never bothered with channel numbers. They deliberately mix them up every few years.
Most Germans put ARD on program 1, as it was the first TV station in Germany. They also call themselves “Das Erste” (The First). ZDF is “Das Zweite” (The Second) and goes to program number 2. Then there’s regional stations that are commonly called “Die Dritten” (The Thirds). In the past, you could only receive one regional station, maybe two. But nowadays it’s all of them and people often arrange them from program 3 on.
Some people would put commercial stations in front of course.
FYI, there’s 50 nationwide free-TV channels in German language in German cable networks. You can still receive with an aerial, but only digital. It has about 20 free channels, depending on location.
It really depends on your TV channel provider in the Netherlands. We have cable, ADSL, glass fibre and except for the 1st 9 or 10 channels, which are nearly always the same, the rest seem to differ with channel number depending on the provider.
Partly yes, as all DTTV channels are the same nationally especially the first 9,
RAI 3 hosts for each region a different regional news broadcast, but the rest of its programming is the same nationally.
Then there’s the channels on the slots from 10 to 19 which are different from region to region
Same in the whole country, from Channel 1 to 12
SVT 1 and 2 are the public service channels owned by SVT located in Stockholm, Sweden. They are Sweden’s version of the BBC.
TV3, Kanal 5, TV6, TV8, and TV10 are owned by ViaPlay Group. Their headquarte is in London, UK, so they has to follow Brittish broadcasting laws
TV4, Sjuan, and TV12 are owned by TV4 Media with headquarter in Stockholm, Sweden. TV4 was the first terrestrial commercial channel.
Kanal 9 and Kanal 11 is owned by Discovery Communications. They too have their headquarte in London, UK
The UK has a standard system for allocating channel numbers for digital TV channels, but it’s more of a default thing when you buy a TV, and most TVs come with the ability to move them around and reassign them to any number you fancy.
In the UK the channel number can depend on your provider (eg whether you have the default free to air Freeview or TV via a subscription provider such as Sky, Virgin Media, BT etc).
As for the channels themselves most are fully national, though some do have regional variations.
BBC for example is the main public broadcaster in the UK. Some of its channels (BBC Three, BBC Four, BBC News, BBC Parliament along with the kids channels (CBBC and CBeebies) are fully national.
The BBC’s 2 traditional main channels BBC One and BBC Two are mainly national but do have some regional variations, particularly in Scotland and Northern Ireland where a lot of programming is the same as in England and Wales but there are also noticeable difference (either in terms of different programmes altogether or programmes shown at different times).
Within England, the only major difference in programming are the regional news programmes - usually after the main news bulletins on BBC One.
The national (and international) news goes out as the ‘BBC News at Six’ between 6.00-6.30pm. This is then followed by a regional news programme between 6.30-7.00pm.
There’s also the ‘BBC News at One’ (1.00-1.30pm) and ‘BBC News at Ten’ (10.00-10.30pm) which are followed by shorter regional news bulletins (1.30-1.45pm and 10.30-10.40pm) as well as a few short regional bulletins during BBC Breakfast 6.00-9.00am.
BBC One also has regional variations on a Sunday morning covering regional political issues between 10.00-10.30am.
ITV1 has a very similar pattern to BBC One these days. Mainly national with a few regional news programmes throughout the day, but until about twenty years ago it was very different. Rather than the single, national company it is now, ITV (Independent Television) used to be a network of regional TV companies. They used to all make programmes that would be shown nationally and a lot of soaps, dramas, gameshows, live sport etc would be shown at the same time but because they were separate regional channels there was a lot of variation too. Each region had its own identity, presenters etc. it’s a shame that that has gone now.
There is local stations but not quite in the way you are probably thinking of. The BBC and has regional news stations, plus additional programming for Wales, Scotland and Northen Ireland. The next biggest channel is ITV and they would franchise out their broadcasting to local stations, but again that’s mostly just news content, not of their other content remains the same.
The most long standing channels will go by the same number and are often known by that number rather than their official name. But with the advent of digital broadcasting and people getting more than a hundred free channels some of the newer channels may be assigned different numbers on digital vs satellite vs cable. There is also smaller local tv channels since the move to digital, but maybes one or two per region.
Here is a list of the free channels List of DTT channels in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia
All national channels are national, and every region has local channels, but they are unrelated to the national channels. So for my location the national channels are NPO 1, NPO 2, NPO 3, RTL 4, RTL 5, Veronica … etc.
Then the province I live in has a local channel RTV Oost
And the city has a channel called 1Twente Enschede
Depends on your cable- or internetprovider, or satellite-service, or tv-via-internet subscription. Most main Dutch channels will have the same number across providers, I think the first 11. After that, things start to vary, and you get other European tv-stations and theme-specific channels. Furthermore, each province and the four biggest cities have their own local tv-station, but almost all providers offer them across the country as well.
In the UK we have around 100 channels on free to view aerial. Then you got more on cable or satellite. The main ones do have regional “versions” where the programing is slightly different like BBC Scotland or ITV and STV (Scotland). BBC and ITV also have a local news show depending where you are i.e ITV London News etc.
We also have local channels like London Live.
in Slovakia most people pay for cable/satellite/iptv, cause our terrestrial TV sucks and people love having 50 channels to pick out of…, and foreign-based czech language TV usually has better content, every provider has its own default ordering and you can re-order the channels on your TV, most of my family re-orders the channels to their liking…
nation-wide stations don’t have local variants, like in some countries…, local stations exist, but are very low-cost low-viewership kind of thing, same content gets re-played every day for weeks or months…
Depends on the service provider. For example, just using freeview, channel 4 is on, you guessed it, channel 4. However if you use the company sky, channel 4 is 104. They use a different system where TV channels start from 100.
Most channels are made as tho they are being viewed by the whole country, but there are exceptions. For example, there are specific BBC Scotland and alba channels. Also in the case of the news, there’s a bit of variation depending on the channel.
The main TV channels in Switzerland are all public service. They are:
For the German-speaking region:
SRF 1
SRF 2
SRF info
Sat1 (a public service channel that is co-produced with Germany and Austria and is accessible in all three countries).
For the French-speaking region:
RTS Un
RTS Deux
RTS info
For the Italian-speaking region:
RTI La 1
RTI La 2
There is no separate TV channel for the Romansh speakers. However, they do have their own radio stations and they also produce a couple of TV programmes entirely in Romansh. These programmes are broadcasted for roughly 2 hours per day on SRF 1, SRF info and RTI La 2. The programmes include “Telesguard” (a newscast), “Cuntrasts” (a news/docu magazine) and “L’Istorgia da buna notg” (bedtime story for kids).
Beyond that, there are various local channels which are usually privately owned and we can also access a bunch of channels from neighboring countries.
Which channel is on which number is up to every individual viewer; you can manually switch them around. Most people have SRF 1 and SRF 2 or their French/Italian counterparts on 1 and 2.
numbers – not really, but national TV programmes are transmitted on different frequencies (channels) in different places. There are 3 nationwide multiplexes:
LRT (public broadcaster) – 2 programmes in SD and HD:
LRTC1 – mostly commercial programmes:
Last year nationwide LRTC2 multiplex was introduced with Polish TV programmes, including Belarus-aimed Belsat:
TVP Info, TVP Historia 2, TVP Polonia, TVP Wilno, TVP World, Belsat TV
Regional TVs use their own sole channels as well as relay of LRT Lituanica, transmitted for Lithuanian diaspora in Poland, living just across the border.