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The standard broadcast television season in the United States consists of 22 episodes (which are typically broadcast over a period of nine months from September to May, depending on the date on which the program begins its season), although prior to the 1970s, a single season of a weekly television program consisted of as many as 40 episodes ...
List of Canadian stations available in the United States; List of United States over-the-air television networks; List of TV markets and major sports teams; List of the Caribbean television channels; Lists of television stations in North America; List of radio stations in North America by media market; U.S. broadcast television template
of which 209 are operated by China Central Television, 31 are provincial TV stations, and nearly 4,000 are local city stations: 2017 - European Union: 3,700: sum of individual country television broadcast stations excluding repeaters. 1995 3 United States: 2,761: 2017 4 India: 868 [1] 2018 5 United Kingdom: 1,822: plus 7,902 repeaters: 2011 6 ...
Ion Television – Ion Television (originally known as Pax TV from 1998 to 2005, i: Independent Television from 2005 to 2007) is a mid-sized network owned by the Scripps Networks subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company; it airs off-network repeats of recent television series (usually a daily block of one series) for eighteen hours per day ...
In most countries, the public broadcasters were the only television services available until the 1980s. These were usually funded by the state or a television license, but many countries have eventually adopted advertising in the public channels. The United Kingdom was an early adopter of private television, launching the ITV network in 1955 ...
Cable television first became available in the United States in 1948. [1] By 1989, 53 million U.S. households received cable television subscriptions, [2] with 60 percent of all U.S. households doing so in 1992. [3]
Currently, the total number of television stations owned by any company (including a television network) can only reach a maximum of 39% of all U.S. households; [1] in the past, the ownership limit was much lower, and was determined by a specific number of television stations rather than basing the limits on total market coverage.
The PBS Companion: A History of Public Television. New York: TV Books. ISBN 978-1575000503. Ledbetter, James (1997). Made Possible By...: The Death of Public Broadcasting in the United States. New York: Verso. ISBN 978-1859849040. Engelman, Ralph (1996). Public Radio and Television in America: A Political History. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE ...