TV Station

An organization which distributes telecasts. The programs are purchased from a production company in many cases.

Major U.S. TV Stations

Commercial Broadcasting

National	ABC CBS The CW FOX NBC

Public Broadcasting

Public broadcasting	PBS

Cable/Satellite Broadcasting

Basic Cable	AMC (American Movie Classics) Cartoon Network Adult Swim Toonami CNN (Cable News Network) MTV Nickelodeon
Extended Cable	The Hub
Premium Cable	Cinemax HBO (Home Box Office) Showtime Starz

Major British TV Stations

Public Broadcasting

Public broadcasting	BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation)

Commercial Broadcasting

Commercial Broadcasting	Channel 4 Channel 5 ITV

Major Canadian TV Stations

Public Broadcasting

Public broadcasting	CBC

Commercial Broadcasting

CTV
Global

Major Japanese TV Stations

See Japanese TV Stations.

In Japanese television broadcasting, the public broadcaster NHK operates nationwide, while commercial broadcasters are granted broadcasting licences for each region and prefecture. The commercial TV stations in each prefecture together form a wide-area news network and several network affiliates have been build up.

This section shows representative commercial stations of each network from the Greater Tokyo Area and the Greater Kansai Area.

Public Broadcasting

Public broadcasting	NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation)

Commercial Broadcasting

Commercial Broadcasting	Nippon TV / Yomiuri TV as Nippon News Network (NNN) TBS Television (Tokyo Broadcasting System Television) / MBS TV (Mainichi Broadcasting System Television) as Japan News Network (JNN) TV Asahi / Asahi Broadcasting Corporation as All-Nippon News Network (ANN) Fuji TV / Kansai TV as Fuji News Network (FNN) TV Tokyo / TV Osaka as TX Network (TXN)