How many public channels?

[Damien]

How many public channels are there where you live?

National,local,international?

In France,there are 5 national channels and that's all.For more you need to have the cable.
Here are they:
TF1, France2, France3, France5 and M6

When I lived in Switzerland,I had the 6 national channels,France 2,RAI 1(italian) and many german-speaking channels.

Here are the swiss channels i had:
SF1&SF2(swiss-german-speaking), TSR1&TSR2(swiss-french-speaking) and TSI1&TSI2(swiss-italian-speaking). I don't know if TV3 is swiss;I think it is.

 

[sysyphus]

Well,

On television CBC (Canada's equivalent of the BBC) broadcasts one regular channel in English and one in French (the French name is SRC for Societé Radio-Canada), both available nationwide. As well, it runs an all news station in each language as well, so there's four run by our federal government.

The province of Ontario also runs it's own network, again one English channel (TVO) and one French channel (TFO). Most of their programming is documentaries, children's entertainment and runs films geared toward film buffs.

I beleive most other provinces run public networks as well.

 

[Becka]

What? Like, publically funded channels? Is this just a European/Canadian thing?

 

[NY Hoya]

Networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, UPN, WB, PBS, Univision, Galavision. I believe all of these are available without cable.

Here in New York we also have several local "public access" channels, NY1, a local news channel, and a couple of foreign language channels. I'm not sure if they are available without cable.

With digital cable we have access to several hundred channels that require various levels of subscription. Basic digital gives access to about 150 channels.

EDIT: If you're talking about publicly funded channels those would be PBS, the public access channels (I think), and the C-SPan channels, which are only available on cable.

 

[amadeus]

We've got two PBS channels and one local channel (mostly used for religious programming.)

 

[sysyphus]

Originally posted by Becka
What? Like, publically funded channels? Is this just a European/Canadian thing?

That's what I thought was meant, we do have two private company national networks as well and I know that the maritime provinces have a regional network (ATV) which I beleive is also a private corporation.

I always thought the BBC was a government run network like the CBC, am I wrong on this?

 

[CornMaster]

There seem to be three meanings of public.

Public = Government run (CBC)
Public (2) = Funded by people (PBS)
Public (3) = Freely available (CBC, NTV)

In Newfoundland you can get 2 channels freely. CBC and NTV. You may also be able to pick up a community channel in Gander or St. Johns...

 

[amadeus]

I don't ever see NPR donation drives. I guess there's not enough support for the Socialist party to rake in the amount of money they'd need to keep themselves in business.

 

[Greadius]

Originally posted by NY Hoya
If you're talking about publicly funded channels those would be PBS, the public access channels (I think), and the C-SPan channels, which are only available on cable.

C-Span is paid for by the big, bad, evil cable corporations. http://www.c-span.org/ All 3 channels plus the radio station, 24/7 absolutely free. Best political programming available.

Their explanation:
"C-SPAN is a private, non-profit company, created in 1979 by the cable television industry as a public service. Our mission is to provide public access to the political process. C-SPAN receives no government funding; operations are funded by fees paid by cable and satellite affiliates who carry C-SPAN programming. "

Sounds perfect to me.

Originally posted by rmsharpe
I don't ever see NPR donation drives.

There was a big one about a month ago.
Its hard to stop laughing everytime they say 'quality programming'
Why is quality synonymous with boring in the realm of public tv?

 

[Hitro]

I guess he meant those who are avaible without cable or satellite, where I live there are eight, at least last time I checked, which is fortunately some time ago, thanks to cable.

State TV: ARD, ZDF and the Third Program, in my case the NDR
Private TV: RTL, Sat 1, Pro 7, VOX
Maybe that has changed now, but except for VOX they will certainly still be there.

 

[Zwelgje]

We've got three public channels (available via antenna) the rest is through cable, I've got 30 channels now of which about 10 strictly aimed at the dutch viewers.

 

[Xiahou-Dun]

Originally posted by Hitro
I guess he meant those who are avaible without cable or satellite,

IIRC (been something like 14 years since I had a antenna) I could get 4 channels, then run outside turn the antenna in a different direction and get 3 more.

First 4.

ABC, CBS, NBC and a local station up north.

The other three,

A different NBC station, and two local stations down south.

 

[Mikoyan]

Swedish channels: Kanal Ett, Kanal Två, Fyran, Femman, Z-TV, TV-6, TV-8
International: Cartoon Network, Hallmark, Extreme Sports, MTV, Discovery, Eurosport, BBC Prime, CNN, Horizont (Russian), TRT (Turkish), MBC (Pan-arabic) and Yle (Finnish)

 

[MrPresident]

England: BBC1, BBC2, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 (in most areas but not everywhere). All available with just a tv, aerial and license fee. There are of course a few free to view digital ones - Eurosport, BBC Choice, BBC4, ITV2, Paramount, MTv (and about 8 more music channels), discovery, history etc, TNT. There are more but I can't be bothered to write them all down.

 

[Ren]

Here in Australia there are 5: ABC, 7, NBN / WIN (same channel, different name in different parts of Au), Ten & SBS.

 

[Wolfe Tone]

I get the UK channels: BBC 1, BBC 2, ITV (UTV), Channel 4, Channel 5. I also get the Irish channels of RTE 1, Network 2, TV3 and TG4 (Irish language channel.) But I also have sky digital which costs alot more but there is a wide variety of channels

 

[Lefty Scaevola]

Around a half dozen PBS, goverment access, educational access, citizen access around here. And in the veiwwing area of between 1 and 2 million, their total adience (exculding PBS) is about a half a dozen veiwers. On thoses "access" cahnnels, there are more perople on them than veiwing them.