List of fictional television stations

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

United States local stations
 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".
 Channel 6 – New York City station where April O'Neil worked in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
 Channel 6 (The Simpsons) - Springfield's most popular TV channel and the main TV channel in The Simpsons series.
 Channel 6 ½ – The setting for a series of comedic sketches on the Nickelodeon variety show All That.
 Channel 8 
 Minneapolis, Minnesota station in The Mary Tyler Moore Show episode WJM Tries Harder
 San Francisco, California station where Danny Tanner and Rebecca Donaldson Katsopolis worked in Full House.
 Local TV station in the 1989 film UHF
 Canal Ocho (Channel 8) – The Simpsons (a Springfield-local Spanish language channel, operated by KBBL-TV 6)
 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
 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.
 FUX NEWS 5 – News station seen in "Teenagers from Uranus: Sloppy Seconds" (2006) and a parody of Fox News Channel.
 KBBL-TV (Channel 6) – The Simpsons (a Springfield local channel, presumably the area FOX affiliate)
 KBEX-TV (in film)
 Dawn of the Dead (as a Milwaukee TV station)
 Moving Violation
 Runaway
 KBEX-TV (in television)
 Barnaby Jones
 Brady Bunch
 Cannon (in "Perfect Fit For A Frame")
 Charlie's Angels
 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) 
 Walker, Texas Ranger
 What's Happening!!
 KEVW3 - is a television station in the film Dante's Peak.
 KFLW-TV – seen in Die Hard
 KFUK (Phoenix, Arizona, Channel 7) – Used Cars
 KGGY (Channel 8) – Denver, Colorado station in the 1991 Perry Mason TV movie The Case of the Ruthless Reporter
 KGIM (Boise, Idaho) – Network; (Dallas, Texas) – 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
 KLMN - a local TV station appeared in the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! episode "Don't Fool with a Phantom"
 KLVY (Channel 7) - is a television station in Henry Danger 
 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
 KQRZ (Channel 4) – Los Angeles station on the TV show Adam-12 episode "Pickup", originally aired December 29, 1971
 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"
 KSXP (Channel 2) – Sacramento, California station featured in the movie The Ugly Truth
 KTNS (Kansas City, Missouri) – Network
 KVKC (Channel 4) – Las Vegas, Nevada station which was featured in CSI:Crime Scene Investigation episode "Dead Air", originally aired January 16, 2013
 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
 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)
 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.
 Metro News 1 - a low-budget news station and recurrent location of How I Met Your Mother.  
 TRS-TV (Channel 5) – television station seen in the "No Mercy" level of Left 4 Dead
 TVS – Seattle, Washington station seen in iCarly
 U-62 (Channel 62) – The setting of the 1989 film UHF
 WBOR - Muncie, Indiana station in Garfield Goes Hollywood
 WCGG – Atlanta, Georgia station in the 1976 film Network
 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 (TV series)
 WGJZ – Washington, D.C. station in the NCIS episode House Rules
 WJM-TV (Channel 12) – Minneapolis, Minnesota station featured in The Mary Tyler Moore Show
 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
 Fictional TV station in the Mission: Impossible episode Takeover
 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 
 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
 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 Lampoons "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
 WPIV-TV (Channel 8) – TV station seen 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
 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 (2003) (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 WUSA (film)
 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)
 WXT (Channel 10) – New York City station on the TV show Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "October Surprise", originally aired October 23, 2013
 WYN-TV (Channel 11) - Boston, Massachusetts station seen in Goodnight, Beantown
 WZDC-TV – TV station seen in Die Hard 2 (a real station with this callsign exists in Washington, D.C.)

United States networks
  Television Network – Futurama
 ABX – Roseanne
 ACN (Atlantis Cable Network) – a fictional news channel on the American HBO drama television series The Newsroom
 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"
 BBN (Bikini Bottom News) – SpongeBob SquarePants
 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
 CMGN (Carver Media Group Network) – a fictional cable news outlet operated by Bond villain Elliot Carver in the film Tomorrow Never Dies
 CNN (Cave News Network) - a stone age counterpart of CNN seen in the 1994 film The Flintstones
 CNNBCBS (A division of ABC) – The Simpsons
 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 (Dingo Channel) - a kids' pay TV channel and a parody of Disney Channel seen in the iCarly episodes "iTake on Dingo" and "iToe Fat Cakes"
 DNN (Dinosaur News Network) - Dinosaurs
 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
 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)
 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. 
 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
 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
 Vyond
 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)
 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 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".
 HG Cooking Channel - from 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
 ICS – The Running Man
 Interstellar Network News – Babylon 5
 Kidnet - a kids' TV channel from Death to Smoochy
 MMN - a fictional cable news and the main setting of Great News 
 NBS
 Married With Children
 Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
 Network 23 – Max Headroom
 NewsNet – cable network in The Second Civil War
 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"
 PTV – Peter Griffin's TV network from a Family Guy episode of the same name
 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
 Sporty Penguin Entertainment Network (SPEN)  – Surf's Up
 Sunshine Network - a Christian television network from upcoming Filthy Rich TV series
 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 cable television network from 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"
 UBC – The Barefoot Executive
 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
 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.
 Weazel News – a news channel in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, Grand Theft Auto IV and Grand Theft Auto V; a parody of Fox News
 WHiH World News - a recurring news network in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
The Incredible Hulk
Iron Man 2
Fury's Big Week
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Daredevil
WHIH Newsfront
Jessica Jones
Luke Cage
Iron Fist
The Punisher
Runaways
 WNN 
 Fictional news outlet in the 1998 film Apocalypse
 CNN-style news network in Skybound.
 World Wide News – How I Met Your Mother
 XTZ TV – used in the Diana Ross music video Chain Reaction
 ZNN – a CNN-style news network, first seen in the second season of JAG; ZNN also appears in Hawaii Five-0, NCIS, Seven Days, and Blackout 2018 (Syfy) and Zootopia

United Kingdom
Broken News
Chanel 9 – a TV station from the fictional island dictatorship of Republicca featured in The Fast Show
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
GBTV - a fictional news channel featured in The Core (a real news channel exists in Los Angeles)
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
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
Troutbridge TV – a television station in Portsmouth that was the setting for The TV Lark, effectively the fifth series of The Navy Lark
VBBC – parody of BBC One and name parodying CBBC, seen in Phineas and Ferb
W&G TV - Wallace and Gromit's World of Invention

Mexico
 Global News – in the TV series Los Exitosos Perez
 RS News – in the TV series Los Exitosos Perez

Other countries

Antarctica
Antarctica Television – spoof channel

Canada
The Canada Channel – appears on the South Park episode "Eat, Pray, Queef"
CIVIC-TV (Channel 83): in the film Videodrome, a Toronto UHF station, likely a reference to real station CITY-TV.
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

France
Kidz+ - a children's television network seen in Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir
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

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

Japan
KTV (Home of the Digital Puppet News Team) – seen in The Simpsons episode "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo"

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

Brazil
TV Salt Cover – a parody of Rede Globo on YouTube
Parker TV - a fictional cable network from 2014 Brazilian telenovela Geração Brasil

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

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

See also
 List of fictional radio stations

References

External links

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