List of fictional television stations
This is a list of notable fictional television stations, including fictional television networks.
United States stations
- ACN (Atlantis Cable Network) - a fictional news channel on the American HBO drama television series The Newsroom
- Cable 10 (Aurora, Illinois) - Wayne's World/Wayne's World 2/Saturday Night Live (in "Wayne's World" sketches)
- Canal Ocho (Channel 8) - The Simpsons (as Springfield-local Spanish language channel, operated by KBBL-TV 6)
- CMGN (Carver Media Group Network) - a fictional cable news outlet operated by Bond villain Elliot Carver in the film Tomorrow Never Dies
- 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
- ESPN 8 - aka "The Ocho" (Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story)
- Fashion Television (later renamed Fashion Buzz) - a cable channel featured in Ugly Betty
- Federal Broadcasting Network - setting for Desk Set, starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy; establishing shots were of Rockefeller Center Plaza in New York
- GNN (Global News Network) - the subject of the film Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
- GNN (Gotham News Network) - unrelated to the above; 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)
- KBBL-TV (Channel 6) - The Simpsons (as Springfield local channel, presumably the area FOX affiliate)
- KBEX radio (in film)
- KBEX-TV (in film)
- Dawn of the Dead (as a Milwaukee TV station)[1]
- Moving Violation
- Runaway
- Scream 4
- KBEX-TV (in television)
- Barnaby Jones[2]
- Brady Bunch[3]
- Cannon (in "Perfect Fit For A Frame")
- Charlie's Angels[4]
- 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)[5]
- Walker, Texas Ranger[6]
- What's Happening!![7]
- KFLW-TV - seen in Die Hard
- KFUK (Phoenix, Arizona, Channel 7) - Used Cars
- KGIM (Boise, Idaho) - Network; (Dallas, Texas) - Dallas (original TV series)
- KGOD (Channel 17, formerly KRUD) - religious station in Pray TV (1980)
- KIKA (Channel 13) - San Francisco TV station used in the Monk episode "Mr. Monk and the TV Star", first aired on January 30, 2004
- 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)
- KSXP (Channel 2) - Sacramento, California station featured in the movie The Ugly Truth
- KTNS (Kansas City, Missouri) - Network
- KVWN (Channel 4) - San Diego, California station featured in the movie Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
- NewsNet - cable network in The Second Civil War
- 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!
- SSSN (Super Secret Spy Network) - Phineas and Ferb
- TRS-TV (Channel 5) - television station seen in the "No Mercy" level of Left 4 Dead
- TVS (Seattle) - seen on iCarly
- U-62 (Channel 62) - cross-town rival of fictional Channel 8 in UHF
- WCGG (Atlanta, Georgia) - Network; probably named for its similarity to Ted Turner's then-WTCG, Atlanta; in the movie, a character speaks to the station via telephone and asks, "Are they yelling in Atlanta, Ted?"
- Weazel News in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories and Grand Theft Auto IV; a parody of Fox News
- WEBG - Starling City in Arrow; Gotham City in Gotham
- WGJZ (Washington, DC) - local television station in the NCIS episode "House Rules"
- WJM-TV (Channel 12) - Minneapolis, Minnesota station in The Mary Tyler Moore Show
- WKS-TV (Channel 3) - Columbus, Ohio PBS station where Steven Keaton worked on Family Ties
- WNDY - short-lived TV series WIOU about the news department of a fictional television station whose actual callsign was WNDY, but which was nicknamed WIOU by its staff because of the station's financial struggles
- 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 Lampoon's "Precious Broadcasting Service", a parody of PBS
- 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
- WQHG (Channel 5) - Quahog, Rhode Island station in Family Guy
- 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
- WXIU-TV - TV station seen in Hazel (in "Campaign Manager"), Bewitched (in "Remember the Main", s1/ep34 1965)
- WXT (Channel 10) - New York City station on the TV show Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "October Surprise", originally aired October 23, 2013
- WZDC-TV - TV station seen in Die Hard 2
- ZNN - CNN-style news station in several Paramount Pictures productions, such as Seven Days, JAG, and NCIS; its biggest part has been in JAG, with several episodes taking place with ZNN (usually via reporter Stuart Dunston) helping, hindering, or reporting on events involving the main cast; it can be seen on the TVs in the background of the main offices in almost every episode of JAG and NCIS
Networks
- √2 Television Network - Futurama
- CSC (Continental Sports Channel) - Sports Night
- Galaxy Broadcasting System (GBS) - a television network in various Superman stories by DC Comics
- IBC - Scrooged
- Interstellar Network News - Babylon 5
- NBS - Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
- Network 23 - Max Headroom
- RBS - Special Bulletin
- UBC - The Barefoot Executive
- UBS - America 2-Night
- UIC Network - Archie Comics
- Union Broadcasting System (UBS) - Network
- World Wide News - How I Met Your Mother
United Kingdom stations
- Broken News
- Chanel 9 - a TV station from the fictional island dictatorship of Republicca featured in The Fast Show
- KYTV - KYTV
- Network 7 - a fictional satellite network used for a groundbreaking Channel 4 youth news programme
- Network Six - a role-playing game[8]
- 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
- 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 fifth series of The Navy Lark
- VBBC - parody of BBC One and name parodying CBBC, on Phineas and Ferb
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 - South Park episode "Eat, Pray, Queef"
- Channel 10 News - subject of the TV series E.N.G.
- CIVIC-TV (Channel 83, Cable 12) - Videodrome, likely as a parody of the original CITY-TV 79 in Toronto
- SCTV - a local TV channel and network based in Toronto, Ontario, from the Canadian and later U.S. packaged TV series SCTV
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
International waters
- WRAB - off-shore TV station in the Matt Howarth graphic novel WRAB - Pirate Television
See also
References
- ↑ "Dawn of the Dead (2004) : Goofs". IMDb.com. Retrieved 2015-09-04.
- ↑ "Barnaby Jones Season One". Actorbuddyebsen.info. Retrieved 2015-09-03.
- ↑ "The Brady Bunch - The Complete Fourth Season (1972-1973) TV on DVD Review". PopEntertainment.com. Retrieved 2015-09-03.
- ↑ "Charlie's Angels (an Episode Guide)". Epguides.com. 2005-06-27. Retrieved 2015-09-03.
- ↑ "Sweepstakes - TV Series - Cast & Credits - Listings - NYTimes.com". Tv.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2015-09-03.
- ↑ Toby O'B (2005-10-23). "Inner Toob: Universal Expansion". Toobworld.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2015-09-03.
- ↑ "Stock Footage | Sony Pictures Studios". Sonypicturesstockfootage.com. Retrieved 2015-09-03.
- ↑ Network Six
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