List of fictional television stations

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

United States stations

• 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)
• 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 (some system can force your cable box to tune to it and the box may EBS at that time)
• ESPN 8 - aka called 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
• KBBL-TV (Channel 6) - The Simpsons (as Springfield local channel, presumably the area FOX affiliate)
• KBEX-TV (in film):
  • Dawn of the Dead (as Milwaukee TV station)
  • Moving Violation
  • Runaway
• KBEX-TV (in television):
  • Barnaby Jones
  • Brady Bunch
  • Charlie's Angels
  • Crazy Like a Fox (Channel 6, San Francisco)
  • Dante's Peak (Channel 5)
  • Emergency!
  • MacGyver (as TV and radio)
  • Mission: Impossible
  • Starsky & Hutch
  • $weepstake$ (Channel 6, Hollywood)
  • Walker, Texas Ranger
  • What's Happening!!
• KFUK (Phoenix, Arizona, Channel 7) - Used Cars
• KGIM (Boise, Idaho) - Network
• KGOD - Religious station in Pray TV (1980)
• 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 an episode of the same name.
• 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) TV station seen on iCarly
• U-62 (Channel 62) - Cross-town rival to fictional Channel 8 in UHF
• WCGG (Atlanta, Georgia) - Network
• WJM-TV (Channel 12) - Minneapolis, Minnesota station in The Mary Tyler Moore Show
• 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 on Glee
• WPBH (Channel 9) - The TV Station Bill Murray works 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
• 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 to WKBW-TV 7 Buffalo, New York in Bruce Almighty (2003). (A real station with this callsign exists in another city.)
• WURG-TV (News 9) - Pittsburgh news station and main setting in the FOX sitcom Back to You
• ZNN - Fictional 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 and can be seen on the TVs in the background of the main offices in almost every episode of JAG and NCIS.
• Weazel News In Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories and Grand Theft Auto IV a parody of Fox News.

Networks

• Interstellar Network News - Babylon 5
• NBS - Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
• Network 23 - Max Headroom
• RBS - Special Bulletin
• UBC - The Barefoot Executive
• Union Broadcasting System (UBS) - Network
• UIC Network]Archie Comics
• √2 Television Network - Futurama

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-play game
• 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 BBC1 and name parodying CBBC - Phineas and Ferb

Mexico stations

• Global News
• RS News

in the TV Series Los Exitosos Perez

• TV 3

in the TV Series Camaleones

• Mex Noticias
• Info TV

in the webseries El Talisman

Other countries

Antarctica

• Antarctica Television - Spoof channel for the British Antarctic Territory

Canada

• CIVIC-TV (Channel 83, Cable 12) - Videodrome
• The Canada Channel - South Park episode Eat, Pray, Queef

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

See also

• List of fictional companies
• List of fictional radio stations