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This is a list of television channels that broadcast for a Swedish language audience.

Channels holding a broadcasting license for the terrestrial network are marked "(DTT)."

Public non-commercial networks

SVT

  • SVT1 (general) (DTT) (HD)
  • SVT2 (general) (DTT) (HD)
  • SVT24 (news, sports, reruns) (DTT)
  • Barnkanalen (children) (DTT)
  • Kunskapskanalen (educational) (DTT)
  • UR - public service educational programming, broadcasting in time slots allocated by SVT1 and SVT2
  • SVT World (international) terrestrial only in Finland

The public television channels are mostly funded by a license fee and broadcast free-to-air.

SVT has 12 regional news districts.

Swedish private commercial networks

These are privately owned television channels that are solely, or almost solely, directed at Sweden. Many such channels don't broadcast from Sweden, but nevertheless target a Swedish audience.

TV4 is the only commercial channel ever to have broadcast nationally in the Swedish analogue terrestrial network, but the arrival of digital terrestrial television saw the TV4 monopoly on commercial television broken.

TV4 Group

Viasat / MTG

SBS Discovery Media

Viacom International Media Networks Europe

Other

  • Axess TV (culture and information) - owned by Axel och Margaret Ax:son Johnsons stiftelse för allmännyttiga ändamål (DTT)
  • Kanal 10 (Christian) (DTT)
  • Fox (DTT) (HD)
  • Horse1 (DTT)
  • Kanal Global (DTT)

Regional terrestrial channels:

Pan-Nordic channels

These channels mostly target the Nordic countries. Most channels carry subtitles and/or audio in Swedish.

Viasat / MTG

TV4 Group

Turner Broadcasting System Europe

Disney–ABC Television Group

The video streams are pan-Nordic, but audio streams and subtitles are separate:

BBC Worldwide

Others

Pan-European channels

These are channels targeting all of Europe. This section may include virtually all channels available from any satellite that can be received in Sweden, but this list mostly concerns encrypted channels that are available from Swedish satellite distributors. Some have Swedish subtitles.

See also: Lists of television channels, List of television channels in Europe

Public access stations

Cable operators with more than 100 households are required by law to carry extra space for a local cable channel.

Defunct channels

Distributors

Television packages and distributors in Sweden:

Digital terrestrial:
Satellite:
Cable:
IPTV

See also

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