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Television broadcast stations (Country profile category: Communications) |
Afghanistan:
at least 10 (one government run central television station in Kabul and regional stations in nine of the 30 provinces; the regional stations operate on a reduced schedule; also, in 1997, there was a station in Mazar-e Sharif reaching four northern Afghanistan provinces) (1998)
Albania:
13 (1999)
Algeria:
18 (not including low-power stations) (1999)
American Samoa:
1 (1997)
Andorra:
0 (1997)
Angola:
7 (1999)
Anguilla:
1 (1997)
Antarctica:
1 (American Forces Antarctic Network-McMurdo) (1999)
Antigua and Barbuda:
2 (1997)
Argentina:
42 (plus 444 repeaters) (1997)
Armenia:
4 (1998)
Aruba:
1 (1997)
Australia:
104 (1997)
Austria:
51 (plus 920 repeaters) (1999)
Azerbaijan:
2 (1997)
Bahamas, The:
1 (1997)
Bahrain:
4 (1997)
Bangladesh:
15 (1999)
Barbados:
1 (plus two cable channels) (1997)
Belarus:
17 (1997)
Belgium:
24 (1997)
Belize:
2 (1997)
Benin:
2 (one privately-owned) (1997)
Bermuda:
3 (1997)
Bhutan:
0 (1997)
Bolivia:
48 (1997)
Bosnia and Herzegovina:
33 (plus 292 repeaters) (September 1995)
Botswana:
0 (1997)
Brazil:
138 (1997)
British Indian Ocean Territory:
1 (1997)
British Virgin Islands:
1 (plus one cable company) (1997)
Brunei:
2 (1997)
Bulgaria:
33 (1999)
Burkina Faso:
1 (1997)
Burma:
2 (1998)
Burundi:
1 (1999)
Cambodia:
5 (1999)
Cameroon:
1 (1998)
Canada:
80 (plus many repeaters) (1997)
Cape Verde:
1 (1997)
Cayman Islands:
NA
Central African Republic:
NA
Chad:
1 (1997)
Chile:
63 (plus 121 repeaters) (1997)
China:
3,240 (of which 209 are operated by China Central Television, 31 are provincial TV stations and nearly 3,000 are local city stations) (1997)
Christmas Island:
NA
Cocos (Keeling) Islands:
0 (1997)
Colombia:
60 (includes seven low-power stations) (1997)
Comoros:
0 (1998)
Congo, Democratic Republic of the:
20 (1999)
Congo, Republic of the:
1 (1999)
Cook Islands:
2 (plus eight low-power repeaters) (1997)
Costa Rica:
6 (plus 11 repeaters) (1997)
Cote d'Ivoire:
14 (1999)
Croatia:
36 (plus 321 repeaters) (September 1995)
Cuba:
58 (1997)
Cyprus:
Greek Cypriot area: 4 plus 225 low-power repeaters; Turkish Cypriot area: 4 plus 5 repeaters (September 1995)
Czech Republic:
102 (of which 35 are low power stations), plus about 500 repeaters (1988)
Denmark:
42 (plus 44 repeaters) (September 1995)
Djibouti:
1 (plus 5 low-power repeaters) (1998)
Dominica:
0 (however, there is one cable television company) (1997)
Dominican Republic:
25 (1997)
Ecuador:
15 (including one station on the Galapagos Islands) (1997)
Egypt:
51 (September 1995)
El Salvador:
5 (1997)
Equatorial Guinea:
1 (1997)
Eritrea:
1 (2000)
Estonia:
31 (plus five repeaters) (September 1995)
Ethiopia:
25 (1999)
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas):
2 (operated by the British Forces Broadcasting Service) (1997)
Faroe Islands:
7 (plus 51 low-power repeaters) (September 1995)
Fiji:
NA
Finland:
130 (plus 385 repeaters) (1995)
France:
574 (plus 9,634 repeaters) (1995)
French Guiana:
3 (plus eight low-power repeaters) (1997)
French Polynesia:
7 (plus 17 low-power repeaters) (1997)
Gabon:
4 (plus five low-power repeaters) (1997)
Gambia, The:
1 (government-owned) (1997)
Gaza Strip:
2 (operated by the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation) (1997)
Georgia:
12 (plus repeaters) (1998)
Germany:
9,513 (including repeaters) (1998)
Ghana:
11 (1999)
Gibraltar:
1 (plus three low-power repeaters) (1997)
Greece:
64 (plus about 1,000 low-power repeaters); also two stations in the US Armed Forces Network (1999)
Greenland:
1 publicly-owned station, some local low-power stations, and three AFRTS (US Air Force) stations (1997)
Grenada:
2 (1997)
Guadeloupe:
5 (plus several low-power repeaters) (1997)
Guam:
5 (1997)
Guatemala:
6 (plus 17 repeaters) (1997)
Guernsey:
1 (1997)
Guinea:
6 (1997)
Guinea-Bissau:
2 (1997)
Guyana:
3 (one public station; two private stations which relay US satellite services) (1997)
Haiti:
2 (plus a cable TV service) (1997)
Holy See (Vatican City):
1 (1996)
Honduras:
11 (plus 17 repeaters) (1997)
Hong Kong:
4 (plus two repeaters) (1997)
Hungary:
39 (plus several low-power stations) (1997)
Iceland:
14 (plus 156 low-power repeaters) (1997)
India:
562 (of which 82 stations have 1 kW or greater power and 480 stations have less than 1 kW of power) (1997)
Indonesia:
41 (1999)
Iran:
28 (plus 450 low-power repeaters) (1997)
Iraq:
13 (1997)
Ireland:
10 (plus 36 low-power repeaters) (1997)
Israel:
24 (plus 31 low-power repeaters) (1997)
Italy:
6,317 (of which only 117 have 2 kW or more of transmitter power) (1997)
Jamaica:
7 (1997)
Japan:
7,108 (plus 441 repeaters; note - in addition, US Forces are served by 3 TV stations and 2 TV cable services) (1999)
Jersey:
1 (1997)
Johnston Atoll:
commercial satellite television system, with 16 channels (1997)
Jordan:
8 (plus approximately 42 repeaters and 1 TV receive-only satellite link) (1999)
Kazakhstan:
12 (plus nine repeaters) (1998)
Kenya:
8 (1997)
Kiribati:
1 (1997)
Korea, North:
38 (1999)
Korea, South:
121 (plus 850 repeater stations and the eight-channel American Forces Korea Network) (1999)
Kuwait:
13 (plus several satellite channels) (1997)
Kyrgyzstan:
NA (repeater stations throughout the country relay programs from Russia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Turkey) (1997)
Laos:
4 (1999)
Latvia:
74 (1998)
Lebanon:
28 (1997)
Lesotho:
1 (2000)
Liberia:
2 (plus four low-power repeaters) (2000)
Libya:
12 (plus one low-power repeater) (1997)
Liechtenstein:
NA (linked to Swiss networks) (1997)
Lithuania:
82 (mainly repeater stations) (1998)
Luxembourg:
8 (1999)
Macau:
0 (receives Hong Kong broadcasts) (1997)
Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of:
136 (1997)
Madagascar:
1 (plus 36 repeaters) (1997)
Malawi:
1 (1999)
Malaysia:
27 (plus 15 high-power repeaters) (1999)
Maldives:
1 (1997)
Mali:
1 (plus two repeaters) (1997)
Malta:
6 (1999)
Man, Isle of:
0 (receives broadcasts from the UK and satellite) (1999)
Marshall Islands:
3 (of which two are US military stations) (1997)
Martinique:
11 (plus nine repeaters) (1997)
Mauritania:
1 (1997)
Mauritius:
2 (plus 11 repeaters) (1997)
Mayotte:
3 (1997)
Mexico:
236 (plus repeaters) (1997)
Micronesia, Federated States of:
2 (1997)
Moldova:
40 (1998)
Monaco:
5 (1997)
Mongolia:
1 (plus 18 provincial repeaters) (1997)
Montserrat:
1 (1997)
Morocco:
26 (plus 35 repeaters) (1997)
Mozambique:
1 (1997)
Namibia:
8 (plus about 20 low-power repeaters) (1997)
Nauru:
1 (1997)
Nepal:
6 (1998)
Netherlands:
15 (plus five low-power repeaters) (1997)
Netherlands Antilles:
3 (there is also a cable service which supplies programs received from various US satellite networks and two Venezuelan channels) (1997)
New Caledonia:
6 (plus 25 low-power repeaters) (1997)
New Zealand:
41 (plus 52 medium-power repeaters and over 650 low-power repeaters) (1997)
Nicaragua:
3 (plus seven low-power repeaters) (1997)
Niger:
10 (plus seven low-power repeaters) (1997)
Nigeria:
2 government-controlled; note - in addition, in 1993, 14 licenses to operate private television stations were granted (1999)
Niue:
1 (1997)
Norfolk Island:
1 (local programming station plus two repeaters that bring in Australian programs by satellite) (1998)
Northern Mariana Islands:
1 (on Saipan and one station planned for Rota; in addition, two cable services on Saipan provide varied programming from satellite networks) (1997)
Norway:
209 (1997)
Oman:
13 (plus 25 low-power repeaters) (1999)
Pakistan:
22 (plus seven low-power repeaters) (1997)
Palau:
1 (1997)
Panama:
9 (plus 17 repeaters) (1997)
Papua New Guinea:
3 (1997)
Paraguay:
10 (1997)
Peru:
13 (plus 112 repeaters) (1997)
Philippines:
31 (1997)
Pitcairn Islands:
0 (1997)
Poland:
150 (1997)
Portugal:
36 (plus 62 repeaters) (1997)
Puerto Rico:
18 (plus three stations of the US Armed Forces Radio and Television Service) (1997)
Qatar:
2 (plus three repeaters) (1997)
Reunion:
22 (plus 18 low-power repeaters) (1997)
Romania:
130 (plus about 400 low-power repeaters) (1997)
Russia:
7,349 (1996)
Rwanda:
2 (1997)
Saint Helena:
0 (1997)
Saint Kitts and Nevis:
1 (plus three repeaters) (1997)
Saint Lucia:
3 (of which two are commercial stations and one is a community antenna television or CATV channel) (1997)
Saint Pierre and Miquelon:
0 (there are, however, two repeaters which rebroadcast programs from France, Canada, and the US) (1997)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines:
1 (plus three repeaters) (1997)
Samoa:
6 (1997)
San Marino:
1 (San Marino residents also receive broadcasts from Italy) (1997)
Sao Tome and Principe:
2 (1997)
Saudi Arabia:
117 (1997)
Senegal:
1 (1997)
Serbia and Montenegro:
more than 771 (including 86 strong stations and 685 low-power stations, plus 20 repeaters in the principal networks; also numerous local or private stations in Serbia and Vojvodina) (1997)
Seychelles:
2 (plus 9 repeaters) (1997)
Sierra Leone:
2 (1999)
Singapore:
4 (1997)
Slovakia:
41 (1998)
Slovenia:
23 (plus about 400 low-power repeaters) (1997)
Solomon Islands:
0 (1997)
Somalia:
1 (1997)
South Africa:
556 (plus 144 network repeaters) (1997)
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands:
0 (1997)
Spain:
228 (plus 2,112 repeaters); note - these figures include 11 television broadcast stations and 89 repeaters in the Canary Islands (September 1995)
Sri Lanka:
21 (1997)
Sudan:
3 (1997)
Suriname:
3 (plus seven repeaters) (1997)
Svalbard:
NA
Swaziland:
2 (plus seven repeaters) (1997)
Sweden:
163 (1997)
Switzerland:
108 (1997)
Syria:
54 (of which 36 are low-power and repeater stations) (1997)
Tajikistan:
0 (there are, however, repeaters that relay programs from Russia, Iran, and Turkey) (1997)
Tanzania:
3 (1999)
Thailand:
5 (all in Bangkok; plus 131 repeaters) (1997)
Togo:
3 (plus two repeaters) (1997)
Tokelau:
NA
Tonga:
1 (1997)
Trinidad and Tobago:
4 (1997)
Tunisia:
19 (plus some low power stations) (1997)
Turkey:
69 (plus 476 low-power repeaters) (1997)
Turkmenistan:
3 (much programming relayed from Russia and Turkey) (1997)
Turks and Caicos Islands:
0 (broadcasts from The Bahamas are received; cable television is established) (1997)
Tuvalu:
0 (1997)
Uganda:
8 (plus one low-power repeater) (1999)
Ukraine:
at least 33 (plus 21 repeater stations that relay broadcasts from Russia) (1997)
United Arab Emirates:
15 (1997)
United Kingdom:
78 (plus 869 repeaters) (1997)
United States:
more than 1,500 (including nearly 1,000 stations affiliated with the five major networks - NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX, and PBS; in addition, there are about 9,000 cable TV systems) (1997)
Uruguay:
26 (plus ten low-power repeaters for the Montevideo station) (1997)
Uzbekistan:
4 (plus two repeater stations that relay Russian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, and Tadzhik programs) (1997)
Vanuatu:
1 (1997)
Venezuela:
66 (plus 45 repeaters) (1997)
Vietnam:
at least 7 (plus 13 repeaters) (1998)
Virgin Islands:
2 (1997)
Wake Island:
0 (1997)
Wallis and Futuna:
2 (1997)
West Bank:
NA
Western Sahara:
NA
World:
NA
Yemen:
7 (plus several low-power repeaters) (1997)
Zambia:
9 (1997)
Zimbabwe:
16 (1997)
Taiwan:
29 (plus two repeaters) (1997)