Tim's Worldwide Live Television List
(That Doesn't Suck)



Copyright ©2001 Tim Vasquez

I created this directory because all of the Internet TV directories I've seen STINK - wasting time by abandoning you on foreign pages with no video content, hijacking your browser window, hiding link URLs, storing outdated sites, catering to only one video format, and so forth. When I want to take a look at foreign TV, I certainly don't need this, and neither do you! So I hope you enjoy this list. Tune in and see what's out there!

My criteria for putting a site here is that it is a simulcast (no recorded or "cleaned up" media) and that it serves a large on-air or cable audience in its home country (no netcasts). I have linked directly to the video feed of each station. I have also annotated what I've seen when I viewed the feed, so there may be other programming I haven't noted. When you see [H] clicking there will take you to the regular web site belonging to the station. The (SS) symbol means RealAudio SureStream, which I like quite a bit because it automatically adjusts the media to fit the bandwidth. Q=Quicktime, R=RealVideo, W=Windows Media, S=Slow (modem), F=Fast (DSL).

Interestingly I have found NO regular TV stations in Australia or Japan (not counting specialized or cable stations). Isn't that odd? I haven't included U.S. stations yet but will soon.


Angola
  • TPA -- Variety. Perhaps the only live video out of the heart of Africa. Even SureStream can't save the spotty network connection. (SS) [H]
    Australia
  • The Basement -- 24 hr music (WS) WF QS QF [H]
    Austria
  • TW1 -- morning cooking show, sports, commercials (after intro ad) (SS) [H]
    Azerbaijan
  • AzTV-1 -- talk show, cultural music, budget dramas (bandwidth leaves some to be desired) [H]
    Bolivia
  • ATB (video feed problems) [H]
    Bosnia
  • Domovina -- music, cartoons, sports, variety [H]
    Brazil
  • Agencia Brasil -- government television (off air at night) [H]
  • Amazon Sat -- had a weird show about alligators (off air at night) [H]
    Bulgaria
  • MM TV -- music videos (video is fine; audio is static) [H]
    Canada
  • Pulse 24 Toronto -- cable news station for Toronto. News subjects. (WS) WF [H]
  • CPAC -- Canada's Political Channel. Parliament, etc. [H]
  • CTV News -- national news, commercials (SS) [H]
  • Toronto Star TV -- infomercials [H]
  • CTV Vancouver -- RECORDED NEWSCAST [H]
    Chile
  • Television Nacional de Chile -- music documentaries [H]
    China
  • CTV -- news program, talk show [H]
    Colombia
  • Caracol TV -- comedy, variety [H]
    Croatia
  • Hrvatska Radiotelevizija Real WM/slow -- educational programming [H]
    Cyprus
  • Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation (Greek) [live link] [H]
    Dominican Republic
  • Colorvision 9 -- music videos, educational programming [H]
  • El Noticiero 6 [H]
    Germany
  • Bayerischer Rundfunk BR-Alpha" -- documentary about WWII [H]
  • Deutsche Welle -- (English international broadcast) [H]
  • N24 -- 24 hour news (RF) [H]
  • Viva TV -- music videos (RF) [H]
    Georgia
  • Georgia Channel 1 -- educational for kids (was down Sunday) [H]
    Greece
  • Alter Channel -- music videos [H]
  • Viasat 3 -- news [H]
  • Mad TV -- UNUSUAL MEDIA FORMAT [H]
    Hungary
  • Magyar ATV -- major video problems [H]
  • SatElit -- music videos [H]
    India
  • New Delhi TV -- political coverage [H]
    Iran
  • IRNA Ch1 -- news, religious topics [H]
  • IRNA Ch3 -- sports, exercise (saw an instructor wearing Nike shoes.. how ironic!) [H]
  • IRNA News (English) -- pre-recorded broadcast for Western broadcast [H]
    Iraq
  • Iraq Satellite Channel -- offline in morning, interesting propaganda musicals, etc [H]
    Ireland
  • ETronik -- music videos [H]
    Korea
  • EBS -- educational [H]
  • KBS1 -- cultural (RA) [H]
  • KBS2 -- game show (RA) [H]
  • MBS -- business [H]
  • MKS -- business [H]
  • Pusan Broadcasting Company (PSB) -- soaps (high quality feed) [H]
  • YTN -- 24 hour news 200K feed (slow) [H]
    Malta
  • Super One -- variety programming [H]
    Mexico
  • Milenio Canal 12 Mexico City -- wrestling [H]
    Netherlands
  • Omroep Zeeland -- news [H]
    Palestine
  • PSCTV -- drama, no audio [H]
    Peru
  • AmericaTV -- variety, commercials [H]
  • Panamericana Television -- commercials [H]
    Qatar
  • Aljazeera -- the premier Arabic news channel [H]
    Romania
  • Televizilinea Romana -- homemaking show [H]
  • ProTV -- talk show (bandwidth is pretty sad) [H]
    Russia
  • TV3 -- music video station, highly Westernized, servers often overloaded [H]
  • Russian InfoCenter -- drama [H]
  • TV Center -- variety [H]
    Saudi Arabia
  • Saudi TV -- prayers (SS) [H]
    Singapore
  • ChannelNewsAsia (CNA) -- (English) news, commercials [H]
    Slovenia
  • ATM TV -- cable TV bulletin board with Slovenian rock music [H]
  • TevePika -- highly Western (mostly English) music videos (SS) [H]
    Spain
  • Television de Galicia -- variety shows [H]
  • TeleMadrid -- off air in morning [H]
    Suriname
  • ATV -- was broadcasting CNN-I [H]
    Switzerland
  • TeleBasel -- variety, commercials (SS) [H]
    Taiwan
  • CTS -- variety shows [H]
  • GoodTV -- religious (kind of upbeat) [H]
    Thailand
  • ITV -- news [H]
  • MCOT -- commercials (poor bandwidth) [H]
    Tunisia
  • La Television Tunisienne -- comedy, commercials (some signal distortion) (SS) [H]
    Turkey
  • ATV Canli Yayini -- infomercial [H]
  • TRT (State Television) -- family programming, cartoons [H]
    United Kingdom
  • BBC International -- 24 hour news [H]
    Venezuela
  • Televen -- drama (dubbed American shows) [H]
  • RCTV -- drama (dubbed American shows) [H (do they know it's offline?)]
  • Globovision -- news [H]

    Please send corrections and additions to tim-tv@weathergraphics.com.


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