television network
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telecommunications network for distribution of television program content
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- broadcast network
- Has parts of class
- television channel
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- topic's main category
- Category:Television networks
- Commons category
- Television channels
- different from
- television station
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- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
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A television broadcaster or television network is a telecommunications network for the distribution of television content, where a central operation provides programming to many television stations, pay television providers or, in the United States, multichannel video programming distributors. Until the mid-1980s, broadcast programming on television in most countries of the world was dominated by a small number of terrestrial networks. Many early television networks such as the BBC, CBC, PBS, PTV, NBC or ABC in the US and in Australia evolved from earlier radio networks.
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