A snapshot of television in United Arab Emirates: how many channels there are, what kind, how busy each hour is, what fills it, how much is repeats.
10 kinds, from general down
Across every United Arab Emirates channel
then news 8%, then entertainment 7%
Today across 40 channels, the share of programmes in each genre at every hour, local time. Hover an hour to read it.
The weekly chart appears here as soon as its data is live.
669 channels
Every channel we list in United Arab Emirates, with its genre. Their listings, day by day, are in the API.
Showing 18 of 669. The full list, with every channel's id, is one call: /v1/countries/AE/channels.
In the API
Every United Arab Emirates channel and its day in a few calls, with the same ids every time. The free key reads yesterday across all of them.
/v1/countries/{cc}/channels lists every channel and its id/v1/countries/{cc}/schedule/{date} gives the whole country's day, 50 channels a page/v1/countries/{cc}/most-aired gives last week's chartcurl "https://api.tvschedule.org/v1/countries/AE/channels?limit=2" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $TVS_KEY"
{
"data": [
{
"name": "1 Baghdad",
"categories": []
},
{
"name": "1 أبوظبي الرياضية",
"categories": []
}
],
"meta": {
"count": 2
}
}Every country we list has the same snapshot. These are the deepest.
We list 669 United Arab Emirates channels, airing about 20,275 programmes a day between them.
Today, across 40 channels, 60% of programmes are repeats. The same episode shown again on the same channel the same day counts as a repeat; news, shopping and fillers are left out.
Yes. The TV Schedule API lists every channel and gives the whole country's day in pages of 50 channels. The free key reads yesterday; Live reads the week either side.