A snapshot of television in Canada: how many channels there are, what kind, how busy each hour is, what fills it, how much is repeats.
10 kinds, from music down
Across every Canada channel
then news 14%, then entertainment 13%
Today across 45 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.
2,155 channels
Every channel we list in Canada, with its genre. Their listings, day by day, are in the API.
Showing 47 of 2,155. The full list, with every channel's id, is one call: /v1/countries/CA/channels.
In the API
Every Canada 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/CA/channels?limit=2" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $TVS_KEY"
{
"data": [
{
"name": "3ABN Canada Network",
"categories": []
},
{
"name": "441 SUPER SPORTS",
"categories": []
}
],
"meta": {
"count": 2
}
}Every country we list has the same snapshot. These are the deepest.
We list 2,155 Canada channels, airing about 71,466 programmes a day between them.
Today, across 45 channels, 52% 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.