A snapshot of television in China: 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 China channel
then entertainment 2%, then sport 0%
Today across 46 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.
1,383 channels
Every channel we list in China, with its genre. Their listings, day by day, are in the API.
Showing 8 of 1,383. The full list, with every channel's id, is one call: /v1/countries/CN/channels.
In the API
Every China 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/CN/channels?limit=2" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $TVS_KEY"
{
"data": [
{
"name": "1905环球经典",
"categories": []
},
{
"name": "3D电视试验频道",
"categories": []
}
],
"meta": {
"count": 2
}
}Every country we list has the same snapshot. These are the deepest.
We list 1,383 China channels, airing about 26,566 programmes a day between them.
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.