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US TV channels

8,632 US channels, and how US TV fills its day

A snapshot of television in United States: how many channels there are, what kind, how busy each hour is, what fills it, how much is repeats.

8,632 channels568,847 programmes a dayAmerica/New_York
A day of US TVprogrammes on air, today
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Channels
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10 kinds, from sports down

Programmes today
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Across every US channel

Repeat share today
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Biggest genre
Other57% of programmes

then drama 12%, then children 9%

What fills US TV, hour by hour

Today across 39 channels, the share of programmes in each genre at every hour, local time. Hover an hour to read it.

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NewsDramaFactualEntertainmentSportComedyChildrenFilmSoapOther

Most aired in the US

The weekly chart appears here as soon as its data is live.

Channels by genre

8,632 channels

sports
160
series
151
movies
132
entertainment
116
kids
57
news
55
documentary
46
religious
32
comedy
32
general
25

US channels A to Z

Every channel we list in United States, with its genre. Their listings, day by day, are in the API.

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Showing 32 of 8,632. The full list, with every channel's id, is one call: /v1/countries/US/channels.

In the API

The US as data

Every US 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 chart
curl "https://api.tvschedule.org/v1/countries/US/channels?limit=2" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $TVS_KEY"

{
    "data": [
        {
            "name": "00s Replay",
            "categories": [
                "movies"
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "21 Jump Street",
            "categories": [
                "series"
            ]
        }
    ],
    "meta": {
        "count": 2
    }
}

Other countries

Every country we list has the same snapshot. These are the deepest.

Questions about US TV channels

How many TV channels are there in the US?

We list 8,632 US channels, airing about 568,847 programmes a day between them.

How much of US TV is repeats?

Today, across 39 channels, 5% 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.

Can I get every US channel's listings as data?

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.