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.
10 kinds, from sports down
Across every US channel
then drama 12%, then children 9%
Today across 39 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.
8,632 channels
Every channel we list in United States, with its genre. Their listings, day by day, are in the API.
Showing 99 of 8,632. The full list, with every channel's id, is one call: /v1/countries/US/channels.
In the API
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 chartcurl "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
}
}Every country we list has the same snapshot. These are the deepest.
We list 8,632 US channels, airing about 568,847 programmes a day between them.
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.
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.