A snapshot of television in Zimbabwe: how many channels there are, what kind, how busy each hour is, what fills it, how much is repeats.
3 kinds, from entertainment down
Across every Zimbabwe channel
then sport 21%, then entertainment 17%
Today across 14 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.
14 channels
Every channel we list in Zimbabwe, with its genre. Their listings, day by day, are in the API.
Showing 14 of 14. The full list, with every channel's id, is one call: /v1/countries/ZW/channels.
In the API
Every Zimbabwe 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/ZW/channels?limit=2" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $TVS_KEY"
{
"data": [
{
"name": "3Ktv",
"categories": [
"entertainment"
]
},
{
"name": "BET",
"categories": []
}
],
"meta": {
"count": 2
}
}Every country we list has the same snapshot. These are the deepest.
We list 14 Zimbabwe channels, airing about 2,651 programmes a day between them.
Today, across 14 channels, 28% 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.