List of fictional television stations

United States stations

ACN (Atlantis Cable Network) - a fictional news channel on the American HBO drama television series The Newsroom

Cable 10 (Aurora, Illinois) - Wayne's World/Wayne's World 2/Saturday Night Live (in "Wayne's World" sketches)

Channel 5 - Public access channel on Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job and Check It Out! with Dr. Steve Brule. Is in Los Angeles, California, as seen in the Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job episode "Choices".

Cable 54 - Fictional channel in Los Angeles from the 1988 movie They Live.

Channel 84 - Local TV station on the animated sitcom King of the Hill. Located in the fictional city of Arlen, Texas. Is definitely not a Fox station, as Fox is blocked in the Hill family's house, and they still watch Channel 84. Interestingly, the UHF band never went as high as 84, only as high as 83.

Canal Ocho (Channel 8) - The Simpsons (as Springfield-local Spanish language channel, operated by KBBL-TV 6)

CMGN (Carver Media Group Network) - a fictional cable news outlet operated by Bond villain Elliot Carver in the film Tomorrow Never Dies

EBC (Emergency Broadcasting Channel) - used in the Johnny Test episode "JTV"; also used as the name for the channel that cable systems use to show EBS and weather alerts

ESPN 8 - a.k.a. "The Ocho" (Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story)

Fashion Television (later renamed Fashion Buzz likely to reduce confusion with the actual Canadian series of the same name) - a cable channel featured in Ugly Betty

Federal Broadcasting Network - setting for Desk Set, starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy; establishing shots were of Rockefeller Center Plaza in New York

FUX NEWS 5 - News station seen in "Teenagers from Uranus: Sloppy Seconds" (2006).

GNN (Global News Network) - the subject of the film Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues

GNN (Gotham News Network) - unrelated to the above; seen in Christopher Nolan Batman films Batman Begins and The Dark Night; a rival station is also seen in some scenes, GCN (Gotham City News)

KBBL-TV (Channel 6) - The Simpsons (as Springfield local channel, presumably the area FOX affiliate)

KBEX radio (in film)

Birds of Prey

KBEX-TV (in film)

Dawn of the Dead (as a Milwaukee TV station)

Moving Violation

Runaway

KBEX-TV (in television)

Barnaby Jones

Brady Bunch

Cannon (in "Perfect Fit For A Frame")

Charlie's Angels

Columbo (Season 2, Episode 6)

Crazy Like a Fox (Channel 6, San Francisco)

Dante's Peak (Channel 5)

Emergency!

Here's Lucy (in "Milton Berle is the Life of the Party")

MacGyver (as TV and radio)

Mannix

Mission: Impossible

The Rockford Files (in "The No-Cut Contract")

Starsky & Hutch

The Streets of San Francisco (in "Flags of Terror")

$weepstake$ (Channel 6, Hollywood)

Walker, Texas Ranger

What's Happening!!

KFLW-TV - seen in Die Hard

KFUK (Phoenix, Arizona, Channel 7) - Used Cars

KGIM (Boise, Idaho) - Network; (Dallas, Texas) - Dallas (original TV series)

KGOD (Channel 17, formerly KRUD) - religious station in Pray TV (1980)

KIKA (Channel 13) - San Francisco TV station used in the Monk episode "Mr. Monk and the TV Star", first aired on January 30, 2004

KNRG - Los Angeles TV station used in Alien Nation: The Enemy Within, first aired November 12, 1995

KNSB (Los Angeles) - TV station used in Columbo episode "Candidate for a Crime", first aired on November 4, 1973

KPOV - Seattle, Washington - mentioned on Frasier in the episode "Frasier's Curse", first aired on October 1, 1998

KQRZ (Channel 4) - Los Angeles station on the TV show Adam-12 episode "Pickup", originally aired December 29, 1971

KRKW - "Action News" station in The Stand (1994 TV mini-series)

KSFF (channel 6) used in Mr. Monk and the Man Who Shot Santa Claus

KSXP (Channel 2) - Sacramento, California station featured in the movie The Ugly Truth

KTNS (Kansas City, Missouri) - Network

KVWN (Channel 4) - San Diego, California station featured in the movie Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

KXIW - Los Angeles station seen in several episodes of The Monkees (in some episodes as KXIU) and at least one episode of Gidget (both produced by Columbia Pictures' TV subsidiary Screen Gems)

NewsNet - cable network in The Second Civil War

PTV - Peter Griffin's TV network from a Family Guy episode of the same name

Q-USA - pirate television station in the comic book American Flagg!

SSSN (Super Secret Spy Network) - Phineas and Ferb

TRS-TV (Channel 5) - television station seen in the "No Mercy" level of Left 4 Dead

TVS (Seattle) - seen on iCarly

U-62 (Channel 62) - cross-town rival of fictional Channel 8 in UHF

WCGG (Atlanta, Georgia) - Network; probably named for its similarity to Ted Turner's then-WTCG, Atlanta; in the movie, a character speaks to the station via telephone and asks, "Are they yelling in Atlanta, Ted?"

Weazel News in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories and Grand Theft Auto IV; a parody of Fox News

WEBG - Starling City in Arrow; Gotham City in Gotham

WGJZ (Washington, DC) - local television station in the NCIS episode "House Rules"

WJM-TV (Channel 12) - Minneapolis, Minnesota station in The Mary Tyler Moore Show

WKS-TV (Channel 3) - Columbus, Ohio PBS station where Steven Keaton worked on Family Ties

WLUK - station namedropped on the Missouri Lottery game show Fun & Fortune, stated as broadcasting from Luckytown (a real station with this callsign exists in Green Bay, Wisconsin)

WNDY - short-lived TV series WIOU about the news department of a fictional television station whose actual callsign was WNDY, but which was nicknamed WIOU by its staff because of the station's financial struggles

WOHN (Channel 8) - Lima, Ohio station seen in Glee

WPBH (Channel 9) - the TV station in Pittsburgh that Bill Murray worked as a weatherman for in the movie Groundhog Day (1993)

WPBS-TV (Channel 13) - New York City station in National Lampoon's "Precious Broadcasting Service", a parody of PBS

WPIV (channel 3) - Charleston, South Carolina affiliate of the fictional RBS network in Special Bulletin; reference to WCIV, then the NBC affiliate in Charleston

WPIV-TV (Channel 8) - TV station seen in Newhart

WPIXL-TV - Pixley TV station seen and heard in Green Acres, co-owned with WPIXL radio

WQHG (Channel 5) - Quahog, Rhode Island station in Family Guy

WTRL (Channel 3) - New York City station seen in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and its sequel Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze

WTTQ (Channel 10) - television station in Riverside in Left 4 Dead; its existence is revealed by a news van seen in the town

WTVH Buffalo (Channel 5) - cross-town rival of WKBW-TV 7 Buffalo, New York in Bruce Almighty (2003) (a real station with this callsign and channel number exists in Syracuse, New York)

WURG-TV (News 9) - Pittsburgh news station and main setting in the FOX sitcom Back to You

WXIU-TV - TV station seen in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Hazel (in "Campaign Manager"), Bewitched (in "Remember the Main", s1/ep34 1965)

WXT (Channel 10) - New York City station on the TV show Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "October Surprise", originally aired October 23, 2013

WZDC-TV - TV station seen in Die Hard 2

ZNN - CNN-style news station in several Paramount Pictures productions, such as Seven Days, JAG, and NCIS; its biggest part has been in JAG, with several episodes taking place with ZNN (usually via reporter Stuart Dunston) helping, hindering, or reporting on events involving the main cast; it can be seen on the TVs in the background of the main offices in almost every episode of JAG and NCIS

Networks

√2 Television Network - Futurama

ABX - Roseanne

AMNN (AMN Network) - Doctor Who

BBN (Bikini Bottom News) - SpongeBob SquarePants

Channel 6 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

CNNBCBS (A division of ABC) - The Simpsons

CSC (Continental Sports Channel) - Sports Night

CTN News - The Powerpuff Girls Movie

Galaxy Broadcasting System (GBS) - a television network in various Superman stories by DC Comics

HBC - South Park

IBC - Scrooged

ICS - Running Man

Interstellar Network News - Babylon 5

NBS - Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

Network 23 - Max Headroom

RBS - Special Bulletin

UBC - The Barefoot Executive

UBS - America 2-Night

UIC Network - Archie Comics

Union Broadcasting System (UBS) - Network

World Wide News - How I Met Your Mother

United Kingdom stations

Broken News

Chanel 9 - a TV station from the fictional island dictatorship of Republicca featured in The Fast Show

EBC1 - in Emu's Broadcasting Company, a children's TV show 1975–80

KYTV - KYTV

Network 7 - a fictional satellite network used for a groundbreaking Channel 4 youth news programme

Network Six - a role-playing game

Outer Hebrides Broadcasting Corporation - a small-scale TV station in the Outer Hebrides, whose programmes are all performed by a single person named Highlander Angus in a small hut; featured in Naked Video

Rutland Weekend Television - a 1970s' sketch show written by Eric Idle; RWT was the United Kingdom's smallest television station for the country's smallest county

Troutbridge TV - a television station in Portsmouth that was the setting for the fifth series of The Navy Lark

VBBC - parody of BBC One and name parodying CBBC, on Phineas and Ferb

Mexico

Global News - in the TV series Los Exitosos Perez

RS News - in the TV series Los Exitosos Perez

Antarctica

Antarctica Television - spoof channel

Canada

The Canada Channel - South Park episode "Eat, Pray, Queef"

Channel 10 News - subject of the TV series E.N.G.

CIVIC-TV (Channel 83, Cable 12) - Videodrome, likely as a parody of the original CITY-TV 79 in Toronto

SCTV - a local TV channel and network based in Toronto, Ontario, from the Canadian and later U.S. packaged TV series SCTV

France

TVi - A fictional counterpart of TF1 in Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir

Vietnam

THFFFVN (Truyen Hinh Fun Fun Fun Viet Nam) - from episode 12 of STB comedy

Brazil

TV Salt Cover - a parody of Rede Globo on YouTube

International waters

WRAB - off-shore TV station in the Matt Howarth graphic novel WRAB: Pirate Television