United States

A&E 	Arts & Entertainment Channel
ABC 	American Broadcasting Company
ABF 	ABC Family
ANI	Animal Planet
CBS 	Columbia Broadcasting System
COM 	Comedy Central
CW 	New Network formed by merging UPN and WB in 2006
DIS	Disney Cable Channel
DSC 	Discovery Channel
DSK	Discovery Kids Channel
DUM	Dumont Broadcasting Company (Defunct)
E! 	Entertainment Television
FAM	The Family Channel 
FFC	The Fox Family Channel
FOX	Fox Broadcasting Company
HAL 	Hallmark Channel
HBO 	Home Box Office Cable Network
NBC	National Broadcasting Company
NiIK 	Nickelodeon Network
NTA	National Telefilm Associates
PAX	Paxson Communications Corporation (Defunct- now ION)
PBS 	Public Broadcasting System
SHO 	Showtime Cable Network
SPK 	Spike TV, the First Network for Men
SYN	Syndicated
TBS 	Turner Broadcasting Company
TNN	The Nashville Network (Changed
	 their name to The National Network in 2000. In 2003 
	TNN was renamed Spike TV, the First Network for Men)
TRU 	Tru Television - as of 2008 (Formerly Court TV)
UPN   	United Paramount Network (Defunct 20006 See "CW")
USA 	USA Cable Network
WB	Warner Brothers Network (Defunct 2006 See "CW")
	
United Kingdom
                
A-R	Associated Rediffusion	
ABP	Associated British Picture Corporation (ABC) 
ANG	Anglia TV	
BBC	British Broadcasting Corporation
C4	Channel Four Television
CAR	Carlton Television (ITV1 since 2002)
CEN	Central TV/Central Independent Television (Now ITV Central)
CRO	Crossbow Films-FR3-Cinecom
EUS	Euston Films  (Now Talk Back Thames)
GRA  	Granada Television (Now ITV Granada)
GUI	Guild Films
HAM	Hammer Films
HTV	Harlech Television
ITC	Independent Television Corp.
LWT	London Weekend Television
NIP	National Interest Picture Prod.
SOU	Southern TV
STV	Scottish TV
THA	Thames Television
TTV	Tyne Tees TV
TVS	Television South
YTV	Yorkshire TV

Australia

ACT	Australian Children's Television Foundation 
AUS 	10 Network Australia
	
Canada

CBC	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
CTV  	CTV Network Inc.
TVO	TV Ontario
YTC	YTV, Canada’s Leading Youth Network

When the title of a TV show is given in this database, 
it will contain the Network on which it appeared and the
Year(s) it ran on television. For example:

THE INCREDIBLE HULK/CBS/1978-82

NOTE: This is not a complete list of all network abbreviation used
in the US, Britain and Australia. It is just a list of abbreviations from
the shows chronicled in the TV ACRES database.