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
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
NIK Nickelodeon Network
NTA National Telefilm Associates
PAX Paxson Communications Corporation
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
CEN Central TV/Central Independent Television PLC
CRO Crossbow Films-FR3-Cinecom
EUS Euston Films
GRA Granada Television
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
AustraliaACT Australian Children's Television Foundation
AUS 10 Network Australia
Canada
CBC Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
CTV CTV Network Inc.
LTV Canadian Television
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.
