List of television stations in Sweden
This is a list of television channels that broadcast for a Swedish language audience.
Channels holding a broadcasting license for the terrestrial network are marked "(DTT)."
Public non-commercial networks[]
SVT[]
- SVT1 (News) (DTT)
- SVT2 (general) (DTT)
- SVT24 (news, sports, reruns) (DTT)
- SVT Barn (children) (DTT)
- Kunskapskanalen (educational) (DTT)
The public television channels are mostly funded by a license fee and broadcast free-to-air.
SVT has 21 local news districts.
Swedish private commercial networks[]
These are privately owned television channels that are solely, or almost solely, directed at Sweden. Many such channels don't broadcast from Sweden, but nevertheless target a Swedish audience.
TV4 is the only commercial channel ever to have broadcast nationally in the Swedish analogue terrestrial network, but the arrival of digital terrestrial television saw the TV4 monopoly on commercial television broken.
TV4 AB[]
- TV4 (general entertainment) (DTT) (HD)
- Sjuan (general entertainment) (DTT)
- (DTT) (HD)
- TV4 Film (movies) (DTT)
- TV4 Fakta (documentaries) (DTT)
- TV4 Guld ("classic" programming)
- C More Sport (sports) (DTT)
Nordic Entertainment Group[]
- TV3 (general entertainment) (DTT) (HD)
- TV6 (entertainment) (DTT) (HD)
- TV8 (news and documentaries) (DTT)
- TV10 (sport and documentaries) (DTT)
- V Sport (HD)
- V Sport Football (HD)
- V Sport Hockey
Discovery Communications Nordic[]
- Kanal 5 (entertainment) (DTT) (HD)
- Kanal 9 (entertainment) (DTT) (HD)
- Kanal 11 (entertainment, formerly TV400) (DTT)
- Discovery Channel Sweden (documentaries) (DTT)
- TLC Sweden (lifestyle) (DTT)
ViacomCBS Networks EMEAA[]
- Comedy Central Sweden (DTT)
- MTV Sweden (music/entertainment) (DTT)
- Nickelodeon Sweden (children) (DTT)
- Nick Jr. (DTT)
- Nicktoons (DTT)
- VH1 (DTT)
Other[]
- Axess TV (culture and information) - owned by Axel och Margaret Ax:son Johnsons stiftelse för allmännyttiga ändamål (DTT)
- Fox (DTT) (HD)
Regional terrestrial channels:
- Kanal 12 (DTT)
Pan-Nordic channels[]
These channels mostly target the Nordic countries. Most channels carry subtitles and/or audio in Swedish.
Nordic Entertainment Group[]
- V Film Premiere (movies) (HD)
- V Film Action (HD) - previously known as
- V Film Hits (HD)
- V Film Family (HD)
- V Sport Golf (HD)
- V Sport Hockey (HD)
- V Sport Motor (HD)
Viasat World[]
- Viasat History (documentaries) (HD)
- Viasat Nature (documentaries) (HD)
- Viasat Explore (documentaries) (HD)
TV4 Group[]
- C More First (HD) (movies) (DTT, HD partial)
- C More Hits (HD) (DTT, partial)
- C More Series (HD)
- (DTT, partial) (HD)
- C More Hockey (DTT, partial)
- (DTT, partial)
- SF-kanalen
Turner Broadcasting System Europe[]
- Boomerang (Nordic), Swedish audio
- Cartoon Network Nordic, Swedish audio (DTT, partial)
- Showtime Scandinavia, Swedish subtitles (movies) (DTT, partial)
- Silver, Swedish subtitles (movies) (DTT)
- , Swedish subtitles (movies)
- Star! Scandinavia, Swedish subtitles (entertainment news) (DTT)
- TCM Nordic, Swedish subtitles (DTT, partial)
- TNT (Sweden), Swedish subtitles (general entertainment) (DTT)
BBC Worldwide[]
- , Swedish subtitles
- BBC HD Scandinavia, Swedish subtitles
- , Swedish subtitles
- , Swedish subtitles
Others[]
- Animal Planet HD
- Animal Planet Nordic, Swedish subtitles (DTT)
- CNBC Nordic
- Eurosport, Swedish audio (DTT)
- Eurosport 2, Swedish audio (DTT)
- Hope Channel Sverige (religious)
- , Swedish subtitles
- National Geographic Channel Scandinavia, Swedish subtitles (DTT)
- Hallmark Channel Scandilux, Swedish subtitles
- , Swedish subtitles
- The History Channel Scandinavia, Swedish subtitles
- (religious)
- (home shopping)
- (home shopping)
Pan-European channels[]
These are channels targeting all of Europe. This section may include virtually all channels available from any satellite that can be received in Sweden, but this list mostly concerns encrypted channels that are available from Swedish satellite distributors. Some have Swedish subtitles.
- 3ABN International
- Al Jazeera English (DTT)
- BBC World News (DTT)
- Bloomberg TV Europe
- Blue Hustler
- CBS Reality, Swedish subtitles
- Chelsea TV
- CNN International (DTT)
- Deutsche Welle
- Discovery HD Showcase, Swedish subtitles
- Discovery Science Europe, Swedish subtitles (DTT)
- Discovery Travel & Living Europe, Swedish subtitles (DTT)
- Discovery World Europe, Swedish subtitles
- E!, Swedish subtitles
- ESPN Classic Sports Europe
- EuroNews
- Eurosport HD
- Extreme Sports Channel
- Fashion TV
- France 24
- Fuel TV
- GOD TV
- Hope Channel International
- Horse & Country
- Hustler TV
- Investigation Discovery
- Mezzo
- Mezzo Live HD
- Motors TV
- MTV Hits
- MTV Live HD
- MTV Rocks
- MUTV
- Nat Geo Wild (HD)
- Nautical Channel
- Outdoor Channel
- OutTV
- Playboy TV
- RT
- SABC News International
- Sky News
- Travel Channel Europe, Swedish subtitles (HD)
- TV5Monde
- VH1 (DTT, partial)
- VH1 Classic
Public access stations[]
- - Jönköping Municipality
- Steve - Lund Municipality
- - Malmö Municipality
- Göteborg - Gothenburg Municipality
- - Skövde Municipality
- - Stockholm Municipality
- - Uddevalla Municipality & Lysekil Municipality
Cable operators with more than 100 households are required by law to carry extra space for a local cable channel.
The Majority of "[[Open Channel" Public Access stations in Sweden are part of the national organisation RÖK.
Defunct channels[]
- Big TV (2006)
- (2002–2007)
- DiTV (2005–2008)
- Fan TV
- (-1995)
- Hallmark Channel (-2009)
- Jetix (1998–2009)
- Kanal Lokal Göteborg (2005–2009)
- Kanal Lokal Skåne (2005–2009)
- Kanal Lokal Stockholm (2005–2009)
- Kanal Lokal Östergötland (1995–2009)
- (2001–2005)
- ONE Television (2006–2007)
- SF Succé
- Sportkanalen
- SuperSport
- SVT HD (2006–2010)
- Toon Disney (2005–2009)
- TV Plus
- (1995–2004)
- (1993–2000)
- (1994–1997)
- TV6 (1994-1998/2002)
- The Voice TV Sweden (2004–2008)
- ZTV (1992-2010)
Distributors[]
Television packages and distributors in Sweden:
- Digital terrestrial:
- Satellite:
- Cable:
- Com Hem
- Canal Digital
- Tele2Vision
- Various local cable distributors
- IPTV
- Telia Digital-tv
- (Disbanded in may 2010)
- Bredbandsbolaget
- Canal Digital
See also[]
External links[]
- AB Sappa - cable and IPTV television distributor
- tvprogram.nu - timetables
- tv.nu - Timetables
- DagensTV.com - "Today's TV"
- Radiotjänst - license fee collector for public service television
- Teracom - terrestrial broadcast operator
- Boxer - terrestrial digital broadcast distributor
- Canal Digital cable and satellite television distributor
- Com Hem - cable television distributor
- Tele2Vision - cable television distributor
- Viasat - satellite television distributor
- Lists of television channels by country
- Television channels in Sweden
- Swedish television-related lists