It has four nation-wide daily newspapers, is also the central location of the publicly-funded radio ( SR ) and television ( SVT ); in addition, all other major television channels have their base in Stockholm ( TV4 TV3, TV6 and Kanal 5 ).

Other stations, including a variety of pay and regional free-to-air stations, are forced to broadcast in the UHF band, since the VHF band is very overloaded with four stations sharing a very small frequency band, which can be so overcrowded that one or more channels, more often than not one of the MediaWorks-owned channels ( TV3 and FOUR ), is unavailable in some smaller towns.

TV3 is a " commercial supported Public-access television cable TV station " that broadcasts out of Detroit Lakes for the regional Arvig Communication Cable System.

He was a founding partner of TV3 in Ireland and is a director of Ardmore Studios.

It is open to all independent producers provided they get a free to air or community broadcaster's backing, including TV3, Today FM, BBC Northern Ireland, RTÉ, Channel 4, UTV etc.

VHF for TV transmission is slowly being phased out in Ireland – only RTÉ One and RTÉ Two are on VHF band III in some areas, and the more recently established stations ( TV3 and TG4 ) have only been broadcast on UHF.

It is also aired in Ireland on TV3 two days after the showing.

The show is also aired in Catalan on TV3, the national public television of Catalonia as " Bob el Manetes.

Although the network identifies as a national, part-public broadcaster, it is essentially fully commercially funded, and is constantly in ratings battles with its main rival TV3.

Rival networks TV3 has offered NICAM stereo in all available regions since its launch in 1989 this is also the case with Prime TV.

Along with TV3 both of TVNZ's current television networks TV1 and TV2 are fed as distinct feeds to viewers based on defined regions though this is only for the purpose of targeted regional advertising as the company discontinued regional news programming in the late 1980s.

On 1 May 2009 Fintan Drury, chairman of the OneVision consortium ( made up of the TV3 Group, Arqiva, Eircom and Setanta Sports ), announced that OneVision is to enter negotiations with the BCI, with the view to take over operations of the Irish pay DTT service.

TV3 is the brand name used by Viasat's flagship channels in Scandinavia, the Baltic States, and Hungary.

TV3 is a privately owned free-to-air television network operated within the Republic of Ireland.

As of 2011, TV3 is the second most watched channel in the Republic of Ireland competing with RTÉ Television's RTÉ One for the title of Ireland's most watched channel.

Catch up facilities, as well as exclusive content is available for TV3 programming as are news, weather, sport and entertainment updates.

Effectively, TV3 is now available to 98 % of homes through Saorview and Saorsat.

The service is free to download and offers TV3 viewers the opportunity to watch TV3 content including news, showbiz and sport.

It is estimated by the TV3 Group that the service will be worth about € 7. 5 million by 2015.

No launch dates have been confirmed, but it is expected that TV3 Group will launch three further channels along with a HD channel as reported to the BAI in 2011.

The first channel is TV3 HD which will air TV3 content in high-definition.

Since 1998, TV3 has received numerous awards from the Alliance For Community Media, Hometown Video Awards, Filmerica, and Filmaka. com.

In 2009, the Alliance for Community Media awarded Tristan Dyer, a TV3 member, " Best Animated Short Film ".

The Alliance for Community Media also honored TV3 for its outstanding dedication to public access in the city of Medford.

As of 2008, she presents Inside & Out, a makeover show for TV3 Ireland.

The original scheduled called for the TV3 to be launched during the month of September 1957, but because of delays this did not happen.

In 2009 Irish television production company Accomplice TV received funding from the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland and TV3 ( Ireland ) for their contemporary adaptation of the play set in South County Dublin.

Originally it arrived in Spain via regional broadcaster TV3 who screened episodes dubbed into Catalan, but the series would go unnoticed until national broadcaster Antena3TV picked up the rights for a national broadcast.

In 2009, the media, including TVNZ and TV3 revealed that English was receiving about NZ $ 900 a week as part of a living allowance for ministers, to live in his own NZ $ 1. 2 million Wellington home.

TV3 no longer aired the programme in 2003, however, it resumed in 2006 for a short period of time.

The company owns and operates the terrestrial transmission network used for broadcast of all major terrestrial television networks in New Zealand, including TV3 and Prime Television-TVNZ's major competitors, along with other voice and data telecommunications services.

As well as his slot with RTÉ, Dunphy has worked for its rival television station, TV3 ( for which he has presented a chat show and a game show ), and rival radio stations Today FM and Newstalk.

In 2001, Dunphy became the first male host of the quiz show The Weakest Link, which aired on TV3, for just one series.

At launch, there was one TV3 channel for all the Scandinavian countries.

Separate channels for Denmark and Norway were soon launched so that there was a TV3 channel for each country.

The Dunphy Show an Irish chat show hosted by Eamon Dunphy that aired for one series on TV3 in 2003.

Former chat show host Gay Byrne said that " there wasn't enough room for two talk shows " and that TV3 would be " scalded by the experience ".

The two main competitors for the new channel were Nordisk Television and Kinnevik ( owners of TV3 ).

TV3 also sought a Radio licence from the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland ( BAI ) for a Multicity service, known as More FM the service was aimed at an over 45 age group, the licence was won by 4FM, TV3 have not sought to enter the radio market since.

Availability of TV3 in some rural areas has been limited as TV3 have failed to invest in relay stations for most notably in County Donegal, County Kerry and County Cork.

In 1985, TV3 expanded its coverage to Andorra, Northern Catalonia, the Balearic islands and the Valencian Community, also Catalan-speaking lands.

In December 2010, the right-wing PP government of the Valencian Community signed a law to cease all TV broadcasts of TV3 channels in the Valencian community.

SABC 1 carried much of its programming over from the defunct CCV ( Contemporary Community Values ) channel, which was itself made up of the old TV2, TV3 and TV4 channels created in the 1980s.

TV3, owned and operated by Medford Community Cablevision, Inc. is Medford, Massachusetts ' award-winning Public-access televisionstation.

In 1985, TV3 expanded its coverage to Andorra, Northern Catalonia and the Valencian Community.