Considered to be a public mainstream television channel for Serbians, RTS 1 offers a wide assortment of programming for its viewers. First launched back in August of 1958 and owned by Radio televizija srbije or the Serbian Broadcasting Corporation, the channel enjoys a large audience any time of day or night and has plans to add HDTV viewing in the near future. Morning viewing includes a morning journal, short news program, a review program regarding what Serbian political parties are up to, economic projects, political talk shows, and one on one interviews. Each day the programming is similar but with different subjects and guests depending on what is in the news on that particular day. Additionally, there will be current affairs program that invites guests into the studio and interviews as seen in Eye magazine. Sports programming also plays a big part of most broadcast days as do cooking shows (Cooking With a Heart), quiz shows, family shows like It's Time For Babies, and even reruns of popular American programs like Boston Legal, Hannah Montana, and CSI: Crime Scene Investigations.

When television channels such as Greece's own Extra Channel 3 began to live stream their programming to the world they opened up enormous possibilities for a wide and diverse audience. Their variety and scope of programming are appreciated by those who speak the Greek language as well as English speakers (when shows are closed captioned). Find music, movies, entertainment programming, and religious viewing throughout the day or even at night due to the live streaming capability. Viewers can choose when and what they view with the help of live streaming capability and channels like Extra channel 3 from Greece reap the benefits by gaining an entirely new and much more diverse audience of viewers because they can now be watched nearly around the world, and on a twenty four/seven basis. Greek owned channels such as the Extra channel 3 are a welcome addition to the schedules of many viewers due to seeing and hearing the shows they like spoken in their own language (with English translations or closed captioning available as well). Now is the time to watch what you want when you choose to do it.

TVA is the Montreal based French-language nationwide Canadian broadcaster featuring diverse programming available across the globe as TVA Live. Camera cafe is a humoristic TV show adapted hosted by Michel Courtemanche, Pierre Paquin and Guy Levesque. Crusoe is a Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe based action and adventure TV show, created by Stephen Gallagher. TVA also features French adaptations of most popular American TV series like Dr House, Du talent revendre (America's Got the Talent), La Fievre de la danse (So You Think You Can Dance) and (Le Banquier ) Deal or No Deal. There are also original Quebec TV shows on TVA live: Occupation Double and Juste pour rire (Just for Laughs).

As part of the Fininvest family Canale 5 provides private television for Italy and beyond. A wide assortment of viewing options is available in their lineup for each and every day. Originally most scheduled programming consisted of running American TV shows that were then dubbed into Italian for the local audiences. Today there is much to offer in original programming spoken in the Italian language. Shows like RIS Delitti Imperfetti which is inspired from the U.S. show known as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and a derivative of the popular TV program known as Big Brother (in America) and now called Grande Fratello in Italian. Wide variety is the theme for programming on Canale 5 today. Wish to watch some news? Look for Verissimo, Terra!, or Matrix for up to date reporting. Want to see a soap opera? Maybe you'd like Beautiful (The Bold and the Beautiful) or Centovetrine (The Mall). Perhaps some Italian Fiction? Try out Ciao professore (Hi teacher!) or Distretto di Polizia (Police District). Or maybe you still like those American programs so watch Cougar Town, The Sopranos, or maybe Parenthood for some definite variety in your television viewing. Much is offered on Canale 5.

Available only to digital subscribers, BBC Four broadcasts just slightly less than half of each day, sharing its band-width with CBeebies. BBC Four evolved from the old BBC Knowledge, and it honors its provenance by maintaining the BBC's highest intellectual standards. Although most of its programs are repeated or borrowed from elsewhere, its license requires at least 100 hours of original programming each year, and the network far exceeds the legal minimum. BBC Four gained distinction as the first network to air Curb Your Enthusiasm, and it scored critical praise for bravely airing the razor-edged political satire The Thick of It. Many loyal BBC One viewers switch to BBC Four for its nightly news broadcast, World News Today, which creams the best of BBC reporting, delivering a comprehensive report of global and national events in a tight format designed to accommodate work-a-day viewers just as they arrive home from work. Film fanatics appreciate BBC Four's dedication to vintage dramas, especially praising its fine catalogue of rare back-and-white films; and they admire BBC Four's support of foreign language films via the network's annual World Cinema Awards.

Recent changes in control of public television in Hungary have allowed m1 and its sister channel (m1 HD, M2, m2 HD, as well as m3) to function mostly without interruption from the government and now have the option of public funding much the same as other media outlets in the area like Duna Televizio and Magyar Radio. Known as Magyar Television the station has trademarked their initials, MTV. They now have an ongoing trademark infringement law suit involving America's MTV (Music TV). Programming on m1 seems to vary according to who is in charge of the stations but they run BBC programming as well as Hungarian telenovelas and some Hungarian soap operas, including Szomszedok which is Neighbors in Hungarian. Panorama (foreign affairs television) and Ablak (Window) bring in viewers by the millions each week. Although not self sufficient m1 and the other Magyar stations manage to keep funding up so they can provide some excellent programs for their growing audience.