Television in GTA IV

CNT channel on a television in Grand Theft Auto 4

Grand Theft Auto IV introduced the ability to watch television shows in most safehouses, although this feature is largely useless in actual gameplay and, like radio stations, is more of a minor feature used to pass time and to round out the fictional world of GTA.

Description

Each television allows the player to watch up to 2-flagship free-to-air terrestrial television networks such: (Weazel & CNT); however, the channels are not numbered, so finding a show is more or less coincidental. Most of the shows are running time-shifted, so while "I'm Rich" may be almost over on one channel, for example, it may just start on another.

The feature is carried over to its episodic titles, including The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony, with new shows and advertising added in. However, depending on whether the player opted for downloading episodic DLC or obtaining Episodes from Liberty City, the availability of shows and ads from GTA IV in both episodic titles, like radio stations, varies between DLCs and Episodes from Liberty City:

• In DLCs, existing programming and advertising from GTA IV and a DLC purchased earlier will be present in the new episodic title, and vice versa.
• In EFLC, only programming and advertising from TLAD and TBOGT will be available in both episodic titles, as much of GTA IV's content is not included in the stand-alone compilation.

While there is one television for each safehouse in GTA IV, the player can only watch TV at the Lost MC Clubhouse in The Lost and Damned until "Get Lost", to which point the player has no legal means of watching television; in The Ballad of Gay Tony, one TV is available in Luis' safehouse.

GTA IV alludes that two other television networks, CCC and X, exist in the in-game universe, but are unviewable.

Viewable programs

In 2-flagship free-to-air terrestrial television stations in Liberty City such:

Weazel

Weazel is a parody of Fox Broadcasting Company was English flagship free-to-air terrestrial television channel on VHF in normally tuned to 5 in analog.

• The Men's Room (With Bas Rutten and Jeremy St. Ives)

• Split Sides (both Ricky Gervais and Katt Williams).
• Republican Space Rangers (Episode 6 is added in TLAD).
• Venturas Poker Challenge.
• Weazel News Parody of fox news (Special report on the Motorcycle Menace) (TLAD).

CNT

CNT is a parody of CNN or TNT, possibly a combination of both as China Entertainment Television is a China Entertainment Television was English flagship free-to-air terrestrial television channel on VHF in normally tuned to 8 in analog.

• I'm Rich.
• The Serrated Edge.
• Princess Robot Bubblegum (TBOGT).
• A History of Liberty City. The program comes in two parts: Part I in GTA IV, and Part II in TLAD and TBOGT.

List of television stations in Liberty City

In Liberty City, there are 2-flagship free-to-air terrestrial television networks such: Weazel & CNT.

In recent years, both flagship free-to-air terrestrial television stations were allocated new frequency bands and extra bandwidth in addition under analog broadcast to the simulcast frequency band (multi-frequency) used for the original 2-analog free-to-air terrestrial television channels.

Channel № (Analog)	Video Frequency (MHz)	Audio Frequency (MHz)	Band	Channel Name	Channel Content	Language	Transmission	Format	Status	Launch Date
5	175.250	180.750	VHF	Weazel	Free-to-air	English	Analog	SDTV	Terrestrial	1 May 1950
8	196.250	201.750	VHF	CNT						1 May 1951

Notes

• Most of the TV shows appear to be made when the game was in it's beta stages.

• There is a glitch in The Lost and Damned that allows you to watch the TV even after the end of the game. Take a helicopter and land on the roof of Lost MC Clubhouse. Walk around to where the TV would be inside just under the roof, and you will be prompted to watch the TV. If you do this there is only 2 ways to get outside of the clubhouse: kill yourself, or reload an old save file. This glitch is fixed on Episodes from Liberty City.
• Another way to watch TV in both the episodes and the main game if you haven't unlocked the Bohan safehouse. First you must travel over to Niko's Bohan safehouse. The front door will be locked and can't be opened but you can walk to the back entrance to enter the building into the safehouse and watch TV at any time.
• Only in GTA IV, the shows you watch is in 100% HD, no matter what safehouse your in. In Episodes from Liberty City of TBoGT and Lost and Dammed, they aren't in HD. Their blury with static!