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== Description == | == Description == | ||
Each | Each [[Television]] allows the player to watch up to three simultaneously running channels ([[Weazel]], [[CNT]], and the Public Broadcasting Corporation); 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 | 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 [[GTA IV Episodes|Episodes from Liberty City]], the availability of shows and ads from GTA IV in both episodic titles, like [[Radio Stations in GTA IV|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 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. | * 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 [[Safehouses in GTA IV|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. | While there is one television for each [[Safehouses in GTA IV|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' Apartment|Luis' safehouse]]. | ||
GTA IV alludes that three other television networks, [[CCC]], [[X]] and Me-TV, exist in the in-game universe, but are unviewable. Me-TV is actually a real-life American cable network, which is mentioned by [[Lazlow]] during one of his "interviews" on [[Integrity 2.0]]; his description of the network as one that airs vintage TV shows coincides with the real-life network, making Me-TV to date the only real-life TV network known to exist in the GTA universe. | |||
==Viewable programs== | ==Viewable programs== | ||
===Weazel=== | ===Weazel=== | ||
[[Weazel]] is a parody of [[wp: | [[Weazel]] is a parody of [[wp:Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox Broadcasting Company]]. | ||
*[[The Men's Room]]. | *[[The Men's Room]]. | ||
*[[Split Sides]] (both Ricky Gervais and Katt Williams). | *[[Split Sides]] (both Ricky Gervais and Katt Williams). | ||
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===Public Broadcasting Corporation=== | ===Public Broadcasting Corporation=== | ||
The Public Broadcasting Corporation is a parody of [[wp:PBS|PBS]] | The Public Broadcasting Corporation is a parody of [[wp:PBS|PBS]], or possibly the BBC, as the latter is an acronym for British Broadcasting Corporation | ||
* [[A History of Liberty City]]. The program comes in | * [[A History of Liberty City]]. The program comes in two parts: Part I in GTA IV, and Part II in TLAD and TBOGT. | ||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
* 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. | * 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. | ||
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