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[[Grand Theft Auto IV]] introduced the ability to watch '''television shows''' in most [[Safehouses in GTA IV|safehouses]], although this feature is largely useless in actual gameplay and is more of a minor feature used to pass time. | |||
== | == Description == | ||
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 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 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. | ||
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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 two other television networks, [[CCC]] and [[MeTV]], exist in the in-game universe, but they are unviewable. | |||
==Viewable programs== | |||
===Weazel=== | |||
[[Weazel]] is a parody of [[wp:Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox Broadcasting Company]]. | |||
*[[The Men's Room]]. | |||
*[[Split Sides]] (both Ricky Gervais and Katt Williams). | |||
*[[Republican Space Rangers]] (Episode 6 is added in TLAD). | |||
*[[Venturas Poker Challenge]]. | |||
*[[Weazel News]] (Special report on the Motorcycle Menace) (TLAD). | |||
===CNT=== | |||
[[CNT]] is a play on [[wp:CNN|CNN]] or [[wp:TNT|TNT]], possibly a combination of both as CNT also has a news program. | |||
*[[I'm Rich]]. | |||
*[[The Serrated Edge]]. | |||
*[[Princess Robot Bubblegum]] (TBOGT). | |||
'''CNT''' is a refererence to "cunt", a term for vagina. | |||
===Public Broadcasting Corporation=== | |||
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 two parts: Part I in GTA IV, and Part II in TLAD and TBOGT. | |||
== 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. This glitch is fixed on Episodes from Liberty City. | |||
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