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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.

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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