Global Public Broadcasting Providers

A list of public broadcasting providers by country.

If you are living in or doing business in a country, you are probably already paying for public broadcasting in the form of a monthly fee or included in your taxes.

Use these services. Or politicians might get the idea to scrap them, and you’ll have less diverse options.

I’ve compiled an (incomplete) list of public broadcasters for a number of countries below, with a focus on their live tv / or recorded programmes online offerings.

(A chunk of these are private as well ..)

Public broadcasting around the globe:

Sweden

www.svtplay.se (live, player)

https://urplay.se/ (player)

https://www.tv4play.se/ (ad-financed)

Denmark

https://www.dr.dk/drtv/

Norway

https://tv.nrk.no

France

https://www.france.tv/

USA

www.pbs.org

Switzerland

https://www.srf.ch/play/tv/live

https://zattoo.com (30 hours a month live tv free, otherwise 10 CHF)

Canada

https://gem.cbc.ca

Italian

http://www.rai.tv/dl/replaytv/replaytv.html

http://www.video.mediaset.it

Finland

https://areena.yle.fi/tv

http://www.katsomo.fi/

http://www.ruutu.fi/

Germany

https://www.daserste.de/

https://www.ardmediathek.de/ard/

https://www.arte.tv

https://www.3sat.de/

(learn German (app exists too): https://learngerman.dw.com/en/overview)

https://www.zdf.de/

https://zattoo.com (30 hours a month live tv free, otherwise 10 CHF)

https://www.tvnow.de/rtl

https://www.prosieben.de/video/

https://www.sat1.de/videos

Thailand

https://www.thaipbs.or.th/home Or NBTT if you have a television

Austrailia

https://www.abc.net.au/tv/

Iceland

https://www.ruv.is/sjonvarp/

Austria

https://tvthek.orf.at/

Spain

http://www.rtve.es/television/

http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/ (player)

https://www.atresplayer.com/antena3/

https://www.mitele.es/

Netherlands

https://www.bvn.tv/

http://www.nederland1.nl/uitzending-gemist

http://www.nederland2.nl/uitzending-gemist

http://www.nederland3.nl/uitzending-gemist

Belgium

https://www.rtbf.be/tv/ (French-speaking)

UK

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer

PR's welcome

Feel free to open a PR if you would like to append your country to the list.