Television channel

Television channel - terrestrial frequency or virtual number over which a television station or television network is distributed. Article “Television channel” in English Wikipedia has 14.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 6 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.58 points.

This article has the best quality in Spanish Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “Television channel”, its content was written by 194 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 620 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1762 times in English Wikipedia and cited 13745 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1020 in July 2001
• Global: #1239 in July 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #63903 in March 2013
• Global: #65962 in June 2010

There are 29 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Spanish (es) Canal de televisión		44.6889
2	Latin (la) Trames televisionis		26.1363
3	Russian (ru) Телевизионный канал (СМИ)		24.7257
4	Catalan (ca) Cadena de televisió		21.8848
5	Persian (fa) کانال تلویزیون		21.2661
6	Ukrainian (uk) Телевізійний канал (ЗМІ)		20.692
7	Chinese (zh) 电视频道		18.428
8	Polish (pl) Kanał telewizyjny		17.4526
9	English (en) Television channel		14.5964
10	Turkish (tr) Televizyon kanalı		14.2862

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Television channel" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Television channel		1 861 594
2	French (fr) Chaîne de télévision		683 988
3	Spanish (es) Canal de televisión		365 360
4	Japanese (ja) チャンネル (テレビ放送)		302 790
5	Portuguese (pt) Canal de televisão		239 955
6	Russian (ru) Телевизионный канал (СМИ)		215 982
7	Arabic (ar) قناة تلفزيونية		148 660
8	Persian (fa) کانال تلویزیون		63 602
9	Hebrew (he) אפיק שידור		60 672
10	Swedish (sv) TV-kanal		48 130

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Television channel" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Television channel		9 054
2	French (fr) Chaîne de télévision		2 736
3	Russian (ru) Телевизионный канал (СМИ)		1 656
4	Arabic (ar) قناة تلفزيونية		1 022
5	Spanish (es) Canal de televisión		962
6	Portuguese (pt) Canal de televisão		626
7	Persian (fa) کانال تلویزیون		596
8	Japanese (ja) チャンネル (テレビ放送)		365
9	Hebrew (he) אפיק שידור		347
10	Turkish (tr) Televizyon kanalı		249

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Television channel" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Television channel		194
2	French (fr) Chaîne de télévision		60
3	Portuguese (pt) Canal de televisão		50
4	Arabic (ar) قناة تلفزيونية		37
5	Spanish (es) Canal de televisión		35
6	Japanese (ja) チャンネル (テレビ放送)		32
7	Russian (ru) Телевизионный канал (СМИ)		20
8	Swedish (sv) TV-kanal		20
9	Danish (da) Tv-kanal		19
10	Persian (fa) کانال تلویزیون		18

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Television channel" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Malay (ms) Saluran televisyen		2
2	Greek (el) Τηλεοπτικό κανάλι		1
3	Persian (fa) کانال تلویزیون		1
4	French (fr) Chaîne de télévision		1
5	Indonesian (id) Saluran televisi		1
6	Russian (ru) Телевизионный канал (СМИ)		1
7	Turkish (tr) Televizyon kanalı		1
8	Arabic (ar) قناة تلفزيونية		0
9	Belarusian (be) Тэлевізійны канал		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Телевизионен канал		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Television channel" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	French (fr) Chaîne de télévision		3 620
2	English (en) Television channel		1 762
3	Japanese (ja) チャンネル (テレビ放送)		1 732
4	Spanish (es) Canal de televisión		889
5	Portuguese (pt) Canal de televisão		739
6	Russian (ru) Телевизионный канал (СМИ)		653
7	Hebrew (he) אפיק שידור		638
8	Arabic (ar) قناة تلفزيونية		395
9	Catalan (ca) Cadena de televisió		387
10	Swedish (sv) TV-kanal		365

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic قناة تلفزيونية
be	Belarusian Тэлевізійны канал
bg	Bulgarian Телевизионен канал
ca	Catalan Cadena de televisió
da	Danish Tv-kanal
el	Greek Τηλεοπτικό κανάλι
en	English Television channel
es	Spanish Canal de televisión
eu	Basque Telebista-kanal
fa	Persian کانال تلویزیون
fr	French Chaîne de télévision
gl	Galician Canle de televisión
he	Hebrew אפיק שידור
id	Indonesian Saluran televisi
ja	Japanese チャンネル (テレビ放送)
ko	Korean 텔레비전 채널
la	Latin Trames televisionis
ms	Malay Saluran televisyen
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Fjernsynskanal
pl	Polish Kanał telewizyjny
pt	Portuguese Canal de televisão
ru	Russian Телевизионный канал (СМИ)
sr	Serbian Телевизијски канал
sv	Swedish TV-kanal
tr	Turkish Televizyon kanalı
uk	Ukrainian Телевізійний канал (ЗМІ)
uz	Uzbek Televizion kanal
vi	Vietnamese Kênh truyền hình
zh	Chinese 电视频道

Best Rank

English: #63903 03.2013

Global: #65962 06.2010

Best Rank

English: #1020 07.2001

Global: #1239 07.2001

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