IPTV and TV guide times in United States

IPTV Complete Forum editorial desk

2026-11-13

The first question is which station

A viewer in Boston and a viewer in the Bay Area can both say they were watching PBS and mean different local schedules. PBS lets member stations choose and schedule from its programme offerings. A national title and a wall-clock time therefore leave out the one detail that lets another viewer reproduce the problem.

In the PBS app, open My Station and choose the full TV schedule. PBS sends you to the local station's schedule in a browser. Find the programme there, including the station name and the date. On an Android TV, PBS puts the station selector in Profile. The station that supplied the schedule should also be the one selected when you try the live stream.

A listing, a local live stream and a Passport title

The broadcast grid answers when a station expects to air a programme. The live option answers whether this station can currently play through the app at your location. Passport is a separate member benefit tied to an account and participating station. If a programme plays from the catalogue but the live button reports a location problem, report those two observations separately. You have already narrowed the fault more than a screenshot of the logo could.

One coast-to-coast clock example

An illustrative 20:00 listing on 15 January 2026 is 16 Jan 2026, 01:00 UTC in UTC for New York and 16 Jan 2026, 04:00 UTC for Los Angeles. The dates in UTC are both the following day. Use the time zone of the transmitting station when comparing a programme entry before you turn a three-hour station difference into a permanent device correction.

1. Record the city, station call sign if the broadcaster publishes it, programme title and local date.
2. Check the same local station on a second supported screen before changing the selected region.
3. In a forum post, give the city and device model. Keep account, payment and full address details in the provider's private support channel.

🇺🇸 United States · US

Use the local programme and station ID together. The catalogue records CNN International as CNNInternational.us in United States.

Check the local source in United States

PBS shows how to open the selected station's broadcast schedule through My Station and Full TV Schedule. That provides a repeatable check when the same national programme appears at different times on two member stations.

Identify the station and city before comparing the title and date in the guide. Check the PBS station setting in the app before diagnosing a wrong local edition.

Identify the exact station in the guide

For CNN International, check bulletin title, local edition and air time. If your source uses a different identifier from CNNInternational.us, use the source’s actual channel field for the mapping.

Convert a programme to the source clock

United States has 8 distinct offset patterns across the zones shown for these two dates. Start with the exact city or local station. 20:00 in America/New_York resolves to 16 Jul 2025 · 00:00 UTC in the July example.

Audio and captions

Use the station's call sign and the programme's exact edition. Check the actual broadcast for captions or a secondary audio track.

Which device and account details should you check?

1. Use the broadcaster's own market listing for United States when checking a current app, subscription or rights question.
2. Look up the app publisher and exact TV or box model in the local device store. Check live versus replay features and separate app charges.
3. For a schedule issue, save the exact channel ID, programme title, local date and time zone without sharing account or playlist details.

Browse channel references for United States

Channel references to check

• ESPN
• NBC
• PBS
• 00s Replay
• 10 Years Younger
• 21 Jump Street
• 24 Hour Free Movies

Find the exact local station

The channel finder contains 1,583 station records for United States in this edition. Each result opens the catalogue ID and local guide example for that feed.

• ACC Digital Network ACCDigitalNetwork.us Sports
• 10 Years Younger 10YearsYounger.us Series
• 00s Replay 00sReplay.us Movies
• 365BLK 365BLK.us Entertainment
• 3ABN Praise Him Music Network 3ABNPraiseHimMusicNetwork.us Music
• 4KUniverse 4KUniverse.us General
• 3ABN English 3ABNEnglish.us Religious
• ABC News Live 1 ABCNewsLive1.us News

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