List of The West Wing broadcasters and home video releases
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The following is a list of television broadcasters who air The West Wing and a list of home video releases for The West Wing
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has released all 7 seasons of The West Wing on DVD in Region 1, 2 & 4. VHS releases of the show also exist in Britain
and Australia.
DVD Releases
VHS Releases
While generally released first on R2 DVD, this has been at the cost of the special features which are included in other editions.
The West Wing (TV series)
The West Wing is an American television serial drama created by Aaron Sorkin that was originally broadcast on NBC from September 22, 1999 to May 14, 2006...
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First-run
- NBCNBCThe National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
(United States)- Season 1 22 September 1999–17 May 2000 (Wednesday 9 p.m. ET)
- Season 2 4 October 2000–16 May 2001 (Wednesdays 9 p.m. ET)
- Season 3 3 October 2001–22 May 2002 (Wednesday 9 p.m. ET)
- Season 4 25 September 2002–14 May 2003 (Wednesdays 9 p.m. ET)
- Season 5 24 September 2003–19 May 2004 (Wednesdays 9 p.m. ET)
- Season 6 20 October 2004–6 April 2005 (Wednesdays 9 p.m. ET)
- Season 7 September 25, 2005–(Series Finale) May 14, 2006 (Sundays 8 p.m. ET)
- Sky OneSky OneSky1 is the flagship BSkyB entertainment channel available in the United Kingdom and Ireland.The channel first launched on 26 April 1982 as Satellite Television, and is the fourth-oldest TV channel in the United Kingdom, behind BBC One , ITV and BBC Two...
(United Kingdom; pay-tv service, season 1 only)- Season 1 September 2000
- E4 (United Kingdom); season 2 onwards (see note 1)
- Season 2 19 June 2001–20 November 2001 (Tuesdays 9 p.m. GMT)
- Season 3 Starting August 2002 – November 2002 (Tuesdays 9 p.m. GMT)
- Season 4 July 2003 – November 2003 (Tuesdays 9 p.m. GMT)
- Season 5 July 20, 2004 – November 2004 (Tuesdays 9 p.m. GMT)
- More4More4More4 is a digital television channel, run by British broadcaster Channel 4, that launched on 10 October 2005. It is carried on Freeview, on satellite broadcasters Freesat and Sky, UK IPTV broadcaster TalkTalk TV and on UK cable network Virgin Media and in the Republic of Ireland cable networks...
(United Kingdom); season 6 onwards (see note 1)- Season 6 October 14, 2005 – March 3, 2006 (Fridays 9 p.m. GMT)
- Season 7 March 10, 2006–(Series Finale) August 4, 2006 (Fridays 9 p.m. GMT)
- Rete 4Rete 4Rete 4 is an Italian television station belonging to the Mediaset network. It is an Italian private commercial TV channel. Rete 4's main news programme is TG4, whose editor-in-chief is Emilio Fede since 1992.-TV Series:...
(Italy)- Season 1 – Season 4 July 11, 2002
- Fox (Italy)Fox (Italy)Fox is an Italian Entertainment TV channel, owned and produced by Fox International Channels Italy and broadcast in Italy by Sky Italia on Channel 111. Timeshifts of the channel are available at channel 112 and 113...
- Season 1 – Season 4 November 2, 2004
- Season 5 September 2005
- JoiJoi (TV channel)Joi is an Italian Entertainment TV channel, owned by Mediaset and broadcast on Premium Gallery, a Digital terrestrial television service in Italy. It is devoted to Family entertainment and broadcasts Movie and TV Series...
(Italy)- Rerun January 21, 2008
- SteelSteel (TV channel)Steel is an Italian entertainment TV channel, owned by NBC Universal and broadcast on Premium Gallery, a Digital terrestrial television service in Italy...
(Italy)- Rerun July 18, 2008
- NelonenNelonenNelonen is a Finnish commercial TV channel. It started out as Helsinki's local television channel PTV in 1989 on the HTV cable network, which name was changed first to PTV4 and then to Nelonen. It started on June 1, 1997. Nelonen, in Finnish, means the glyph of the number four. The channel is...
(Finland)- Season 1–Season 5
- Season 6 2005 (Tuesdays 10.20/10.30 p.m. EET)
- Season 7 2006–(Series Finale) February 18, 2007 (Sundays 5.30 pm EET)
- RTÉRTERTÉ is the abbreviation for Raidió Teilifís Éireann, the public broadcasting service of the Republic of Ireland.RTE may also refer to:* Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, 25th Prime Minister of Turkey...
(Ireland) (Thursdays 10.45 p.m. GMT)- Season 1–Season 6
- Season 7 January 5, 2006 – (Series Finale)
- CTVCTV television networkCTV Television Network is a Canadian English language television network and is owned by Bell Media. It is Canada's largest privately-owned network, and has consistently placed as Canada's top-rated network in total viewers and in key demographics since 2002, after several years trailing the rival...
(Canada)- Seasons 1–6 simulcastSimulcastSimulcast, shorthand for "simultaneous broadcast", refers to programs or events broadcast across more than one medium, or more than one service on the same medium, at the same time. For example, Absolute Radio is simulcast on both AM and on satellite radio, and the BBC's Prom concerts are often...
with American showings
- Seasons 1–6 simulcast
- Atlantic Satellite NetworkAtlantic Satellite NetworkCTV Two Atlantic is a Canadian English language cable television channel serving Atlantic Canada owned by Bell Media, with its studios located in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It is currently part of Bell Media's secondary CTV Two television system....
(Canada)- Season 7 simulcastSimulcastSimulcast, shorthand for "simultaneous broadcast", refers to programs or events broadcast across more than one medium, or more than one service on the same medium, at the same time. For example, Absolute Radio is simulcast on both AM and on satellite radio, and the BBC's Prom concerts are often...
(on east coast only) with American showings
- Season 7 simulcast
- Nine NetworkNine NetworkThe Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia...
(Australia) — stopped screening season 5 mid-season (2/1/2005).- Season 1–Season 4
- Season 5
- ABCAustralian Broadcasting CorporationThe Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster...
(Australia) — purchased the rights from Nine in late 2005- Season 5 – 2006
- Season 6 – January 2007
- Season 7 – 2007
- NHKNHKNHK is Japan's national public broadcasting organization. NHK, which has always identified itself to its audiences by the English pronunciation of its initials, is a publicly owned corporation funded by viewers' payments of a television license fee....
(Japan)- Season 1 October 2002 – March 2004 (Saturday 11 p.m. JSTJapan Standard TimeJapan Standard Time or JST is the standard timezone of Japan, and is 9 hours ahead of UTC. For example, when it is midnight in UTC, it is 09:00 in Japan Standard Time. There is no daylight saving time, though its introduction has been debated several times. Japan Standard Time is the same as...
) - Season 2 October 2003 – March 2004 (Saturday 11 p.m. JST)
- Season 3 5 October 2004–15 March 2005 (Tuesday 10 p.m. JST)
- Season 4 September 29, 2005–14 March 2006 (Tuesday 10 p.m. JST)
- Season 1 October 2002 – March 2004 (Saturday 11 p.m. JST
- Super! drama TV (Japan)
- Season 5 8 August 2008–8 January 2009
- Season 6 February 5, 2009–
- TVNZ (New Zealand)
- Season 1–Season 5 tv 2
- Season 6 September 12, 2005 – (Monday 11 p.m.) tv 1
- DR2DR2DR2 is a Danish television station. It is part of Danmarks Radio, the public service broadcasting company of Denmark.It was launched in 1996 as a satellite-/cable-only channel. This was highly controversial at the time, as it was considered close to a breach of public service principles that the...
(Denmark)- Seasons 1–7
- Warner ChannelWarner ChannelWarner Channel is a Latin American and Asian cable television channel owned by Time Warner's HBO Asia/HBO Latin America Group Warner Channel (commonly shortened to WBTV, but not to be confused with the WB Television Network or Charlotte, North Carolina station WBTV, and currently referred to in...
(Latin AmericaLatin AmericaLatin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...
; pay-tv service) - SBT (Brazil; seasons 1–3)
- Season 1–Season 3
- NRK1NRK1NRK1 is the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation's main television channel. Test broadcasts started on 12 January 1954, regular test broadcasts started on 13 April 1958 and regular broadcasts started in 20 August 1960. It is Norway's oldest and largest television channel...
and NRK2NRK2NRK2 is one of the TV channels of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation . It was launched in 1996. It has traditionally concentrated on more on cultural and in-depth programmes than its mother channel NRK1 and has also shown drama series, comedies, and news. When not broadcasting regular...
(Norway) - SVT1SVT1SVT1 is the primary television station of the Swedish public service broadcaster Sveriges Television in Sweden.-History:The channel began broadcasting in 1956 and was known as Radiotjänst TV, A year later, it was renamed Sveriges Radio TV. In 1969, the second television station TV2 was launched and...
(Sweden) (not first-running season 6, but re-running it later)- Season 1–Season 5
- SVT24SVT24SVT24 or 24 is a Swedish language TV channel broadcast by Sveriges Television . It started broadcasting in 1999 as a dedicated news channel. In 2003 extended its scope to include other current events-related programmes and sports in the weekends...
(Sweden)- Season 6 September 2005
- RTL4 (The Netherlands)
- TVB PearlTVB PearlTVB Pearl is one of the two free television services in Hong Kong that mainly broadcast in the English language, the other being ATV World. It is owned and operated by Television Broadcasts Limited, and together with its sister Cantonese language station TVB Jade, is broadcast from TVB City at 77...
(Hong Kong) - Kanaal 2 (Belgium)
- France 2France 2France 2 is a French public national television channel. It is part of the state-owned France Télévisions group, along with France 3, France 4, France 5 and France Ô...
(France)- Season 1 July 6, 2001 – September 28, 2001
- Série Club (France)
- Season 2 September 18, 2003 – December 4, 2003
- Season 3 November 4, 2004 – January 27, 2005
- TVE (Spain)
- Season 1–Season 4
- AXNAXNAXN is a Pay television, cable and satellite television channel owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, which was first launched on May 22, 1997. The network is now spread across several regions in the world, including Japan, Europe, other parts of Asia and Latin America...
(Spain)- Season 1-Season 5
- KTNKenya Television NetworkKenya Television Network is the leading television station in Kenya with its headquarters at the I & M Towers in downtown Nairobi. Its headquarters will change later on in the year as it moves in with its parent company's other subsidiaries at the newly-built Standard Group Centre on Mombasa road...
(KenyaKenyaKenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...
)- Season 1–Season 4
- True SeriesTrue SeriesTrue Series is a Thai television channel owned and produced by TrueVisions. It features series, lifestyle programs and reality shows from around the world. Most of the shows air in their original English language audio with subtitles in Thai but there are also some dubbed shows...
(ThailandThailandThailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...
)- Season 1-Season 6
Reruns/syndication
- Bravo (United States)
- Season 1 – Season 4 Since August 2003
- Season 5 Since September 2004
- Season 6 Starting October 10, 2005
- Season 7 Two episodes February/March 2006
- Distributed nationally by TelepicturesTelepicturesTelepictures is an American production company, currently operating as a label of Warner Bros. Television, with Hilary Estey McLoughlin currently serving as President...
(United States) (August 2003 – September 2005) - Channel 4Channel 4Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...
(United Kingdom) (see note 1)- Season 1 March 2001 – August 2001
- Season 2 March 24, 2002 – August 18, 2002
- Season 3 February 2003 – August 2003
- Season 4 September 2004 – March 2005
- More 4 (United Kingdom) (see note 1)
- More 4 began a full re-run of all 7 seasons, immediately after the end of the first run of Season 7 in August 2006 and aired final episode again on August 16, 2009
- BFBSBritish Forces Broadcasting ServiceThe British Forces Broadcasting Service provides radio and television programmes for HM Forces, and their dependents, in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Brunei, Canada, Cyprus, the Falkland Islands, Germany, Gibraltar, Kosovo, the Middle East, Northern Ireland and Tristan da Cunha as well as a live satellite...
(United Kingdom) - ArenaArena (television network)Arena is an Australian general entertainment cable and satellite channel available on Foxtel, Austar and Optus Television's subscription platforms.-History:...
(Australia) - ABCAustralian Broadcasting CorporationThe Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster...
(Australia)- Season 4 February 23, 2006 –
- W. ChannelW. ChannelW is an Australian cable and satellite channel available on Foxtel, Austar and Optus Television's subscription platforms. Originally a retro channel, it moved into Women's interest programming around the late 1990s...
(Australia)10:20 Weeknights December 2007 – present - Canadian Learning Television (CLT)Canadian Learning TelevisionOprah Winfrey Network is a Canadian English language Category A specialty channel owned by Corus Entertainment. OWN is a specialty television service targeted to women, offering a blend of lifestyle, information, and entertainment programming....
(Canada) – Until September 1, 2008. - Zee CafeZee CafeZee Café is an Indian cable and satellite television channel owned by Zee Entertainment Enterprises. It was launched on 15 March 2000 as Zee English and known for general entertainment channel...
(India) - France 2France 2France 2 is a French public national television channel. It is part of the state-owned France Télévisions group, along with France 3, France 4, France 5 and France Ô...
(France) Seasons 1 & 2 Since August 4, 2005 Fridays 1 a.m. CET - France 4France 4France 4 is a french public channel owned by France Télévisions, dedicated to the entertainment. At first named Festival, the channel took its current name in 2005, to mark better its membership to the group France Télévisions...
(France) Seasons 1 & 2 Since September 17, 2005 Saturdays 8:50 p.m. CET - Super! drama TV (Japan)
- Season 1 10 March 2005–28 August 2005
- Season 2 February 19, 2006–July 22 2006
- Season 3 17 December 2006–24 May 2007
- Season 4 27 November 2007–12 May 2008
Home video releases
Warner Home VideoWarner Home Video
Warner Home Video is the home video unit of Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., itself part of Time Warner. It was founded in 1978 as WCI Home Video . The company launched in the United States with twenty films on VHS and Betamax videocassettes in late 1979...
has released all 7 seasons of The West Wing on DVD in Region 1, 2 & 4. VHS releases of the show also exist in Britain
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
and Australia.
DVD Releases
| Season | Region 1 DVD Release Date | Region 2 DVD Release Date | Region 4 DVD Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 (1999–2000) | November 18, 2003 | April 8, 2002 | August 5, 2002 |
| Season 2 (2000–2001) | May 18, 2004 | April 7, 2003 | September 10, 2003 |
| Season 3 (2001–2002) | November 2, 2004 | March 29, 2004 | October 20, 2004 |
| Season 4 (2002–2003) | April 5, 2005 | September 27, 2004 | October 20, 2004 |
| Season 5 (2003–2004) | December 6, 2005 | April 5, 2005 | June 3, 2005 |
| Season 6 (2004–2005) | May 9, 2006 | September 26, 2005 | May 16, 2007 |
| Season 7 (2005–2006) | November 7, 2006 | September 11, 2006 | August 8, 2007 |
| Complete series (1999–2006) | November 7, 2006 | November 6, 2006 | Not released |
| Season 1–6 collection (1999–2005) | Not released | November 7, 2005 | Not released |
VHS Releases
| Season | UK Release Date | Australia Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | April 8, 2002 | August 5, 2002 |
| Season 2 | April 7, 2003 | September 10, 2003 |
| Season 3 | Not released | Released (unknown date) |
| Season 4 | Not released | Released (unknown date) |
| Season 5 | Not released | Released (unknown date) |
| Season 6 | Not released | Released (unknown date) |
| Season 7 | Not released | Not released |
While generally released first on R2 DVD, this has been at the cost of the special features which are included in other editions.