Mad Television Tycoon
by Eggcode · 9 Apr, 2026
244 downloads
About the Game
In Mad Television Tycoon, you take control of a small, insignificant TV station. Accept the challenge and lead your network to success! Under your leadership, will the station become the country's top channel with millions of viewers, or will the office lights soon go out for good? Beware - your rivals are not resting, and only with smart planning and a bit of skill will you manage to bring the best programming to the screens!
Your task is to strategically design your broadcasting schedule, maximize advertising revenue, and outshine the competition. You have a wide range of shows, movies, series, news, and entertainment programs at your disposal - place them wisely to attract viewers to their screens. Increase your reputation and buy new broadcasting towers across the country to expand your reach. Produce your own shows, acquire additional licenses, and use every tool at your disposal to make life difficult for your rivals.
FEATURES
Create your schedule from thousands of movies, series and shows.
Get the most lucrative advertising contracts.
Put together a news program with the latest stories.
Produce your own movies, series and shows.
Upgrade your offices and acquire new licenses to unlock new features.
Go to the dark side and sabotage your competition.
Multiplayer for up to 3 players.
Easy to edit database to add new movies, series, shows.
Screenshots
15 images
Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
__ EA2026-11-05A ________________________________________
■ You can now leave a bribe in the restroom to have the construction worker renovate a specific room.
■ The AI no longer purchases the elevator component from the shop, so this advantage for the player is no longer rendered obsolete. Furthermore, it is no longer possible to block the elevator by constantly assigning it a new destination.
■ New item available in the store. A scanner to detect pirated copies containing the wrong movies.
■ New movies have been added.
■ Bug: If you aired a show on TV, the viewership penalty was reduced only for the red player.
__ EA2026-10-15A ________________________________________
■ Balance: The game now prevents the advertising agency, the film market, and the press agency from being renovated as early as Day 2. (Does not apply to the “very hard” difficulty level)
__ EA2026-10-10A ________________________________________
■ You can now enable or disable the grouping of TV series seasons in the program schedule and in the archive.
■ To remove a series with multiple seasons from the archive, you no longer need to click on “Season 1”; instead, you can click on any season.
■ New screenwriters & screenplays have been added.
__ EA2026-10-09A ________________________________________
■ At the screenplay agency, you can now have your own screenplays written.
■ New item available in the shop (whip): Reduces the production time for your own film productions.
■ Bug: The production of new seasons for TV series and shows did not work properly.
__ EA2026-10-06A ________________________________________
■ New movies, shows, and screenplays have been added.
■ New attribute for screenplays (Well-Known IP): Movies and TV series with this attribute result in significantly lower ratings penalties.
■ Attributes added for shows (Refreshing): Shows now reduce the audience penalty.
■ If “Unlimited Archive Space” has been enabled in the game settings, the function to update the archive is disabled.
■ Balance: There are now more series available on the film market.
■ Bug: (Film Studio) If you added a script for the new season of a series, the series did not appear in the archive.
__ EA2026-10-03A ________________________________________
■ Film Studio: When you produce a sequel, the focus settings and production teams are automatically carried over from the previous film.
■ Film Studio: New seasons for series and shows are now grouped together. Additional seasons no longer take up space in the archive.
__ EA2026-10-02A ________________________________________
■ At the screenplay agency, you can now purchase completed screenplays for your self-produced movies and TV series.
■ In the archive, pirated copies are marked with colored icons that indicate the status of the pirated copy.
■ Bug: If you wanted to produce a sequel in the film studio and you left the room by right-clicking, the mouse controls would freeze.
__ EA2026-09-16A ________________________________________
■ It is no longer possible to force the generation of new advertising contracts in the advertising agency by temporarily adding the contracts to the inventory.
■ Bug: In the Statistics > Viewer Numbers menu, not all times were displayed if the broadcast time was set to later than midnight.
__ EA2026-09-07A/12A ________________________________________
■ It is now possible to set the workday so that it doesn't end until 6 a.m. the next morning. This allows you, for example, to set workdays from 6 p.m. to 4 a.m.
■ Your TV schedule now calculates combinations. For example, if you air movies with the same IP, the same genre, or the same lead actor one after another, you'll receive a viewer bonus.
■ The TV tooltip now also displays the TV channel's level.
■ Items in your inventory are now color-coded based on their rarity.
■ A new item is available in the store.
■ AI can now produce its own movies, TV series, and shows.
■ New movies have been added.
■ Added 6 new random events.
■ Lists can now be sorted in ascending or descending order.
■ For in-house produced series, the production costs are now also displayed in the movie tooltip.
■ Performance improves significantly if you have a lot of movies.
■ Modding: You can now modify the age restriction (file: “ageRate.json”).
■ Bug: The level tooltip no longer displayed the name of the current level.
■ Bug: (Film Studio) Fixed an error in the calculation of focus settings.
■ Bug: (Broadcast Schedule) If you have enabled the filters, the genre dropdown has not been updated.
__ EA2026-07-24A / 09-03A ____________________
■ You can now produce sequels to movies and new seasons of TV series and shows in the film studio.
■ An icon will now appear on the right side of the screen to indicate whether the current TV show is trending or unpopular.
■ Film Studio: The subgenre is now factored into the film ratings.
■ Film Studio: The actors genre is now included in the film ratings.
■ Film Studio: If you select the “Cartoon” genre, some film crews will be disabled, and you can then select the animation studio.
■ Film Tooltips: For cartoons, “Voice Actor” is now displayed instead of “Cast Member.”
■ Game Options: You can now set the game so that you have unlimited space in the archive.
■ Film Studio: If “Cartoon” is selected as the main genre, “Voice Actor” is now displayed in the cast list.
■ New movies, series, and shows have been added.
■ Balance: Production costs for shows have been reduced.
■ Balance: Prices for shows have been reduced.
■ Bug: Sometimes you couldn't take your finished film out of the film studio.
■ Bug: Sometimes, production wasn't halted when you picked up your finished film from the film studio.
■ Bug: In the archive, \ was displayed twice for old shows.
■ Bug: If you bought a movie in the Movie Store, another movie has also disappeared from the list.
■ Bug: Sometimes you could use advertising contracts that you already had on file.
■ Bug: Fixed a few errors in the movie database.
■ Bug: (Broadcast Schedule) Sometimes, the text indicating the status of pirated copies doesn't disappear even after you've replaced the program.
■ Bug: If you changed the UI scaling, the bar indicating the current time was not positioned correctly in the broadcast schedule tooltip.
■ Bug: The “Exit Game” button was no longer working in the start menu.
■ Bug: You could no longer delete save games from the Start menu.
__ EA2026-07-10A / 22A ______________________
■ Three new genres added (cartoon, erotic and historical film)
■ The programme overview tooltip now also displays the number of blocks and highlights the current time in colour.
■ (Custom game) The feature where new TV stations are randomly created when a TV station goes out of business now works.
■ The game's start menu now includes buttons to set a random name and logo for the TV channels.
■ (Custom Game): You can now set the film studio’s production speed.
■ (Custom Game): The daily licence fees are no longer linked to the difficulty level, but can be set by the user.
■ When you hover the mouse pointer over the channel buttons on the TV, today's schedule is displayed. This feature can be disabled in “Custom Game.” Starting at the “Hard” difficulty level, you can no longer view the opponents' schedule.
■ NPCs can now enter the shop and buy items there.
■ If a pirated copy is in poor condition, the test family produces unhappy smileys.
■ When you start a new game, the current trend is now chosen at random.
■ Bug: When music or talent shows were broadcast, the test family was not shown.
■ Bug: The NPCs have never rented satellites.
■ Bug: Random events that affected the purchase price of movies and TV shows also influenced the daily licensing costs.
■ Bug: (Film studio) The button for selecting a random screenshot wasn’t working properly.
■ Bug: (Film Studio) It was possible that the genre and the subgenre were the same.
■ Bug: Fixed several display errors that occurred when the Deutsche Mark was selected as the currency.
■ Bug: Once you've aired a movie, the “actuality” of the pirated copy on the pirated market remained at 100%.
■ Bug: (Office) In the broadcast statistics, the channel names were not updated when they were changed.
__ EA2026-07-08A ________________________________________
■ Pirated copies now have a condition. The more often you send them, the worse their condition becomes.
■ You can now set an infinite amount of money in “Custom Game.”
■ The opening hours for the rooms are now displayed as tooltips in the elevator menu.
■ People now watch TV for longer periods of time on the weekend. As a result, viewership ratings are significantly higher late at night on the weekend.
■ Added a new random event. (Solar Storm)
■ The day is now displayed in the broadcast schedule.
■ (Movie tooltip) The rarity descriptions are now easier to read.
■ The hotkey is now displayed in the tooltips for game speed.
■ Bug: (Multiplayer) Shop items did not work on clients.
■ Bug: (Multiplayer) Animation speeds for walking animations were not transmitted correctly to clients.
■ Bug: (Multiplayer) The “Add All Items” button in the Waste Disposal section did not work for clients.
__ EA2026-06-03A / 18A ___________________________
■ You can now enter the store. Three items are already available for purchase.
■ (Marketing) A viewer poll can now be launched to find out what the next trend will be.
■ (Mod) The Soviet Union and Yugoslavia have been added as film production countries.
■ To be eligible for an award for your own films, shows and series, the programme must now have been broadcast at least once.
■ (Broadcast schedule): You can now hide movies, TV series, and shows that are already in the schedule and rental films.
■ You can now filter films and TV series in the programme schedule by “all” age ratings.
■ (Film tooltip) You can now see the purchase price for live events, rental films, shows, pirated copies and production costs for in-house programmes.
■ (Advertisement tooltip) The required audience share, expressed as a percentage, is now calculated using the coverage area of the transmission masts and ‘satellites’.
■ Bug: (In-house production) If you selected a screenshot that was in the ‘USER’ folder, the ‘No Signal Screenshot’ was displayed.
■ Bug: If you had the rating menu for your own productions open and the day ended, the mouse controls stopped working.
■ Bug: The AI has only broadcast one episode of a multi-episode live event series.
■ Bug: (Multiplayer) The office update to reduce transmission tower costs did not work for clients.
■ Bug: If you wanted to hire a satellite but cancelled the action whilst it was still being prepared, the timer would still be displayed.
■ Bug: (Multiplayer) Waste disposal did not work for clients.
__ EA2026-05-21A/ 28A _____________________________________
■ The TV station’s special genre is now calculated only once at the start of each day. In addition, a message box appears when a new special genre is selected.
■ (Random events): Pirated video tapes may now contain a different movie than the one you purchased.
■ You can now hide pirated copies in the broadcast schedule.
■ If a show is outdated, it now displays 10% actuality instead of 100%.
■ Mod: If a screenshot of a movie cannot be loaded, a “No Signal” screenshot will appear on the TV.
■ Bug: In the custom game, you could mistakenly set the broadcast time to 25:00.
■ Bug: (Multiplayer) In multiplayer, not all players left the room after two hours or when the room was closed.
■ Bug: (Multiplayer) When a player left a room, it generated an unnecessary amount of network traffic.
■ Bug: If you chose a new destination while exiting the elevator, your character would be teleported.
■ Bug: News items could be sorted by the unused ‘Rating’ value.
■ Bug: The live event penalty icon was not shown transparently when no live event was airing.
__ EA2026-05-15 & 16A ________________________________________
■ Your TV station now has a thematic focus. For example, if you often air science fiction content, your station will be classified as a ‘Science Fiction Channel.’ You then receive a 10% audience bonus when broadcasting science fiction movies or series.
■ Penalties that are not currently active are now displayed transparently (right side of the screen).
■ You can now view the country’s preferred genres and current bonuses in the transmission tower menu and the location tooltip.
■ If you enabled automatic repeat for marketing campaigns, you will now receive a message about the costs on the left side of the screen.
■ Added 4 new random events.
■ Bug: If the elevator menu was open, you could no longer leave rooms with a right-click.
■ Bug: For some random events, no message box would appear, and they were also not sent to clients in multiplayer.
__ EA2026-05-12 & 13A ___________________________________
■ You can now choose screenshots from all other genres in the Film Studio. Note: In older save games, the wrong screenshot may sometimes be displayed.
■ (Mod) You can now add your own screenshots to the ‘USER’ folder for use in the Film Studio.
■ The AI now replaces low-recency series much more quickly.
■ Translation: (Spanish and French) Movie and series titles are now once again displayed in their original English.
■ Bug: The detective and the man with the bouquet should no longer enter rooms that are under renovation.
■ Bug: Sometimes, the AI was unable to buy new movies and series from the film market if the blue player’s archive was full.
■ Bug: Fixed several errors in the film database.
■ Bug: In the default game, reputation gain/loss was set to 0.0%.
■ Bug: (Translation) Some text in the News Office and Film Studio was always shown in English.
■ Bug: Even after purchasing the upgrade that reduces daily transmission tower costs, the Transmission Tower Office still showed the full price.
__ EA2026-05-11A ________________________________________
■ (Custom Game): Settings are now saved and automatically loaded when you start a new game.
■ Added 4 more ad spots for the endgame that require live events.
■ If teleshopping causes an audience penalty, the viewer count no longer drops to 0, but only to 500–1000.
■ Bug: If a player waited in front of a closed door and then entered the room, the door animation would not play.
■ Bug: If you paused and resumed the game at the start of the day using the Space key, the game speed would be set incorrectly.
■ Bug: (Broadcast schedule) If you added movies or commercials to the schedule, you had to right-click twice to close the menu.
■ Bug: The ‘No Teleshopping’ requirement for ad spots was not working.
■ Bug: In the standard game, recency regeneration was set to slow instead of normal.
__ EA2026-05-07A ________________________________________
■ (Film Studio) You can now choose a subgenre for movies and series.
■ If another TV station airs a pirated copy of a film whose original you own, the original’s actuality is now reduced as well.
■ Custom Game: When setting the number of transmission towers available at the start, small broadcasting stations are now unlocked first, and only then the large transmission towers.
■ News Office: If your archive is full and you try to place a news item into a news slot, a message box will now appear.
■ Mods: Movies and series can now be assigned a subgenre ("Subgenre": 0).
Notice: In older save games, movies you already own are shown with the subgenre ‘Action'.
■ Balance: Increased the chance of the detective appearing.
■ Bug: (News Office) If there was no space left in the archive, you could not move news items from the archive into a news slot.
__ EA2026-05-05A ________________________________________
■ Added ‘Very Hard’ as a new difficulty level.
■ Each country now has 5 favorite genres, and those 5 genres are shown in the game start menu.
■ Bug: Sometimes, the NPC would sell series that were still scheduled to air. As a result, they could end up getting very high ratings when those series were broadcast.
■ Bug: Review texts for self-produced movies and series were sometimes shown outside the UI.
Current Release
Build 26480444
Uploaded Nov 06, 2026
System Requirements
How to Install
MadTelevisionTycoon.exe to play
Troubleshooting tips
• Run Redist/_CommonRedist installers if game won't start
• Add folder to Windows Defender exclusions
• Run as administrator
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