TVS, or Television Sydney(blank">www.tvs.tv), (call sign TSN-31) is a popular analogue free-to-air community television station broadcasting in Sydney, Australia, on UHF channel 31.

TVS is promoted as "Sydney's sixth free-to-air TV channel".

Since its opening on 20 February 2006, TVS has been broadcasting 24 hours a day 7 days a week.

TVS has a 20kW transmitter and transmits through the same antenna as SBS located on the Broadcast Australia tower at _Gore Hill. The channel provides coverage across most of Sydney, with reports of clear reception from locations as far south as Wollongong, in the lower Blue Mountains and on the Central Coast. The signal is (technically) marginally weaker than that of SBS, however many viewers report stronger signal reception for TVS than for SBS.

TVS has a broadcast operations centre on the media campus of the University of Western Sydney. Their automation system is the same as that used for community channels in Melbourne and Perth, though technically more advanced. It is based on the Playbox (blank">http://www.playbox.tv) system.

There is considerable Sydney-specific programming in the channel's line-up, with some programs sourced from interstate community channels and from professional program makers. Genuine not-for-profit community based program makers receive free airtime.

There are a number of repeats in the TVS program line-up, with some shows repeated twice in a week to allow viewers a choice of viewing times.

TVS accepts sponsorship advertising and has an external sales and sponsorship agent, Media Brokers (http://www.mediabrokers.com.au). It also sells program airtime (a maximum of eight hours per day as permitted under its licence conditions).

The channel has engaged a small team of paid employees and volunteers (many of them media students), headed up by former _Seven Network executive Laurie Patton as CEO, Henri de Gorter (Program Manager) and Ian Sneddon (Operations Manager).

TVS is a founding member of the Australian Community Television Alliance.