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Sveriges Television
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Aftonbladet is a Swedish tabloid published in Stockholm, Sweden. It is one of the daily newspapers in the Nordic countries. The newspaper was founded by Lars Johan Hierta in December 1830 under the name of Aftonbladet i Stockholm during the modernization of Sweden, in 1852 the paper began to use its current name, Aftonbladet, after 25 name changes. It describes itself as an independent social-democratic newspaper, but it also publishes extreme left wing columnists in its culture section. The owners of Aftonbladet are the Swedish Trade Union Confederation which bought it in the 1950s, LO sold a large of its shares in the paper to the Schibsted group. As per 15 June 2009 Schibsted bought another 41% and became the majority owner with 91%, however, LO has the right to appoint the political editor of the paper. Aftonbladet, based in Stockholm, is published in tabloid format, the paper reported news and also criticised the new Swedish king Charles XIV John. The king stopped Aftonbladet from being printed and banned it, during its existence, Aftonbladet has leant in different political directions. Initially liberal, it drifted towards conservatism under Harald Sohlman, editor in chief from 1890 to 1921, during World War I, a majority holding was sold to the German government in a secret arrangement. In 1929 the newspaper came under the control of the Kreuger family, in 1932 it backed Per Albin Hanssons new Social Democratic government. Just a few years later it realigned with the Liberal Party, heavily influenced by pro-German staff members, the newspaper supported Germany during World War II. The Kreuger era came to an end on 8 October 1956, despite interest from both the Liberal Party and the Centre Party, Torsten Kreuger sold Aftonbladet as well as Stockholms-Tidningen to the Swedish Trade Union Confederation. The ownership change was first followed by a drop in circulation. In the 1960s, however, the newspaper saw its circulation surge rapidly, by the early 1990s Aftonbladet had run into economic problems, and many had begun to question the competence of the trade union movement as a media owner. On 2 May 1996, the Norwegian media group Schibsted acquired a 49.9 percent stake in the newspaper, the Swedish Trade Union Confederation kept the remaining 50.1 percent of its shares. The same year its circulation passed that of long-time tabloid rival Expressen, in 2005 Aftonbladet started a Web portal for business news as a joint venture with Svenska Dagbladet. In 1998 the circulation of Aftonbladet was 397,000 copies on weekdays and 502,000 copies on Sundays, the circulation of the paper was 402,000 copies in 2001. As of 2004 the paper was the most selling daily both in Sweden and in other Nordic countries, having a circulation of 422,000 copies and it was 429,000 copies on weekdays in 2005
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576i
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576i is a standard-definition video mode originally used for broadcast television in most countries of the world where the utility frequency for electric power distribution is 50 Hz. Because of its association with the colour encoding system, it is often referred to as simply PAL, PAL/SECAM or SECAM when compared to its 60 Hz NTSC-colour-encoded counterpart. The 576 identifies a vertical resolution of 576 lines, and the i identifies it as an interlaced resolution and its basic parameters common to both analogue and digital implementations are,576 scan lines or vertical pixels of picture content,25 frames per second. Digital information not to be displayed as part of the image can be transmitted in the lines, teletext and other services. Analogue television signals have no pixels, they are rastered in scan lines, in digital applications, the number of pixels per line is an arbitrary choice as long as it fulfils the sampling theorem. Values above about 500 pixels per line are enough for conventional broadcast television, DVB-T, DVD and DV allow better values such as 704 or 720. The video format can be transported by major digital television formats, ATSC, DVB and ISDB, and on DVD, when 576i video is transmitted via baseband, most of the differences between the one-letter systems are no longer significant, other than vertical resolution and frame rate. Digital video uses its own separate space, so even the minor colour space differences between PAL and SECAM become moot in the digital domain. When 576i is used to transmit content that was composed of 25 full progressive frames per second. This is the opposite of NTSC, motion pictures are typically shot on film at 24 frames per second. When telecined and played back at PALs standard of 25 frames per second and this also applies to most TV series that are shot on film or digital 24p. Depending on the system in use, it also slightly increases the pitch of the soundtrack by 70.67 cents. More recently, digital conversion methods have used algorithms which preserve the pitch of the soundtrack. Conversion methods exist that can convert 24 frames per second video to 25 frames per second with no speed increase, however image quality suffers when conversions of this type are used. This method is most commonly employed through conversions done digitally, and is employed in situations where the importance of preserving the speed of the video outweighs the need for image quality. Many movie enthusiasts prefer PAL over NTSC despite the formers speed-up, because the results in telecine judder. States the majority of authorities on the subject favour PAL over NTSC for DVD playback quality, also DVD reviewers often make mention of this cause. For example, in his PAL vs. NTSC article, the founder of MichaelDVD says, Personally, I find all but intolerable and find it very hard to watch a movie on an NTSC DVD because of it
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720p
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720p is a progressive HDTV signal format with 720 horizontal lines and an aspect ratio of 16,9, normally known as widescreen HDTV. The number 720 stands for the 720 horizontal scan lines of display resolution. The p stands for progressive scan, i. e. non-interlaced, when broadcast at 60 frames per second, 720p features the highest temporal resolution possible under the ATSC and DVB standards. The term assumes a widescreen ratio of 16,9. 720i is a term found in numerous sources and publications. Typically, it is an error in which the author is referring to the 720p HDTV format. However, in cases it is incorrectly presented as an actual alternative format to 720p. No proposed or existing broadcast standard permits 720 interlaced lines in a frame at any frame rate. Progressive scanning reduces the need to prevent flicker by anti-aliasing single high contrast horizontal lines and it is also easier to perform high-quality 50↔60 Hz conversion and slow-motion clips with progressive video. A 720p60 video has advantage over 480i and 1080i60 in that it reduces the number of 3,2 artifacts introduced during transfer from 24 frame/s film. However, 576i and 1080i50, which are common in Europe, generally do not suffer from pull down artifacts as film frames are simply played at 25 frames and the audio pitch corrected by 25/24ths. As a result, 720p60 is used for U. S. broadcasts while European HD broadcasts often use 1080i50 24* frame, arte, a dual-language French-German channel produced in collaboration by ARD, ZDF and France Télévisions, broadcasts in German at 720p50 but in French at 1080i50. EBU Technical paper on HDTV formats
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Sweden
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Sweden, officially the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and Finland to the east, at 450,295 square kilometres, Sweden is the third-largest country in the European Union by area, with a total population of 10.0 million. Sweden consequently has a low density of 22 inhabitants per square kilometre. Approximately 85% of the lives in urban areas. Germanic peoples have inhabited Sweden since prehistoric times, emerging into history as the Geats/Götar and Swedes/Svear, Southern Sweden is predominantly agricultural, while the north is heavily forested. Sweden is part of the area of Fennoscandia. The climate is in very mild for its northerly latitude due to significant maritime influence. Today, Sweden is a monarchy and parliamentary democracy, with a monarch as head of state. The capital city is Stockholm, which is also the most populous city in the country, legislative power is vested in the 349-member unicameral Riksdag. Executive power is exercised by the government chaired by the prime minister, Sweden is a unitary state, currently divided into 21 counties and 290 municipalities. Sweden emerged as an independent and unified country during the Middle Ages, in the 17th century, it expanded its territories to form the Swedish Empire, which became one of the great powers of Europe until the early 18th century. Swedish territories outside the Scandinavian Peninsula were gradually lost during the 18th and 19th centuries, the last war in which Sweden was directly involved was in 1814, when Norway was militarily forced into personal union. Since then, Sweden has been at peace, maintaining a policy of neutrality in foreign affairs. The union with Norway was peacefully dissolved in 1905, leading to Swedens current borders, though Sweden was formally neutral through both world wars, Sweden engaged in humanitarian efforts, such as taking in refugees from German-occupied Europe. After the end of the Cold War, Sweden joined the European Union on 1 January 1995 and it is also a member of the United Nations, the Nordic Council, Council of Europe, the World Trade Organization and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Sweden maintains a Nordic social welfare system that provides health care. The modern name Sweden is derived through back-formation from Old English Swēoþēod and this word is derived from Sweon/Sweonas. The Swedish name Sverige literally means Realm of the Swedes, excluding the Geats in Götaland, the etymology of Swedes, and thus Sweden, is generally not agreed upon but may derive from Proto-Germanic Swihoniz meaning ones own, referring to ones own Germanic tribe
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Swedish language
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Swedish is a North Germanic language, spoken natively by more than 9 million people predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, where it has equal legal standing with Finnish. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish, along with the other North Germanic languages, Swedish is a descendant of Old Norse, the common language of the Germanic peoples living in Scandinavia during the Viking Era. It is currently the largest of the North Germanic languages by number of speakers, Standard Swedish, spoken by most Swedes, is the national language that evolved from the Central Swedish dialects in the 19th century and was well established by the beginning of the 20th century. While distinct regional varieties descended from the rural dialects still exist. The standard word order is, as in most Germanic languages, V2, Swedish morphology is similar to English, that is, words have comparatively few inflections. There are two genders, no cases, and a distinction between plural and singular. Older analyses posit the cases nominative and genitive and there are remains of distinct accusative and dative forms as well. Adjectives are compared as in English, and are inflected according to gender, number. The definiteness of nouns is marked primarily through suffixes, complemented with separate definite and indefinite articles, the prosody features both stress and in most dialects tonal qualities. The language has a large vowel inventory. Swedish is also notable for the voiceless velar fricative, a highly variable consonant phoneme. Swedish is an Indo-European language belonging to the North Germanic branch of the Germanic languages, by many general criteria of mutual intelligibility, the Continental Scandinavian languages could very well be considered dialects of a common Scandinavian language. In the 8th century, the common Germanic language of Scandinavia, Proto-Norse, had some changes. This language began to undergo new changes that did not spread to all of Scandinavia, the dialects of Old East Norse that were spoken in Sweden are called Runic Swedish while the dialects of Denmark are referred to as Runic Danish. The dialects are described as runic because the body of text appears in the runic alphabet. Unlike Proto-Norse, which was written with the Elder Futhark alphabet, Old Norse was written with the Younger Futhark alphabet, from 1200 onwards, the dialects in Denmark began to diverge from those of Sweden. An early change that separated Runic Danish from the dialects of Old East Norse was the change of the diphthong æi to the monophthong é. This is reflected in runic inscriptions where the older read stain, there was also a change of au as in dauðr into a long open ø as in døðr dead
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Northern Sami
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Northern or North Sami, sometimes also simply referred to as Sami, is the most widely spoken of all Sami languages. The area where Northern Sami is spoken covers the parts of Norway, Sweden. The number of Northern Sami speakers is estimated to be somewhere between 15,000 and 25,000, about 2,000 of these live in Finland and between 5,000 and 6,000 in Sweden. Among the first printed Sami texts is Svenske och Lappeske ABC Book, written in Swedish and it was published in two editions in 1638 and 1640 and includes 30 pages of prayers and confessions of Protestant faith. It has been described as the first book with a regular Sami language form, Northern Sami was first described by Knud Leem in 1748 and in dictionaries in 1752 and 1768. The majority of his work has disappeared, en omarbejdelse af Prof. Knud Leems Lappiske grammatica in 1832. Rask opted for a phonemic orthographic system, following in the tradition of Rask meant that diacritics were used with some consonants, which caused data-processing problems before Unicode was introduced. Both Stockfleth and J. A. Friis went on to publish grammar books and it can be said that Northern Sami was better described than Norwegian was before Ivar Aasen published his grammar on Norwegian. Northern Sami was and is used in three countries, each of which used its own orthography for years, Friis orthography was used when work on translating the Bible into Northern Sami commenced, in the first Sami newspaper called Saǥai Muittalægje, and in the Finnemisjonens own newspaper Nuorttanaste. The groundwork for Northern Sami lexicography was laid by Konrad Nielsen who used an orthography of his own creation in his dictionary Lappisk ordbok, starting in 1948, the orthographies used in Norway and Sweden were combined into a single Bergsland-Ruong orthography. It was not greatly used in Norway, in addition, the authorities there instituted a policy that prohibited Sami from being used in practice. In Sweden, classes were taught in Sami in the Sami schools, in 1979, an official orthography for Northern Sami was adopted for use in Norway, Sweden and Finland. In Norway, Northern Sami is currently a language of two counties and six municipalities. The consonant inventory of Northern Sami is large, consisting of three different series of plosives/affricates and two series of nasals, in addition, length is contrastive for almost all consonants. /v/ is realised as a fricative in the syllable onset. Although is a fricative, it behaves phonologically like an approximant, all consonants can be geminated, except for /h/. This distinction is phonemically contrastive and widely productive as a grammatical feature, geminated glottalized nasals are realised with the glottalization in between the two consonants. In geminated preaspirated consonants, it is the preaspiration that lengthens rather than the occlusion, except for glottalized or preaspirated consonants, /h/, /j/ or /ʎ/, all consonants also possess a third overlong length
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Swedish Sign Language
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Swedish Sign Language is the sign language used in Sweden. It is recognized by the Swedish government as the official sign language. There are less than 10,000 speakers, making the language endangered, Swedish sign language first came into use in 1800. It does not stem from any other languages, in fact, this self-created language went on to influence Finnish sign language and Portuguese sign language. 1809 marks the year of the first deaf school in Sweden and it wasnt until 1981 that Swedish Sign Language was recognized as a national language of Sweden. Many of the used in fingerspelling in Swedish Sign Language are similar to those in American Sign Language. Per the Education Act 1998, deaf children are expected to be able to write in Swedish and English, thus, the establishment of six state-run schools have been established regionally for deaf children who cannot attend traditional comprehensive schools. Interpreters are found in hospitals, and they teach the language to the parents. Sweden provides 240 hours of courses over four years to parents so that they may learn to communicate with their children, additionally, weekly courses in the language are also available to the siblings of deaf children and the children of deaf parents. Since the recognition of Swedish Sign Language as a language of Sweden. Subtitles in sign language are also increasing. On November 29,2001, the first bible translated into Swedish Sign Language was received
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SVT1
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SVT1 is the primary television station of the Swedish public service broadcaster Sveriges Television in Sweden. Television in Sweden officially launched on 4 September 1956 with the launch of Radiotjänst TV, the arrival of a second television network, TV2, led to the first channel relaunching as TV1 in 1969, while remaining under the Sveriges Radio banner. Full-time colour broadcasting in 1970 before both networks were placed under the management of Sveriges Television on 1 July 1979, increased competition from commercial channels, including TV4, led to another relaunch as SVT1 in 1996, incorporating programming produced from across the country. A major corporate revamp in 2001 saw the channel repositioned as SVTs flagship network in an effort to make it the most watched station in Sweden - a position previously held by SVT2. As part of the revamp, TV2s popular news programme Rapport moved to the first network while Aktuellt moved to the second network. Alongside Rapport, SVTs main entertainment shows air on the first channel, including Melodifestivalen, Så ska det låta, since 2006, SVT1 has fallen behind to commercial rival, TV4 in terms of audience share. On weekdays, a typical broadcast day on SVT1 begins with the breakfast programme Gomorron Sverige followed by a mix of repeats, films and documentaries throughout the day as well as live sport. The main evening schedule usually airs from around 5pm until midnight with the main 25-minute edition of Rapport at 7. 30pm, alongside shorter bulletins at 6pm, repeat programming airs throughout the night. Since August 2008, SVT1 also broadcast regional programming, including opt-outs in Gomorron Sverige, a main 15-minute bulletin at 6. 30pm. The late bulletin airs on SVT2 at 9. 35pm as part of Aktuellt, stories from SVTs regional newsrooms also feature in the national programme Sverige idag on weekdays. As of April 2015, there are 21 regional news services, under the SVT Nyheter banner, initially known as Radiotjänst TV, the channel was renamed as Sveriges Radio TV after its parent company. It was usually referred to as TV for short, as it was the television service available at the time. During the 1960s, the service usually used the Sveriges Radio logo as identification. It was designed by Karl-Erik Forsberg and is still in use by Sveriges Radio, at start up and closedown, the service used an ident slide consisting of an art deco version of central Stockholm, with the Stockholm City Hall in the centre. When a second channel launched in December 1969, Sveriges Radio TV was renamed TV1, as colour television arrived a year later, TV1 started using a blue background behind their logo. TV1 and TV2 became part of Sveriges Television in 1980, the new company received a new logo a year later, designed by Sid Sutton, with similarly designed logos for both networks. On screen, the TV1 and TV2 logos were usually seen accompanying picturesque slides of the country, the Kanal 1 revamp in 1987 saw the introduction of a computer-animated ident featuring Stockholm landmarks surrounding the logo. Full-time in-vision continuity returned as part of a revamp in 1994
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SVT Barnkanalen
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SVT Barnkanalen is a channel from Sveriges Television dedicated to childrens programming. Barnkanalen started broadcasting on 23 December 2002, during its first year it was only available from 6.30 a. m. to 6.00 p. m. on weekdays. The channel also took a vacation between 23 May and 18 August. The rest of the time could be used for other programming, the programming was aimed at pre-school children in the mornings and the afternoon programming was targeted at older children. The morning block featured special announcers that presented programmes from the TV ship, right after it had finished, the morning programmes would rerun immediately. At 1.00 p. m. an interactive show called Twebby was broadcast, afternoon programming included animation, English language programming as well as dramas from the SVT archives. On 6 December 2003, the channel started broadcasting on weekends, from 2004, Barnkanalen would be a full year service. During the 2004 Summer Olympics, SVT Extra would simulcast with Barnkanalen in the evenings and from 27 September 2004, the TV ship was removed in the autumn of 2005 and its presenters was integrated with Bolibompa, the evening children strand on SVT1. Bolibompa would from then be the brand for pre-school programming on Barnkanalen as well, Twebby was discontinued later in the autumn. In February 2006, Barnkanalen got new graphics and Joppe and Nella were removed, instead, a new show called Bobster was shown between the programmes in the afternoon. Bobster would also broadcast between 7 p. m. and 7.30 p. m. in SVT1, on 1 September 2007 Barnkanalen had its broadcasting hours extended to 7 p. m. allowing Bobster to broadcast for another hour. On 25 August 2008 SVT made a major reshuffle in its schedules and this meant that the primetime broadcasts from Bolibompa at 6 p. m. and Bobster at 7 p. m. that were previously broadcast on SVT1 would be moved to Barnkanalen. Barnkanalen was upgraded as one of the three main channels from SVT, meaning that the channel would receive most of SVTs funding for childrens programmes, with the reorganization, Barnkanalen was given a new look. The new logo reads SVTB, but it is referred to as Barnkanalen. SVTB would now start every day at 6.30 a. m. with programmes aimed at pre-schoolers under the Bolibompa brand. This includes presenter-lead segments called Bolibompamorgon between 7 a. m. and 8.30 a. m. on Weekdays, Bolibompa continues until 3 p. m. when Bobster for the older children starts. On Weekends, Bobster starts at 2 p. m. Bobster also includes an update from Lilla Aktuellt every weekday at 4 p. m. The primetime edition of Bolibompa broadcast between 6 p. m. and 7 p. m and this is followed by Bobster between 7 p. m. and 8 p. m
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Kunskapskanalen
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Kunskapskanalen is a Swedish language television channel broadcasting educational and factual programming between 9 a. m. and 01 a. m. all days of the week. Because Denmark and Sweden borders so close at the Øresund Strait, the channel officially started broadcasting on 27 September 2004, initially only between Sundays and Thursdays. Transmissions on Fridays and Saturdays started in January 2006, on weekdays, UR broadcast between 6-7,30 and 9, 30-11 and SVT between 7, 30-9,30. On weekends UR started at 6, handing over to SVT at 9, UR used in-vision presenters for their programmes until January 2007, when in-vision continuity was abolished. At night a simple caption is broadcast, the channel shares space with Barnkanalen, which broadcasts during the day. On 1 September 2007 the channel got new broadcasting hours, Barnkanalen took over the 6-7 slot, while Kunskapskanalen extended its broadcasting time to 1 a. m. In autumn 2008, Barnkanalen took over yet another hour of broadcast time. From 8 August 2008 Barnkanalen would broadcast until 7.30, and from on weekdays, SVT also cuts down on the amount of original programming they produce for Kunskapskanalen, letting the channel rerun programmes from SVT2 instead. Starting 18 January 2010 Kunskapskanalen will have its broadcast hours dramatically increased when it takes over SVT24s channel space and it will then broadcast from 9 a. m. on Weekdays and from 12 p. m. on Weekends. During the daytime, it will broadcast SVT Forum which broadcasts seminars, debates and coverage of the Riksdag, the channel logo has been present since the start and is inspired by Oscar Reutersvärds impossible figures. List of documentary television channels Official site
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SVT24
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SVT24, stylized as svt24, formerly known as SVT24 or 24 is a Swedish language TV channel broadcast by Sveriges Television. It started broadcasting in 1999 as a news channel. In 2003 it extended its scope to other current events-related programmes. Nowadays the channel consists of news, sports and entertainment programmes with a focus on reruns from SVT1. On 15 March 1999 at 13,15 the broadcasting of SVT24 started and it started with a news summary followed by an official opening by the CEO of SVT. In the beginning, SVT24 simulcasted with other channels a lot of the time, first in SVT2, SVT24 got to take care of extended broadcasts in case of special events. The channel broadcast news every fifteen minutes throughout the weekday, however, there were no broadcasts in the weekends and the nightly broadcasts started some months later. At,00 and,30 SVT24 showed longer bulletins, but the,15, the channel also broadcast economic news twice every hour, lots of weather forecasts, reports from the Nordic countries and other featured stories. The material was mostly picked up from other news programmes, SVT24 used digital technology for broadcasting, so a bulletin from SVT24 was much cheaper to broadcast than a bulletin from Rapport or Aktuellt. Thats why during 1999 and 2000 SVT24 took over all the short bulletins from Rapport, in 2000 SVT24 merged with Rapport and Aktuellt into one central newsdesk. After some time, the channel was hit by cost savings, all broadcasts between 09,30 and 16,00 ceased for some time and the economic news disappeared. On 8 September 2001, Aktuellt and Rapport moved to a new common studio and that meant that all bulletins in SVT1 got the Rapport brand, making SVT24 only broadcasting digitally. SVT24 moved into the studio a week later. In the end of 2002 SVT declared that they were going to two new channels. That meant that SVT24 was about to be merged with SVT Extra into a new channel,24 would include a wider range of programmes than SVT24 did, also including acquired programming, sports events and weekend broadcasts. The new channel was launched on 24 February 2003 and it consisted of short three-minute bulletins from Rapport every half-hour. Between these many different programs were shown, in the day-time this consisted of 24 Direkt,24 Måndag-Fredag and reruns of the evening programmes. The prime time show at 20,00 was 24 minuter, other prime time shows included 24 Nöje,24 Konsument, Sverige Nu and acquired programming such as Saturday Night Live, documentaries and World News from BBC World
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Canal Digital
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Since 2003, Canal Digital is fully owned by Telenor. More than 2.9 million Nordic households and activities are subscribed to their services, FTTH services have slowly started in selected areas in Norway. Internet access through the network is based on the EuroDOCSIS standard. Canal Digitals cable system in the newer network areas which includes most of Canal Digitals cable networks in Norway is based on hybrid fibre-coaxial technology, some other network areas are copper only, but are subjected to upgrading in order to support new TV set-top boxs. Unlike its DTH rival, Viasat, Canal Digital does not own a TV-network – they have however secured several multi-year exclusive deals with different TV broadcasters. As of 2011, Canal Digital has exclusive satellite rights with C More Entertainment, ProSiebenSat.1 in Denmark, Eurosport, BBC Worldwide, satellite exclusivity was more common in the past, but many channels that were once exclusive to Canal Digital have eventually signed agreements with Viasat. Broadcasters that were exclusive to Canal Digital but later joined Viasat include Sveriges Television, TV4 AB, National Geographic Channel, ProSiebenSat.1 in Norway and Sweden, TV2. Their satellite broadcasts can be received from the Thor 5 and Thor 6 satellites at 1°W with any DVB-S Receiver Equipped with a Conax Descrambling Module, Canal Digital was the first major distributor in the region to launch high-definition television. The first channel, C More HD, was launched in September 2005 using MPEG-2 compression, in June 2006, Canal Digital started broadcasting HD-kanalen from Sveriges Television and TV4 AB in Sweden, which did broadcast the 2006 FIFA World Cup in HD using MPEG-4 compression. HD-kanalen became SVT HD in October when SVT expanded their HD broadcasts, the major launch of HDTV occurred in Sweden in November 2006 when a special high-definition package with Discovery HD and Voom HD launched and C More HD was rebranded as Canal+ HD. The high-definition package is to be released in the other Nordic countries during 2007, high-definition channels launching in 2007 include Canal+ Sport HD in February, National Geographic Channel HD in April, TV4 HD in May, Silver HD in September and History HD in December. 2008 brought Kanal 5 HD in January, Eurosport HD in May, Nelonen HD, TVNorge HD in October, channels launched in 2009 include TV2 Film HD in January and Animal Planet HD in February. The HD channels were offered for as a separate package, but starting on 1 April 2008 this package was dropped in Sweden. DR1 an DR2 are also available with a subscription in Norway, Sweden. Although TV2 is broadcast on one of Canal Digitals transponders and its only available to the Norwegian cable market, and is not a subscription channel. Canal Digital in Sweden expanded into television in September 2003 when the cable companies Telenor Vision. Canal Digital sells decryption cards for digital television in Finland, prior to the close down of the analogue channels, the package consisted of Disney Channel and four C More Entertainment TV channels. When the analogue transmitters were closed down, a new multiplex launched bringing Kino TV, Nickelodeon, Discovery Channel, Kino TV is exclusive was exclusive to Canal Digital, while the others were also sold by its competitor, PlusTV
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Com Hem
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Com Hem Aktiebolag of Sweden supplies Triple Play services that include Cable Television, Broadband Internet, Telephone. Today the company has 135+ TV channels available to its TV customers, digital TV was introduced in 1997. A broadband service that uses the companys proprietary Cable Network was launched in 1999, in 2004 VoIP Telephone was introduced and the company became Swedens first nationwide Triple Play Service Provider. All the households connected to the Com Hem Cable Network have access to Broadband Internet services, services, Fixedline Telephony, Com Hem also provides interactive services that facilitate management, communication and maintenance for property owners. The company has around 700 employees with offices in Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmö, Västerås, Härnösand, when Televerket was privatized, the company remained as part of Telia, before being bought by private equity firm EQT. In 2011 the company was acquired by private equity firm BC Partners, Com Hem has been ranked as the TV brand with the least satisfied customers in Sweden 2007,2008 and 2009 according to Svenskt Kvalitetsindex, an independent customer survey company. In areas near Denmark, Norway or Finland, Com Hem usually includes channels from the countries such as TV Finland, YLE TV1, DR1, TV2 Denmark. List of Swedish television channels Official Com Hem website Official Com Hem Group website
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Television
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Television or TV is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome, or in color, and in two or three dimensions and sound. The term can refer to a set, a television program. Television is a medium for entertainment, education, news, politics, gossip. Television became available in experimental forms in the late 1920s. After World War II, a form of black-and-white TV broadcasting became popular in the United States and Britain, and television sets became commonplace in homes, businesses. During the 1950s, television was the medium for influencing public opinion. In the mid-1960s, color broadcasting was introduced in the US, for many reasons, the storage of television and video programming now occurs on the cloud. At the end of the first decade of the 2000s, digital television transmissions greatly increased in popularity, another development was the move from standard-definition television to high-definition television, which provides a resolution that is substantially higher. HDTV may be transmitted in various formats, 1080p, 1080i, in 2013, 79% of the worlds households owned a television set. Most TV sets sold in the 2000s were flat-panel, mainly LEDs, major manufacturers announced the discontinuation of CRT, DLP, plasma, and even fluorescent-backlit LCDs by the mid-2010s. In the near future, LEDs are gradually expected to be replaced by OLEDs, also, major manufacturers have announced that they will increasingly produce smart TVs in the mid-2010s. Smart TVs with integrated Internet and Web 2.0 functions became the dominant form of television by the late 2010s, Television signals were initially distributed only as terrestrial television using high-powered radio-frequency transmitters to broadcast the signal to individual television receivers. Alternatively television signals are distributed by cable or optical fiber, satellite systems and. Until the early 2000s, these were transmitted as analog signals, a standard television set is composed of multiple internal electronic circuits, including a tuner for receiving and decoding broadcast signals. A visual display device which lacks a tuner is correctly called a video monitor rather than a television, the word television comes from Ancient Greek τῆλε, meaning far, and Latin visio, meaning sight. The Anglicised version of the term is first attested in 1907 and it was. formed in English or borrowed from French télévision. In the 19th century and early 20th century, other. proposals for the name of a technology for sending pictures over distance were telephote. The abbreviation TV is from 1948, the use of the term to mean a television set dates from 1941
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Sveriges Radio
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Sveriges Radio AB is Swedens national publicly funded radio broadcaster. Sveriges Radio is a limited company, owned by an independent foundation. SRs status could be described as that of a quasi-autonomous non-governmental organization, the company was founded on 21 March 1924 as AB Radiotjänst, and performed its first public broadcast on 1 January 1925. It was officially renamed Sveriges Radio in 1957, Sveriges Radio was originally responsible for all broadcasting in Sweden, both radio and television, and hosted the 1975 Eurovision Song Contest. This structure was dissolved in 1993 with the national and local radio companies merging under the name of the old parent company, four radio channels are available nationwide on FM and via the internet. P1, news, culture, debate, readings, documentaries, almost no music is played, except in the daily summertime programme Sommar, and the Sunday morning Andliga sånger. P2, classical music, folk, jazz and world music, p3, popular music and comedy targeted at a younger audience. P4, popular music, entertainment and sport, chiefly targeted at an older audience, a large part of P4s programming is regional with 25 regions each broadcasting their own local programmes during most of the day. On 16 March 2010 Radio Sweden announced the end of broadcasts on shortwave, external service programmes would continue on the internet only
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Scania
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Scania, also known by its local name Skåne, is the southernmost province of Sweden which consists of a peninsula on the southern tip of the Scandinavian Peninsula and some islands close to it. Scania is roughly equivalent to the modern Skåne County, the responsibility for overseeing implementation of state policy in the county is administered by the County Administrative Board. Within Scania there are 33 municipalities that are independent and separate from the Scania Regional Council which has its seat in Kristianstad, the largest city is Malmö, which is also the third largest city in Sweden. To the north, Scania borders the provinces of Halland and Småland, to the northeast Blekinge, to the east and south the Baltic Sea and Bornholm island, since 2000 a road and railway bridge, the Øresund Bridge, bridges the sound to the Danish island of Zealand. The HH Ferry route across the part of Øresund also remains as an important link between the Scandinavian Peninsula and Zealand. Scania is part of the transnational Øresund Region, Scania was part of the kingdom of Denmark up until the Treaty of Roskilde in 1658. The transition to Sweden was later confirmed by the 1660 Treaty of Copenhagen, the 1679 Peace of Lund, the last serious Danish attempt to invade the province failed in 1710, after the Battle of Helsingborg. The period 1658–1720 saw widespread violence by the Swedish militaries against the local population, the same was also true about the Danish military, though to a far lesser extent. The region did not form part of Sweden proper until 1720 and it was then divided in two counties and has since then been regarded as fully integrated in Sweden. Until the early 19th century, a policy of forced assimilation was employed by the Swedish government in what then had been a linguistically Danish region. Controversy relating to whether the Scanian dialects should be classified as a language or as Danish or Swedish dialects remains to this day. From north to south Scania is around 130 kilometres and covers less than 3% of Swedens total area, about 16% of Scanias population is foreign-born. With 120 inh/km2 Scania is the second most densely populated province of Sweden, the western part, along the coast of the Øresund, is by far the most populated part. The endonym used in Swedish and other North Germanic languages is Skåne, the Latinized form Scania occurs especially in British English as an exonym. Scania is the only Swedish province for which exonyms are still used in many languages, e. g. French Scanie, Dutch and German Schonen, Polish Skania, Spanish Escania, Italian Scania. For the provinces modern administrative counterpart, Skåne län, the endonym Skåne is used in English, in the Alfredian translation of Orosiuss and Wulfstans travel accounts, the Old English form Sconeg appears. The names Scania and Scandinavia are considered to have the same etymology, the name is possibly derived from the Germanic root *Skaðin-awjã, which appears in Old Norse as Skáney. According to some scholars, the Germanic stem can be reconstructed as *Skaðan- meaning danger or damage, Skanör in Scania, with its long Falsterbo reef, has the same stem combined with -ör, which means sandbanks
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Blekinge
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Blekinge is one of the traditional provinces of Sweden, situated in the south of the country. It borders Småland, Scania and the Baltic Sea and it is the countrys second-smallest province by area, and the smallest province located on the mainland. The name Blekinge comes from the adjective bleke, which corresponds to the term for dead calm. The historical provinces of Sweden serve no administrative function, Blekinge is, however, the only province, besides Gotland, which covers exactly the same area as the administrative county, which is Blekinge County. Blekinge was granted its current arms at the funeral of Charles X Gustav of Sweden in 1660, based on a seal from the 15th century. Symbolically the three crowns from the Coat of arms of Sweden had been placed on the trunk of the tree to mark the change in status of the former Danish province, the arms is represented with a ducal coronet. Blazon, Azure, an Oak Tree eradicated Or ensigned with three Crowns palewise of the same, Blekinge has a scenic archipelago and is sometimes called the Garden of Sweden. Blekinge became part of the kingdom of Denmark at some point in the early 11th century – most likely 1026 and its status before then is unknown. It then remained a Danish province for over 600 years, and together with the provinces of Skåne and Halland, as a border province Blekinge was often raided and looted by Swedish troops during Danish–Swedish wars. In 1658 it was ceded to Sweden according to the Treaty of Roskilde and has remained Swedish ever since, during the Danish era, Sölvesborg was the seat of the administration in the western part of the province and Kristianopel in the eastern part. Whereas the Lister Hundred belonged to Skåne, notable castles during this period were Elleholm, Sölvesborg, Lyckeby and Avaskär. Towns in Blekinge with city privileges were, Ronneby, Sölvesborg, Elleholm, after the Swedish takeover two new towns, Karlshamn and Karlskrona, were built, and the populations of Ronneby and Kristianopel were forcibly relocated to them. Karlskrona has for more than 300 years been the naval base in Sweden. Hundreds were the subdivisions of a Swedish province. Blekinges hundreds were Bräkne Hundred, Eastern Hundred, Lister Hundred, in Blekinge two main dialects exist. The dividing line between them has historically been the Mörrumsån, near the site of Elleholm. West of this divide, the dialect was closely related to Danish and eastern Scanian. East of this divide, the dialect has more in common with Småland dialects, today, this divide is not as significant as before, with the exception of Listerlandet with its special language
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TV4 (Sweden)
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TV4 is a Swedish television network. It started broadcasting by satellite in 1990 and, since 1992, in 1994, TV4 became the largest channel and remained so for a number of years. The two channels of Sveriges Television lost more and more viewers for a couple of years, after making schedule changes in 2001, SVT1 had practically the same numbers of viewers as TV4. Since 2004 the TV4 Group has been an active member of the European Broadcasting Union. TV4 was launched on 15 September 1990, the channel invested in an extensive news organisation and Swedish drama series. The premiere suffered from technical faults and the series werent popular with critics. In 1991, two of the channels oldest entertainment programmes premiered, the Swedish version of Jeopardy. and the Saturday night bingo show Bingolotto, Bingolotto in particular became highly popular. This year also saw TV4 awarded a license to broadcast terrestrially, terrestrial broadcasts started on 2 March 1992. During this year, Nyhetsmorgon started and marked the introduction of weekday breakfast television in Sweden and they have also broadcast several home-grown sitcoms such as Rena Rama Rolf and En fyra för tre as well as the soap opera Tre kronor. In the early 1990s, the TV4 Group decided to move their 7pm evening news to 7, 30pm in order to compete with the most popular programme, Rapport. This failed and the news was moved to 6, 30pm. In 2004, the news was moved to 7pm. In 2004, TV4 began transitioning to become a digital-only service, on 19 September 2005, TV4 began shutting down analogue terrestrial transmissions, starting at the island of Gotland. The analogue shutoff was completed by October 2007, before TV4 Group closing, started with ads, philosophy words, national anthem Du gamla, Du fria and terrestrial programmes. Since 2004, TV4 has been broadcasting a Swedish version of the internationally popular Pop Idol format, TV4 offers a mix of news, sports, drama series, soaps, entertainment, current affairs programmes, sitcoms, feature films, documentaries and phone-in shows. News is an important part of TV4 and it broadcasts the news program Nyheterna, at 7pm & 10pm and Nyhetsmorgon in the mornings. On weekend mornings there is childrens programming in Swedish before Nyhetsmorgon starts, after 11pm until Nyhetsmorgon, it shows reruns and some Swedish and English television series. After the Nyhetsmorgon ends on weekdays the Efter tio starts followed by English spoken TV series up until the news at 7pm, in the daytime on weekends there are often reruns and sports programs
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Aktuellt
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Aktuellt is a Swedish nightly news programme produced by Sveriges Television and broadcast on its second channel, SVT2 in Sweden. First broadcast on 2 September 1958, Aktuellt, with the start of TV2 in 1969, the Aktuellt brand disappeared but was revived in 1972 when TV1 began airing two main bulletins at 6pm and 9pm. The 6pm bulletin was moved to SVT2 in 1997, followed on 15 January 2001 by the 9pm edition. The year before, editorial responsibility for Aktuellt, Rapport, and SVTs news channel, SVT24, was unified, nevertheless, on 5 March 2012, the programme was extended to 60 minutes and now incorporates sports updates, regional news opt-outs & a news summary. The programme is now co-anchored by a team of presenters - Anna Hedenmo, Jon Nilsson, Claes Elfsberg. In 2015 Mona Walter criticized Aktuellt for censoring a segment about an incident in Rinkeby
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Sid Sutton
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Sid Sutton is a British graphic designer most famous for designing the Doctor Who title sequences from 1981 until 1986. The title sequences for Doctor Who were the versions and were used from The Leisure Hive until the end of The Trial of a Time Lord. For 1987s Time and the Rani, Oliver Elmes designed the titles, sid Sutton also provided the cover designs for the earliest BBC VHS Video Doctor Who releases, including The Seeds of Death and Day of the Daleks. He also created logos for Sveriges Television, sid Sutton at the Internet Movie Database
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Sign language
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A sign language is a language which chiefly uses manual communication to convey meaning, as opposed to acoustically conveyed sound patterns. This can involve simultaneously combining hand shapes, orientation and movement of the hands, arms or body, Sign languages share many similarities with spoken languages, which depend primarily on sound, and linguists consider both to be types of natural language. They should not be confused with language, which is a kind of non-linguistic communication. Wherever communities of people exist, sign languages have developed. Although signing is used primarily by the deaf, it is used by others, such as people who can hear but cannot physically speak. It is not clear how many languages there are. A common misconception is that all languages are the same worldwide or that sign language is international. Aside from the pidgin International Sign, each country generally has its own, native sign language, the 2013 edition of Ethnologue lists 137 sign languages. Some sign languages have obtained some form of recognition, while others have no status at all. Groups of deaf people have used sign languages throughout history, pedro Ponce de León is said to have developed the first manual alphabet. In 1620, Juan Pablo Bonet published Reducción de las letras y arte para enseñar a hablar a los mudos in Madrid and it is considered the first modern treatise of sign language phonetics, setting out a method of oral education for deaf people and a manual alphabet. In Britain, manual alphabets were also in use for a number of purposes, such as communication, public speaking. Arthrological systems had been in use by hearing people for some time, some have speculated that they can be traced to early Ogham manual alphabets, the vowels of this alphabet have survived in the contemporary alphabets used in British Sign Language, Auslan and New Zealand Sign Language. The earliest known printed pictures of consonants of the modern two-handed alphabet appeared in 1698 with Digiti Lingua and he suggested that the manual alphabet could also be used by mutes, for silence and secrecy, or purely for entertainment. Nine of its letters can be traced to earlier alphabets, and 17 letters of the modern two-handed alphabet can be found among the two sets of 26 handshapes depicted and he described codes for both English and Latin. By 1720, the British manual alphabet had found more or less its present form, frenchman Charles-Michel de lÉpée published his manual alphabet in the 18th century, which has survived basically unchanged in France and North America until the present time. In 1755, Abbé de lÉpée founded the first school for children in Paris. Clerc went to the United States with Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet to found the American School for the Deaf in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1817
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Six Feet Under (TV series)
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Six Feet Under is an American drama television series created and produced by Alan Ball. It premiered on the cable network HBO in the United States on June 3,2001 and ended on August 21,2005. The show depicts members of the Fisher family, who run a home in Los Angeles. The series traces these characters lives over the course of five years, the ensemble drama stars Peter Krause, Michael C. Hall, Frances Conroy, Lauren Ambrose, Freddy Rodriguez, Mathew St. Patrick, the series was produced by Actual Size Films and The Greenblatt/Janollari Studio, and was shot on location in Los Angeles and in Hollywood studios. Six Feet Under received widespread acclaim, particularly for its writing and acting. Regarded by many as one of the greatest TV dramas of all time, it has since included on TIME magazines All-TIME100 TV Shows. It has also described as having one of the finest series finales in the history of television. It won numerous awards, including nine Emmy Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and a Peabody Award. The show stars Peter Krause as Nathaniel Samuel Nate Fisher, Jr. whose funeral director father dies and bequeaths to him and his brother, David, the Fisher clan also includes widow, Ruth, and daughter, Claire. Other regulars include mortician and family friend, Federico Diaz, Nates on-again/off-again girlfriend, Brenda Chenowith, on one level, the show is a conventional family drama, dealing with such issues as interpersonal relationships, infidelity, and religion. At the same time, the show is distinguished by its focus on the topic of death. The show also utilises dark humor and surrealism running throughout, sometimes, the characters converse with other, recurring deceased characters, most notably Nathaniel Fisher, Sr. The shows creator, Alan Ball, avers that this represents the characters internal dialogues expressed in the form of external conversations. Although overall plots and characters were created by Alan Ball, there are conflicting reports on how the series was conceived, in one instance, Ball stated that he came up with the premise of the show after the deaths of his sister and father. However, in an interview, he intimates that HBO entertainment president Carolyn Strauss proposed the idea to him. Ball stated in an interview, The show focuses on human mortality, the nature of life and death feeding off of each other. Throughout its five-season, 63-episode run, major characters experience crises which are in relation to their environment
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The Sopranos
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The Sopranos is an American crime drama television series created by David Chase. The story revolves around the character, New Jersey-based Italian American mobster Tony Soprano. The series portrays the difficulties he faces as he tries to balance the requirements of his home life. These are often highlighted during his sessions with psychiatrist Jennifer Melfi. The series features Tonys family members, mafia colleagues and rivals, in prominent roles and story arcs, most notably his wife Carmela and protégé Christopher Moltisanti. After the pilot was ordered in 1997, the show premiered on the cable network HBO in the United States on January 10,1999. The series then went through syndication and has been broadcast on A&E in the United States, the Sopranos was produced by HBO, Chase Films, and Brad Grey Television. It was primarily filmed at Silvercup Studios, New York City, the executive producers throughout the shows run were David Chase, Brad Grey, Robin Green, Mitchell Burgess, Ilene S. Landress, Terence Winter, and Matthew Weiner. The Sopranos is widely regarded as one of the greatest television series of all time, the series also won a multitude of awards, including Peabody Awards for its first two seasons,21 Primetime Emmy Awards and five Golden Globe Awards. A staple of 2000s American popular culture, the series has been the subject of analysis, controversy. It has spawned books, a game, high-charting soundtrack albums. Several members of the shows cast and crew who were largely unknown to the public have had successful careers after The Sopranos. In 2013, the Writers Guild of America named The Sopranos the best-written TV series of all time, before creating The Sopranos, David Chase had worked as a television producer for more than 20 years. He had been employed as a staff writer/producer for several series and had co-created one short-lived original series, Almost Grown. He made his directorial debut in 1986 with the Enough Rope for Two episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents revival. He also directed episodes of Almost Grown and Ill Fly Away in 1988 and 1992, in 1996, he wrote and directed the television film The Rockford Files, Punishment and Crime. He served as showrunner for Ill Fly Away and Northern Exposure in the 1990s, Chase won his first Emmy Award in 1978 for his work on The Rockford Files and his second for writing the 1980 television film Off the Minnesota Strip. By 1996, he was a coveted showrunner, the story of The Sopranos was initially conceived as a feature film about a mobster in therapy having problems with his mother
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K Street (TV series)
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K Street is a 2003 HBO television series about lobbyists and politicians in Washington, D. C. It was named for a street that is home to many lobbying, each episode was largely improvised, usually focused around the major political news of the week. This required that the show be shot within days of its air date in order to keep the episode fresh with current events. K Street featured a fictional, bipartisan consulting firm led by husband and wife duo James Carville and Mary Matalin as themselves, the show featured cameos from numerous real-life political figures, some of whom were aware of the fictional plot, with others seemingly unaware. The show made an impact on the 2004 Democratic Primary when Carville gave a line to Vermont Governor. Local appearances by the producer, actor George Clooney, caused considerable stir with frequent mentions in the Style section of The Washington Post. The show was popular in the Washington, D. C. area and received a fair amount of critical acclaim. HBO declined to renew the show after the initial 10 episodes on November 24,2003, in her review for The New York Times, Alessandra Stanley wrote, Much has been written about the growing resemblance between Hollywood and Washington. As seen from K Street, Foggy Bottom is just another La Brea Tar Pit, in a sense, the show comes off like a marvelous party, but one to which many of us are bound to feel profoundly uninvited. Adam Buckman, in his review for The New York Post, wrote, I didnt quite believe my eyes when I watched K Street, but like a UFO, Im eager for a second look. USA Today gave the show one-and-a-half stars out of four and wrote, youd think these people would have better things to do with their time, particularly the ones who are drawing a salary from the public treasury. Taxpayers and HBO subscribers should demand better for their money, frontline The Thick of It The Hollowmen The West Wing Absolute Power K Street at the Internet Movie Database K Street at TV. com K Street at AllMovie Film Comment review K Street at Rotten Tomatoes
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Parkinson (TV series)
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Parkinson is a British television chat show that was presented by Michael Parkinson. It was first shown on BBC1 from 19 June 1971 to 8 May 2004 then on ITV from 4 September 2004 to 22 December 2007, Parkinson began in 1971 when the host was offered a series of eight shows by the BBCs Head of Light Entertainment, Bill Cotton. It was to be transmitted during the lull in a late-night slot on Saturdays. A parallel series was shown in Australia between 1979 and 1982, Michael Parkinson would eventually return to the BBC for further series. However, in between his work for the BBC he did two series of shows for Yorkshire Television in 1987–1988 as Parkinson One to One, the format being an interview with a single guest. However, in April 2004, ITV announced that it had poached the interviewer from the BBC from the autumn of that year. The ITV version of the programme, produced by Granada, debuted in September 2004, with a set, theme tune. Its audience was around 6m viewers, the most recent Parkinson run on the BBC was one of the few recent British TV programmes that was not made in widescreen. However, his ITV show was recorded in the format with very tight close-ups, initially Bill Cotton was keen on a format more akin to the USAs Ed Sullivan Show, featuring entertainment and chat. However, Parkinson and his producer, Richard Drewett, envisioned a combination of guests whose celebrity had been achieved in different fields and their plan was that the final section of each show would become a conversation rather than a formal interview. The pair wanted to move the style as far as possible from the American prototype, even down to the removal of the hosts desk, at first, Cotton was against this but Drewett convinced him otherwise. A typical programme included three interviews, each lasting around 15 minutes and it was customary for the first two guests to remain after their own chats to observe and occasionally participate in those that followed. Such contributions were usually made respectfully, and when invited, though this policy backfired on occasion, in addition, some Hollywood stars were honoured in receiving a solo spot, Russell Crowe being one example. On occasion, an episode featured a single guest for its entire duration if the subject was deemed to be sufficiently deserving and this was the case in 2005 when Madonna appeared as part of her Hung Up Promo Tour, besides her interview she performed two songs. There was usually a musical interlude at some point, featuring a current recording star, If a solo singer, he/she was accompanied by the shows musicians, who also provided the walk-on music for each guest. In the 1970s, the group was led by organist Harry Stoneham, the role was undertaken by Laurie Holloway in the relaunched show. Michael Parkinson always sought guests who, besides being known, had some sort of story to relate. He then saw his job as allowing them to tell it and did so by being open, relaxed and he researched his subjects thoroughly, and, in the early shows, always had his list of questions to hand
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The Kumars at No. 42
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The Kumars at No.42 is a British television show. It won an International Emmy in 2002 and 2003, and won a Peabody Award in 2004 and it ran for seven series totalling 53 episodes. The show stars a fictional British Indian family, including Madhuri and Ashwin Kumar, their adult son Sanjeev, the family lives in Wembley, London, England. The shows central premise is that Sanjeevs parents have supported his dream of being a television presenter by having a TV studio built on what used to be their back garden and it is also a regular conceit that the guests appearance fees are paid in chutney. The show has a feel, though in reality much of the regular casts performance was scripted. In the early episodes only Meera Syal improvised to any great extent though as the cast became accustomed to their characters, Bhaskar stated in a 2009 interview, We never rehearsed the guests, and the best ones were the ones to keep the ball in the air. Sanjeev Bhaskar told interviewer Mark Lawson in August 2007 that the inspiration for the series was an evening when he took a girlfriend to meet his parents. They asked her questions and he wondered how they would react if he invited a famous person to his home. Ashwin and Madhuri are exaggerated versions of his own parents, the shows UK debut was on 12 November 2001 on BBC Two. It was produced by Hat Trick Productions and Pariah Television, seven series of the programme have aired on BBC Two, with the seventh shown in 2006. In an interview for Radio Times in May 2007, Bhaskar confirmed that the show had run its course, the Kumars also made a guest appearance on the 2003 Comic Relief single Spirit in the Sky performed by Gareth Gates. They also starred in the video and it reached number 1 in the charts and sold more than 550,000 copies. The Kumars at Number 42 was also shown in Asia on the Star World satellite TV channel, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation screens it in Australia. Its previous time slot, being right before hugely successful Australian comedy Kath & Kim and it was very popular in New Zealand, as well, where it was screened by Television New Zealand. It has been broadcast in the United States on BBC America, and in Canada, the programme was viewed on BBC Canada and it was shown in Sweden, as Curry Curry talkshow, by SVT2 in 2004, and in the Netherlands on the public broadcasting foundation NPS. It is also shown in Switzerland on Swiss TV station DRS, in India it was also aired on Comedy Central. In August 2002, the American channel NBC entered a deal to buy the format, a new version of the show was planned for Sunday evenings on Fox, restyled as a show in the 2003-04 season featuring a Latino-American family called The Ortegas and featuring Cheech Marin. Six episodes were produced, but never aired, the Australian version, Greeks on the Roof, debuted in 2003 but was soon taken off the air because of very low ratings
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The Wire
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The Wire is an American crime drama television series set and produced in Baltimore, Maryland. Created and primarily written by author and former police reporter David Simon, the Wire premiered on June 2,2002, and ended on March 9,2008, comprising 60 episodes over five seasons. Each season of The Wire introduces a different institution in the city of Baltimore and its relationship to law enforcement, while retaining characters and advancing storylines from previous seasons. In chronological order these are, the drug trade, the seaport system, the city government and bureaucracy, the school system. The large cast consists mainly of actors who are known for their other roles, as well as numerous real-life Baltimore and Maryland figures in guest. Simon has said that despite its framing as a drama, the show is really about the American city. Its about how institutions have an effect on individuals, whether one is a cop, a longshoreman, a drug dealer, a politician, a judge or a lawyer, all are ultimately compromised and must contend with whatever institution to which they are committed. The Wire is lauded for its themes, its uncommonly acute exploration of society and politics. Simon has stated that he set out to create a police drama loosely based on the experiences of his writing partner Ed Burns. Simon chose to set the show in Baltimore because of his familiarity with the city, Simon wanted to avoid a repeat of these conflicts and chose to take The Wire to HBO, because of their working relationship from the miniseries The Corner. HBO was initially doubtful about including a drama in its lineup. Simon approached the mayor of Baltimore, telling him that he wanted to give a bleak portrayal of aspects of the city. He hoped the show would change the opinions of some viewers, the casting of the show has been praised for avoiding big-name stars and using character actors who appear natural in their roles. The looks of the cast as a whole have been described as defying TV expectations by presenting a range of humanity on screen. Most of the cast is African-American, consistent with the demographics of Baltimore, the initial cast was assembled through a process of auditions and readings. Lance Reddick received the role of Cedric Daniels after auditioning for other parts. Michael K. Williams got the part of Omar Little after only a single audition, Jay Landsman, a longtime police officer who inspired the character of the same name, played Lieutenant Dennis Mello. Baltimore police commander Gary DAddario served as the technical advisor for the first two seasons and has a recurring role as prosecutor Gary DiPasquale
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Nip/Tuck
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Nip/Tuck is an American television drama series created by Ryan Murphy, it aired on FX in the United States from July 18,2003 to March 3,2010. The series focuses on McNamara/Troy, a cutting-edge, controversial plastic surgery center—but, particularly its founders, Drs. Sean McNamara, each episode featured graphic, partial-depictions of the plastic surgeries of one or more patients. Much of the drama is derived from the tumultuous personal lives of its main characters. The show premiered on July 22,2003, and concluded on March 3,2010, while the show was initially set in Miami, at the end of the fourth season it was relocated to Los Angeles and many of the characters have followed along. The show has earned 45 award nominations, winning one Golden Globe, Series creator Ryan Murphy has said that the medical cases on the show are 100 percent based on fact. The drama is set in a surgery center, McNamara/Troy. On the other hand, partner Christian Troy uses his charm to bring in female candidates and conducts vain business deals. Sean takes his job seriously, he is found having to fix some of Christians mistakes. In its debut season, Nip/Tuck was the new series on American basic cable. The fifth season premiered on October 30,2007, though production was affected by the 2007 Writers Strike, accordingly, the second half of the fifth season was not screened until January 6,2009 in the U. S. Another 19 episodes were picked up by FX, airing on October 14,2009, following a 3-week hiatus for the Christmas holidays, the show resumed in January 2010 and concluded on March 3,2010 with its 100th episode. Nip/Tuck filmed its 100th and final episode on June 12,2009, without creator Ryan Murphy, the show inspired the creation of the plastic surgery reality show Dr.90210. Golden Globe Awards, Won – Best Television Series – Drama, Nominated – Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Drama Nominated – Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Drama. Golden Globe Awards, Nominated – Best Television Series – Drama Nominated – Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Drama, Emmy Awards, Won – Outstanding Makeup for a Series, Miniseries, Movie or a Special. Nominated – Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series Nominated – Outstanding Main Title Design Nominated – Outstanding Main Title Theme Music Nominated – Outstanding Makeup for a Series, viewer numbers of Nip/Tuck on FX. Nip/Tuck became an instant cable hit from its 2003 series premiere, for its third season, FX aired Nip/Tuck solely in the fall of 2005, instead of during the summer season like the two years prior. John Landgraf, president of FX, stated that such a move was a risk since it stacked up against the full barrage of fall network competition. Including Cherry Peck / Quentin Costa, three episodes of Nip/Tuck rank as the three most-watched scripted programs ever on FX, the second season finale, entitled Joan Rivers, which aired on October 5,2004, drew 5.2 million viewers
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Veronica Mars
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Veronica Mars is an American teen noir mystery drama television series created by screenwriter Rob Thomas. The series is set in the town of Neptune, California. The series premiered on September 22,2004, during television network UPNs final two years, and ended on May 22,2007, after a season on UPNs successor, The CW, Veronica Mars was produced by Warner Bros. Television, Silver Pictures Television, Stu Segall Productions, and Rob Thomas Productions, Joel Silver and Rob Thomas were executive producers for the entire run of the series, while Diane Ruggiero was promoted in the third season. Veronica Mars is a student who progresses from high school to college while moonlighting as a private investigator under the tutelage of her detective father, in each episode, Veronica solves a different stand-alone case while working to solve a more complex mystery. The first two seasons of the series each had a season-long mystery arc, introduced in the first episode of the season, the third season took a different format, focusing on smaller mystery arcs that would last the course of several episodes. Filming began in March 2004, and the premiered in September to 2.49 million American viewers. The critically acclaimed first seasons run of 22 episodes garnered an average of 2.5 million viewers per episode in the United States, Veronica Mars appeared on a number of fall television best lists, and garnered several awards and nominations. During the series run, it was nominated for two Satellite Awards, four Saturn Awards, five Teen Choice Awards and was featured on AFIs TV Programs of the Year for 2005, following the cancellation of the series, Thomas wrote a feature film script continuing the series. Warner Bros. opted not to fund the project at the time, on March 13,2013, Bell and Thomas launched a fundraising campaign to produce the film through Kickstarter and attained the $2 million goal in less than eleven hours. They accumulated over $5.7 million via Kickstarter, the film was released on March 14,2014. Season 1 revolves around Veronica Mars, a school student. As the daughter of well-respected County Sheriff Keith Mars, Veronicas biggest problem was getting dumped by her boyfriend, Duncan Kane, after Lillys murder, Veronicas life falls apart. Keith accuses Lillys father, popular software billionaire Jake Kane, of being involved in the murder and this provokes Neptunes wrath and Keiths ousting as sheriff in a recall election, replaced by Don Lamb. Veronicas mother, Lianne, develops a problem and leaves town. Veronicas 09er friends—wealthy students from the fictional 90909 ZIP code—force her to choose between them and her father, Veronica chooses her father, after being voted out as sheriff, Keith opens a private investigation agency, Mars Investigations, where Veronica works part-time. Veronica helps her father solve cases and conducts her own investigations on behalf of friends, Veronica discovers new evidence which suggests that Abel Koontz, the man imprisoned after confessing to Lillys murder, is innocent. As Veronica delves deeper into the case, she also works on other investigations, seeks her mothers whereabouts
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SVT World
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SVT World is an international television channel from the Swedish broadcaster Sveriges Television. The channel is available on satellite in Europe and much of Africa, Australia and Asia, terrestrially in parts of Finland, the channel launched in 1988 as TV4 broadcasting a mix of SVT1 and SVT2 terrestrially to the Swedish-speaking areas of southern Finland. The channel was later renamed SVT4, on December 10,1997 the channel started broadcasting from the Sirius 2 satellite to all of Europe and was renamed SVT Europa. SVT Europa no longer broadcasts from the Sirius 2 satellite, it is now available via the satellite Eurobird 9, the broadcasts are mostly made up of the Swedish language programmes from SVT1 and SVT2. If both SVT1 and SVT2 show a programme for which SVT does not have rights, programmes from SVT24 or Kunskapskanalen are shown. When SVT1 and SVT2 are not broadcasting, SVT24 is shown, teletext pages from SVT Text are included in the broadcasts. The radio channels Radio Sweden and SR P4 are also included with SVT Europa, analogue terrestrial broadcasts in Finland ceased on 1 September 2007 when Finland switched completely to digital television. On that day, SVT Europa started broadcasting as a digital pay-TV channel there, in September 2011, however, it became a free-to-air channel again, sharing a channel with Yle Fem in southern Finland and the Swedish-speaking Ostrobothnia. To reflect the fact that the channel is now broadcast in four continents, its named was changed to SVT World in mid-April 2009. With the name change the channel moved its centre, which allowed it to broadcast in the widescreen format. The channel will also get new graphics, in October 2016, it was announced the channel will be closed on April 30,2017. The decision was taken because the business is no longer seen as viable as a result of increased competition. Recently, SVT World currently broadcasts Regionala Nyheter throughout the world at 1,40 am –6,00 am Official site
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Modern Times Group
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Modern Times Group is a Swedish digital entertainment company. MTG was formed out of the holdings of investment company Kinnevik. Since July 2015, MTGs digital presence was expanded through a number of acquisitions, MTG then acquired 51% of the shares in Zoomin. TV, Europes largest MCN and the 5th largest network on YouTube. Also very recently, MTG made the acquisition of 100% of DreamHack, MTG operates advertising funded channels in Scandinavia, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, and the Baltic countries. Networks MTG operates the Viasat satellite platform in the Scandinavia and Baltic states, the sports channels available in the different Scandinavian countries differ somewhat depending on different rights held for different markets and different business agreements. MTG also operates Viaplay, an online service in the Nordic countries. TV3 launches in Sweden on New Years Eve becoming the first commercial channel in Scandinavia, TV3 starts broadcasting to Norway and Denmark. The number of viewers increase from 1.2 million at launch to 3.4 million at end of 1988, august, Pay TV channel TV1000 launches. TV Shop starts selling products and services on TV3, TV3 achieves 45% penetration in Sweden and commands 90% of TV advertising market. Acquisition of majority shareholding in Svensk Text, september, TV3 Denmark launches, replacing the Pan-Scandinavian version. TV3 Norway launches, each Scandinavian country now has its own version of TV3, TV4 granted license as Swedens third terrestrial TV station. Kinnevik acquires 30% shareholding in TV4, Launch of Viasat DTH satellite pay-TV platform. TV1000 merges with competitor SF Succé, zTVs first year as independent channel. Kinneviks media companies report annual profit, september, P4 Radio Hele Norge a national commercial radio network in Norway is launched. MTG is one of its founders, first commercial radio licenses obtained in Sweden. Terrestrial TV channels launched in Estonia and Lithuania, TV4 becomes largest channel in Sweden. Minority holding acquired in Finanstidningen daily business newspaper, satellite TV distribution platform switched from Astra to NSAB. January, Radio Rix radio network formed through a merger between MTGs P6 and SRU, April, ZTV and TV6 merged to form 3+ in Denmark
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TV3 (Sweden)
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TV3 is a television channel targeted at a Swedish language audience and owned by Viasat. It was founded on 31 December 1987 by entrepreneur Jan Stenbeck as a joint Scandinavian channel, in the early 1990s, Swedish and Norwegian versions also separated. At the time of only two other Swedish television channels existed, that of the public service company SVT. Nowadays six Swedish channels are broadcast as terrestrial free-to-air, but no TV3, after the 1991 Swedish general election won by a right-wing coalition it was expected that the SVT monopoly of terrestrial TV broadcasting would be broken by the introduction of TV3. The reason why the Carl Bildt Ministry decided no to let TV3 become terrestrial was not explained by the government, speculation at the time was that the channel planned to locate in Gothenburg instead of the capital, Stockholm. Although Sweden has an area with long distances north and south. MTG applied several times for analogue terrestrial broadcasting licenses, but was declined after the 1994 election when the Social Democrats returned into power. Following that rejection TV3 offered shorter and shorter news programmes, poorer quality productions and it was one of the first channels on the Astra 1A satellite. However, in cities and towns Swedish TV3 become available through cable television networks. Today the channel is available via satellite (DVB-S/S2 through the owner MTGs Viasat and also at competing Canal Digital, terrestrial, despite being a channel with commercial breaks in all programs, the channel lacks news and live broadcasting and no longer has home-made productions. However, it is not a free-to-air channel. Via the analogue cable networks the channel is almost free of charge and is included with around 15 channels for a very low monthly fee. The channel originally showed factual programs, news, reality series, game shows, morning childrens programs, in 2006, it became an entertainment channel only, having dropped all daily news programmes. After digitization and sharper competition, imported films, series and mainly American sitcoms, are all what the channel offers, acquired programming on TV3 include among others The Simpsons, NCIS, The Nanny, Weeds, Charmed and My Name Is Earl. Previous original programming included reality and game shows like Expedition, Robinson as well as some factual programs. But as of 2012, due to the new channels thats been released after the digitization. Though the UEFA Euro 1996, in England, coverage was split between TV3 and public service, however, MTG bought the rights for the Olympics starting from 2016, and some of the Olympics may be aired on TV3. The national team football championships will remain in service and TV4 at least until the World Cup 2022
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TV6 (Sweden)
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TV6 is an entertainment television channel broadcasting to Sweden and now most of Europe through the Thor 2 satellite. It is owned by Modern Times Group, the channel has origins in the youth channel ZTV that started broadcasting in the early 1990s. In 2004, MTG started repositioning the channel by introducing sports broadcasts, in February 2006, MTG received a license to broadcast a channel called TV6 in the terrestrial network. This channel would take over virtually all ZTV programming, except the music videos that ZTV showed during the day, TV6 launched in May 2006 and simultaneously replaced ZTV in most cable networks. When ZTV was rebranded as TV6, a new ZTV channel started that only showed music videos, TV6 focuses on entertainment and occasional but high-profile sports broadcasts, comedy, sitcoms, action, science fiction and reality programmes from the USA are popular fixtures. Its inaugural night of broadcasting set the tone by scheduling a game from the 2006 ice hockey World Championships, sports broadcasts are among the most popular programmes on the channel. At its launch, TV6 took over the coverage of UEFA Champions League, the Champions League final was broadcast on 17 May 2006 and attracted 820,000 viewers, which was the highest viewing share ever recorded for a channel that wasnt one of the five major channels. In December 2007 it was revealed that TV6 would take over the coverage of the Ice Hockey World Championships from TV3 in 2008, the Ice Hockey Championships has been one of the most popular events on TV3 since they started broadcasting it in 1989. The channel isnt to be confused with another channel with the same name launched by the company in 1994. It is now known as Viasat Nature/Crime, TV6 are broadcast from London in the United Kingdom making them exempt from strict Swedish advertising laws. They did however not to advertise alcoholic beverages or broadcast advertising targeting children as part of their terrestrial license. This has however made them subject to broadcasting laws in the UK, after the launch in Sweden, MTG have launched TV6 in Hungary and the Baltics. TV6 Latvia was launched on 22 April 2007, TV6 Hungary on 28 January 2008, TV6 Estonia on 24 March 2008 and in September 2008, in Scandinavia its counterparts are Viasat4 in Norway, and TV3+ in Denmark. TV 3+ uses graphics similar to the TV6 channels
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TV8 (Sweden)
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TV8 is a television channel owned by Modern Times Group broadcasting to Sweden. It focuses on current affairs, documentaries and drama, the channel was started by the private equity firm Ratos in 1997 and was sold to MTG in 1999. During the American invasion of Iraq in 2003 Bloomberg was replaced by the Fox News Channel, Fox News continued eventually but in December Bloomberg returned on some key slots during daytime. In November 2004, MTG launched their own historical channel Viasat History in the Nordic region, at the same time the programmes from History Channel disappeared from TV8. It was replaced by TV8s own programmes, the Fox News broadcasts were discontinued in September 2006. Nowadays TV8 shows English-language broadcasts from German news channel Deutsche Welle during the days, TV8 is profiled as a commercial channel with own high quality-programming, about such matters as financial and foreign news. TV8 is also showing several talkshows about domestic politics, documentaries, mostly from the United Kingdom, are also a part of the prime time schedules, as well as high quality drama from the UK and France. TV8 has so far not succeeded in attracting a lot of viewers, in September 2007 the channel was launched in the analogue package of Com Hem, the dominant cable distributor in Sweden. This means that the number of viewers have increased substantially. MTG have also started to promote the channel more, TV8 is also available through digital terrestrial broadcasts in Sweden, as well as on the satellite platforms of Viasat and Canal Digital
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Viasat Film
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Viasat Film is a group of cable and satellite movie channels broadcasting to the Nordic countries and owned by Modern Times Group. Viasat Film was started by Kinnevik on 27 August 1989 as TV1000, using one of the sixteen transponders on Astra 1A, in June 1991 TV1000 announced that they channel would merge with another pay movie channel called SF Succé. This gave the channel a content boost with several Swedish films and it also made TV1000 more able to compete with FilmNet which was the leading premium channel at the time. The merger took place on 1 September 1991, the name of the merged channel was initially announced to be TV1000 Succékanalen, but that never caught on. As TV1000 was much larger than SF Succé, Kinnevik would own 75 percent of the new channel, when Kinnevik spun off their media division into the Modern Times Group in 1997, TV1000 wasnt included. Kinnevik were eventually able to buy out the rest of the owners, in February 1995 a sister channel called TV1000 Cinema, or just Cinema, launched. Cable distributors were initially hesitant to offer the new channel, which led MTG to close down another channel called FilmMax in November 1995 and trying to replace it with Cinema. In 15 April 2000, when Viasat launched its platform, TV1000. On 1 September 2004 TV1000 had a major overhaul, Cinema and three of the time-shift channels closed down and were replaced by four themed movie channels. The line-up would then be TV1000, TV1000 Plus One, TV1000 Family, TV1000 Action, TV1000 Nordic, in early 2008 TV1000 launched its first high-definition channel. It was called TV1000 HD and is a simulcast of the main TV1000 channel for the Nordic countries, on 16 February 2009 an eighth TV1000 channel, TV1000 Drama, is launched in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland. At the same time, the other TV1000 channels had their logos replaced by a new design, the one-hour timeshift of the main TV1000 channel TV1000 Plus One was closed down on 1 August 2010. On 2 January 2012 it was announced that the TV1000 channels will be rebranded as Viasat Film starting from 3 March 2012 in the Nordic region, TV1000 is still available in Central Europe as TV1000 East. Daytime and Viasat Film Comedy began broadcasting classic comedy series in the daytime, TV1000 was previously transmitted using D2-MAC and encrypted with the EuroCrypt encryption system. It was available originally via the Astra 1A satellite, and later via the Intelsat 707 satellite and it was largely descrambled throughout Europe with pirate cards, especially popular in the UK for its English language films and late-night hardcore pornography. Today, the Scandinavian version of Viasat Film is transmitted digitally, as of 2011, Viasat Film has first-run rights with Sony Pictures Entertainment, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Universal Studios, Summit Entertainment, The Weinstein Company and Lionsgate. Initially, the channel was available in Scandinavia. In March 2003, TV1000 East began targeting the Baltic countries, Russia, a channel broadcasting only Russian movies called TV1000 Russkoe Kino was launched in October 2005
