Viasat Explore
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| Launched | 6 January 2002 |
| Owned by | Viasat World LTD |
| Picture format | 16:9 (576i, SDTV), HDTV |
| Audience share | 0.1% (2008, ) |
| Broadcast area | Several European countries |
| Formerly called | Viasat Explorer (2002-2014) |
| Sister channel(s) | Viasat History |
| Website | Viasat World |
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Availability
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| Terrestrial | |
| evotv (Croatia) | Channel 109 |
| Satellite | |
| Viasat | Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania |
| UPC Direct | Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia |
| Focus Sat | Romania |
| Digi TV | Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia |
| Boom TV | Romania |
| Max TV |
Romania Moldova |
| Bulsatcom | Bulgaria |
| Vivacom | Bulgaria |
| Viasat Ukraine | Ukraine |
| Filbox | Turkey |
| Cable | |
| Com Hem | Sweden |
| YouSee | Denmark |
| Canal Digital | Sweden |
| LumoTV | Finland |
| Tele2Vision | Sweden |
| Sonera | Finland |
| Welho | Finland |
| RCS (Romania) | Channel 41 |
| UPC Romania | Channel 314 |
| Stream-TV | Russia |
| ER-Telecom | Russia |
| Uralsvyazinform | Russia |
| AlmaTV | Kazakhstan |
| Digital TV | Kazakhstan |
| ICON | Kazakhstan |
| UPC Poland | Channel 396 |
| Lattelecom | Latvia |
| IZZI | Latvia |
| Elektrons&K | Latvia |
| Teledünya | Turkey |
| IPTV | |
| Moldtelecom (Moldova) | Channel 407 |
| Open | Serbia |
Viasat Explore is a television channel owned by Viasat World LTD showing documentaries about wild animals, extreme sports, adventure, travel and technology. Viasat Explore is a pan Nordic and pan East European service. With headquarters based in London, United Kingdom, the channel started its broadcasts in the Scandinavian countries and after a few years expanded to many East European markets and the Baltic countries with subtitles.
The service was launched in January 2002 as Viasat Explorer in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland. On 1 November 2003 it expanded into Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Belarus, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Bulgaria. In 2006, all Serbian cable operators and their satellite platform, Total TV began with broadcasting this channel.
Viasat Explore does not produce any programmes of its own but acquires programming from American and European production houses.
The channel is now a 24-hour service in direct competition with the Discovery Channel and the National Geographic Channel. Since 2012, Viasat Explorer together with sisterchannels Viasat History and Viasat Nature are broadcast in HD together with the SD feed on the Viasat satellite platform. The channel was rebranded as Viasat Explore on 29 April 2014, gaining a new ident package and logo and dropping the "X" letter from its logo in flavour of an "E".
First Viasat Explorer logo used 2002-2009
Second Viasat Explorer logo used 2009-2014
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