Viasat Film
| Viasat Film | |
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| Launched | 27 August 1989 (as TV1000) 3 March 2012 (as Viasat Film) |
| Owned by | Modern Times Group |
| Picture format |
4:3 (576i, SDTV) 16:9 (HDTV) |
| Country | Sweden |
| Broadcast area | Nordic countries and Eastern Europe |
| Formerly called | TV1000 (1989-2012; except in Baltic, Russia and CIS) |
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Availability
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| Terrestrial | |
| Digita (Finland) | Channel 125 |
| DNA (Finland) | Channel 127 (HD) |
| Satellite | |
| Cable | |
| Com Hem (Sweden) | Channel 85 |
| UPC Poland (Poland) | Channel 495 |
| Lattelecom | Channel 220 |
| DNA (Finland) | Channel 467 Channel 468 (HD) |
| IPTV | |
| Telia Digital-tv (Sweden) | Channel 50 |
| Moldtelecom (Moldova) | Channel 101-102-103 |
Viasat Film is a group of cable and satellite movie channels broadcasting to the Nordic countries and owned by Modern Times Group (MTG).
Viasat Film was started by Kinnevik on 27 August 1989 as TV1000, using one of the sixteen transponders on Astra 1A, the very first Astra satellite.
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. 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, while SF Succé's owners only owned 25 percent. When Kinnevik spun off their media division into the Modern Times Group in 1997, TV1000 wasn't included. Kinnevik were eventually able to buy out the rest of the owners, and TV1000 became a part of MTG in 2000.
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 digital platform, TV1000 and Cinema got two time-shift channels, each broadcasting the content with one- and two-hour delays.
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 (one hour time-shift of TV1000), TV1000 Family, TV1000 Action, TV1000 Nordic and TV1000 Classic.
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.
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