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Country | United Kingdom |
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Broadcast area | Ukraine Estonia Latvia Lithuania |
Headquarters | London, United Kingdom |
Programming | |
Language(s) | English Latvian Russian |
Picture format | 16:9 576i SDTV 1080i HDTV |
Ownership | |
Owner | Viasat World |
Sister channels | Viasat Kino Viasat Kino World |
History | |
Launched | 1 September 2008 |
Closed | 31 March 2023 (Ukraine, for a time) |
Former names | TV1000 Action East (2008-2023) |
Links | |
Website | Official site |
Viasat Kino Action is a television channel broadcasting action movies to the Baltics. It broadcasts international action movies. Movies are dubbed into Russian and subtitled into Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian. [1] [2]
In the Nordic region TV1000 Action was rebranded in February, 2009. TV1000 Action East was rebranded later in 2009.
On 1 March 2023, TV1000 Action East renamed to Viasat Kino Action. [3]
On 31 March 2023, Viasat World TV channels stopped broadcasting in Ukraine, the reason was a conflict of interests with the Russian owners. [4]
On 9 June 2023, Viasat World TV channels resumed broadcasting on a Ukrainian satellite provider Viasat Ukraine. [5]
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