Country | Germany |
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Broadcast area | Germany, Austria, Switzerland |
Headquarters | Landshut, Germany |
Programming | |
Language(s) | German |
Picture format | 576i (16:9 SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
Ownership | |
Owner | High View Group |
Sister channels | AXN Black |
History | |
Launched | 22 April 2013 |
Former names | Sony Entertainment Television (2013–2016) Sony Channel (2016–2023) |
Links | |
Website | axn |
AXN White (formerly Sony Channel) is a German pay cable and satellite channel owned by High View Group, based in Munich. The network was formerly wholly owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment.
Broadcasting started at 11:11 on 22 April 2013. [1] During its first years of broadcast, the channel was exclusively available for Deutsche Telekom until March 2016, when it became widespread among different providers such as Kabel Deutschland, Unitymedia, Kabelkiosk and Magine TV. The managing directors were John O. Fukunaga, Andrew Jay Kaplan and Karen Elisabeth Marsh, whose headquarters are in Landshut.
On December 15, 2016, the channel was renamed into Sony Channel and it later expanded its availability to Austria. [2] [3] On 19 September 2019, Sony Channel has adopted a new logo.
In July 2023, two Sony cable television channels were sold and managed under an independent media company, High View Group after the closing its deal. On 1 September 2023, Sony AXN and Sony Channel were renamed under the AXN branded names: AXN Black and AXN White. [4] [5]
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