Sky Atlantic (German TV channel)

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Sky Atlantic
Sky Atlantic - Logo 2020.svg
Logo used since 2020
Country Germany
Broadcast area Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Programming
Language(s) German, English
Picture format 1080i (HDTV)
Timeshift serviceSky Atlantic+1 (2015-2017)
Ownership
Owner Sky Deutschland GmbH
Sister channels List of Sky Deutschland channels
History
Launched23 May 2012;10 years ago (2012-05-23)
Links
Website www.sky.de

Sky Atlantic is a German-language pay-TV station specializing in the broadcasting of HBO productions and therefore has the slogan "The Home of HBO".

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History

The pay-TV station started its broadcast in HD on 23 May 2012 at 9 pm and was free of charge for three weeks for all Sky subscribers. [1] For the regular reception, the "Sky Entertainment" package and optionally the HD channels must be subscribed. A SD version was started on December 3, 2013. Since 5 November 2015, a one-hour timeshift of Sky Atlantic is also available in HD. [2]

The best audience, with 0.48 million viewers, scored the channel with the premiere of the seventh season of the series Game of Thrones on 17 July 2017. [3]

The timeshift channel Sky Atlantic+1 was switched off on 11 September 2017. The service was replaced by the timeshift service Sky1+1 on 22 September 2017. [4]

Programming [5]

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References

  1. ↑ Sky Atlantic HD drei Wochen gratis für alle Abonnenten, aufgerufen am 16. Juli 2012
  2. ↑ "Sky to launch Sky 1 in Germany and Austria". 28 July 2016.
  3. ↑ ""GoT" hält Rekord-Niveau, ZDFneo hängt ProSieben ab". DWDL.de . 2017-07-25. Retrieved 2017-07-25.
  4. ↑ Alexander Krei (2017-08-22). "Statt Sky Atlantic +1 - Timeshift: Sky 1 bekommt einen zeitversetzten Ableger". DWDL.de . Retrieved 2017-08-23.
  5. ↑ "Wunschliste". wunschliste.de. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
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