Country | Germany |
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Broadcast area | Europe |
Headquarters | Munich, Germany |
Programming | |
Language(s) | German English |
Picture format | 1080i HDTV (downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SDTV feed) |
Ownership | |
Owner | Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA |
Sister channels | WarnerTV Film WarnerTV Comedy Cartoon Network Cartoonito CNN International |
History | |
Launched | 28 January 2009 (as TNT Serie) 25 September 2021 (as WarnerTV Serie) |
Former names | TNT Serie (2009–2021) |
Links | |
Website | www |
WarnerTV Serie (formerly TNT Serie) is a German pay television channel dedicated to broadcast television series. The channel changed its name to WarnerTV Serie on 25 September 2021, after the ad made on 14 June that year. [1]
The station was operated by Turner Broadcasting System Europe and launched on 28 January 2009. Since 1 June 2009, the channel has broadcast around the clock.
In August 2013, SES Platform Services (later MX1, now part of SES Video) won an international tender by Turner Broadcasting System, to provide playout services for TNT Serie, and for Cartoon Network, Boomerang, CNN International, TNT Film and TNT Comedy (in both SD and HD) for the German-speaking market, digitisation of existing Turner content, and playout for Turner on-demand and catch-up services in Germany, Austria, Switzerland the Benelux region, from November 2013. [2]
Source: [3]
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