General International TV Channels Thread

[qweqwe_]

Europa Europa PL/HU closedown from 05.02.2006:


Interesting how in 2004, the closedown background was white-grayish, not yellow:
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In the pre-Zonemedia era, the closedown backgrounds were different. As for the footages, Romantica, Club and Reality TV were missing

 

[RandomMe]

I'm pretty sure Reality TV was 24/7 when it came here?

 

[themidnightlore]

Maybe the closest thing wuold be this:


Since later in 2006, the European feed was renamed Zone Europa

That's definitely quite bright in palette. So it's a a thing in Europa Europa's DNA of having very nice presentation, whatever the year was.
The only bad thing of that channel you linked is I can't seem to find anything Cosmopolitan TV LATAM, I'd like to see some of that!

 

[RandomMe]

The only bad thing of that channel you linked is I can't seem to find anything Cosmopolitan TV LATAM, I'd like to see some of that!

I mean, it wasn't on some large cable companies, meaning it's hard to find old footage. This is the oldest I could find:

 

[JulianRO]

Romantica

From 2002-2003:


And from 2000-2002:

 

[The Bloo Lagoon]

And from 2000-2002:

There is an animated variant too. (Warning: unwatchable outside Youtube.)

 

[RandomMe]

By then, there were some channels on cable broadcasting 24/7

Mostly the documentary and movie channels

I remember that FOX used to close down from 3 to 9 and showed a loop of bumpers, but in 2010 it became 24/7

 

[themidnightlore]

I mean, it wasn't on some large cable companies, meaning it's hard to find old footage. This is the oldest I could find:

Quite the girly vibe. Well, expected! If not wrong, the Canadian one did launch with this presentation too.
(Also, you can spot the channel DOG a tiny bit before the video ends...!)

 

[RandomMe]

Quite the girly vibe. Well, expected! If not wrong, the Canadian one did launch with this presentation too.
(Also, you can spot the channel DOG a tiny bit before the video ends...!)

It's impossible to find footage from most Canadian channels of the time though

 

[JulianRO]

There is an animated variant too.

I remember that at one point there were I think two MultiPIP videos posted by "tx39 - Reklamok" but I can't find them anymore.

Sorry for the double post, but I found something very interesting - looks like in Hungary, the CEE feed of CN/TCM wasn't instantly received once it got formed (at least, at UPC). Instead, it was the Pan-Euro feed.

In this MultiPIP, the movie aired is "The Green Years" from 1946, which wasn't on the CEE feed, but on the Pan-Euro one instead:

The same applies also for this MultiPIP, but the day seems wrong, or maybe it's either an error from myself as the movie doesn't match.

Somehow, the "RTV Részletes" magazine had the CEE schedules, sourced from Port.hu:

But on the other hand, Port.hu had schedules of the.... Pan-Euro feed at that time:

https://web.archive.org/web/20021116165614/http://www.port.hu/pls/tv/tv.channel?i_ch=91&i_days=1&i_where=1

So it seems that for a while UPC (and maybe other providers) in Hungary continued receiving the Pan-Euro feed after 01.10.2002 - when the CEE feed was formed.

 

[qweqwe_]

I remember that at one point there were I think two MultiPIP videos posted by "tx39 - Reklamok" but I can't find them anymore.

Sorry for the double post, but I found something very interesting - looks like in Hungary, the CEE feed of CN/TCM wasn't instantly received once it got formed (at least, at UPC). Instead, it was the Pan-Euro feed.

In this MultiPIP, the movie aired is "The Green Years" from 1946, which wasn't on the CEE feed, but on the Pan-Euro one instead:
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The same applies also for this MultiPIP, but the day seems wrong, or maybe it's either an error from myself as the movie doesn't match.

Somehow, the "RTV Részletes" magazine had the CEE schedules, sourced from Port.hu:
View attachment 318400

On the other hand, Port.hu had schedules of the.... Pan-Euro feed at that time:

https://web.archive.org/web/20021116165614/http://www.port.hu/pls/tv/tv.channel?i_ch=91&i_days=1&i_where=1

So it seems that for a while UPC (and maybe other providers) in Hungary continued receiving the Pan-Euro feed after 01.10.2002 - when the CEE feed was formed.

Almost different between the CEE and the Pan-European versions. TCM only had those at the time websites worldwide:
- UK (United Kingdom),
- Hungary,
- Romania,
- Poland,
- Spanish,
- French,
- Russian,
- Serbian (?),
- Denmark,
- Nordic,
- Sweden,
- Africa,
- Nederland,
- United Arab Emirates (UAE),
- Qatar,
- Greece,
- Israel,
- and Portugal.

 

[JulianRO]

Actually, back then it had only three websites, one of UK/PAN/CEE, one for France, and another one for Spain:

https://web.archive.org/web/20021126090646/http://www.tcmeurope.com/

 

[J10]

FOX Latin America extends to Central American market, such as Costa Rica, Panama, El Salvador, and Nicaragua.

 

[qweqwe_]

About a month from now, this year will hit its 10 year anniversary where TV2 Media Group announced 9-10 new channels. Back then, Spíler TV (originally TV2 Sport) and Humor+ channels were announced very late.

In cases, Humor+ was originally going to be launched as either Joke TV or Comedy Network, but it was afterwards scrapped, and name it Humor+ instead

Since its day, the only footages were lost are Kiwi TV, Spíler (1-2) TV and Chili TV (last mere minutes of test transmission are available on YouTube partially)

 

[JulianRO]

Romantica Pan-Euro next ident from 2002-2006:

Found another variant, with English text only:

 

[zakawer2]

How many subtitle tracks did Romantica have? English, Romanian, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian etc.?

And how many audio tracks? Original audio, Russian, Hungarian, Czech, Turkish, Arabic etc.?

 

[JulianRO]

And how many audio tracks? Original audio, Russian, Hungarian, Czech, Turkish, Arabic etc.?

On the PL+HU feed, only Polish and Hungarian. On Pan-Euro, it had Czech, Russian and Turkish. At one point Czechia was also part of the PL+HU feed. Both feeds had Spanish audio, as the original one.

How many subtitle tracks did Romantica have? English, Romanian, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian etc.?

From what I noticed, it had Romanian, Bulgarian, and Croatian on the Pan-Euro feed.

 

[qweqwe_]

On the PL+HU feed, only Polish and Hungarian. On Pan-Euro, it had Czech, Russian and Turkish. At one point Czechia was also part of the PL+HU feed.

From what I noticed, it had Romanian, Bulgarian, and Croatian on the Pan-Euro feed.

As for Europa Europa: the Poland-Hungarian feed are Hungarian and Polish. Latin American ones are actually Spanish

Reality TV had every languages (!!!) in one feed

And as for Club: back in the days it had bilingual languages in general (e.g. Dutch)

 

[JulianRO]

Zone Reality Pan-Euro screenshot with Dutch subtitles, from around 2008.

 

[TVArchive]

René Kroon and Inn Picture, together with Your Channels, will relaunch the music channel TMF in the Netherlands, but as a streaming channel.

Inn Picture has received licensing rights from Paramount to use the TMF brand for streaming. Paramount has also handed over the entire original archive.

The channel is scheduled to launch in May this year, but test broadcasting is already underway.