General International TV Channels Thread

[canyuksel97]

Here In Türkiye, The First Private Channel Was Star 1 (Now Star TV)
And The Channel Was Closed Down At 1:00am On Weekdays And 2:00am On Weekends
Until Star 1 Was Switched Its Broadcasts To 24 Hours A Day On 15th September 1991.


Later, Some Commercial Channels Like ATV, Show TV And Kanal D Closed Down Its Transmissions At Night
With Rullo Notturno Styled Schedule Information For Next Day For ATV or Kanal D
And Teletext Which Was Run All Through The Night On Show TV.



Later, In 1996 Until Late 1999, Kanal D Began Showing Teletext All Night Long After The Closedown As Well.


A Few Years Later In 2014, Kidz-Animez (Now Defunct FTA Kids Channel) Was Reduced Its Broadcast Hours
Therefore It Was Closed Down At Midnight And Returning To The Air At 6:00am In The Morning.


BTW: Kidz Formerly Showing A Lot Cartoons And Teenage Series All Day
While Animez Block Containing Animes With Turkish Subtitles Was Aired In The Night As Well.

 

[Moleoman]

But I think TVR does not have any advertising (generally) inside of a programme, as TVP in Poland?

According to Polish media law, TVP channels the only programs they can interrupt with ads are sports transmissions. Otherwise, they can air ads only between programs: https://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/download.xsp/WDU19930070034/U/D19930034Lj.pdf

However, in mid-2000s/early 2010s, TVP tried to circumvent these restricitons by splitting some of their original programs into parts, with each airing one after another on the same day: TVN wygrywa z TVP spór o przerywanie programów reklamami At least in case of "Gwiazdy tańczą na lodzie", each of these "parts" ended with credits: TVP nielegalnie dzieli program "Gwiazdy tańczą na lodzie"

 

[RandomMe]

However, in mid-2000s/early 2010s, TVP tried to circumvent these restricitons by splitting some of their original programs into parts, with each airing one after another on the same day: TVN wygrywa z TVP spór o przerywanie programów reklamami At least in case of "Gwiazdy tańczą na lodzie", each of these "parts" ended with credits: TVP nielegalnie dzieli program "Gwiazdy tańczą na lodzie"

SIC and TVI do that minus credits for ratings purposes, just to show copyright tags.

 

[Insidus]

Looks like MultiChoice will be adding Sporty TV soon Why Canal+ Might Be Looking To Add Sporty TV On DStv?

 

[Cinartosun06]

Screenshots from a promo at the Reality TV channel that aired on Romantica Pan-Euro back in 2001-2002:
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Source?

 

[JulianRO]

The promo has three seconds that are very graphic, and per forum rules, I'm not going to share that.

 

[Cinartosun06]

The first four don't exist here. We do have Discovery Channel RO and TLC RO.

Same here, Eurosport 1 RO and Eurosport 2 RO.

Discovery Science closed here on the last day of 2023. ID exists with RO subtitles, Animal Planet still exists but I'm not sure if it still has RO subtitles. While on the other hand, Travel Channel closed here in February 2025 and got replaced by Food Network.

Animal Planet used to have a local feed but it got closed down in 2013 and reverted to the EMEA one.

We have Cartoon Network and Cartoonito with CEE feeds.

We had Discovery Science, Civilization and Turbo on ZON until 2012, for a while they were only on Cabovisão. From 2013 to 2015, they were on MEO, but Turbo was the first to go (I was told that they were starting to add cycling telecasts on DT LA). The removal of the channels implied the end of Discovery Latin America's control over the Iberian markets.

Italy does have its faaair share of FTA channels and Eurosport.
We had Animal Planet, Discovery Science and ID (+ Travel&Living, that also has no section on Discovery+), all Thanos-snapped (and ID also was on that pay TV that no one had (/lh), Premium Mediaset).
Never had Travel Channel, I wish we had Travel Channel. (But we had Fine Living when Scripps Interactive still was a thing?)

EDIT: Forgor of CN + Boomerang and CNN International. And Warner TV (that is chilling with Cine Sony and Paramount Network (+ Spike and Alpha, that everyone forgets ) in the graveyard nowadays)

As for us.

- No locally managed channels.
- Discovery, TLC and Eurosport 1 are localized feeds.
- Animal Planet and Travel are EMEA feeds with an ad opt-out.
- Eurosport 2 is a raw EMEA feed.
- ID used to be localized in 2015, as well as the defunct ID Xtra between 2015-2017, but following the relaunch of ID with a rebrand in 2017, it's the EMEA feed with an ad opt-out.
- Discovery Science closed in most of Europe, including Hungary, on New Year's Eve 2023.
- CN and Cartoonito is the CEE feed with an opt-out featuring ads and filler clips.

We Had:
Discovery Channel Europe With TR Audio. (Turkish Feed Until 2024)
ID EMEA With TR Audio.
Eurosport 1-2 EMEA With TR Audio.
DMAX TR.
TLC TR.
Cartoon Network TR.
Cartoonito MEMA/GR/CY With Localized TR Sub-feed With TR Audio. (Turkish Feed Until 2024)
Former Had:
Discovery Science EMEA (Until 31st December 2023, Turkish Feed Until 2022)
Animal Planet EMEA (Until 31st December 2020, Turkish Feed Until 2017)
Discovery Showcase HD EMEA (Until 2019)
DTX EMEA (Until 2019)
ID Xtra EMEA (Until 2018)
Eurosport News (Until 2017)
Food Network EMEA (Until 31st December 2017)
Travel Channel HD EMEA (Until 28th February 2017)
Discovery World EMEA (Until 2015 Or 2016)
Discovery Travel & Living EMEA (Until 31st December 2011)

Fine Living here used to be Zone Club before.

Warner TV continues to exist in RO, with a local feed inherited from the good old TCM.

Turkey We Never Had Fine Living, Zone Club & Warner TV.

 

[JulianRO]

Food Network HD Pan-Euro screenshot with Romanian subtitles taken one minute ago:

 

[canyuksel97]

We Had:
Discovery Channel Europe With TR Audio. (Turkish Feed Until 2024)
ID EMEA With TR Audio.
Eurosport 1-2 EMEA With TR Audio.
DMAX TR.
TLC TR.
Cartoon Network TR.
Cartoonito MEMA/GR/CY With Localized TR Sub-feed With TR Audio. (Turkish Feed Until 2024)
Former Had:
Discovery Science EMEA (Until 31st December 2023, Turkish Feed Until 2022)
Animal Planet EMEA (Until 31st December 2020, Turkish Feed Until 2017)
Discovery Showcase HD EMEA (Until 2019)
DTX EMEA (Until 2019)
ID Xtra EMEA (Until 2018)
Eurosport News (Until 2017)
Food Network EMEA (Until 31st December 2017)
Travel Channel HD EMEA (Until 28th February 2017)
Discovery World EMEA (Until 2015 Or 2016)
Discovery Travel & Living EMEA (Until 31st December 2011)


Turkey We Never Had Fine Living, Zone Club & Warner TV.

We Also Never Had TCM (Turner Classic Movies) In Turkey As Well.
Back Then TCM Was Time-Shared With The European Version of Cartoon Network During The Evenings.

 

[RandomMe]

When we lost TCM, it was still airing some classics, but then again the channel would eventually reformat

 

[themidnightlore]

At least France and Spain still have TCM...

 

[RandomMe]

At least France and Spain still have TCM...

Makes me wonder what the film selection is like

 

[JulianRO]

At least France and Spain still have TCM...

Greece also has it, too.

 

[themidnightlore]

Greece also has it, too.

No idea why the Greek one always slips out of my mind.

 

[JulianRO]

Probably because it's much "obscure" than the French and Spanish versions.

 

[Markus]

TCM is one of the only channels still with it's original purpose. That's being a classic movie channel. A lot of the original channels have lost their true purpose and it's sad to see. MTV out of everything now airs sitcoms in many places.

 

[JulianRO]

Turkey We Never Had Fine Living, Zone Club & Warner TV.

At least you had Romantica and Reality TV.

 

[RandomMe]

Greece also has it, too.

The MENA feed IIRC

 

[JulianRO]

Fragment from UPC Hungary's Info channel from 20 August 2000:


There is something I don't get - there were two versions of UPC Info's channel, one being non-stop and the other timeshared with an adult channel?

 

[RandomMe]

Still calling Channel One as "Ostankino 1" as of 2000 - even though it was ORT and it would drop the name ORT two years later - kinda like an anachronism of what things used to be, but then again most cable companies were reluctant to change the names of some channels.