Canal de Historia

History (formerly known as The History Channel UK) is a pan-European television channel broadcasting programs related to historical events and persons, owned by a joint-venture between A+E Networks, owner of the American History, and British Sky Broadcasting, the UK's largest pay-TV provider. Chello DMC is responsible for the signal distribution across mainland Europe and the subsidiaries of Chellomedia, Chello Benelux (Netherlands & Flanders) and Chello Zone (Central & Eastern Europe) are the distribution representatives across Europe.^[1][2] Its programming is mainly in English and locally subtitled or dubbed. It is available through numerous satellite, cable, terrestrial and IPTV distributors across Europe and the Middle East. In some countries the advertisement and the announcements between programs are localized.

There are specific versions for Germany, Italy and Spain & Portugal:

• History Germany, a joint venture between A+E Networks and NBC Universal Global Networks Germany
• History Italy, a joint venture between A+E Networks and Fox International Channels Italy
• Canal de História (also called História), a joint venture between A+E Networks and Chello Multicanal

History

The channel launched in November 1995 under the name The History Channel and was the first version of History to launch outside the United States. It was first broadcast from the crowded transponder 47 on the Astra 1C satellite, where it would broadcast for four hours between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. on weekdays. Among the channels it shared the transponder with were Sky Travel, Sky Soap, Sky Sports 2 and Sci-Fi Channel.

In 1997, Sky Sports 2 became a full-day channel and the channels that time-shared with it had to move. The History Channel would now share transponder 24 with Sky Soap and Sci-Fi Channel.^[3]

The History Channel launched in Scandinavia in September 1997, broadcasting for three hours per day on the Analogue Viasat platform. Initially time-sharing with TV1000 Cinema, it was later moved to the Swedish TV8 channel and continued broadcasting there until November 2004 when Viasat launched their own history channel, Viasat History, in the Nordic region and closed down the History Channel.

The launch of Sky Digital allowed the channel to increase it broadcast hours significantly. The channel was completely launched across Europe in October 2007.^[4]

On 26 October 2006, The History Channel HD launched in the United Kingdom and Ireland. A high-definition version of the History Channel was launched in the Nordic region on 13 December 2007. It offers a separate schedule to the standard-definition version.^[5] In January 2008, The History Channel HD launched in the Netherlands.^[6]

In November 2008, the channel got its current name.^[7][8] The high-definition channel became History HD in the process.

The company behind the channel was known as The History Channel ( UK ) Limited until July 2009, when it was renamed AETN UK to reflect the fact that the company now offers several channels.^[9] On 22 September 2011, AETN UK was rebranded as A+E Networks UK.^[10]

A+E Networks UK operations

Since the launch of History, the company has extended its line-up with:

• Bio. in October 2000
• CI on 10 July 2006
• Crime & Investigation Network Africa on 26 February 2007
• History HD on 26 October 2006
• History Africa on 1 December 2003
• Military History on 28 July 2008 until 4 May 2013
• H2 on 4 May 2013, replacing Military History

History Germany

In the German-speaking countries History is operated and run by The History Channel Germany GmbH & Co. KG, a joint venture between A+E Networks and NBC Universal Global Networks Germany. The channel launched as The History Channel on 15 November 2004 and changed its name into History on 11 January 2009.^[11]

History is available on the cable networks of Kabel Deutschland, Kabel BW/Unitymedia, Primacom and KabelKiosk in all German states. It is also available on cable in Austria and Switzerland.

On satellite, the channel was available on Arena. It was not available on Premiere, until that platform was renamed Sky on 4 July 2009. At the same time History HD, a high-definition version of the channel, was launched.

The channel also hosts the "History-Award", which has been given annually since 2005.

Canal de História

History is operated and distributed under the name of Canal de História or in short História by Chello Multicanal in Spain and Portugal through its agreement with A+E Networks, owner of History.

References

External links

• Official Site Belgium
• Official Site Germany
• Official Site Italy
• Official Site Netherlands
• Official Site Portugal
• Official Site Spain
• Official Site United Kingdom

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