- TV3 (Viasat)
TV3 is the brand name used by
Viasat 's flagship channels inScandinavia , theBaltic States , andSlovenia . Viasat is part of the Swedish media companyModern Times Group . The first TV3 channel was launched onNew Year's Eve 1987, breaking the monopoly on broadcasting in the Scandinavian languages.TV3 broadcasts at least six separate channels in
Scandinavia and theBaltic States , each with a share of localized entertainment and documentaries produced in the respective domestic languages. All the channels are broadcast fromWest Drayton ,Middlesex in theUnited Kingdom , which means that Viasat is able to circumvent the more stringent criteria for commercial messages that apply in the Scandinavian countries, specifically in relation to advertisements aimed directly at children, and the stricter rules on interrupting programs with commercials.Countries
At launch, there was one TV3 channel for all the Scandinavian countries. Separate channels for Denmark and Norway were soon launched so that there was a TV3 channel for each country. In the 1990s, TV3 expanded to cover the Baltic countries. Although Viasat's latest channels are not named TV3 they are all very much based on the TV3 model.
The channels that use the TV3 concept are:
*TV3 Sweden
*TV3 Denmark
*TV3 Norway
*TV3 Estonia
*TV3 Latvia
*TV3 Lithuania
*Viasat 3 Hungary
*DTV Russia
*TV3 Slovenia
*Diema TV3 Slovenia , which also carries full TV3 branding, orginates inLjubljana rather thanMiddlesex ; it is also programmed separately.See also
*
List of Danish television channels
*List of Estonian television channels
*List of Finnish television channels
*List of Latvian television channels
*List of Lithuanian television channels
*List of Norwegian television channels
*List of programs broadcast by TV 3 in Norway
*List of Swedish television channels
*List of television stations in Slovenia
*TV1000
* TV6
* TV8
*ZTV
*ZTV Norway External links
* [http://www.tv3.dk/ TV3] - Denmark
* [http://www.tv3.ee/ TV3] - Estonia
* [http://www.tv3.lv/ TV3] - Latvia
* [http://www.tv3.lt/ TV3] - Lithuania
* [http://www.tv3.no/ TV3] - Norway
* [http://www.tv3.se/ TV3] - Sweden
* [http://www.tv3.si/ TV3] - Slovenia
* [http://www.dtv.ru/ DTV] - Russia
* [http://www.viasat3.hu Viasat3] - Hungary
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