Premiere (pay television network)

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name = Premiere

type = Pay TV network
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country = Germany
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owner = Premiere AG
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website = http://www.premiere.de/
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Premiere is the first German Pay-TV company, offering several channels of digital content via satellite and cable.

The channel originally started off as a single Astra analogue satellite channel, showing films dubbed in German, live football matches from the German Bundesliga (league championship) and once the UEFA Cup. As well as documentaries, TV series and once in the mid 90's late-night erotic films. After the coming of the digital age, the service has since consisted of many channels with many new ones added over the years.

Channels

*Premiere Start (Discontinued)

Premiere HDTV

* Premiere HD
* Discovery HD

Premiere Film

*Premiere 1
*Premiere 2 (timeshifting program of Premiere 1)
*Premiere 3
*Premiere 4
*Premiere Filmfest
*Premiere Filmclassics
*Premiere Nostalgie
*Premiere Krimi
*Disney Channel
*FOX

Premiere Sport

*Premiere Sport Portal(Live Sport Events including Soccer/Football (UEFA Champions League, DFB-Pokal (german cup), UEFA Cup, Premier League, Premiera Division, Formula 1, Golf and WWE Wrestling)
*Premiere Bundesliga (Soccer/Football Channel of German Football League)

Premiere Familie

*Discovery Channel
*Discovery Geschichte (history channel)
*Animal Planet
*Focus Gesundheit (health channel)
*RTL Crime
*RTL Passion
*13th Street
*Sci Fi
*MGM
*Heimatkanal
*Junior
*Jetix
*Hit24
*GoldStarTV
*Classica
*Beate-Uhse TV
*Music Choice Extra (7 Audio Channels)

Premiere Star

*Turner Classic Movies
*Boomerang
*Cartoon Network
*Kinowelt TV
*Kabel eins Classics
*Sat.1 Comedy
*RTL Living
*e.clips
*MTV Music
*MTV Entertainment
*Nickelodeon Premium
*NASN
*Toon Disney
*Playhouse Disney
*AXN
*ANIMAX
*Eurosport 2

Premiere Austria

(only available in Austria)
*Premiere Austria

Premiere On Demand

*Premiere Direkt
*Premiere Direkt+
*Premiere Blue Movie

See also

* DBox2

External links

* [http://www.premiere.de Consumer Website] de icon
* [http://info.premiere.de Corporate Website] de icon
* [http://info.premiere.de/inhalt/eng/index.jsp English language Corporate Website]
* [http://www.lyngsat.com/packages/premiere.html Channel and Transponder List] en icon
* [http://www.eurotvguide.net/premiere.html Premiere Direkt Guide] en icon