DF1
| DF1 | |
|---|---|
| legal form | |
| founding | July 28, 1996 |
| resolution | October 1, 1999 |
| Reason for dissolution | Renamed Premiere Star; later merger with Premiere to become Premiere World, which has been called Sky since July 4, 2009 |
| Seat | Unterföhring near Munich, Germany |
| Branch | media |
DF1 was the first digital television station in Germany. On July 28, 1996, the station went on air for the first time locally, albeit only with a technical test license. DF1, based in Unterföhring near Munich , was part of the Kirch group under the German media entrepreneur Leo Kirch . The general partner was DF1 Digitales Fernsehen Verwaltungs-GmbH.
The station emerged from a dispute between the shareholders Bertelsmann , Canal + and Kirch on the one hand and the then premiere Medien GmbH & Co. KG, the operating company of the pay-TV channel Premiere, on the other. So the entry into digital television should take place later, using the Mediabox decoder already used by Canal + in France with SECA-Mediaguard-1 encryption system. So Leo Kirch set up DF1 himself without further ado, ordered 1,000,000 d-box -1 devices from Nokia and fed DF1 with goods exclusively from his film and sports rights archive. BBC Prime and NBC content was added over time.
From the start of broadcasting, DF1 was initially only received via satellite ( Astra ). In 1997, a court order forbade the nationwide broadcasting of the station. Later the program platform was gradually fed into the cable network. To receive DF1 you needed a decoder, the d-box. A subscription was required to view the programs on offer. Kirch sought to merge DF1 and Premiere, which was prohibited by the European Commission .
As a result, the Premiere shareholders Bertelsmann (37.5%) and Canal + (37.5%) largely sold their shares to the Kirch Group and nothing stood in the way of a merger between DF1 and Premiere. On October 1, 1999, it became Premiere World. In February 2002 this name was renamed to Premiere on the initiative of the then managing director Georg Kofler .
Channel list
| DF1 information channel | Promotion channel for DF1 |
| Cine action | Total action: weapons, explosions, heroes |
| Cine comedy | Fun and wit for the whole family |
| Star * cinema | TV premieres and loads of stars |
| Romantic Movies | Milestones in the love story |
| Western Movies | Big western movies and popular series |
| Movie palace | Popular television classics |
| Cine Classics 1 + 2 | Classic films from three decades |
| Home channel | Heimatfilme |
| Crime & Co. | The best detectives and commissioners |
| Comedy & Co. | Series hits with wit, tempo and irony |
| Heart & Co. | Series and TV movies with heart and soul |
| BBC Prime | Info and entertainment from Great Britain |
| 13th Street | Action, thrill, horror and science fiction |
| SF - The Science Fiction Channel | Extra-terrestrial and supernatural fascination with foreign worlds |
| Clubhouse | Entertainment for young people with cartoons, series and films |
| Junior / K-Toon | Children's television with cartoons, films and own productions |
| MTV Germany | Hit clips, stars and cool music shows |
| VH-1 Germany | Music television with hits from the 60s, 70s and 80s |
| CMT Europe | Music TV: Country music from the United States |
| Classica | Opera, concert and ballet from the world's major stages |
| Music Choice / DMX | 24 hours of music on 30 digital audio channels |
| Discovery Channel | Exciting documentaries from all over the world |
| planet | Backgrounds, reports and reports |
| Seasons | Program for hunters, anglers and nature lovers |
| DSF Plus | Top sport around the clock |
| DSF Action | A program specializing in wrestling which broadcast daily from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. |
| DSF Golf | Program for golf lovers |
| NBC Europe | Program with talk, sports and news |
| CNBC | 24 hour news and current stock market information |
| Blue Channel | The channel for lust and eroticism |
| Cinedom | Feature film highlights on demand |
| Blue Movie | Hot erotic on demand |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Markus Stauff: The new television: power analysis, governmentality and digital media , Münster: LIT Verlag, 2005, p. 17.
- ↑ Eric Karstens: Television digital: An introduction , Wiesbaden: Verlag für Sozialwissenschaft, 2006, p. 12.
- ↑ Michael Knauth: Access to the Internet and digital television: Technical principles, competitive strategies and regulatory approaches , Wiesbaden: Deutscher Universitätsverlag, 2013, p. 161.
- ↑ Michel Clement: Access to the Internet and digital television: technical principles, competitive strategies and regulatory approaches , Wiesbaden: Deutscher Universitätsverlag, 2000, p. 370.
- ↑ Markus Stauff: The new television: power analysis, governmentality and digital media , Münster: LIT Verlag, 2005, p. 17.