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Kinowelt Television
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TV station ( under private law )
Program type Division program
reception DVB-C , DVB-S , IPTV
Start of transmission May 12, 2004
Seat bad Soden
owner Kinowelt Television GmbH
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Kinowelt TV (own spelling: KinoweltTV ) is a German-speaking pay-TV station that broadcasts feature films . Hollywood classics as well as European films from many areas such as drama , romance , comedy , action , thriller , horror and westerns can be seen . Since 2009 the company has also produced three feature films itself.

Company history

Kinowelt TV was founded 50% each by Achim Apell - a former employee of Hessischer Rundfunk and Taunus Film from Wiesbaden - together with MK Medien Beteiligungs GmbH from Leipzig and was launched on May 12, 2004. Michael Kölmel and his originally founded film distributor Kinowelt (since 2011 Studiocanal GmbH ) were behind MK Medien . Apell is the brother of Kölmel's wife. Kinowelt TV is operated by Kinowelt Television GmbH based in Bad Soden am Taunus . The managing director has always been Apell.

Kinowelt TV can be received digitally via cable as part of the program bouquets from Vodafone Kabel Deutschland , Eutelsat KabelKiosk , Pÿur , Unitymedia , UPC Austria , UPC Switzerland and Swisscable . The program can be found via satellite in the Sky Deutschland package , and as IPTV from Vodafone and Telekom Deutschland .

Kinowelt HD has been on air as a high-resolution simultaneous cast version on Unitymedia since May 29, 2012 . It was broadcast on Vodafone Kabel Deutschland on October 15, 2012.

Kinowelt has so far produced three films itself: The Last Giants (nature film, 2009), The Presence (horror film, 2014) and UFO (horror sci-fi, 2015).

On February 5, 2013, the station introduced a new on-air and off-air design, in the course of which new logos for Kinowelt.TV and Kinowelt TV HD were also introduced.

In April 2014 it was announced that AMC Networks had acquired Kinowelt TV. A renaming of the station is currently not planned.

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Individual evidence

  1. Kabel Deutschland feeds three new HD channels
  2. Pyur station list. Retrieved August 22, 2019 .
  3. DWDL.de : KinoweltTV presents new design and logo , February 5, 201
  4. quotemeter.de : EILMELDUNG AMC / Sundance Channel expands to Germany , April 24, 2014
  5. DWDL.de: US broadcaster AMC is not coming to Germany for the time being , October 15, 2014