ProSieben Maxx

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ProSieben MAXX
Station logo
TV station ( private law )
Program type Special-interest program (entertainment)
reception Antenna , cable , satellite , digital, IPTV
Image resolution 576i ( SDTV )
1080i ( HDTV )
Start of transmission 3rd September 2013
Seat Unterfoehring , GermanyGermanyGermany 
owner ProSiebenSat.1 TV Germany
executive Director Daniel Rosemann
Market share 1.4% ()
List of TV channels
Website

ProSieben Maxx (own spelling: ProSieben MAXX ) is a German free TV broadcaster of ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE , which started broadcasting on September 3, 2013.

history

On August 1, 2013, the station received a DVB-T license for the Munich area . ProSieben Maxx, together with Sat.1 Gold , Tele 5 and DMAX, received capacities that were used by the RTL Group until July 31, 2013.

On August 13, 2013, a test broadcast was carried out by ProSieben Maxx. A program trailer was shown.

On September 3, 2013 at 8:15 p.m., broadcasting began with the broadcast of the feature film Captain America: The First Avenger .

From the start of the broadcast, René Carl was the broadcaster's managing director. Since May 1, 2017, the station has been headed by ProSieben station boss Daniel Rosemann . In 2017, the station had a market share of 1.3% among 14 to 49 year olds in Germany.

program

ProSieben Maxx is aimed primarily at male viewers between the ages of 14 and 59 and is the sixth free television broadcaster of ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE in Germany.

Day program

During the day, ProSieben Maxx broadcast a broadcast window for children and young people, eight to nine hours of anime and cartoon series were broadcast per day . For this purpose, ProSieben Maxx has with the YEP! TV Betriebs GmbH & Co. KG, which for the YEP! -Block was responsible and marketed, collaborated. This broadcast window was discontinued on June 30, 2015 and replaced on July 1, 2015 by the anime block Anime-Action , which ProSieben Maxx is now responsible for and is marketing itself. In anime action, well-known series such as One Piece and Naruto Shippuden are shown both in repetition and with new episodes as well as newer series such as Haikyu !! , Dragon Ball Z Kai , Boruto: Naruto Next Generations , Dragon Ball Super , Hunter × Hunter, and Fairy Tail . In October 2018, ProSieben MAXX brought back the classic anime series Detective Conan with newly dubbed episodes.

evening programme

In terms of content, ProSieben Maxx is increasingly focusing on international series, films and documentaries, but increasingly also sports. This is also reflected in the evenings for the different genres. At the beginning, some television series such as Episodes , Homeland , Sons of Anarchy and House of Cards were shown in the original English version with German subtitles. In the spring of 2014, the broadcast of series in the English-language original version was ended due to low audience ratings.

At the moment there are series evenings on Monday (mystery, thriller ...), on Wednesday (science fiction series ...) and on Friday (comedy, dramedy ...).

On Monday evening the station shows u. a. the free TV premiere of the ninth season of Supernatural and reruns of the series Warehouse 13 and Outer Limits . In the past, reruns of Under the Dome , Supernatural, Fringe - Borderline cases of the FBI or the X-Files have also been broadcast. ProSieben Maxx also broadcast the first two seasons of Sleepy Hollow for the first time after ProSieben withdrew the series from its program in 2014 after only 4 episodes. The station also presented a free TV premiere with the Alphas series . The production of the US series was stopped by the broadcaster SyFy after only two seasons. The broadcaster ProSieben Maxx showed the two seasons from July to October 2015 with a one-week break in direct succession.

On Wednesdays, however, ProSieben Maxx shows science fiction series such as Stargate - Commando SG-1 , Stargate Atlantis and Eureka - The Secret City .

On Friday, the station has been showing anime series for a more adult audience since April 2017 from 10 p.m., including several German premieres such as Attack on Titan , Erased or Sword Art Online . An anime feature film has been running since the beginning of 2018 from 8:15 p.m. until the start of "Anime Night". Before this program scheme, ProSieben MAXX showed reruns of Two and a Half Men on Friday . Some time ago reruns of How I Met Your Mother and Scrubs also aired, as well as the free TV premieres of Last Man Standing and Chuck .

Since January 7, 2014, ProSieben Maxx has been broadcasting on Wednesdays and Fridays, regardless of YEP! , Cartoons and animes for adults in the night program.

Sports programs were included in the program for the first time in April 2014. Since April 2014, ProSieben Maxx has been broadcasting an approximately two-hour version of the wrestling show SmackDown that has been adapted for the German-speaking market . Since the summer of 2015 also on Sunday evening with the sports program are ran football the American football games of the NFL broadcast live and commented by a German commentators duo. Furthermore, since autumn 2016, the basketball games of the EuroCup have been broadcast live on Wednesday evening with the sports program ran basketball and commented on by a German duo of commentators. The Drone Racing League has also been broadcast with a German commentator since autumn 2016 . Boxing matches with ran boxes will also be broadcast from March 2017 .

In addition to series, feature films are also offered, which are mostly broadcast on Tuesday. Two films will be shown each time and will be repeated a few hours later. ProSieben Maxx did the same on Sunday evening until summer 2015.

On Thursdays, ProSieben shows Maxx magazines such as Galileo 360 ° or Manmade. As a rule, these are in-house productions. On Saturday evening, the station shows documentaries such as Border Patrol Canada , Hard Time or Lockdown . These are usually third-party productions.

After the broadcaster Tele5 lost the broadcasting rights to the wrestling show RAW in March 2017 , ProSieben Maxx also received the rights to this WWE flagship show from April 2017 . It will be broadcast on Wednesday evening.

reception

In addition, the program can also be received by individual providers on analog cable TV.

Logo of ProSieben MAXX HD

The channel can be received in HD, for a fee at Telekom Entertain since September 20, 2013, at Unitymedia since October 15, 2013 and since April 15, 2014 also via HD + . Since October 23, 2017 also with Magine TV

Austria

Logo from ProSieben Maxx Austria

ProSieben Maxx Austria has been broadcast via digital satellite (Astra) since mid-June 2014 . Since July 15, 2014, the station has also been available in the digital UPC cable network (channel 132). Since that day, an Austrian advertising window has also been broadcast. On Saturdays from 1:55 p.m. Go! The motor magazine sent. Otherwise, the station's program does not differ from the German one so far.

In the cable network A1 TV , the German version of the station was available before the start of the Austrian branch. Although the station is broadcast in conventional SDTV, it cannot be received with all standard devices due to the DVB-S2 broadcast mode via satellite. The received data are:

  • Satellite: ASTRA 19.2 ° East
  • Frequency: 11671 MHz
  • Symbol rate (MS / s): 22000
  • Error protection (FEC): 2/3
  • Polarization: Horizontal

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry in the KEK database ( Memento from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. Alexander Krei: New station ProSieben Maxx receives broadcast license. dwdl.de, June 24, 2013
  3. To Paris: N24 achieves the best November values ​​ever , quota meter, December 1, 2015
  4. Jan Schlüter: 2013: Free TV station ProSieben MAXX is coming. Odds meter, October 10, 2012
  5. ProSieben Maxx: broadcasting also started via DVB-T. In: digitalfernsehen.de. July 30, 2013, accessed August 31, 2015 .
  6. ^ DVB-T in Bavaria , BLM
  7. “Will ProSieben Maxx become half a children's channel?” , DWDL.de, accessed on April 25, 2016
  8. No more own bosses for smaller P7S1 stations , DWDL.de, accessed on April 5, 2017
  9. The 10-year balance of television: Big channels lose market share to small ones - only ZDF not , meedia.de , July 24, 2017
  10. New free TV station Pro Sieben Maxx broadcasts “Yep!” - children's and youth program. infosat.de, July 22, 2013
  11. Alexander Krei: ProSieben Maxx: ProSiebenSat.1 is planning further stations. dwdl.de, October 10, 2012
  12. Thomas Lückerath: ProSiebenSat.1 announces five new channels dwdl.de, February 28, 2013
  13. Pro Sieben Maxx shows original versions: In English, please! stern.de October 2, 2013
  14. Disdained original versions: Come on, translate me!
  15. Fully animated in Late Prime: Anime series “Blood +”, “Wolf's Rain” and “Baki” from February 7th on ProSieben MAXX. Press portal
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  22. Channel list from PŸUR. Retrieved June 8, 2019 .
  23. Reception: Cable and IPTV. prosiebenmaxx.de
  24. teltarif.de:Telekom switches on further HD channels with Entertain
  25. ps: RTL Nitro HD and ProSieben Maxx HD at Unitymedia Kabel BW. digitalfernsehen.de, October 28, 2013, accessed October 15, 2013 .
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