The Biography Channel
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| TV station ( private law ) | |
| Program type | Division program |
| reception | Cable , satellite , IP TV , mobile TV , video-on-demand |
| Image resolution | ( Entry missing ) |
| business | March 31, 2007 to September 22, 2014 |
| owner | A&E Network (formerly AETN International) |
| executive Director | Andreas Weinek |
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The Biography Channel (spelling THE BIOGRAPHY CHANNEL ) was a digital pay TV channel that was on air in Germany from March 31, 2007 to September 22, 2014. BIO's program mainly consisted of biographical portraits of important personalities such as actors, musicians, artists, authors, athletes, business figures and politicians. In addition to biographies, The Biography Channel also showed real-life and lifestyle series. The program was made up of individual programs, series and series, which were thematically arranged.
The Biography Channel received its broadcasting license from the Lower Saxony State Media Authority (NLM) , Hanover. A + E Networks (formerly AETN International) and NBC Global Networks Germany were the shareholders of the digital special interest channel as a joint venture. The Biography Channel traded under the name The History Channel (Germany) GmbH & Co. KG, which operates the sister station History . The Biography Channel reached over 79 million households in 23 countries worldwide and has been translated into 11 languages.
On September 22, 2014, the German version of the station was replaced by A&E Germany .
Program offer
The program was put together entirely by The Biography Channel Germany and consisted of productions from A + E Networks, programs from the German production partner ZDF and other suppliers. The Biography Channel's annually updated and expanded catalog comprised over 1,400 hours of programming. The program consisted of fixed slots, weekly thematic programming and series that were programmed in thematically arranged categories under fixed rubric titles.
bio.special
bio.special presented particularly detailed biographical portraits. The two-hour programs presented the lives of outstanding personalities and highlighted the rather unknown traits in the nature of actors, musicians and other people in public life. Bio.special also stood out for its series of programs on special topics.
bio.fashion
"Bio.fashion" was all about fashion and design. BIO looked at series like "Project Runway - Designer Wanted!" and thus offered a glimpse behind the scenes of the fashion world, into the lives of designers and models. The format also showed the latest outfits from the catwalks in Paris, Milan and New York.
bio.extra
bio.extra dealt with the lives of prominent people from various fields, such as the top athletes Tiger Woods and Mike Tyson, the magicians David Copperfield and Siegfried & Roy, artists like Andy Warhol or the creative minds of the fashion label Versace.
bio.rocks
bio.rocks showed the life of music stars on and backstage, for example Tom Jones, Tommy Lee, Rod Stewart, Johnny Cash, Puff Daddy, Shania Twain. In special television music shows, artists themselves guided through the program. This program section was rounded off with concerts by Kylie Minogue or Coldplay and documentation on famous music albums such as "The Joshua Tree" by U2 or "Nevermind" by Nirvana.
power & money
The Biography Channel presented the families Rockefellers, Hilton and Trump, the inventors of Google and the lives of many other wealthy people under the heading “macht & geld”.
stars & asterisks
BIO showed the private world of stars and starlets such as Angelina Jolie, Clive Owen, Ben Stiller, Winona Ryder, Christopher Reeve or Sean Connery.
famous & notorious
Notorious criminals such as Jack Ruby, who shot the alleged Kennedy killer, or OJ Simpson, who was not only known as a football star, are presented in this program area. Her life story was reconstructed and the crimes presented.
reallife.series
The real-life series "Gene Simmons: Family Jewels - Papa Was A Kiss" accompanies the KISS bassist Gene Simmons in his initially seemingly inappropriate role as a family man. The real-life format "Inked - Under the Skin" provided insights into a tattoo studio and its visitors.
The eleventh day
The program told the story of the assassination attempt at the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972 for the first time from a new, previously unknown perspective. BIO shed light on the history of those Israeli athletes who were there at the time and only narrowly escaped the attackers. 40 years later, the survivors returned to Munich and reported in the world premiere of the documentary "The Eleventh Day - The Survivors of Munich 1972" from a perspective that had previously hardly been noticed.
I survived! German fates
In the BIO successful series “I survived! German fates ”told people about their personal fates and how they experienced and survived the day when they faced death completely unexpectedly.
Original tones
In the series of interviews, Original Tones, newcomers and legends were introduced in interviews and interpreted one of their songs live.
Reception possibilities
The Biography Channel was distributed via cable and satellite as well as IP and mobile TV in the entire German-speaking area. A selection of the programs was available as video on demand.
- electric wire
The program was offered in a package together with a selection of other stations nationwide via the digital platforms of the network operators Kabel Deutschland, Unitymedia, Kabel Baden-Württemberg, PrimaCom and the Eutelsat Kabelkiosk. The reception was via a decoder via subscription.
- satellite
Satellite reception was via the Sky Welt Extra channel package via digital receiver via subscription.
- IP TV and DSL
The Biography Channel at Telekom and Vodafone were used as Internet portal television . The Biography Channel was offered via DSL by Alice Big Entertainment.
- Video on demand
A selection of the programs from The Biography Channel were available as video on demand from maxdome. In addition, subscribers to the TV packages at Vodafone, Eutelsat KabelKiosk, Telekom (TV archive) and Kabel Deutschland (previously only in Hamburg, Munich and Berlin with Select Video) could obtain the content from BIO via video on demand.
- Swiss and Austria
In Switzerland, the German-language program of The Biography Channel was distributed via Cablecom and Swisscable and in Austria via Sky, UPC Telekabel, Liwest, Telesystem Tirol and aonDigital TV (Telekom Austria). The station could also be received in Austria as mobile TV on the mobile phone via Hutchison 3G Austria.
The Biography Channel as a global brand
A + E Networks is building partnerships with other TV networks around the world to launch new channels or branded program windows in new areas. All programs of the partner companies of The Biography Channel are unique and are directed and put together on site by local management. The partner companies run both the programs in The Biography Channel's catalog and local productions.
United States
The station started on January 1, 1999. On July 7, 2014, it was replaced by FYI .
Great Britain
The British branch started in October 2000. On November 4, 2013, it was replaced by Lifetime .
Asia
An offshoot for Asia started on May 27, 2008. It is to be replaced by FYI in October 2014 .
Canada
The station started on September 7, 2001. At the same time, a Canadian version of FYI started on September 1, 2014 , which replaced TwistTV.
broadcasts
On the TV channel were u. a. already biographies of ABBA, Al Capone, Andre Agassi, Angelina Jolie, Anna Nicole Smith, Antonio Banderas, Ben Stiller, Bill Cosby, Bill Gates, Bob Dylan, Brad Pitt, Brooke Shields, Bruce Willis, Calvin Klein, Carlos Santana, Carmen Electra , Cat Stevens, Celine Dion, David Copperfield, Dean Martin, Donald Trump, Donna Karan, Drew Barrymore, Elton John, Giorgio Armani, Gloria and Emilio Estefan, Harold Shipman, Heather Locklear, the Hiltons, Versace, Ian Fleming, Ivana Trump, Jack the Ripper, Jackson Pollock, James Joyce, Jamie Oliver, Jason Priestley, Jeff Bridges, Jodie Foster, John Belushi, Kevin Costner, Larry Flynt, Laura Ashley, Lisa Marie Presley, Madame Tussaud, Maria Callas, Marquis de Sade, Mary- Kate and Ashley Olsen, Mike Tyson, OJ Simpson, Olivia Newton-John, Pablo Escobar, Pamela Anderson, Prince Charles, Robin Williams, Rock Hudson, Rod Stewart, Roman Polanski, Russell Crowe, Sean Connery, Shania Twain, Stephen King, Steve Martin, Sylvester Stallone, Tom Hanks, Tom Jones, T ommy Lee, Vera Wang, Warren Buffett and many more.
In addition, reality series such as Shipping Wars - Die Transporter were broadcast on the station.
Awards
The German-language Biography Channel received an award in the Documentation category as part of the Hot Bird TV Awards 2008. In 2013 the station also won the Mira Award given by SKY in the category “Best local in-house production” for the documentary “The Eleventh Day - The Survivors of Munich 1972”
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Website on Original Tones ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on thebiographychannel.de, accessed on September 21, 2011
