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Viasat Explore is a television channel owned by international media company, Viasat World LTD. The channel focuses on fishing, adventure, men at work and engineering. Viasat Explore is a 24-hour channel broadcasting in Russia and Commonwealth of Independent States.
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| Broadcast area | Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Russia and Commonwealth of Independent States |
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| Programming | |
| Picture format | 16:9 (576i, SDTV), HDTV |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Viasat World LTD |
| Sister channels | Viasat History, Viasat Nature |
| History | |
| Launched | 6 January 2002 |
| Former names | Viasat Explorer (2002-2014) |
| Links | |
| Website | Viasat World |
| Availability | |
| Terrestrial | |
| evotv (Croatia) | Channel 109 |
With headquarters in London, United Kingdom, the channel started its broadcast in the Scandinavian countries and after a few years expanded to many East European markets and the Baltic countries with subtitles.
The service was launched in January 2002 as Viasat Explorer in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland.[1] On 1 November 2003 it expanded into Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Belarus, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Bulgaria. In 2006, all Serbian cable operators and their satellite platform, Total TV began with broadcasting this channel.[2]
Viasat Explore co-produces and acquires content from international distributors and production houses.
Since 2012, Viasat Explorer together with sisterchannels Viasat History and Viasat Nature are broadcast in HD together with the SD feed on the Viasat satellite platform. The channel was rebranded as Viasat Explore on 29 April 2014, gaining a new ident package and logo and dropping the "X" letter from its logo in flavour of an "E".
List of programmes broadcast by Viasat Explore CEE
- 111
- 112
- A cupcake
- Alarm für Cobra 11 – Die Autobahnpolizei
- Aussie Gold Hunters
- Being: Mike Tyson
- Bomb Hunters
- Border Patrol
- Caramel
- Charley Boorman's Extreme Frontiers
- Confessions: Animal Hoarding
- Deadliest Warrior
- Deadly Life
- Deconstruction
- Departures
- Dexter's Laboratory
- Drumbeat School: Adults Only
- Everything is Mine
- Extreme Factories
- Fill My Tank
- Graveyard Carz
- How Does That Work?
- How to Build...
- I Cannot Speak to... Me
- Ireland to Sydney by Any Means
- Jade Fever
- James May's Big Ideas
- James May's Man Lab
- Johnny Bravo
- Leave me alone
- Listen, You Cannot Explain
- Man Up
- Man's Work
- Massive Moves
- Motorway Patrol
- Music
- My Life in Prison
- Never Ever Do This at Home
- Nothing But Nothing
- Parking Exercise
- Right to the Edge: Sydney to Tokyo by Any Means
- Selling Big
- Sin City Motors
- South Sydney Story
- The Incredible Mr. Goodwin
- The Jones Boys' Amazon Adventure
- The Ultimate Fighter
- This vs. That
- Timber Kings
- To Drive a Car
- Wow, I Never Knew That!
- You Are, Son of Old Zealand
References
- ^ "Viasat to offer four new TV channels on digital platform" (Press release). Modern Times Group. December 20, 2001.
- ^ "Viasat Explorer channel to launch in Eastern Europe" (Press release). Modern Times Group. October 20, 2003.