Sat.1

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**Sat.1**

Type	Broadcast television network
Country	Germany
Availability	National; also distributed in Austria and Switzerland
Owner	ProSiebenSat.1 Media
Key people	Roger Schawinski, President
Launch date	January 1, 1984
Website	www.sat1.de

Sat.1 (formerly PKS) is a privately owned German television broadcasting station. Sat.1 was the first privately owned television broadcasting station and started one day before RTL Television.

It started in January 1984 as PKS (Programmgesellschaft für Kabel- und Satellitenrundfunk), initially a joint venture of various publishing houses. The first broadcast could only be seen by a few people who had cable. Early programs included old films, mainly from the archives of KirchMedia, American hit-series and gameshows. Later, the station acquired a name for its homemade series and TV films.

Sat.1 is currently a part of the ProSiebenSat.1 Media. The head of Sat.1 is Roger Schawinski.

Sat.1 logo, 1980s.

[edit] Programmes

Anke Late Night (cancelled)
Der Bulle von Tölz
Clever - Die Show, die Wissen schafft (somewhat like Brainiac with contestants to guess the outcome of experiments)
Criminal Minds
Without A Trace (from October 2006, before on Kabel 1)
Ed
The Guardian (original run was on Vox)
Genial daneben
JAG
Hausmeister Krause
House Tuesday at 21.15h
Pastewka (a mixture of Curb Your Enthusiasm and Seinfeld)
Ladykracher
Lenßen & Partner
NCIS (Navy CIS)
NYPD Blue (cancelled after 7 shows)
The Odd Couple (Männerwirtschaft)
Sat.1-Frühstücksfernsehen (breakfast television)
Schillerstraße
Schmetterlinge im Bauch (soap opera)
Verliebt in Berlin (like Betty la fea)
Was guckst du? (cancelled)
Die Wochenshow (cancelled)