Aftonbladet TV7

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Aftonbladet TV7

Launched	October 9, 2006
Owned by	Aftonbladet
Country	Sweden
Formerly called	Storstads-tv (working title), Aftonbladet TV
Website	http://www.aftonbladet.se/tv7/
Availability
Terrestrial
Boxer TV Access	Channel 55
Satellite
Canal Digital
Viasat
Cable
Com Hem	Channel 40
Tele2Vision

Aftonbladet TV7 is a commercial television channel in Sweden, owned by the newspaper Aftonbladet. The channel launched as Aftonbladet TV7 on October 9, 2006.

The channel was based on the webcasting service was launched on Aftonbladet.se a few years earlier.

Aftonbladet applied for a license to broadcast a channel with the working title "Storstads-tv" ("City TV") unencrypted in the Swedish digital terrestrial television network in the autumn of 2005. During the process of reviewing the licenses, Storstads-tv teamed up with Axess TV of the Ax:son Johnsson Foundation. In February 2006, Aftonbladet were granted a license to broadcast on Weekdays. Axess TV would broadcast in the Weekends.

Broadcasting trials started on May 29, 2006 with the name "Aftonbladet TV". During this period, the schedule consisted almost solely of content from the webcasts and reruns.

The full launch as TV7 occurred on October 9, 2006. Within a few weeks the channel launched on satellite from Canal Digital and Viasat and digital cable from Com Hem. The schedule now started at 5 p.m. with continuous live news, weather and entertainment news to 9 p.m. when other programming took over. With the launch of TV7, Aftonbladet adjusted their TV guide by introducing TV7 next to the five largest channels.

In January 2007 the channel was changed slightly by introducing sports to its newscasts and adding some new programmes.

Swedish television channels