Viasat Nature/Crime

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Viasat Nature/Crime

Launched	1994
Owned by	Modern Times Group
Formerly called	Viasat Nature/Action, TV6
Website	Norwegian site Swedish site Danish site
Availability
Satellite
Viasat	Channel 9
Cable
Com Hem Sweden	Channel 60
Tele2Vision Sweden
TDC Kabel-TV Denmark

Viasat Nature/Crime is a television channel broadcasting nature documentaries and crime movies and series. It is broadcasting to Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland.

The channel has its origins in TV6, a Swedish women's channel started in 1994. In 1998, the channel was changed into a pan-Nordic pay channel showing nature documentaries from 6 p.m to 9 p.m. ("TV6 Nature") and then action movies and series from 9 p.m. to midnight ("TV6 Action"). In 2002, the channel was renamed and became Viasat Nature and Viasat Action.

The content on Viasat Action was gradually shifted to include more crime series such as Law and Order and CSI. This strand was therefore rebranded into Viasat Crime on October 1, 2005. After several years as a six hour channel, Viasat Nature/Crime extended its broadcasting hours on February 1, 2007. Viasat Nature would now broadcast from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. when Viasat Crime took and broadcast until midnight.

The channel has timeshared with many channels over the years. In its early years, the shopping channel TVG filled up much of the daytime schedule. In 1996, the sports channel Sportkanalen was broadcasting in the weekends. From 1997, Playboy TV has broadcast on the channel after midnight. Nickelodeon Scandinavia started broadcasting from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. later on and continued to do so until 2007 when Viasat Nature extended its broadcasting hours.

Today, is the channel not sharing frequency with Nickelodeon Scandinavia

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