GIGA Television
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[edit] General
GIGA is a brand name for several German television shows and, since September 2005, GIGA is also a digital TV channel named GIGA (also used to mark off: GIGA Digital or GIGA TV). The first GIGA show was broadcast on 30 November 1998. The show NBC GIGA was shown first time on the television channel NBC Europe. The show lasted five hours, from 3 pm until 8 pm.
In 2004 the show was renamed from NBC GIGA to GIGA Green. In September 2005 the original show was renamed a second time, now to the simple name GIGA, which caused some confusion because the television channel on which it was broadcast was also named GIGA. The show had been shortened from five hours to three hours, Monday through Friday, and was now being broadcast on the television channel GIGA as well as on the television channel Das Vierte (English: The Fourth).
Then in March 2006, the show GIGA - the original NBC GIGA - was cancelled. The GIGA community was very depressed that the original show had been cancelled while other shows, which were isolated from the original television show in the years after NBC GIGA started, were now running on their own television channel instead. The most popular shows which were still running were GIGA Games, GIGA eSports and PLAY.
As of January 1st 2008 GIGA Digital Television GmbH in Cologne is owned by Premiere (pay television network).
- See also: NBC Europe
[edit] GIGA as TV channel
In general today GIGA offers information about games, lifestyle and general themes in the own community of GIGA. There were 1.242.424 members in the GIGA community on 24th July 2007. The shows use the Internet so that viewers interact with the producers while the GIGA shows are running. GIGA is broadcast via the European satellite system SES Astra. This insures that this television station can be seen all over Europe - which is, of course, mostly relevant for German-speaking countries like Austria, Switzerland, Germany and Liechtenstein.
Since March 2006 the old NBC GIGA was cancelled, while all shows about gaming, GIGA Games and GIGA eSports, remain as a subsidiary of Turtle Entertainment, which is also owner of the ESL. The online stream of the TV station GIGA is: mms://giga.streamed.by.ngz-server.de.esl-tv.net/GIGA .
[edit] GIGA shows
- GIGA Games: two-hour show about games, gaming news, mods, hardware and software for the console, PC or handhelds
The show consists of three subdivisions and one leading part. The subdivisions represent departments for "MAXX", which means "Mods, Add ons, Xtensions, Xtras", "PC" and "Console". Each of the subdivisions is hosted by two moderators which are called "Netzreporter" (English: net reporter). The leading part is called "Host". This department occurs between the different subparts of the GIGA Games shows. The different parts of the shows are offered by:
- Host: Nils Bomhoff
- MAXX: Tim Feldner, Christiane Imdahl
- PC: Dennis Richtarski, Maximilian Gstettenbauer
- Console: Felix Rick, Colin Gäbel
- GIGA eSports: various online game competitions
- Late Knights: comedy-show about lifestyle, games and news with guests
- MyWorld: fun, games, news, lifestyle and mainly the war between the lifestyles of men and women
- Wiimotion: Wii console
- 360: XBOX 360 console
- P3 - Life in HD: PlayStation 3 console
- Screen: movie and DVD releases
- OnlineWelten (English: online worlds): online worlds from various MMOG
- WoW!: World of Warcraft
- Spam Deluxe: community and their wishes
- ROFL TV: miniclips from Clipfish.tv
- GIGA Classics: reruns of older GIGA 1 shows
- XDEV: PC software
- Love Shack: show about everyday love
- Aßman: A show about Flash and PC games;similar to Play
- Yavido Clips: music videos from the TV station Yavido Clips
- Battlecast Primetime Deutschland: infos about Command & Conquer
