Film1

Film1 is a Dutch premium television service owned by Chellomedia, the European content division of Liberty Global. Film1 launched together with its sister service Sport1 on February 1, 2006 and replaced the Canal+ Netherlands television channels. The service offers multiple film channels with Dutch and international productions many of which are television premières.

The service launched with three channels and a high-definition and timeshift version of the main channel. On October 1, 2008 Film1 Action was added to the line up.

The channels are available on digital cable of most Dutch cable companies. Satellite provider CanalDigitaal does not provide the timeshift channel. DVB-T provider Digitenne does not provide Film1.

Channels

• Film1 Premiere: Main Flagship Channel
• Film1 Action: Second channel focuses on thriller, action, and horror films.
• Film1 Family: Third channel which focusses on family and children films.
• Film1 Festival: Fourth channel which focuses mostly on arthouse films.
• Film1 Series: Fifth channel which focuses mostly on television series. (starts on 17 January 2012)^[1]
• Film1 Premiere +1: Time-shift channel that rebroadcasts the programming feed of the main channel with an hour delay.
• Film1 Premiere HD: High-definition simulcast of Film1 Premiere.
• Film1 Action HD: High-definition simulcast of Film1 Action.
• Film1 On Demand: A Video-on-demand-service that provides selected content from all the above channels on an on-demand basis. The service is available from Ziggo and UPC Netherlands television platform's VOD service.

See also

• Sport1
• Television in the Netherlands
• Digital television in the Netherlands

External links

• film1.nl (Dutch)
• alleenopeen.tv (Dutch)

References