TV4 Komedi was a sister subchannel of

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TV4, owned by

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. The channel focuses on comedy only with

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s, comedy shows and

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. The channel airs classic sitcoms like '' ALF'', ''

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'', ''

Cheers ''Cheers'' is an American sitcom television series that ran on NBC from September 30, 1982, to May 20, 1993, with a total of 275 half-hour episodes across 11 seasons. The show was produced by Charles/Burrows/Charles Productions in association w ...

'', ''

Hope & Faith ''Hope & Faith'' is an American television sitcom, starring Faith Ford and Kelly Ripa as Hope Shanowski and Faith Fairfield. Hope is a homemaker and mother of three and Faith is her sister, a soap opera star whose character is killed off, leadi ...

'', ''

Will & Grace ''Will & Grace'' is an American television sitcom created by Max Mutchnick and David Kohan. Set in New York City, the show focuses on the friendship between best friends Will Truman ( Eric McCormack), a gay lawyer, and Grace Adler ( Debra Messi ...

'', ''

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'' together with newer shows such as the ''

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'', ''

30 Rock ''30 Rock'' is an American satirical sitcom television series created by Tina Fey that originally aired on NBC from October 11, 2006, to January 31, 2013. The series, based on Fey's experiences as head writer for ''Saturday Night Live'', tak ...

'' and ''

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''. The channel was launched on November 3, 2006 along with

TV4 Guld TV4 Guld is a Swedish television channel devoted to "classic" programmes such as older television dramas. The channel launched on November 3, simultaneously with its sister channel TV4 Komedi, on satellite from Canal Digital and cable from Com He ...

. The first programme aired on the channel was

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. On its launch, both TV4 Guld and TV4 Komedi were available on

Com Hem Com Hem was a Swedish brand owned by Tele2 AB which supplied Triple Play services that included cable television, broadband internet and fixed-line telephone. Founded in 1983 as Televerket Kabel-TV as part of the former state-owned Televerke ...

's digital cable TV and

Canal Digital Canal Digital was a Nordic pay TV and internet service provider in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland that was founded in March 1997 as a joint venture between the French pay TV company Canal+ and the Norwegian telecommunications opera ...

's satellite package. Since September 2009, the two channels are available to

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subscribers. The channel was commercial-free until the channel introduced commercial breaks in January 2012. TV4 Komedi ceased its broadcasting on September 30, 2017 along with

TV4 Fakta XL TV4 FaktaXL was a Swedish factual television channel owned and operated by the TV4 Group and was a sister channel of TV4 Fakta. It started broadcasting in August 2012 replacing the now closed TV4 Science Fiction. The channel broadcasts factual ...

. The last programme aired on the channel was ''Åsa-Nisse flyger I luften''.

References

External links

Official site
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