TV6 is a Lithuanian

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and

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channel owned by the Nordic television company

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. It was launched on March 31, 2002. TV6 focuses on entertainment and occasional but high-profile sports broadcasts (like the

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), comedy, sitcoms, action, science fiction and reality programmes from the

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are popular fixtures. Its inaugural night of broadcasting set the tone by scheduling a game from the 2006 ice hockey World Championships and the movie '' Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines''. TV6 (along with several other Viasat channels) are broadcast from London in the United Kingdom making them exempt from strict Swedish advertising laws. They did however agree not to advertise alcoholic beverages or broadcast advertising targeting children as part of their terrestrial license. This has however made them subject to broadcasting laws in the UK, with a broadcast of Family Guy in April 2015 breaching Ofcom rules. TV6, as with other channels of the All Media Baltics group in the Baltic states, switched to HD broadcasting on 26 July 2018.

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