SF Succé was a Swedish premium movie channel that operated in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It was owned by

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(whose parent company

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was in the process of merging with

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to form

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, now

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Canal+ Canals or artificial waterways are waterways or engineered channels built for drainage management (e.g. flood control and irrigation) or for conveyancing water transport vehicles (e.g. water taxi). They carry free, calm surface flo ...

(France's pay TV channel, in turn owned by what was then Compagnie générale des eaux (CGE), now

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, now spun off as Canal+ S.A.),

Svensk Filmindustri SF Studios is Sweden’s largest film studio. It is involved in production, distribution, and movie theater market chains (both Swedish and international, including American) with headquarters in Stockholm and local offices in Oslo, Copenhagen ...

and Marieberg (a newspaper publisher), which each held a 25 percent share. The channel went on air from a satellite operated by

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, specifically Intelsat VA-F11, on December 1, 1989. At launch, a subscription cost 120

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and the channel was on-air for about 60 hours per week, mostly in the evenings and weekend mornings. In 1991, it was purchased and subsequently merged with TV1000. TV1000's owners, Kinnevik, would own 75 percent of the company, while SF Succé's owners got the remaining 25 percent. The merged channel launched on September 1, 1991, under the name TV1000 - Succékanalen. The SF brand makes a return as a television channel in Sweden on October 1, 2009, when

and TV1000's competitor

together launch

SF-kanalen SF-kanalen is a Scandinavian television channel, which shows movies from the library of Svensk Filmindustri SF Studios is Sweden’s largest film studio. It is involved in production, distribution, and movie theater market chains (both Swedi ...

, a channel with only Swedish films. Both Svensk Filmindustri and the Nordic Canal+ branch are now owned by the same company.

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Defunct television channels in Sweden Television channels and stations established in 1989 Television channels and stations disestablished in 1991 Canal+ S.A. Bonnier Group Warner Bros. Discovery {{sweden-tv-stub