Viasat Plus was a Norwegian
television channel aimed at the audience between the ages of 15–80. The channel broadcast re-runs of
sit-coms shown on
TV3 earlier and
soap opera
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s. In
Denmark
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there is a similar channel
TV3+
TV3+ is a Denmark, Danish pay television channel owned by Viaplay Group. It has its origins in the youth-oriented channel ZTV and women-focused channel TV6 that were launched in the mid-1990s when Kinnevik invested heavily in new free-to-air chann ...
.
Broadcasts started on March 17, 2000
[Aftenposten aften - TV3 kommer med ny kanal (15.3.2000, s.34)] and had Mette Throndsen as its director. Limited ratings (0.8% share in 2001) led to its closure on December 31, 2001.
[Aftenposten morgen - Norske TV-seere kan velge alt (7.2.2002, s.20)]
Nowadays, Viasat+ (with the symbol, not letters) is the name of Viasat's
Satellite Dish Recording system that can record programs which are broadcast by Viasat (similar to
TiVo
TiVo ( ) is a digital video recorder (DVR) developed and marketed by Xperi (previously by TiVo Corporation and TiVo Inc.) and introduced in 1999. TiVo provides an on-screen guide of scheduled broadcast programming television programs, whose fea ...
).
References
Defunct television channels in Norway
Television channels and stations established in 2000
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2001
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