Country | Germany |
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Broadcast area | Germany, Austria, Switzerland |
Programming | |
Language(s) | German, English |
Picture format | 1080i ( HDTV) |
Timeshift service | Sky Atlantic+1 (2015-2017) |
Ownership | |
Owner | Sky Deutschland GmbH |
Sister channels | List of Sky Deutschland channels |
History | |
Launched | 23 May 2012 |
Links | |
Website |
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Sky Atlantic is a German- and English-language pay-TV station specializing in the broadcasting of HBO productions and therefore has the slogan "The Home of HBO".
The pay-TV station started its broadcast in HD on 23 May 2012 at 9 pm and was free of charge for three weeks for all Sky subscribers. [1] For the regular reception, the "Sky Entertainment" package and optionally the HD channels must be subscribed. A SD version was started on December 3, 2013. Since 5 November 2015, a one-hour timeshift of Sky Atlantic is also available in HD. [2]
The best audience, with 0.48 million viewers, scored the channel with the premiere of the seventh season of the series Game of Thrones on 17 July 2017. [3]
The timeshift channel Sky Atlantic+1 was switched off on 11 September 2017. The service was replaced by the timeshift service Sky1+1 on 22 September 2017. [4]