Viasat Nature/Crime

Viasat Nature/Crime
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Launched	1994
Owned by	Modern Times Group
Picture format	4:3 (576i, SDTV) 16:9 (HDTV)
Audience share	0.3% (Sweden 2008, )
Country	United Kingdom
Broadcast area	Nordic countries, Baltic countries
Formerly called	Viasat Nature/Action, TV6
Website	See External links section
Availability
Satellite
Viasat	Channel 9
Cable
Com Hem (Sweden)	Channel 60
Elektrons&K	Latvia

Viasat Nature/Crime is a television channel broadcasting nature documentaries and crime movies and series. It is broadcasting to Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland. Since 2010, Viasat Nature became available in Ukraine.

The channel has its origins in TV6, a Swedish women's channel started in 1994. In 1998, the channel was changed into a pan-Nordic pay channel showing nature documentaries from 6 p.m to 9 p.m. ("TV6 Nature World") and then action movies and series from 9 p.m. to midnight ("TV6 Action World"). In 2002, the channel was renamed and became Viasat Nature and Viasat Action.

The content on Viasat Action was gradually shifted to include more crime series such as Law & Order and CSI. This strand was therefore rebranded into Viasat Crime on 1 October 2005. After several years as a six hour channel, Viasat Nature/Crime extended its broadcasting hours on 1 February 2007. Viasat Nature would now broadcast from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. when Viasat Crime took and broadcast until midnight.

The channel has timeshared with many channels over the years. In its early years, the shopping channel TVG filled up much of the daytime schedule. In 1996, the sports channel Sportkanalen was broadcasting in the weekends. From 1997, Playboy TV has broadcast on the channel after midnight. Nickelodeon Scandinavia started broadcasting from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. later on and continued to do so until 2007 when Viasat Nature extended its broadcasting hours.

External links

• VIASAT Nature Swedish Site
• VIASAT Nature Norwegian Site
• VIASAT Nature Danish Site
• VIASAT Crime Swedish Site
• VIASAT Crime Norwegian Site
• VIASAT Crime Danish Site