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History (formerly known as The History Channel UK) is a pan-European television channel broadcasting programs related to historical events and persons, owned by a joint-venture between A+E Networks, owner of the American History, and British Sky Broadcasting, the UK's largest pay-TV provider. AMC Networks International DMC is responsible for the signal distribution across mainland Europe and the subsidiaries of AMC Networks International are the distribution representatives across Europe. Its programming is mainly in English and locally subtitled or dubbed. It is available through numerous satellite, cable, terrestrial and IPTV distributors across Europe, the Middle East and South Africa. In some countries the advertisement and the announcements between programs are localized. There are specific versions for Germany, Italy, Spain and Portugal: *History Germany, a joint venture between A+E Networks and NBC Universal Global Networks Germany *History Italy, which used to be a joint venture between A+E Networks and Fox International Channels Italy; A+E gained full control of the channel in 2012 *Canal de História (also called História), the History Channel Iberia joint venture between A+E Networks and AMC Networks International Iberia ==History== The channel launched in November 1995 under the name ''The History Channel'' and was the first version of History to launch outside the United States. It was first broadcast from the crowded transponder 47 on the Astra 1C satellite, where it would broadcast for four hours between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. on weekdays. Among the channels it shared the transponder with were Sky Travel, Sky Soap, Sky Sports 2 and Sci-Fi Channel. In 1997, Sky Sports 2 became a full-day channel and the channels that time-shared with it had to move. The History Channel would now share transponder 24 with Sky Soap and Sci-Fi Channel. The History Channel launched in Scandinavia in September 1997, broadcasting for three hours per day on the Analogue Viasat platform. Initially time-sharing with TV1000 Cinema, it was later moved to the Swedish TV8 channel and continued broadcasting there until November 2004 when Viasat launched their own history channel, Viasat History, in the Nordic region and closed down the History Channel. The launch of Sky Digital allowed the channel to increase it broadcast hours significantly. The channel was completely launched across Europe in October 2007. On 26 October 2006, The History Channel HD launched in the United Kingdom and Ireland. A high-definition version of the History Channel was launched in the Nordic region on 13 December 2007. It offers a separate schedule to the standard-definition version. In January 2008, The History Channel HD launched in the Netherlands. In November 2008, the channel got its current name. The high-definition channel became ''History HD'' in the process. The company behind the channel was known as ''The History Channel ( UK ) Limited'' until July 2009, when it was renamed ''AETN UK'' to reflect the fact that the company now offers several channels.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The History Channel UK Changes Name to AETN UK )〕 On 22 September 2011, AETN UK was rebranded as ''A+E Networks UK''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=AETN UK rebrands as A+E Networks UK )〕 It launched on BT on 15 August 2013 and TalkTalk on 28 August 2014. It is on the Entertainment Extra Boost along with CI. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「History (European TV channel)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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