Sky Deutschland
Sky Deutschland AG, branded as Sky, is a German media company which operates a Direct Broadcast Satellite Pay TV platform in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (through Teleclub) offering a collection of basic and premium digital subscription television channels of different categories via Satellite and Cable Television.
It was launched in 1991 as Premiere. On 4 July 2009, the service and its channels were re-branded as "Sky", resembling Sky in the UK & Ireland and Sky Italia in Italy.
News Corporation owns 54.5% of Sky Deutschland; the remaining shares are owned by diverse shareholders.
The channel originally started off as a single analogue channel on the Astra 1A satellite, showing films dubbed into German as well as in original audio, live football matches from the German Bundesliga and Austrian Bundesliga (and at one time the UEFA Cup), as well as documentaries, TV series and in the mid-1990s, late-night erotic films. After the coming of the digital age, the service has since consisted of many channels with many new ones added over the years.
The service owns 100 percent of its subsidiary Sky Deutschland Fernsehen GmbH & Co. KG (formerly Premiere Fernsehen GmbH & Co. KG).
Sky Deutschland topped 3m subscribers by the end of 2011, having reached the number 3,012,000.
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But that the sea, mounting to the welkin’s cheek,
Dashes the fire out.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)