TV6

TV6 may refer to:

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TV-6 (Russia)

TV-6 (Russian: ТВ-6) was one of the first commercial television stations in Russia. It began broadcasting in 1993, and was closed on 22 January 2002. Its frequency has eventually passed to Sport TV.

History

The channel was founded in 1992, by the holding of Eduard Sagalaev, Ted Turner and VID company. It started broadcasting on 1 January 1993. Until 1994 TV-6 shared time with a minor channel "North Crown" (Северная корона), which was closed a year later.

It was originally an entertainment channel which broadcast talk shows, cartoons, music and series. TV 6 was the first in Russia to air foreign sci-fi series such as Babylon 5, Lexx, First Wave, as well as sitcoms Grace Under Fire and 3rd Rock from the Sun. Until 1996 TV-6 aired no news.

In 1999, 75% of TV6's stock was sold to media oligarch Boris Berezovsky. Channel's policies gradually changed from entertainment to political journalism. In April 2001, after NTV channel was bought by the government gas monopoly Gazprom, several prominent NTV journalists, including Yevgeny Kiselyov, and other employees left to join to TV-6 staff.

TV6 (Sweden)

TV6 is an entertainment television channel broadcasting to Sweden (but also technically possible - albeit not strictly legally - to receive in the surrounding countries of Finland, Norway, Denmark, parts of Germany, Poland, Russia and the Baltic countries, through the Sirius satellite) and now most of Europe through the Thor 2 satellite. It is owned by Modern Times Group.

The channel has origins in the youth channel ZTV that started broadcasting in the early 1990s. In 2004, MTG started repositioning the channel by introducing sports broadcasts and other programming that mainly targeted men.

In February 2006, MTG received a license to broadcast a channel called TV6 in the terrestrial network. This channel would take over virtually all ZTV programming, except the music videos that ZTV showed during the day. TV6 launched in May 2006 and simultaneously replaced ZTV in most cable networks. When ZTV was rebranded as TV6, a new ZTV channel started that only showed music videos.

TV6 focuses on entertainment and occasional but high-profile sports broadcasts (like the UEFA Champions League), comedy, sitcoms, action, science fiction and reality programmes from the USA are popular fixtures. Its inaugural night of broadcasting set the tone by scheduling a game from the 2006 ice hockey World Championships and the movie Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.