From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia CMT Europe
CMT Europe
Country Music Television Europe ed up on transponder 51 in 1996 and was then allowed to
go 24 hours on Astra.
For cable networks, a 24 hour feed of CMT Europe was
maintained on Intelsat 27.5 degrees west. It was available
in several European countries, for example in Sweden[6].
It was carried as part of the Scandinavian channel Sky
Entertainment when it launched in September 1997.
Launched October 1992[1]
Closed March 31, 1998 References
Owned by Gaylord Entertainment Company [1] http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/dx/text/NEWS/SCDX/
scdx2164.txt
Availability
[2] Katz, Richard (February 3, 1998). "Gaylord shutters
Satellite CMT Euro". Variety. http://www.variety.com/
Sky Multichannels
article/VR1117467333.html?categoryid=14&cs=1.
[3] http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/dx/text/NEWS/SCDX/
CMT Europe was a European television channel. It was a scdx2209.txt
European version of Country Music Television. [4] http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/dx/text/satellite/satnews/
The channel started in 1992. It was closed down on satnews.139-1
March 31, 1998 after substantial losses.[2] [5] http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/dx/text/satellite/
On the Astra 19.2°E position, the channel switched telesatellit/ts940918.txt
satellite several times and was for a long time only avail- [6] "Statens offentliga utredningar 1997:68 sou 1997
able as a daytime service. It first launched in 1993 on 68". Kulturdepartementet. p. 29.
transponder 41 on Astra 1C as part of the Sky Multichan- http://www.regeringen.se/content/1/c4/09/83/
nels package, where it was broadcasting on The Discov- fa466ef1.pdf.
ery Channel’s daytime space. It moved to transponder 24
on Astra 1B in September 1994, which allowed it to ex- External links
tend its broadcast hours until 7 p.m.[3][4][5] It finally end-
• CMT Europe from TVARK
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