Canal 9 is a Danish

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channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA previously owned by C More Entertainment from 2009 to 2015. The channel is a retro channel that shows older documentary series from the

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and old action and comedy series like ''

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'', '' The A-Team'', ''

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'' and ''

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'' and with football in the weekends from

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plus

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. The channel share sports rights with

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and 6'eren; it was original launched as a low-pay sister channel to Canal+ in July 2009.

History

The channel was announced on March 20, 2009. There had been some uncertainty as for the distribution for the channel, as neither

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nor Telia Stofa and

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had expressed interest in distributing the channel. On March 25 it was announced that Canal Digital will broadcast the channel exclusively on satellite. The channel will cost 23,95 DKK, which is slightly less than its competitor TV 2 Sport. Canal 9 launched on July 17, 2009 with the Danish action movie '' In China They Eat Dogs''. From the start, it was available from Canal Digital, ComX,

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and several community antennas and fiber networks. Canal 9 became available terrestrially in July when it temporarily replaced Kanal København in Copenhagen where it will broadcast until October 31, 2009. After this, it will broadcast from

's transmitters nationwide. On September 15, it was added to

's cable network, where it initially be available digitally on the Middle package. From the start in July 2009, Canal 9 had secured many football rights including matches from

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, The Championship,

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and League Cup but also the rights to events from

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and

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and the

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and handball from EHF Champions League. On September 9, 2009, it was announced that Canal 9 has secured the rights to Handball-Bundesliga. On September 24, 2009, it was announced that Canal 9 will show the WTA

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with the top-seeded Caroline Wozniacki. On October 22, 2009, it was announced that Canal 9 has secured the rights to the 2009 Handball Supercup.

2010

On January 12, 2010, it was announced that Canal 9 has secured the rights to the 2010 tournament of

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. On February 8, 2010, it was announced that DR,

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and Canal 9 will show more them 150 hours together from the

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On May 10, 2010, Canal 9 has secured the rights for two of Denmark's national teams qualifying matches for the

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against Iceland June 4, 2011 and against Cyprus October 7, 2011 On May 15, 2010 it was announced that the owners of Canal 9, TV4 Group has secured the right to

in Denmark, but it is still uncertain whether the tournament will be shown on Canal 9 because of the low ratings. On August 2, 2010 it was announced that Canal 9 has the rights to The Championship for the 2010/11 season. On September 11, 2010 it was announced that Canal 9 has secured the rights to Lingerie Football League.

2011

On January 20, 2011, it was announced that Canal 9 has secured the rights to the 2011 tournament of

. On February 15, 2011, it was announced that TV4 Sport and Canal 9 have secured the rights to IIHF World Championships from 2012 to 2017. On June 22, 2011 it was announced that Canal 9 will show some of the matches from the

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but most of the tournament will be shown on Canal+ Sport 1. On June 24, 2011, it was announced that Canal 9 will show the WTA

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with the top seeded Caroline Wozniacki. On July 5, 2011, it was announced that Canal+ Sport 1 & Canal 9 has secured the rights to

for 3 years from the 2012/13 season. On July 12, 2011, it was announced that Canal+ Sport 1 & Canal 9 has extended the rights to

for four more years till 2015. On July 27, 2011, it was announced that the TV miniseries '' The Kennedys'' will get Danish TV premiere on Canal 9. On August 13, 2011 www.kampanje.com start writing about that Canal 9 will be launched in a Norwegian version on October 1, 2011 and vill replace TV4 Fakta in Norway. The 2011–12 season of The Championship and

was originally scheduled only on Canal+ Sport 1 but after wild protests from viewers on their Facebook page, they decided to show a match at 4 p.m. from The Championship, followed by a match from

at 6 p.m. on Saturday when possible; big matches from

and

will still have priority in the time period, this was announced on their Facebook page on August 25, 2011. On September 12, 2011, it was announced that Canal 9 had lost one of their strongest football rights, The

from the 2012–13 season, to

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and TV2 Sport. On September 21, 2011, it was announced that Canal 9 has bought back 66 matches per season from The

from

, valid from season 2012/13 to 2014/15. Back in May 2010 it was announced that the Canal 9 and TV4 Group has secured the right to

in Denmark, but it was uncertain whether the tournament will be shown on Canal 9 because of the low ratings and the following strong focus on the problem in the media that Canal 9 had the rights as well as the two qualifying matches against Iceland and Cyprus, specially the Danish newspaper '' Ekstra Bladet'' has been after Canal 9 and called them "The Secret Channel", and several angry viewers have driven campaignings "Denmark national football team's matches back on national TV and not on Pay-TV" on Ekstra Bladet's webpage "Nationen" and on Facebook. So on October 10, 2011, it was announced that Canal 9 and TV4 Group has sold the rights to the two national Danish TV-Stations

and DR. Through late 2010 and 2011 became Canal9 every Monday to Friday more a documentary channel like the Swedish TV4 Fakta and has the same rights, while the weekend was still dedicated to football and movies including UFC on Friday nights. Sports rights as Handball, wrestling, Powerboat, tennis and ice hockey were dropped to get a more strong focus on football and the channel changed the slogan from Denmark's new sports channel to Denmark's new football channel – we live football. Through the years, several sports presenters and commentators have switched to Canal 9 including

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, Erik Rasmussen,

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, Line Bilenberg, Jesper Simo, Mette Cornelius

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and latest Flemming Povlsen in 2014.

2012

On January 11, 2012, it was announced that Canal 9 will bring back the TV soap '' The Bold and the Beautiful'' in March 2012 after Kanal 4 dropped the series in November 2011 because of low ratings, fans of the series started a massive campaign on Facebook trying to get back the series on Danish television and it succeed with Canal 9 after two months. And Canal 9 has scheduled the series to 5:30 P.M. Back in February 2011, it was announced that Canal 9 had secured the rights to ice hockey IIHF World Championships from 2012 to 2017 but on February 7, 2012, it was announced that Canal 9 had sold the rights to TV2 Sport for a three-year period from 2012–2014. On February 21, 2012, it was announced that Canal+ Sport 1 has extended the rights to

for there more years till 2015, and Canal 9 will still show one weekly match with this new deal. On July 3, 2012, it was announced that Canal 9 vil get a new sisterchannel called

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, and will be dedicated to sports and will start August 13, 2012, Still there will be football on Canal 9 in the weekends from

and

on Thursday nights, and

replays on Friday nights. And on July 4, 2012, it was announced that the new

will replace Canal+ Sport 1 in Denmark. and on the same day Canal 9 HD was announced, and will start also on August 15, 2012, and Canal 8 Sport HD was also announced, and will start in the beginning of 2013. On July 5, Canal 9 announced on their Facebook page that they have not extended their right to English football ( The Championship & League Cup) because of low ratings, they tried with regular airtime and gave it another chance in the 2011/12 season after wild protest on their Facebook page from the viewers, when they talked about already in 2011 that they would not extend the rights, but it was still no success in the 2011/12 season. Canal 9 HD launched on August 15, 2012. From the start, it was available from Canal Digital, Stofa, YouSee & TDC TV several community antennas and fiber networks. On December 17, 2012, the channel became available in

's sportspackage on satellite and on

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Network Waoo together with

2013

In late February 2013 it was announced that the channel after only one year dropped the TV soap '' The Bold and the Beautiful'' because of low ratings and again fans of the series started a massive campaign on Facebook trying to get back the series on Danish television until now with no success.

2014

Because of

started their own streaming service UFC Fight Pass could Canal 9 & Canal 8 Sport not get the extension of their rights to the UFC PPV and UFC Fight Night, but they would still be able to show the UFC's TV shows like

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, UFC Main Event & classics WEC Events. This was announced on their Facebook page on January 4, 2014. On March 1, 2014 it was announced that C More & Canal 9 &

in Denmark has made a new deal with

, they get the rights to the UFC PPV and UFC Fight Night for 2014 & 2015. This was announced on their Facebook page. On March 14, 2014, it emerged that TV4 Group and C More Entertainment, might sell

and Canal 9 in Denmark because of the poor economy, according to the newspaper BT, they are currently negotiating with TV 2 Denmark and SBS Discovery Media. On June 26, 2014, it was announced that Canal 9 &

had lost one of their strongest football rights, The

from the 2015–16 season, to

and SBS Discovery Media. Later on June 26, 2014, it was announced that

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and C More Entertainment has entered into an agreement that Discovery Networks Northern Europe has the option to purchase

and Canal 9 of C More Entertainment in 2015. The Agreement is an extension of the SBS Discovery Media has just signed a six-year agreement for the rights to two weekly matches from The

. The two matches as SBS Discovery Media bought is the 2nd and 5th match the selection from every round (the matches that Canal 9 has been showing since 2009] and the agreement will take effect from season 2015/16 and will run for six years. And the plan is to continue The

and Canal 9 after summer 2015. The agreement with C More Entertainment also means that

August 1, 2014 will takes over the sale of television advertising on the two channels. On July 18, 2014, Canal 9 &

announced on their Facebook page that they had not extended their right to

. On September 26, 2014,

announced that they would use the option and buy

and Canal 9, the purchase must be approved by the Danish competition authorities and the purchase is expected to take in place during 2015.

2015

On May 27, 2015, The Danish competition authorities announced that they have approved

purchase of

& Canal 9, they take over the channels from July 1, 2015. On May 28, 2015,

announced that they will merge

and Eurosport 2 in to Eurosport DK in Denmark from July 1, 2015, and take the rights fra the two channel in to one channel and with the best from

but now in Danish with more rights targeted the Danish viewers, and with 2,400 hours of live sports a year, Eurosport DK will be the channel with the most live sports hours per year. With sportsrights like football from

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, UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying, Tennis from ATP Tour,

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and 3 Grand Slam, Cycling from UCI World Tour, Winter sport,

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and much more. At the same time they also announced that Canal 9 will get a new name at a later time, and will still broadcast documentaries, drama & crime series, movies and sports on weekends. On June 4, 2015,

announced that they had secured the rights to

for 3 years from the 2015/16 season. It will be broadcast on Canal 9, 6'eren and

On Oktober 29, 2015 it vas announced that

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had sold half of the rights to

and

they will share the rights for 3 years from the 2015/16 season. which meant that the Serie A & La Liga will continue to be broadcast on Canal9 in weekends.

2016

In the early 2016

changed the channel into a retro channel that shows older documentary series from the

and old 80s action & comedy series like

, The A-Team,

and

and still with football in the weekends.

2017

In the beginning of August 2017,

and

did not extend the rights to the

and it was decided to transfer

exclusively to Eurosport 2 and

would future be exclusively on Canal 9, Still, Canal 9 will broadcast matches from

, plus extra matches from

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and from the European

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Sports Rights

Football

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Past Sports Rights

Football

* UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying * UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying *

(2010 & 2011) *

(season 2009/10) * League Cup (season 2009/10-2011/12 & 2015/16-2016/17) * The Championship (season 2009/10-2011/12) *

(season 2009/10-2013/14) *

(season 2009/10-2017/18) *

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(season 2009/10-2017/18) *

(season 2009/10-2017/18)

Handball

* Handball Supercup 2009 *

(season 2009/10-2010/11) * EHF Champions League (season 2009/10-2010/11)

Tennis

* WTA

* WTA 2011 Hong Kong Tennis Classic * WTA

* Various tournaments on the ATP Tour (2010–2015)

Winter Olympics

Fighting

* TNA iMPACT! (2009–2010) * TNA PPV (2009–2010) *

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(IX – XV) * Monster Knockouts (2010–2014) * UFC PPV (2009–2015) * UFC Fight Night (2009–2015)

American Football

* Lingerie Football League (Season 2010/11-2011/12)

Athletic

Powerboat

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(2009–2010) * Class1 Powerboat Championship (2009–2010)

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Programming

All advertisement sales are handled by

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Handball

Tennis

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American Football

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