''Film1 Drama'' is a Dutch
premium television
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channel owned by SPI International. Every night the programming is dedicated to a theme, such as a director or a genre. Film1 launched together with its sister service
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on 1 February 2006 and replaced the Canal+ Netherlands television channels. Film1 offers multiple channels with Dutch and international film and television series productions. Initially Film1 Drama started as Film1 Series on 17 January 2012 when it replaced the 1 hour timeshift channel Film1 Premiere +1, focusing on
television series
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. It changed into Film1 Spotlight on 6 September 2013. On 1 September 2016 Film1 Spotlight got renamed by Film1 Drama.
Film1 vernieuwt per 1 september
The channel is available on most digital cable
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and IPTV
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providers, and Satellite
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provider CanalDigitaal
CanalDigitaal is a provider of digital television via satellite for the Dutch market, using the Astra satellites at 23.5° east.
Initially customers were mainly Dutch citizens in the countryside who did not have cable access. But in the me ...
. DVB-T
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provider Digitenne doesn't provide Film1 Drama.
See also
* Film1
''Film1'' is a Dutch premium television and video on demand service that replaced Canal+ and is owned by SPI International (previously owned by Liberty Global and Sony Pictures Television).
Background
The service launched with three channels a ...
* Television in the Netherlands
Television in the Netherlands was officially introduced in 1951. In the Netherlands, the television market is divided between a number of commercial networks, such as RTL Nederland, and a system of public broadcasters sharing three channels, NPO 1 ...
* Digital television in the Netherlands The Netherlands now has three major forms of broadcast digital television. Terrestrial (DVB-T), Cable ( DVB-C), and Satellite ( DVB-S). In addition IPTV services are available. At the end of the first quarter of 2013 almost 84% of the households in ...
External links
film1.nl
alleenopeen.tv
References
{{Television in the Netherlands
Television channels in the Netherlands
SPI International
Television channels and stations established in 2012