SF Succé was a Swedish premium movie channel that operated in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It was owned by

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(whose parent company

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was in the process of merging with

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to form

Time Warner Warner Media, LLC ( traded as WarnerMedia) was an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate. It was headquartered at the 30 Hudson Yards complex in New York City, United States. It was originally established in 1972 by ...

, now

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), Canal Plus (France's pay TV channel, in turn owned by what was then Compagnie générale des eaux (CGE), now

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Svensk Filmindustri SF Studios is a Swedish film and television production and distribution company (both Swedish and international) with headquarters in Stockholm and local offices in Oslo, Copenhagen, Helsinki and London. The studio is owned by Nordic media cong ...

and Marieberg (a newspaper publisher), which each held a 25 percent share. The channel went on air from a satellite operated by Intelsat, specifically Intelsat VA-F11 (the latter series being the predecessor of the

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series by this satellite's manufacturer Space Systems Loral, now

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), on December 1, 1989. At launch, a subscription cost 120 Swedish krona and the channel was on-air for about 60 hours per week, mostly in the evenings and weekend mornings. In 1991, it was purchased and subsequently merged with TV1000. TV1000's owners, Kinnevik, would own 75 percent of the company, while SF Succé's owners got the remaining 25 percent. The merged channel launched on September 1, 1991 under the name TV1000 - Succékanalen. The SF brand makes a return as a television channel in Sweden on October 1, 2009, when

and TV1000's competitor

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together launch

SF-kanalen SF-kanalen is a Swedish television channel, which shows movies from the library of Svensk Filmindustri. It is broadcast to Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland as a part of the Canal+ package. The channel launched on 1 October 2009 and would broad ...

, a channel with only Swedish films. Both Svensk Filmindustri and the Nordic Canal+ branch are now owned by the same company.

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Defunct television channels in Sweden Television channels and stations established in 1989 Television channels and stations disestablished in 1991 {{sweden-tv-stub