Steel was an Italian entertainment
TV channel
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, owned by
NBCUniversal
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and broadcast on
Premium Gallery, a
Digital terrestrial television
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service in
Italy
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. It started broadcasting on 19 January 2008 at 13:30 (
CET
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Places
* Cet, Albania
* Cet, standard astronomical abbreviation for the constellation Cetus
* Colchester Town railway station (National Rail code CET), in Colchester, England
Arts, entertainment, and media
* Comcast Ente ...
Time).
It was aimed at a male audience and broadcast
action
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* Action (narrative), a literary mode
* Action fiction, a type of genre fiction
* Action game, a genre of video game
Film
* Action film, a genre of film
* ''Action'' (1921 film), a film by John Ford
* ''Action'' (1980 fil ...
and
science fiction
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/
fantasy
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TV series
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and
movie
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s, with a
branded block called
Syfy
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.
Steel was not available on
Satellite television
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, and was not available outside Italy.
Programs
See also
*
Mediaset Premium
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External links
Steel
Syfy on Steel
Defunct television channels in Italy
Mediaset television channels
Television channels and stations established in 2008
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2013
2008 establishments in Italy
2013 disestablishments in Italy
Italian-language television stations
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