Turner Classic Movies Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is an American movie channel, movie-oriented pay television, pay-TV television network, network owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. Launched in 1994, Turner Classic Movies is headquartered at Turner's Techwood broadcasti ...

, a movie-oriented network that was originally established as a cable channel in the United States, has expanded to include worldwide versions.

Canada

In Canada, Turner Classic Movies was debuted on November 1, 2005, on the

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system and

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satellite service.

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started offering Turner Classic Movies on December 12, 2006, as a

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channel for all digital customers, and added it to the "Ultimate TV" analogue package on or around February 1, 2007. While the schedule for the Canadian channel is generally the same as the US channel, some films are replaced for broadcast into Canada due to rights issues and other reasons.

Europe, the Middle East and Africa

In Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Turner Classic Movies was available as ten separate channels for Africa, Central and Eastern Europe, France/Switzerland/Belgium, Germany/Switzerland, Greece/

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, Italy, Middle East,

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, Spain, the UK/Ireland/

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, and a panregional channel with various feeds in different languages for the Nordic countries,

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and other countries. While in Poland it was introduced in 1998 until October 6, 2015, as part of the WizjaTV platform along with a local version of Cartoon Network, the European feed was launched in 1999 until January 1, 2014, when its predecessor, the international version of

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dropped its film programming to become a general entertainment channel. Its penetration increased when it took over TNT's space on various platforms in 1999 and 2000. In Romania, Turner Classic Movies aired after Cartoon Network on the same channel from 10:00 PM, local time. In the

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Turner Classic Movies 2 TCM Movies (formerly Turner Classic Movies) is a British pay television channel featuring classic movies, mostly from the Turner Entertainment and Warner Bros. film libraries, which include many Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, MGM titles. History It was ...

launched on May 2, 2006. The channel, which is a spin-off from the UK version of Turner Classic Movies, Turner Classic Movies 2 focuses mainly on the bigger films from the

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and

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film archives including ''

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'', '' The Wizard of Oz'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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'', among others. The channel closed on August 12, 2013, and was replaced with Turner Classic Movies +1 on August 13, 2013 In December 2013, the pan-European channel closed in Portugal. In September 2013, Turner Broadcasting System revealed its plans to close down the pan-European channel for the Benelux market. The channel closed on 1 January 2014. On 1 June 2017, TCM Europe closed down in all of the Nordic countries. In August 2018, The MENA feed has dropped (Turner Classic Movies) tag and unveiled a new logo. The African TCM was rebranded to TNT in September 2018. In 2018, Greece has relaunched TCM again and was broadcasting on

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, and broadcast in HD by 2019. In April 2019, TCM MENA became HD on beIN in the MENA Region. On 1 August 2019, Turner Classic Movies was rebranded to TCM Movies in United Kingdom. Currently, TCM is only available in

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, France, Switzerland and Belgium and the Middle East, North Africa, Greece, and Cyprus.

Asia-Pacific

In Asia-Pacific, Turner Classic Movies was available as one feed that serves more than 14 territories. It was available in India until March 2, 2009, exclusively on

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along with

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. It is available in India on

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from August 2009 (Channel No. 357). It closed in January 2019.

Latin America

TCM was also available in

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, but this version receives little attention unlike the US and Europe, Middle East and Africa counterparts. This version in Latin America was called TCM Classic Hollywood until mid-2009. Starting on April 1, 2009, TCM Latin America was renamed TCM Classic Entertainment and started airing most of the programming from the former channel

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, also owned by

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, and which also aired classic series and movies. Its programming is aired on TCM as Retro has been replaced by

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