Digiturk is a Turkish

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

 Satellite television

Satellite television

Satellite television is television programming delivered by the means of communications satellite and received by an outdoor antenna, usually a parabolic mirror generally referred to as a satellite dish, and as far as household usage is concerned, a satellite receiver either in the form of an...

 provider, founded in 1999, with services starting in mid-2000. They offer, both national cable TV channels and their own channels, national radio, and music streams of different genres. Digiturk is also the current owner of the broadcasting rights of Turkish Super League. In addition to Turkey, they offer service throughout Europe

Europe

Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

, mainly for members of the Turkish diaspora

Turkish diaspora

The Turkish diaspora refers to "Turks" who have emigrated from their homeland. Thus, the term may refer to citizens of Turkey living abroad or ethnic Turks from traditional areas of Turkish settlement who are living abroad.Due to the...

. Reportedly it has over 2 million subscribers worldwide. Their service is provided from Eutelsat

Eutelsat

Eutelsat S.A. is a French-based satellite provider. Providing coverage over the entire European continent, as well as the Middle East, Africa, India and significant parts of Asia and the Americas, it is one of the world's three leading satellite operators in terms of revenues.Eutelsat’s satellites...

 W3A, positioned some 35 degrees west of the more traditionally used Türksat

Turksat (satellite)

Turksat is name of many Turkish communication satellites. The Turksat project is supervised by Aérospatiale and Turksat .-Turksat 1A:...

; and is encrypted in Cryptoworks

Cryptoworks

Cryptoworks is a DVB conditional access system, developed by Philips CryptoTec but now belonging to Irdeto.Cryptoworks is used by Digiturk, the BFBS satellite service, UPC Direct, ITV Partner the ORF, JSTV, and other pay TV or free-to-view systems; mainly in Europe...

  and Irdeto

Irdeto

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.

Digiturk made its major breakthrough when it acquired the rights to broadcast Turkish football league, which are subject to quite high prices since the country has a great interest towards football. Service eventually grew larger, and they added special channels for movies and series and such. It became an HBO-like, since it has the resources to buy movies earlier than cable channels, also many running/ended TV series as well.

National channels

• Show TV
  Show TV
  SHOW TV is a nation-wide television channel in Turkey owned by Çukurova Holding. The channel was established by the Turkish businessmen Erol Aksoy and Haldun Simavi on March 1, 1992. During the last years, Show TV extended its range of viewers by adding more channels like Show Plus, Show Max and...
  
  
• TRT 1
  TRT 1
  TRT 1 is the first Turkish national television station. It launched on January 31 , 1968.-Introduction:TRT 1, the first television channel in Turkey, started their test transmissions on January 31, 1968, and commenced full national broadcasts in December 1971. It was the only channel in Turkey...
  
  
• Kanal D
  Kanal D
  Kanal D is a nation-wide television channel in Turkey and part of Doğan Holding which is owned by the Turkish media tycoon Aydın Doğan.Kanal D also runs an international channel, Euro D which is available online....
  
  
• atv
• Fox
• Star TV
• Kanaltürk
• tv8
• CNBC-e
  CNBC-e
  CNBC-e is a hybrid business/financial and entertainment channel operated in Turkey by CNBC Europe and the NTV Group.The channel shares its name with a co-owned magazine about CNBC-e....
  
  
• Bloomberg HT
• Kanal B
• Bugün TV
• Kanal 7
• Samanyolu TV
  Samanyolu TV
  Samanyolu TV is an international TV station, with its head quarters in Istanbul. It is one of the highest rating TV channels in Turkey. It iswatched by people of Turkish origin all over the world.- Series :* Kepu Ma* Бра керм да рожат...
  
  
• Beyaz TV
• Flash TV
• Cem TV
• TRT Türk
  TRT Türk
  TRT Türk is the International TV channel of the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation broadcast in other countries.TRT Türk’s task was enhance the understanding of the possibilities Turkey and Turkic Republics may possess or take advantage of in various fields through the programs aiming at the...
  
  
• Mehtap TV
  Mehtap TV
  Mehtap TV, began broadcasting on 19 June 2005 via Turksat 2-A satellite TV channel with the slogan of a cultural channel. Currently Murat Keskin is the executive editor of Mehtap Tv.-External links:**...
  
  
• e2
  E2 (TV channel)
  e2 is a Turkish television channel that often broadcasts American series. It is owned by the Doğuş Group.-Entertainment programmes:The following is an incomplete list of shows which have aired and/or are currently airing on e2:* 24...
  
  
• Halk TV
• TNT
• TRT Haber
• TRT 3
  TRT 3
  TRT 3 is a Turkish television station. It mostly broadcasting sport events.-Introduction:TRT 3 started test transmissions on October 2, 1989 as "3...
  
   / TRT GAP
  TRT Gap
  TRT GAP, belonging to the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation, has been established to enhance the recognition of The Southeastern Anatolia Project, abbreviated as GAP, on a rational ground which serves forming the necessary social, cultural and psychological environment in the region...
  
  
• TRT Avaz
  TRT Avaz
  TRT Avaz ilaunched on 21 March 2009, Nevruz Day which is an eastern spring solstice celebration followed by Turkic countries, as well as elsewhere....
  
  
• TRT 6
  TRT 6
  TRT 6, part of the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation, is Turkey's first national Kurdish language television station.It broadcasts in the Kurmanji and Sorani dialects of the Kurdish language and in the Zaza language, offering programs aimed at all ages and promoting the perspective of the...
  
  
• Kanal A
  Kanal A
  Kanal A is the first commercial television station in Slovenia. The television program, which has been operating within PRO PLUS d.o.o., has national coverage. In its primary target group of viewers , Kanal A is the second most watched TV programme in Slovenia...
  
  
• Cine5
  Cine5
  Cine5 is the first subscription based television channel in Turkey. It was aired encrypted and primarily broadcast feature movies when it was founded on September 20, 1993. Subscribers were required to buy a decoder to watch the channel. The number of subscribers reached over half a million...
  
  
• Show TV HD
  Show TV
  SHOW TV is a nation-wide television channel in Turkey owned by Çukurova Holding. The channel was established by the Turkish businessmen Erol Aksoy and Haldun Simavi on March 1, 1992. During the last years, Show TV extended its range of viewers by adding more channels like Show Plus, Show Max and...
  
  
• atv HD
• TRT HD
  TRT HD
  TRT HD is the second High definition channel of TRT after TRT 3 HD. It was launched on 24 May 2010. It broadcasts events such as the Eurovision Song Contest in HD....
  
  

News channels

• a Haber
• Bugün TV
• Ülke TV
• TVNET
• Kanal 24
• NTV
• CNN Türk
  CNN Turk
  CNN Türk is the Turkish version of the popular cable news channel CNN. CNN Türk is a nationwide channel broadcasting exclusively in Turkey, owned by Time Warner and Doğan Medya Grubu, broadcasting since October 11, 1999. It has its headquarters in Istanbul....
  
  
• Sky Turk
  Sky Turk
  Sky Turk is a privately owned television channel in Turkey which is a part of the Çukurova Holding media group.A sound bomb was thrown at the channel's headquarters in Topkapı, İstanbul, on October 22, 2009, which was defused by the anti-bomb squad....
  
  
• Habertürk
• TGRT Haber
• Samanyolu Haber
• Bloomberg Television
  Bloomberg Television
  Bloomberg Television is a 24-hour global network broadcasting business and financial news. It is distributed globally, reaching over 200 million homes worldwide. It is owned and operated by Bloomberg L.P...
  
  
• BBC World News
• Euronews
  EuroNews
  Euronews is an international multilingual news television channel.It covers world news from what it claims to be a 'European' perspective.Criticisms are that the perspective is in fact that of the European Commission - a major and growing funder of Euronews....
  
  
• CNN International
  CNN International
  CNN International is an international English language television network that carries news, current affairs, politics, opinions, and business programming worldwide. CNN is one of the world's largest news organizations. It is owned by Time Warner, and is affiliated with CNN, which is mainly...
  
  
• Al Jazeera English
• 6 News
• France 24
  France 24
  France 24 is an international news and current affairs television channel. The service is aimed at the overseas market, similar to BBC World News, DW-TV, NHK World and RT, and broadcast through satellite and cable operators throughout the world. During 2010 the channel started broadcasting through...
  
  
• a Haber HD

Film and series channels

• ComedyMax
  ComedyMax
  ComedyMax is a television channel in Turkey, which broadcasts worldwide hit TV series as Turkish subtitled. It is exclusively available for Digiturk satellite package subscribers.-Shows:Some of the shows on ComedyMax:...
  
  
• Fox Life
  Fox Life
  Fox Life is a television network, launched by the Fox Broadcasting Company, which airs across Latin America, Europe and Japan . Its basic programming include numerous television series, sitcoms and movies, among others, which includes some original programming in certain regions...
  
  
• DiziMax
  DiziMax
  DiziMax is a series of Satellite television channels available on Turkish satellite television provider Digiturk. It consists of DiziMax, DiziMax HD, and DiziMaxMore and is available on Sinema Paketi ....
  
  
• DiziMaxMore
• MGM Movies
  MGM (TV channel)
  MGM Channel is a 24-hour global-based network that was launched in 1999 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios that airs movies from MGM's celebrated 4,000-title library - the largest modern film library in the world, including West Side Story, Midnight Cowboy, The Pope of Greenwich Village, The Manchurian...
  
  
• MovieMax Family
• MovieMax Premiere
• MovieMax Premiere 2
• MovieMax Stars
• MovieMax Stars 2
• MovieMax Festival
• MovieMax Speed
• Salon 1
• Salon 2
• Salon 3
• DiziMax HD
• DiziMaxMore HD
• MovieMax Premiere HD
• MovieMax Stars HD

Sport channels

• Fox Sports
• Eurosport
  Eurosport
  Eurosport is a pan-European television sport network operated by French broadcaster TF1 Group. The network of channels are available in 59 countries, in 20 different languages providing viewers with European and international sporting events...
  
  
• Eurosport 2
  Eurosport 2
  Eurosport 2 is a European sports television network. It is a sister channel to Eurosport and Eurosport News. Several different versions of the channel exist across Europe, where television rights for sport differ.-Launch:...
  
  
• Bursaspor TV
• Beşiktaş TV
• Galatasaray TV
  Galatasaray TV
  Galatasaray TV is a channel of Turkish Giant Galatasaray S.K.. The daily programs of this TV include live games and learning cultural roots of Galatasaray .The channel...
  
  
• Fenerbahçe TV
• Lig TV
• Lig TV 2
• Lig TV 3
• NTV Spor
  NTV Spor
  -Programming:*Football: La Liga,Turkey National Home Matches,FA Cup,Carling Cup,Coppa Italia*Basketball: NBA,WNBA,FIBA World Championship 2010 Turkey ,Euroleague...
  
  
• TJK TV
• Sports TV
• Extreme Sports
  Extreme Sports Channel
  The Extreme Sports Channel is a Netherlands-based extreme sports television channel available across Europe and the Middle East. Al Gosling had the idea for the channel in 1998.-History:...
  
  
• ESPN America
• ESPN Classic
  ESPN Classic
  ESPN Classic is a sports channel that features reruns of famous sporting events, sports documentaries, and sports themed movies. Such programs includes biographies of famous sports figures or a rerun of a famous World Series or Super Bowl, often with added commentary on the event...
  
  
• Premier League TV
• Eurosport HD
  Eurosport HD
  On 25 May 2008, a HD simulcast version of the main channel launched - the first event covered in HD being the 2008 French Open at Roland Garros.-Launch:...
  
  
• Sports TV HD
• Lig TV HD
• Lig TV 2 HD
• Lig TV 3 HD
• NTV Spor HD
  NTV Spor
  -Programming:*Football: La Liga,Turkey National Home Matches,FA Cup,Carling Cup,Coppa Italia*Basketball: NBA,WNBA,FIBA World Championship 2010 Turkey ,Euroleague...
  
  
• Fox Sports HD
• Premier League TV HD
• ESPN America HD

Child channels

• TRT Çocuk
  TRT Çocuk
  TRT Çocuk is a Turkish television station, part of the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation. It broadcasts 24 hours a day, cartoons for children until 21:00 and broadcasts TRT Okul till 06:30 since 2011.-Cartoons:*Laura's Star*Arthur*Charlie and Lola...
  
  
• BabyTV
  BabyTV
  BabyTV is a television channel for infants, toddlers, and their parents. Launched in 2003 BabyTV is distributed in 85 countries globally via over 300 affiliates, and is localized in 15 languages ....
  
  
• Disney XD
• Planet Çocuk
• BabyFirstTV
  BabyFirstTV
  BabyFirstTV is a commercial-free premium satellite TV Network aimed at 6-month-old to 5-year-old children. Its investors include Regency Enterprises, Bellco Capital, LLC & Kardan N.V.. Guy Oranim & Sharon Rechter created BabyFirstTV in 2003.-Availability:...
  
  
• Disney Junior
  Disney Junior
  Disney Junior is a current program block on Disney Channel and an upcoming American basic cable and satellite television network intended to replace SOAPnet in February 2012. It began airing on February 14, 2011, replacing Playhouse Disney....
  
  
• Jojo
  Jojo
  Jojo or JoJo is a common nickname for people whose name begins with "Jo", which is in process of developing into a name in its own right. Jojo may refer to:-Music:* JoJo , American entertainer...
  
  
• Disney Channel
  Disney Channel Turkey
  For the Disney Channel in other countries, see Disney Channel . For the original Disney Channel, see Disney Channel.Disney Channel Turkey is a children's television that broadcasts children's & youth shows in Turkish or with Turkish subtitles. It was first launched on April 29, 2007 by Digiturk,...
  
  
• Yumurcak TV
  Yumurcak TV
  Yumurcak TV is a Turkish television own and operated by Samanyolu Yayıncılık A.Ş.....
  
  
• Cartoon Network
  Cartoon Network (Turkey)
  Cartoon Network is a television channel available in Turkey and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. It launched on January 28, 2008.-See also:* Cartoon NetworkCurrent Cartoons*Angelo Rules*Adventure Time...
  
  
• minika

Music channels

• Powertürk TV
• MCM Top
  MCM (French TV)
  MCM is a French music video TV channel owned by Groupe MCM. It was started in 1989 by Groupe Europe following the MTV model. MCM broadcasts 3 encrypted music TV channels "MCM France", "MCM Pop" and "MCM Top" as part of the "CanalSat France" subscription TV package from the Astra 19.2°E cluster of...
  
  
• Mezzo TV
  Mezzo TV
  Mezzo is a French television channel devoted to classical music , jazz and world music. It was formed in 1992 and was called France Supervision until 1998.Its slogan is 'Écouter, Voir, Oser' ....
  
  
• VH1
  VH1 Europe
  VH1 Europe, also known as VH1 European, is a music television channel from MTV Networks Europe, based on the American Channel of the same name. This version of VH1 is very different from its American counterpart, since it has never ceased to be a proper music channel, playing a wide variety of...
  
  
• Kral TV
  Kral TV
  TV-16 August 1994 King Day was established by Cem Uzan. After performing the test on the joint publication with publication Tele On the first video music channel started broadcasting as the King of TV, has several important turning point in the life of the artist's music. Kral TV Video Music Awards...
  
  
• TRT Müzik
  TRT Müzik
  TRT Müzik is a Turkish television channel owned and operated by Turkish Radio and Television Corporation. It broadcasts 24 hours music programmes featuring music magazines and talkshows. TRT Müzik can also be watched on TRT 4....
  
  

Documentary channels

• İZ TV
• TRT Belgesel
  TRT Belgesel
  TRT Belgesel is a Turkish television owned and operated by Turkish Radio and Television Corporation. It broadcasts documentaries. -External links:* *...
  
  
• National Geographic Adventure
  National Geographic Adventure
  National Geographic Adventure, formerly known as Adventure One but now commonly known as Nat Geo Adventure, is a subscription TV channel part of National Geographic Channels International and News Corporation...
  
  
• National Geographic Channel
  National Geographic Channel
  National Geographic Channel, also commercially abbreviated and trademarked as Nat Geo, is a subscription television channel that airs non-fiction television programs produced by the National Geographic Society. Like History and the Discovery Channel, the channel features documentaries with factual...
  
  
• National Geographic Wild
  National Geographic Wild
  Nat Geo WILD is a cable TV channel focused on animal-related programs. It is a sister network to National Geographic Channel and it is the latest channel to be jointly launched by the National Geographic Society and Fox Cable Networks. It first launched in Hong Kong on January 1, 2006, focusing...
  
  
• Zone Reality
  Zone Reality
  Zone Reality is a European reality television channel.Zone Reality broadcasts in both analogue and digital to over 120 million viewers throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America....
  
  
• The Biography Channel
  The Biography Channel
  The Biography Channel is an American digital cable television channel owned by A&E and based on the television series of the same name. A version of the channel also airs on ONO and Telefónica in Spain and on Sky Digital and cable television in the United Kingdom, a version of the channel also...
  
  
• History Channel
• National Geographic Channel HD
• National Geographic Wild HD
• İZ TV HD

Entertainment and Life channels

• Showmax
• TürkMax
• Fashion TV
  Fashion TV
  Fashion TV is an international fashion and lifestyle broadcasting television channel. It was founded in France in 1997 by its Polish-born president Michel Adam Lisowski, Fashion TV is the only 24/7 international TV network exclusively dedicated to fashion, beauty, glamour and style and has become...
  
  
• Home TV
• E!
  E!
  E! Entertainment Television is an American basic cable and satellite television network, owned by NBCUniversal. It features entertainment-related programming, reality television, feature films and occasionally series and specials unrelated to the entertainment industry.E! has an audience reach of...
  
  
• FX
• Show Plus
• BBC Entertainment
  BBC Entertainment
  BBC Entertainment is an international television channel showcasing comedy, drama, light entertainment and children's programming from the BBC and other UK production houses...
  
  
• Wedding TV
  Wedding TV
  Wedding TV is a woman's lifestyle television channel broadcast in the United Kingdom, on the Sky and Freesat platforms. The channel claims to be the first of its kind, concentrating on love, life, relationships and weddings...
  
  
• Fashion TV HD
  Fashion TV
  Fashion TV is an international fashion and lifestyle broadcasting television channel. It was founded in France in 1997 by its Polish-born president Michel Adam Lisowski, Fashion TV is the only 24/7 international TV network exclusively dedicated to fashion, beauty, glamour and style and has become...
  
  

International channels

• World Travel Channel
• Rai 1
• TV5MONDE
  TV5MONDE
  TV5MONDE is a global television network, broadcasting several channels of French language programming. It is an approved participant member of the European Broadcasting Union.-History:...
  
  
• TRT el Türkiye
  TRT el Türkiye
  TRT el Türkiye is an Arabic language channel of TRT, broadcasting in Turkey and the Middle East. It launched on 4 April 2010.-References:...
  
  
• Saudi T.V. Channel 1
  Saudi T.V. Channel 1
  Saudi TV Channel 1 is a Arabic news and entertainment TV channel of Saudi Arabia.Broadcasting throughout the Middle East, Europe and North America, KSA 1 officially began broadcasting on 7 July 1965 in black and white from Riyadh and Jeddah until 1974 when color broadcasting was introduced for the...
  
  
• Channel One (Russia)
  Channel One (Russia)
  Channel One is the first television channel to broadcast in the Soviet Union. The channel was renamed Ostankino Channel 1 in 1991, after the Soviet Union broke up and the Russian SFSR became the Russian Federation. According to a recent government publication, the Russian government controls 51%...
  
  
• ProSieben

Adult channels

• Blue Hustler
  Blue Hustler
  Blue Hustler is a subscription based premium adult entertainment television channel distributed throughout Europe and Israel via digital cable and satellite television. It owned by the Dutch-based company Sapphire Media International BV....
  
  
• Intimacy
• Playboy TV
  Playboy TV
  Playboy TV is a premium monthly subscription television channel. Since its launch in 1982 in partnership with Cablevision which eventually sold their share back to Playboy, Playboy TV has become a leading entertainment channel for adult entertainment...
  
  
• Penthouse
  Penthouse
  Penthouse may refer to:*Penthouse apartment, a special apartment on the top floor of a building*Penthouse , a men's magazine*Penthouse , a 1933 film starring Warner Baxter and Myrna Loy...
  
  
• Penthouse HD

External links

• Digiturk Official Web Site