Pink TV
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Gay
Gay is a word that refers to a homosexual person, especially a homosexual male. For homosexual women the specific term is "lesbian"....
satellite channel (after Italy
Italy
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's GAY.tv
GAY.tv
GAY.tv, having debuted in 2002, was the only Italian television channel with programming aimed at LGBT, or lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender, audiences. On December 18, 2008, due to low revenue, it shut down operations and focused all activity on the website. On September 13, GAY.tv launched...
), started in France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
on 25 October 2004, it costs €
Euro
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9 per month, and is mostly funded by TF1
TF1
TF1 is a national French TV channel, controlled by TF1 Group, whose major share-holder is Bouygues. TF1's average market share of 24% makes it the most popular domestic network...
and Canal Plus, terrestrial channels in France. It is now possible to access Pink TV via satellite, cable and DSL providers. Highlights include Queer as Folk
Queer as Folk (UK TV series)
Queer as Folk is a 1999 British television series that chronicles the lives of three gay men living in Manchester's gay village around Canal Street. Both Queer as Folk and Queer as Folk 2 were written by Russell T Davies...
, as well as talkshows (including So Graham Norton
So Graham Norton
So Graham Norton is a British television programme, hosted by Irish personality Graham Norton. It ran from 3 July 1998 to 1 March 2002.-Theme:...
). There is an X-rated film four times a week after midnight, and the channel broadcasts 24 hours per day.
From fall 2007, due to financial problems, Pink TV only airs two hours of free and unscrambled programmes a day (from 10pm to 12 midnight, mostly reruns at the moment) and then switches to Pink X, its premium X-rated counterpart from 12 midnight (€
Euro
The euro is the official currency of the eurozone: 17 of the 27 member states of the European Union. It is also the currency used by the Institutions of the European Union. The eurozone consists of Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg,...
9 per month).
Shareholders
- M. Pascal Houzelot : 29,92 %
- Canal+Canal+Canal+ is a French premium pay television channel launched in 1984. It is 80% owned by the Canal+ Group, which in turn is owned by Vivendi SA. The channel broadcasts several kinds of programming, mostly encrypted...
: 17,52 % - Groupe TF1 : 11,44 %
- Société M6 Thématique : 9,15 %
- Société Connection : 9,15 %
- Société Siges : 8,79 %
- Société Hélios (Groupe Lagardère) : 8,73 %
- Société Financière Pinault : 1,93 %
- M. Pierre BergéPierre BergéPierre Bergé is a French industrialist and patron. He is perhaps best known as the co-founder of Yves Saint Laurent Couture House and former partner of fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent.-Early life:...
: 1,93 % - Société Sophia Asset Management Ltd : 0,48 %
- M. Henri BiardHenri BiardHenri Biard was the director of the Direction de la surveillance du territoire , the French counterintelligence and domestic intelligence service from 1972 to 1974. Biard ordered DST agents to illegally wiretap the offices of Le Canard enchaîné, a French newspaper. When this decision was made...
: 0,48 % - Société Tilder : 0,48 %