Canal 9 (Denmark)
| Canal 9 | |
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| Launched | July 17, 2009 |
| Owned by | TV4 Group and C More Entertainment |
| Broadcast area | Denmark Norway |
| Website | http://www.canal9.dk |
| Availability | |
| Terrestrial | |
| Boxer | 18 |
| Satellite | |
| Canal Digital | 9 |
| Cable | |
| YouSee | |
| Stofa | |
CANAL9 is a Danish television channel owned by the TV4 Group and C More Entertainment.
The channel is designed for men (like the same company's MTV3 MAX in Finland & TV4 Sport in Sweden) and was launched as a low-pay sister channel to Canal+ in July 2009 and share sports rights with Canal+ Sport, and is based on sports, mostly football including broadcasts from the Danish Superliga as well as La Liga and Serie A, but also UFC Fighting, handball from EHF Champions League & Bundesliga and various tournaments on the WTA Tour with focus on Caroline Wozniacki.
The channel will however broadcast HBO drama series, documentary, police/crime series and movies (mostly Hollywood movies from the 90's and early 2000) but also classics like Monty Python and Bud Spencer & Terence Hill movies.
Through late 2010 and 2011 became Canal9 every Monday to Friday more a danish copy of the swedish TV4 Fakta, because there were a lot more documentary series on the program than when the channel started, while the weekend was still dedicated to football and movies including UFC on Friday nights. Sports rights as Handball, Wrestling, Powerboat, Tennis and some Football leagues were dropped to get a more strong focus on La Liga & The Danish Superliga.
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[edit] History
The channel was announced on March 20, 2009. There had been some uncertainty as for the distribution for the channel, as neither YouSee nor Telia Stofa and Boxer had expressed interest in distributing the channel.[1] On March 25 it was announced that Canal Digital will broadcast the channel exclusively on satellite.[2][3] The channel will cost 23,95 DKK, which is slightly less than its competitor TV 2 Sport.
Canal 9 launched on July 17, 2009 with the Danish action movie In China They Eat Dogs. From the start it was available from Canal Digital, ComX, Smile Content and several community antennas and fiber networks.
Canal 9 became available terrestrially in July when it temporarily replaced Kanal København in Copenhagen where it will broadcast until October 31, 2009. After this, it will broadcast from Boxer's transmitters nationwide.[4] On September 15, it was added to YouSee's cable network, where it initially be available digitally on the Middle package.[5]
From the start in July 2009 Canal 9 had secured lots of football rights including matches from FIFA World Cup 2010, Danish Superliga, Serie A, Premier League, The Championship, La Liga, Eredivisie & Carling Cup but also the rights to events from UFC & TNA Wrestling and the 2009 World Championships in Athletics and handball from EHF Champions League.[6]
On September 9, 2009 it was announced that Canal 9 has secured the rights to Handball-Bundesliga.[7]
On September 24, 2009 it was announced that Canal 9 will show the WTA 2009 BGL Luxembourg Open with the top seeded Caroline Wozniacki.[8]
On October 22, 2009 it was announced that Canal 9 has secured the rights to the 2009 Handball Supercup. [9]
On January 12, 2010 it was announced that Canal 9 has secured the rights to the 2010 tournament of Copa del Sol.[10]
On February 8, 2010 it was announced that DR, TV2, Eurosport and Canal 9 will show more them 150 hours together from the 2010 Winter Olympics[11]
On May 10, 2010 Canal 9 has secured the rights for two of Denmarks national teams qualifyingmatches for the UEFA Euro 2012 against Iceland June 4, 2011 and against Cyprus October 7, 2011[12]
On May 15, 2010 is was announced that the owners of Canal 9, TV4 Group has secured the right to UEFA Euro 2012 in Denmark, but it is still uncertain whether the tournament will be shown on Canal 9 because of the low ratings. [13]
On August 2, 2010 it was announced that Canal 9 has the rights to The Championship for the 2010/11 season.[14]
On September 11, 2010 it was announced that Canal 9 has secured the rights to Lingerie Football League.[15]
On January 20, 2011 it was announced that Canal 9 has has secured the rights to the 2011 tournament of Copa del Sol.[16]
On February 15, 2011 it was announced that TV4 Sport & Canal 9 has secured the rights to IIHF World Championships from 2012 to 2017.[17]
On June 22, 2011 it was announced that Canal 9 will show some of the matches from the 2011 Copa América but most of the tournament will be shown on Canal+ Sport 1.[18]
On June 24, 2011 it was announced that Canal 9 will show the WTA 2011 Swedish Open with the top seeded Caroline Wozniacki.[19]
On July 5, 2011 it was announced that Canal+ Sport 1 & Canal 9 has secured the rights to UEFA Europa League for 3 years from the 2012/13 season.[20]
On July 12, 2011 it was announced that Canal+ Sport 1 & Canal 9 has extended the rights to La Liga for four more years till 2015.[21]
On July 27, 2011 it was announced that the TV miniseries The Kennedys will get Danish TV premiere on Canal 9.[22]
On August 13, 2011 www.kampanje.com start writing about that Canal 9 will be launched in a Norwegian version on October 1, 2011 and vill replace TV4 Fakta in norway.[23]
The 2011/12 season of The Championship & Serie A was original scheduled only on Canal+ Sport 1 but after wild protests from viewers on their facebook page, they decided to show a match at 4 p.m. from The Championship, followed by a match from Serie A at 6 p.m. on Saturday when possible, big matches from Danish Superliga and La Liga will still have priority in the timeperiod, this was announced on their Facebook page on August 25, 2011.
On September 12, 2011, it was announced that Canal 9 had lost one of their strongest football rights The Danish Superliga from the 2012/13 season to Viasat & TV2 Sport.[24]
On September 21, 2011, it was announced that Canal 9 has bought back 66 matches per. season from The Danish Superliga from Viasat, valid from season 2012/13 to 2014/15.[25]
Back in May 2010 it was announced that the Canal 9 and TV4 Group has secured the right to UEFA Euro 2012 in Denmark, but it was uncertain whether the tournament will be shown on Canal 9 because of the low ratings and the following strong focus on the problem in the media that Canal 9 had the rights as well as the 2 qualifingmatchs against Iceland and Cyprus, specially the Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet has been after Canal 9 and called them "The Secret Channel", and several angry viewers have driven campaignings "Denmark national football team's matches back on national TV and not on Pay-TV" on Ekstra Bladet's webpage "Nationen" and on Facebook.[26] So on Oktober 10, 2011 it was announced that Canal 9 and TV4 Group has sold the rights to the two national danish TV-Stations TV2 & DR.[27]
Through late 2010 and 2011 became Canal9 every Monday to Friday more a danish copy of the swedish TV4 Fakta, because there were a lot more documentary series on the program than when the channel started, while the weekend was still dedicated to football and movies including UFC on Friday nights. Sports rights as Handball, Wrestling, Powerboat, Tennis and some Football leagues were dropped to get a more strong focus on La Liga & The Danish Superliga.
On January 11, 2012, it was announced that Canal 9 will bring back the TV soap The Bold and the Beautiful in March 2012 after Kanal 4 dropped the serie in November 2011 because of low ratings, fans of the series started a massive campaign on Facebook trying to get back the serie on danish television and it succeed with Canal 9 after two months. And Canal 9 has scheduled the serie to 5:30 P.M. [28]
Back in February 2011, it was announced that Canal 9 has secured the rights to Ice Hockey IIHF World Championships from 2012 to 2017 but on February 7, 2012, it was announced that Canal 9 has sold the rights to TV2 Sport for an three year period from 2012-2014. [29]
On February 21, 2012 it was announced that Canal+ Sport 1 has extended the rights to Serie A for there more years till 2015, and Canal 9 will still show one weekly match with this new deal.[30]
Through the years, several sportspresenters and commentator has switched to Canal 9 including Klavs Bruun Jørgensen[31], Stig Tøfting[32], Erik Rasmussen[disambiguation needed 
][33], Michael Gravgaard,[34] Line Bilenberg[35] and latest Mette Cornelius[36]
[edit] Sports Rights
[edit] Football
- Danish Superliga
- La Liga
- Serie A
- The Championship
- Copa del Rey
- UEFA Europa League (From season 2012/13)
[edit] Fighting (branded as Fighting Friday)
[edit] American Football
[edit] Past Sports Rights
[edit] Football
- UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying
- 2011 Copa América
- FIFA World Cup 2010
- Copa del Sol (2010 & 2011)
- Premier League (season 2009/10)
- Carling Cup (season 2009/10)
- Eredivisie (season 2009/10)
[edit] Handball
- Handball Supercup 2009
- Bundesliga (season 2009/10-2010/11)
- EHF Champions League (season 2009/10-2010/11)
[edit] Tennis
[edit] OL
[edit] Wrestling
- TNA iMPACT! (2009-2010)
- TNA PPV (2009-2010)
[edit] Athletic
[edit] Powerboat
- F1 Powerboat World Championship (2009-2010)
- Class1 Powerboat Championship (2009-2010)
[edit] Beach Volley
[edit] Poker
[edit] TV Series
[edit] Sports Reality/Documentaries series
- Bullrun Rally
- Bullrun
- Shaq Vs.
- Football's Greatest
- Pros vs. Joes
- Epic Conditions
- Magic Of The FA Cup
- Bullrun: Cops, Cars & Superstars
- World's Best Putter Australia
- International Football Rivalries
- The Worlds Wackiest Sports
- The Best Football Funnies Ever
- Jakt och Fiske
[edit] Sci-Fi series
[edit] Drama series
- The Bold and the Beautiful
- The Kennedys
- The Sopranos
- Carnivàle
- The Wire
- Hill Street Blues
- The Ricky Gervais Show
- Law & Order
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent
- Band of Brothers
- Crash
- From the Earth to the Moon
- Futurama
- Six Feet Under
- Steven Seagal: Lawman
- The Practice
- The Shield
- Water Rats
- Six Feet Under
[edit] Reality/Documentaries series
- The First 48
- Forensic Files
- Intensive Care Unit
- Highway Patrol
- Helicopter Heroes
- Fraud Squad TV
- Street Law
- Ghost Adventures
- Survival with Ray Mears
- Cheaters
- Operation Repo
- Beach Patrol
- Surf Patrol
- Sea Patrol UK
- Ice Pilots NWT
- Hogan Knows Best
- Brit Cops
- Mostly True Stories: Urban Legends Revealed
- Crash Investigation Unit
- Human Wrecking Balls
- COPS
- Road Wars
- Serious Crash Unit
- Real Rescues
- World of Stupid
- It Could Happen Tomorrow
- Most Daring
- Trouble in Paradise (TV series)
- Surgeon
- Maternity ward
- Medics
- Worlds Toughest Cops
- Shark Chasers
- Police Patrol
- Top 20 Countdown
- Stunt Stars
- Pushing the Limit
- Chopper Rescue
- Quest For K2
- State Parole
- Borderline
- The Suspects
- CIA Secret Wars
- Dog Patrol
- Doctors and Nurses at War
- Animal Squad
- Asian Crime
- Campus Vets
[edit] Advertisements
All advertisement sales are handled by Discovery Networks Nordic.[37]
[edit] References
- ^ "YouSee afviser ny sportskanal". Mediawatch.dk. March 23, 2009. http://mediawatch.dk/artikel/yousee-afviser-ny-sportskanal.
- ^ "Canal Digital scorer Canal 9". Mediawatch.dk. March 27, 2009. http://mediawatch.dk/artikel/canal-digital-scorer-canal-9.
- ^ "Canal Digital lancerer CANAL 9 - Danmarks nye tv-kanal med top-fodbold, sport, film og serier" (Press release). Canal Digital. March 25, 2009. http://www.canaldigital.dk/upload/3296/PM_Canal%209%20hos%20Canal%20Digital%20marts%2009.pdf.
- ^ "Canal9 erstatter Kanal København". tvnyt.com. July 17, 2009. http://tvnyt.com/artikel/default.asp?id=17676.
- ^ "Se CANAL9 fra 15. september". YouSee. September 14, 2009. http://yousee.dk/privat/nyheder/publish.php?id=22170.
- ^ http://web.archive.org/web/20090515114639/http://www.canal9.dk/default.aspx
- ^ http://tvtid.tv2.dk/nytomtv/article.php/id-24934909.html
- ^ http://mediawatch.dk/artikel/canal-9-scorer-wozniacki
- ^ http://www.sat-universe.com/archive/index.php/t-143591.html
- ^ http://ekstrabladet.dk/sport/fodbold/dansk_fodbold/superligaen/ob/article1281710.ece
- ^ http://digitalt.tv/vinter-ol-pa-dr1-dr2-og-dr-hd/
- ^ http://digitalt.tv/danske-em-2012-kampe-paa-canal9
- ^ http://digitalt.tv/tv4-gruppen-koeber-rettighederne-til-em-i-fodbold-2012
- ^ http://digitalt.tv/championship-canal9
- ^ http://digitalt.tv/lingerie-football-league-canal9/
- ^ http://digitalt.tv/fc-kbenhavn-trningskampe-canal9/
- ^ http://mediawatch.dk/artikel/bonnier-og-canal9-vinder-pucken
- ^ http://digitalt.tv/copa-america-pa-canal/
- ^ http://digitalt.tv/swedish-open-med-wozniacki-pa-canal9
- ^ http://digitalt.tv/canal-og-canal9-har-europa-league-fra-2012
- ^ http://digitalt.tv/canal9-og-canal-forlaenger-la-liga-rettigheder-til-2015
- ^ http://digitalt.tv/the-kennedys-pa-canal9
- ^ http://www.kampanje.com/medier/article5698508.ece
- ^ http://digitalt.tv/superliga-kun-hos-viasat-og-tv-2-sport
- ^ http://digitalt.tv/c-more-entertainment-har-forlaenget-rettighederne-til-superligaen/
- ^ http://ekstrabladet.dk/sport/fodbold/landsholdsfodbold/em2012/article1634470.ece
- ^ http://digitalt.tv/c-more-entertainment-har-forlaenget-rettighederne-til-superligaen/
- ^ http://digitalt.tv/den-legendariske-tv-serie-glamour-pa-canal9/
- ^ http://digitalt.tv/ishockey-vm-pa-tv-2-sport-i-yderligere-tre-ar
- ^ http://digitalt.tv/canal-har-forlaenget-rettighederne-til-serie-a-frem-til-2015
- ^ http://mediawatch.dk/artikel/klavs-bruun-joergensen-vaert-paa-canal-9
- ^ http://epn.dk/medier/tv/article1732141.ece
- ^ http://www.tvnyt.com/artikel/default.asp?id=18630
- ^ http://digitalt.tv/ny-vrt-canal9/
- ^ http://mediawatch.dk/artikel/line-bilenberg-ny-vaert-paa-canal-9
- ^ http://digitalt.tv/canal9-opruster-med-mette-cornelius
- ^ "Discovery sælger reklamer for Canal9". tvnyt.com. July 7, 2009. http://tvnyt.com/artikel/default.asp?id=17656.
[edit] External links
- Official website (Danish)
- Official Facebook site
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