Veronica TV
Country | Netherlands |
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Network | Talpa TV |
Headquarters | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
Ownership | |
Owner | Talpa Network |
Veronica is a Dutch commercial television channel currently a part of Talpa TV (Talpa Network). The channel was launched as TV10 Gold on 1 May 1995, then became TV10, Fox, Fox 8 and V8, before becoming Veronica on 20 September 2003. The channel is dedicated to young adults and the male audience.[1]
Veronica is time-sharing with Disney XD: Disney XD broadcasts on daytime and Veronica on night time, the practice that began when Saban International bought TV10 in January 1997, and launched Fox Kids slot on the channel.
It is not to be confused with the Veronica Association (Dutch: Vereniging Veronica).
History
TV10 Gold and TV10 (1995-1998)
In 1995, Dutch media company Arcade launched two television channels in the Netherlands: The Music Factory, a competing music channel for MTV, and TV10 Gold which launched on 1 May 1995. TV10 Gold turns out to be a TV channel with repeats of classic TV series such as Dynasty, Fantasy Island, James Herriot, Hill Street Blues, Are You Being Served?, The Monkees, The Onedin Line, Sanford and Son, Bergerac and Colditz.[2]
In 1996, TV10 Gold became part of Dutch second largest media corporation Wegener Arcade. On 1 January 1996, Arcade merged with publishing company Wegener.[3] In the first quarter of 1996, TV10 Gold changed into just TV10 to modernize its image. British sitcoms such as 'Allo 'Allo! and You Rang, M'Lord? remained part of the programming, along with the American TV series M*A*S*H.[4]
In January 1997, Saban International bought TV10 and partnered with Holland Media Groep. Fox/Saban's Fox Kids was introduced in the Netherlands, time-sharing with TV10.[5] Within the year, the partnership ended and Holland Media Groep's shares of TV10 were bought by Fox.
Fox and Fox 8 (1998-2001)
On 19 December 1998, TV10 was rebranded into Fox.[6] Rupert Murdoch's Fox International Channels wanted to expand in Europe and through its cooperation with Saban it could make its first try-outs in the Netherlands with TV10.[7] Popular TV series such as Sex and the City, Dawson's Creek, Malcolm in the Middle and Charmed premiered on the channel.[8] Fox became Fox 8 in September 1999, but it rebranded back to Fox in September 2000. However, Fox couldn't get rid of TV10's image as an old-fashioned rerun channel.
In 2001 SBS Broadcasting B.V., then the Dutch branch of the SBS Broadcasting Group, bought the channel from the News Corporation.[9]
21st Century Fox (the legal successor of the original News Corporation) later launched the second incarnation of Fox on 19 August 2013 through Eredivisie Media & Marketing CV, in which Fox Networks Group Benelux has a 51% share.
V8 (2001-2003)
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SBS, having bought the channel from News Corporation, renamed it into V8 on 1 May 2001 in anticipation of Veronica.[10] Earlier in 2000 Veronica Association announced that it would leave the Holland Media Groep and wanted to start a channel of its own.[11] SBS and Veronica could not get an agreement and it would take more than two years before both parties closed a deal.
V8 was devoted to young adults. The channel mainly broadcast action series, action films and erotic programmes late at night.[12]
Veronica (2003-)
Eventually, Veronica Association closed a deal with SBS, and V8 was rebranded as Veronica on 20 September 2003.[13][14]
The German ProSiebenSat.1 Media took over SBS Broadcasting Group (including its Dutch activities) on 27 June 2007.[15] In 2011, all of SBS's activities in the Netherlands (through SBS Broadcasting B.V.), including the three TV stations (SBS6, Net5 and Veronica), the two TV guides (Veronica Magazine and Totaal TV), production, design and text activities were sold to a joint venture between Sanoma Media Netherlands (67%) and Talpa Media Holding (33%).[16]
On 10 April 2017 Talpa Holding acquired a 67% stake from Sanoma Media Netherlands.[17]
Disney XD
The daytime slot for children broadcast on Veronica began its life as Fox Kids when Saban bought TV10. The slot since rebranded to Jetix and then Disney XD.
Programming
Domestic
Current
News
- Hart van Nederland
Past
Reality
Sport
Imports
Current
Comedy
- Lethal Weapon (since series 2)
Documentary
Drama
Factual
- Border Security
- Border Security: America's Front Line
- Border Security: Canada's Front Line
- The Embassy
- Top Gear
Reality
- 60 Days In
- Animal Airport (revived series only)
- Border Patrol
- The Carbonaro Effect
- Pawn Stars
- Storage Wars: New York
Sitcoms
Sport
Past
Animation
Clip Shows
Comedy
Documentary
Drama
- 10-8: Officers on Duty
- Airwolf
- Alias
- Angel
- Arrow (series 1-3)
- Baywatch
- Beverly Hills, 90210
- Blade
- The Border
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Chase
- City Homicide
- Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders
- Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior
- Dark Blue
- Day Break
- The Evidence
- Fastlane
- Flashpoint (series 2, episode 13 onwards)
- The Following (series 2)
- Human Target
- JAG
- Jericho
- The Kill Point
- The Last Ship
- The Librarians
- Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
- Lost (series 1)
- MacGyver
- Medical Investigation
- Merlin (series 3)
- Miami Vice
- NCIS
- NCIS: Los Angeles
- Nikita
- Nip/Tuck (series 1 & 2)
- Numbers
- The O.C.
- Profiler
- Rome
- The Sentinel
- The Shield
- Smallville
- Stalker
- Starsky & Hutch
- Supernatural
- Threat Matrix
- True Justice
- Underbelly
- Wanted
- Xena: Warrior Princess
Game Shows
Reality
- Airport 24/7: Miami
- Alan Sugar: The Apprentice (part of series 4)
- American Ninja Warrior (series 4)
- American Pickers
- Are You Hot?
- Barter Kings
- Hardcore Pawn
- The Jamie Kennedy Experiment
- Lizard Lick Towing
- Pussycat Dolls Present
- Richard Hammond's Crash Course
- Storage Wars
- Storage Wars: Texas
- Temptation Island
Science Fiction
- Battlestar Galactica
- Baywatch Nights
- Eureka
- FlashForward
- FreakyLinks
- Invasion
- The Invisible Man
- Person of Interest (series 1 and part of series 2) (moved to Net5)
- Revolution (series 1 and first 3 episodes of series 2)
- RoboCop: The Series
- Roswell
- Sliders
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
- Star Trek: Enterprise
- Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Star Trek: The Original Series
- Star Trek: Voyager
- Stargate Atlantis
- Stargate SG-1
- Surface
- Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
- Threshold
- The X-Files
Sitcoms
- $h*! My Dad Says
- 2 Broke Girls
- 3rd Rock from the Sun
- ALF
- According to Jim (series 4, episode 8 onwards)
- Baby Daddy
- Better with You
- The Drew Carey Show
- Everybody Hates Chris
- The Exes (series 1)
- Family Ties
- Frasier
- The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
- Friends
- Full House
- Gary Unmarried
- George Lopez
- Grandfathered
- Growing Pains
- Happy Days
- Home Improvement
- The Inbetweeners
- Joey
- The King of Queens
- Malcolm in the Middle
- Married... with Children
- Men Behaving Badly
- Mike & Molly
- The Millers
- Nikki
- Off Centre
- Retired at 35
- Rules of Engagement
- Saved by the Bell
- Seinfeld
- Spin City
- Step by Step
- Still Standing
- Traveler
- Two Guys and a Girl
- Undateable
- Unhappily Ever After
Soap Operas
Talk Shows
References
- ^ "Zenders". SBS Broadcasting. Retrieved 26 November 2012.
- ^ "Nieuwe tv-zenders op kabel kosten Arcade veel geld". de Volkskrant. 26 April 1995.
- ^ "Wegener Arcade wordt 'een soort Time Warner'". de Volkskrant. 6 January 1996.
- ^ Monique de Heer (11 June 1996). "TV 10: Een mens heeft recht op herhalingen". Trouw.
- ^ "Wegener Arcade verkoopt TV 10 aan Saban uit VS". de Volkskrant. 3 January 1997.
- ^ "SBS6, RTL4 en Veronica krijgen concurrent". Radio.nl. 6 November 1998.
- ^ "Fox8". Frankhallie.nl. Retrieved 28 November 2012.
- ^ "Media kort: november 2000". MediaMagazine.nl. 30 November 2000.
- ^ "SBS wil zender Fox 8 samen met Veronica exploiteren". De Telegraaf. 21 November 2000.
- ^ "Fox 8 heet vanaf vandaag 18.00 uur gewoon V8". RadioVisie.eu. 1 May 2001.
- ^ Piet (10 July 2009). "VERONICA STAPT UIT DE HMG, 'De daad van een waanzinnige'?". VeronicaStory.nl.
- ^ "Dinsdag 1 Mei opening Nederlands nieuwste televisiestation V8". 27 April 2001.
- ^ "VOO in jaartallen". Beeldengeluidwiki.nl. Retrieved 26 November 2012.
- ^ "V8". Frankhallie.nl. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
- ^ Donald Koeleman (27 June 2007). "ProSiebenSat.1 acquires SBS". Broadband TV News.
- ^ Peter van der Ploeg (20 April 2011). "Sanoma en Talpa nemen SBS over". NRC Handelsblad.
- ^ "Het is nu officieel: Sanoma verkoopt SBS aan Talpa" (in Dutch). NOS. Retrieved 10 April 2017.