Kinowelt TV is a German-language pay-TV station which broadcasts films. It shows classic films from Hollywood as well as European films from various genres such as drama, Romance film, Comedy film, Action film, Thriller film, Horror fiction or western. Since 2009, the company has produced three cinema films.
History
Kinowelt TV was founded by Achim Apell - a former associate of Hessischer Rundfunk and
Taunus Film from
Wiesbaden - together with
MK Medienbeteiligungs GmbH from
Leipzig, and was launched on 12 May 2004. Michael Kölmel and his film distributor
Kinowelt, founded in 1984 (since 2011
StudioCanal GmbH), were behind MK Medien. Apell is the brother of Kölmel's wife. Kinowelt TV is operated by
Kinowelt Television GmbH based in Bad Soden am Taunus.
Kinowelt TV has produced three cinema films: The Last Giants (nature, 2009), Die Präsenz (The Presence) (horror, 2015) and UFO (horror/sci-fi, 2016).
On 5 February 2013, the station introduced a new on-air and off-air design, which also introduced new logos for Kinowelt.TV and Kinowelt TV HD.[DWDL.de: KinoweltTV präsentiert neues Design und Logo, 5. Februar 2013]
In April 2014 AMC Networks announced it had acquired Kinowelt TV.[Quotenmeter.de: EILMELDUNG AMC/Sundance Channel expandiert nach Deutschland, 24. April 2014] The new owner has no plans to change the channel's name.[DWDL.de: US-Sender AMC kommt vorerst nicht nach Deutschland, 15. Oktober 2014]
Distribution
Kinowelt TV can be received via cable operators such as Kabel Deutschland,
Kabelkiosk,
Tele Columbus,
Primacom,
Unitymedia,
UPC Austria,
UPC Cablecom,
Swisscable and Tele Columbus. The channel is broadcast via satellite on the
Sky Deutschland platform. The channel is also available via the Vodafone and Telekom Entertain IPTV platforms.
An HD version of the channel was made available on 29 May 2012, Kinowelt TV on Unitymedia cable. Kabel Deutschland followed on 15 October 2012
[ Kabel Deutschland speist drei neue HD-Sender ein] and
UPC Austria in 2013.
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