Launched 17 January 2013 Country Germany | Owned by ProSiebenSat.1 Media | |
Picture format 576i 16:9 SDTV
1080i HDTV Slogan Mir geht's Gold
(I feel gold) Broadcast area National;
Also distributed in other European countries on cable and satellite | ||
Sat.1 Gold is a German free-to-air television channel specifically for the so-called female best agers, aged between 49 and 65. It is the sixth channel of ProSiebenSat.1 Media in Germany. The channel manager is Marc Rasmus. Sat.1 Gold received a broadcast licence from the Kommission für Zulassung und Aufsicht der Medienanstalten (ZAK) (German: Commission for authorization and supervision of media institutions) on 20 November 2012. The supervision of the channel is taken by the Thüringische Landesmedienanstalt (TLM), a media supervision institute for the German state Thuringia. The channel started broadcasting on 17 January 2013 at 20:13 CET with a 2 minute countdown, followed by a promo and a puppet show. Afterwards the channel broadcast the German film Die Wanderhure.
Programming
The channel broadcast especially German TV productions, which comes mostly from the ProSiebenSat.1 archives. Sat.1 Gold will broadcast a spinoff of the magazine program Akte – Reporter kämpfen für Sie and Süddeutsche TV Thema. Also a daily midday magazine is planned to be broadcast. Programmes in the evening consists of documentaries, movies, thrillers and series.
The channel also shows tennis tournaments from ATP, WTA and ITF. A spinoff from the German sport show ran which is ran tennis started airing in April 2013.