TCM, Turner Classic Movies, is a television channel broadcasting "classic" films from the 1940s to the 1990s (mostly from the Warner Bros.

Warner Bros.

Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,...

 and pre-May 1986 MGM film libraries) to Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

, Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

, Finland

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

 and Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

. The channel uses English audio with subtitles in Swedish, Danish, Finnish and Norwegian. The channel is commercial-free and films are not interrupted.

The channel has its origin in TNT which was broadcast on the same frequency as Cartoon Network

Cartoon Network Nordic

Cartoon Network Nordic is a television channel broadcasting youth and children's programmes to Sweden, Norway, Denmark , Finland and Iceland. The channel was created in 2000 when it replaced the Pan-European version of Cartoon Network in the region....

. With the launch of digital television in 1998, the two channels have been allowed to operate two separate 24-hour schedules. The combined version does however still continue on some analogue cable networks. In October 1999, the channel changed its name from TNT Classic Movies to Turner Classic Movies, or TCM for short. In early 2009, the channel adopted a new logo and a new look.

In late 1996, TNT and Cartoon Network launched on Intelsat 707 and became a part of the analogue CTV

CTV (pay television)

CTV was an analogue pay television package, available in Scandinavia. It was mostly using Norwegian satellites such as Thor 1 and Intelsat 707 to broadcast basic channels to Scandinavian homes, using the D2-MAC transmission system. CTV was operated by Telenor, who in 1997 joined forces with...

 package. The analogue broadcast ended in 2001. The channel has been a part of the Canal Digital

Canal Digital

Canal Digital is a Scandinavian television distributor and internet service provider that was founded in March 1997 as a joint venture between the French pay-TV company Canal+ and the Norwegian telecommunications operator Telenor...

 satellite package since 1997. Their competitor Viasat

Viasat

Viasat is a DBS distributor and TV broadcaster, owned by the Swedish media conglomerate Modern Times Group. Broadcasting from London, the target markets are in the Nordic and the Baltic Countries...

 added TCM and Cartoon Network as a shared channel on September 23, 2005.

TCM was allowed to broadcast in the Swedish digital terrestrial network

Digital terrestrial television in Sweden

Digital terrestrial television was launched in Sweden in 1999. The shutdown of the analogue equivalent started on September 19, 2005, and was finalized on October 29, 2007....

in June 2004. In addition it is also available through many cable networks.