TV4 Film
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TV4 Film is a Swedish film channel owned by TV4 AB
.
TV4 applied for a license to broadcast a film channel terrestrially in the autumn of 2003 and were granted a license in December. The channel was launched as TV4 Film in April 2004, the first film shown was Top Gun
.
Films are delivered from several distributors, including MGM, Paramount
, Warner Brothers, Nordisk Film
, SF
and Sonet Film
. The channel focuses on "modern classics", meaning that the films shown on the channel are mostly from the '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s and '90s.
A Finnish version of the channel was launched in November 2006 in cooperation with MTV3
. It is called Sub Leffa
.
TV4 AB
TV4 Group is a Swedish media company that owns the largest commercial television channel in Sweden, TV4.Since 2007, the company is fully owned by Bonnier through Nordic Broadcasting Oy...
.
TV4 applied for a license to broadcast a film channel terrestrially in the autumn of 2003 and were granted a license in December. The channel was launched as TV4 Film in April 2004, the first film shown was Top Gun
Top Gun
Top Gun may refer to:* Top Gun is a 1986 film starring Tom Cruise.**Top Gun , soundtrack to the movie**Top Gun , a number of games based on the movie...
.
Films are delivered from several distributors, including MGM, Paramount
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film production and distribution company, located at 5555 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood. Founded in 1912 and currently owned by media conglomerate Viacom, it is America's oldest existing film studio; it is also the last major film studio still...
, Warner Brothers, Nordisk Film
Nordisk Film
Nordisk Film , established in Denmark in 1906 by Danish filmmaker Ole Olsen, is the oldest continuously operating film studio in the world. Olsen started his company in the Copenhagen suburb of Valby under the name "Ole Olsen's Film Factory" but soon changed it to the Nordisk Film Kompagni...
, SF
SF
SF may refer to:* San Francisco, California, United States* Science fiction-Sports:* Small forward, a position in basketball* Stade Français, a French rugby union team based in Paris* Superleague Formula, a motorsport racing series...
and Sonet Film
Sonet Film
Sonet Film is a Swedish film production company.Established in 1984, Sonet Film is one of Scandinavia's leading film companies and distributors of cinema. Since 1997 it is owned by the Sweden-based media company Bonnier....
. The channel focuses on "modern classics", meaning that the films shown on the channel are mostly from the '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s and '90s.
A Finnish version of the channel was launched in November 2006 in cooperation with MTV3
MTV3
MTV3 is a Finnish commercial television station owned by Bonnier. It had the biggest audience share of all Finnish TV channels until Finnish Broadcasting Company’s YLE1 took the lead. The letters MTV stand for Mainos-TV , due to the channel getting its revenue from running commercials...
. It is called Sub Leffa
Sub Leffa
MTV3 Leffa is a Finnish television channel broadcasting movies. It is operated by MTV3 and TV4 AB and is the Finnish equivalent of TV4's movie channel TV4 Film.The most of the programming is shared with TV4 Film...
.