TV1000

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TV1000

Launched	1989
Owned by	Modern Times Group
Availability
Satellite
Viasat
Cable
Com Hem
TDC Kabel TV
Canal Digital
Tele2Vision
Telia Stofa

TV1000 is a group of cable movie channels broadcasting to the Nordic countries and owned by Modern Times Group (MTG). It is also the name of the flagship channel.

TV1000 was started by Kinnevik in 1989. In 1991, it merged with another pay movie channel called SF Succé. In February 1995, a sister channel called TV1000 Cinema, or just "Cinema", launched. When Viasat launched its digital platform, TV1000 and Cinema got two time-shift channel each broadcasting the content with one and two hours delay.

On September 1, 2004 TV1000 had a major overhaul. Cinema and three of the time-shift channels closed down and were replaced by four themed movie channels. The line-up would then be:

TV1000
TV1000 Plus One (one hour time-shift of TV1000)
TV1000 Family
TV1000 Action
TV1000 Nordic
TV1000 Classic

Initially, the channel was only available in Sweden. It has since extended it coverage to Norway, Denmark and Finland. In the beginning of 2004, TV1000 East launched targetting the Baltic countries, Russia and other Eastern European countries. A channel broadcasting only Russian movies called TV1000 Russkoe Kino (ТВ1000 Русское Кино) launched in October 2005. There is also a version of TV1000 targeting the Balkan countries: TV1000 Balkan. The fourth TV1000 to launch in Eastern Europe will be TV1000 Poland, launching on March 5, 2007 on the Cyfrowy Polsat platform.

TV1000 was once encrypted with the EuroCrypt enrcyption system, and was largely descrambled in the 1990s in the UK with pirate cards. It was then available on 1W, EutelSat, with TV1000 Cinema encrypted in EuroCrypt S2. The analogue service was turned-off in May 2000, after changing codes regularly for about 2 years, and making it a prime target for hackers.
Today, TV1000 is encrypted with the VideoGuard system