ProSiebenSat.1 Media

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ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG

Type	Public
Founded	October 2, 2000
Headquarters	Unterföhring, Germany
Key people	Götz Mäuser, Chairman Lord Clive Hollick, Vice-Chairman Guillaume de Posch, CEO Patrick Tillieux ,COO Lothar Lanz, CFO
Industry	Media
Products	Television, Radio, Magazines
Revenue	▲ €2.1 billion (2006) ^[1]
Employees	2,976 (2006)
Website	English homepage German homepage

ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG is a European media conglomerate, operating commercial television, premium pay channels, radio stations and related print businesses. It was formed on October 2nd 2000 by merger of German TV broadcasters ProSieben Media AG and Sat.1 SatellitenFernsehen GmbH. Through takeover of SBS Broadcasting Group on June 27th 2007 it now has operations in 13 European countries.
The headquarters are located in Unterföhring/Munich.

1 History
2 Devisions
- 2.1 German language Free-to-air, Pay-TV- and Transaction-TV Channels
  - 2.1.1 Former Channels
- 2.2 European Free-to-air, Pay-TV- and Radio channels
3 References

[edit] History

ProSiebenSat.1 programs had low ratings because of inconvincing marketing efforts. So ProSiebenSat.1 was bought by the American media tycoon Haim Saban for approximately $700 million. After Saban lost interest in the company because the programs could not compete with Bertelsmann's channels RTL, Vox, and Super RTL, he started an auction to sell the company. Possible bidders were Axel Springer AG, Dogan Group of Turkey, Permira/Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and some others like Goldman Sachs/APEX. The Axel Springer AG's bid was rejected by a federal competition commission, "Bundeskartellamt", because of the influence of Springer in Germany's media who owns already the nations most selling tabloid BILD and the newspaper Die Welt. On December 14, 2006, Germany's Handelsblatt reported that the winner of the bid was the consortium of Permira/KKR. A possible bidder for the company was Silvio Berlusconi, owner of Mediaset and former Italian prime minister. On June 27, 2007, ProSieben bought SBS Broadcasting for the total sum of €3.3 billion. SBS was also owned by Permira/KKR.

[edit] Devisions

[edit] German language Free-to-air, Pay-TV- and Transaction-TV Channels

Germany	Austria	Switzerland	USA and Canada
Free-to-air
kabel eins N24 ProSieben Sat.1	kabel eins austria ProSieben Austria Puls 4 (formerly Puls TV) Sat.1 Österreich	ProSieben Schweiz Sat.1 Schweiz
Pay-TV
Deutsches Wetter Fernsehen kabel eins classics Sat.1 Comedy			ProSiebenSat.1 Welt
Transaction-TV
9Live

[edit] Former Channels

sonnenklar TV was sold of to BigXtra in September 2005.

[edit] European Free-to-air, Pay-TV- and Radio channels

Belgium	Bulgaria	Denmark	Finland	Greece	Netherlands	Norway	Romania	Sweden	Hungary
Free-to-air
VT4 VIJFtv	The Voice TV	Kanal 4 Kanal 5 (Denmark) Kanal 5 HD (Denmark) The Voice TV SBS Net	The Voice TV		NET 5 SBS 6 Veronica	FEM TV Norge The Voice TV	Prima TV Kiss TV	Kanal 5 The Voice TV Kanal 9	TV2
Pay-TV
		C More Entertainment (Denmark) Canal+ First Canal+ Hits Canal+ Sport1 Canal+ Sport2 Canal+ Drama Canal+ Comedy Canal+ Action Canal+ Film HD	C More Entertainment (Finland) Canal+ First Canal+ Hits Canal+ Sport1 Canal+ Sport2 Canal+ Drama Canal+ Comedy Canal+ Action Canal+ Film HD		C More Entertainment (Norway) Canal+ First Canal+ Hits Canal+ Sport1 Canal+ Sport2 Canal+ Drama Canal+ Comedy Canal+ Action Canal+ Film HD		C More Entertainment (Sweden) Canal+ First Canal+ Hits Canal+ Sport1 Canal+ Sport2 Canal+ Drama Canal+ Comedy Canal+ Action Canal+ Film HD
Radio
	Atlantic (radio station) Vitosha Veselina The Voice (Bulgaria)	The Voice (Denmark) Radio City Rock du Kender POP FM Nyhedsradioen 24-7	Kiss FM Iskelma Radio Pop and rock classic Radio City	Lampas 92.3 FM		Radio 1 Radio Norge The Voice Hiphop & RnB Norway	Magic FM Kiss FM One FM	Mix Megapol Radio City 107.0 Radio City 107.3 106.7 FM Rockklassiker Vinyl 107 The Voice Hiphop & RnB 105.9 Studio 107.5