Viasat Explore

Viasat Explore

Broadcast area	Central Europe and Eastern Europe
Programming
Picture format	16:9 (576i, SDTV), HDTV
Ownership
Owner	Viasat World LTD
Sister channels	Viasat History, Viasat Nature
History
Launched	6 January 2002
Former names	Viasat Explorer (2002-2014)
Links
Website	Viasat World
Availability
Terrestrial
evotv (Croatia)	Channel 109

Viasat Explore is a television channel owned by international media company, Viasat World LTD. The channel focuses on fishing, adventure, men at work and engineering. Viasat Explore is a 24-hour channel broadcasting in Central and Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Russia and Commonwealth of Independent States.

With headquarters in London, United Kingdom, the channel started its broadcast in the Scandinavian countries and after a few years expanded to many East European markets and the Baltic countries with subtitles.

The service was launched in January 2002 as Viasat Explorer in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland.^[1] On 1 November 2003 it expanded into Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Belarus, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Bulgaria. In 2006, all Serbian cable operators and their satellite platform, Total TV began with broadcasting this channel.^[2]

Viasat Explore co-produces and acquires content from international distributors and production houses.

Since 2012, Viasat Explorer together with sisterchannels Viasat History and Viasat Nature are broadcast in HD together with the SD feed on the Viasat satellite platform. The channel was rebranded as Viasat Explore on 29 April 2014, gaining a new ident package and logo and dropping the "X" letter from its logo in flavour of an "E".

On March 31 2023, Viasat World TV channels stopped broadcasting in Ukraine.^[3]

References

1. "Viasat to offer four new TV channels on digital platform" (Press release). Modern Times Group. December 20, 2001. Archived from the original on October 7, 2006. Retrieved June 17, 2007.
2. "Viasat Explorer channel to launch in Eastern Europe" (Press release). Modern Times Group. October 20, 2003. Archived from the original on October 7, 2006. Retrieved June 17, 2007.
3. "Viasat". Archived from the original on 2023-04-07. Retrieved 2023-05-08.