Sat.1

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Sat.1

Country	Germany
Broadcast area	Europe
Headquarters	Unterföhring, Germany
Programming
Language	German
Picture format	1080i HDTV (downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SDTV feed)
Timeshift service	+1
Ownership
Owner	ProSiebenSat.1 Media
Sister channels	ProSieben Kabel eins Sixx Sat.1 Emotions Sat.1 Gold ProSieben Fun ProSieben Maxx kabel eins classics kabel eins Doku
History
Launched	1 January 1984; 42 years ago (1984-01-01)
Former names	PKS (1984)
Links
Website	sat1.de
Availability
Terrestrial
Digital terrestrial television	Varies within location
Streaming media
Ziggo GO (Netherlands)	ZiggoGO.tv (Europe only)
Joyn (Germany)	joyn.de (Germany only)
Sat.1 Livestream	Watch Live

Sat.1 (German pronunciation: [zatˈˀaɪ̯ns]) is a German free-to-air television channel that is a part of the ProSiebenSat.1 Media Group.

Sat.1 was first launched in January 1984 and was initially named PKS (Programmgesellschaft für Kabel- und Satellitenrund). The network is considered to be the first privately owned television network in Germany, initially a joint venture of various publishing houses, and was rebranded into its current name in January 1985. The first broadcast could only be seen by roughly 1200 households who had cable access in the city of Ludwigshafen. Early programs included old films (mainly from the archives of KirchMedia) American hit series and game shows (the most notable show being the German version of Wheel of Fortune, Glücksrad). Later, the station acquired a name for its original series and TV films. By 1988, it was the most watched tv channel in West Germany.

Pay-TV sister channel Sat.1 Emotions (formerly Sat.1 Comedy) airs comedy, romance and movies. In 2013 Sat.1 Gold, a second, free-to-air Sat.1 offshoot was also launched.

In addition to its free-to-air standard definition feed, Sat.1 also broadcasts an HD feed as a subscription-only channel, available on Astra's HD+ satellite pay-TV platform.

History

The channel was created following the election of Helmut Kohl who announced the creation of the first cable pilot projects, the first of which began on 1 January 1984 in Ludwigshafen. The channel launched on that day as PKS, one day before the launch of competitor RTL. The channel wasn't successful, as only 2,600 households received it (even though it enabled nationwide coverage using a weak satellite), and RTLplus, which initially broadcast from Luxembourg, upon obtaining a VHF frequency (channel 7) unused from West Germany, gained a foothold. Leo Kirch was PKS's largest shareholder, though he had indirect control. Early evening programming included non-commercial and sophisticated current affairs programmes and news magazines, which were seen as boring for the average viewer.

The first face seen on PKS was that of Jürgen Doetz.

Sat.1 Regional

Regional newscasts are broadcast under the title 17:30 Sat.1... in Bremen, Lower Saxony, Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Hesse and Bavaria.

• 17:30 Sat.1 live (Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse)
• 17:30 Sat.1 NRW (North Rhine-Westphalia)
• 17:30 Sat.1 Regional (Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein)
• 17:30 Sat.1 Regional (Lower Saxony and Bremen)
• 17:30 Sat.1 Bayern (Bavaria).

Programmes

Source:

Logos

• 
  1 January 1985 until 1986
• 
  1986 until 1996
• 
  1996 until 31 August 2001
• 
  16 August 2011 until 11 October 2016
• 
  Since 12 October 2016

Audience share

Germany

	January	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December	Annual average
1990	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9.0%
1991	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	10.6%
1992	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	13.1%
1993	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	14.4%
1994	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	14.9%
1995	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	14.7%
1996	13.1%	13.7%	13.9%	14.3%	14.2%	11.2%	11.6%	13.3%	13.3%	13.8%	13.0%	13.0%	13.2%
1997	11.9%	12.3%	14.6%	14.1%	14.4%	13.0%	12.0%	12.7%	12.2%	12.4%	12.8%	12.0%	12.8%
1998	13.0%	12.3%	13.6%	13.2%	11.6%	9.0%	9.8%	10.9%	11.7%	12.1%	11.9%	11.4%	11.8%
1999	11.0%	10.7%	11.2%	12.1%	12.2%	10.3%	10.2%	10.3%	10.4%	10.3%	10.4%	10.2%	10.8%
2000	9.5%	10.2%	10.3%	11.2%	10.2%	9.1%	9.5%	10.2%	10.3%	10.8%	10.8%	10.2%	10.2%
2001	10.7%	10.2%	10.4%	10.7%	10.5%	10.0%	9.6%	9.9%	9.3%	9.6%	10.3%	9.6%	10.1%
2002	9.7%	9.9%	10.5%	10.3%	10.0%	9.1%	9.7%	9.9%	9.9%	9.9%	10.3%	9.1%	9.9%
2003	9.6%	10.0%	9.9%	10.3%	10.1%	9.5%	10.2%	10.3%	10.1%	10.8%	11.1%	9.9%	10.2%
2004	10.3%	10.9%	11.2%	9.8%	9.6%	9.6%	9.9%	9.4%	10.8%	10.6%	10.9%	10.1%	10.3%
2005	10.4%	10.3%	10.6%	11.1%	11.2%	11.3%	10.5%	11.0%	11.1%	11.3%	11.6%	10.3%	10.9%
2006	10.7%	10.0%	10.6%	10.3%	10.4%	8.2%	9.6%	10.2%	9.8%	9.3%	9.2%	9.0%	9.8%
2007	9.3%	9.7%	9.9%	9.4%	9.5%	9.4%	9.6%	9.7%	9.7%	9.9%	10.0%	9.4%	9.6%
2008	9.8%	10.2%	10.3%	11.5%	10.8%	9.2%	10.7%	10.2%	10.7%	10.5%	10.3%	9.7%	10.3%
2009	9.6%	9.9%	10.3%	10.7%	10.9%	10.4%	10.7%	10.5%	11.1%	10.9%	10.4%	9.5%	10.4%
2010	9.5%	9.9%	10.9%	11.0%	10.1%	9.1%	10.0%	10.3%	10.6%	10.2%	10.5%	9.6%	10.1%
2011	9.6%	9.9%	10.0%	10.4%	10.3%	10.0%	9.9%	10.8%	10.8%	9.9%	10.6%	9.7%	10.1%
2012	9.4%	10.1%	10.1%	10.5%	10.5%	8.9%	9.1%	9.1%	9.4%	9.1%	9.0%	8.0%	9.4%
2013	8.2%	7.8%	8.3%	8.8%	8.3%	8.0%	8.1%	8.3%	8.6%	8.4%	8.3%	7.8%	8.2%
2014	7.8%	7.8%	8.6%	8.1%	8.1%	7.2%	7.7%	8.7%	8.6%	8.5%	8.3%	8.0%	8.1%
2015	7.6%	7.9%	8.3%	7.9%	7.7%	8.0%	8.2%	8.4%	8.1%	8.2%	7.9%	7.1%	7.9%
2016	7.0%	7.5%	7.4%	7.4%	7.4%	6.6%	7.1%	7.0%	7.8%	7.4%	7.5%	7.1%	7.3%
2017	6.6%	7.1%	7.0%	6.8%	6.8%	6.6%	6.4%	6.8%	6.4%	6.8%	6.6%	6.3%	6.7%
2018	5.8%	5.7%	6.4%	6.4%	6.6%	6.1%	6.4%

View source data.

The average age of the viewers is 50.4 years (as of 2016).

References

External links

• Official website (in German)