Sat.1

Country	Germany
Broadcast area	Germany Austria Switzerland Liechtenstein Poland Romania Lithuania
Headquarters	Unterföhring, Germany
Programming
Language(s)	German
Picture format	1080i HDTV (downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SDTV feed)
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 (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.

It is considered the first privately owned television network in Germany, having been launched in January 1984 as PKS (Programmgesellschaft für Kabel- und Satellitenrundfunk), initially a joint venture of various publishing houses, and was rebranded as Sat.1 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.^[1]

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.

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^[2]

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[3]	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9.0%
1991[4]	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	10.6%
1992[5]	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	13.1%
1993[6]	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	14.4%
1994[7]	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	14.9%
1995[8]	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	14.7%
1996[9]	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[10]	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[11]	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[12]	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[13]	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[14]	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[15]	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[16]	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[17]	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[18]	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[19]	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[20]	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[21]	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[22]	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[23]	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[24]	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[25]	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[26]	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[27]	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[28]	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[29]	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[30]	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[31]	5.8%	5.7%	6.4%	6.4%	6.6%	6.1%	6.4%

The average age of the viewers is 50.4 years (as of 2016).^[32]

References

External links

• Official website (in German)