AXN (Portuguese TV channel)
AXN is a Portuguese pay television channel. It is the Portuguese version of the AXN network, owned by Sony. It was a Cabovisão exclusive in its beginnings, but now it is available in all operators and platforms. It's one of the most watched channels on pay-TV in Portugal, competing with FOX, SIC Notícias, Canal Panda, Disney Channel and Canal Hollywood.
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Country | Spain |
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Broadcast area | Portugal Angola Mozambique |
Programming | |
Picture format | 1080i HDTV (downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SDTV feed) |
Ownership | |
Owner | Sony Pictures Television |
Sister channels | AXN Movies AXN White AXN Black |
History | |
Launched | 1998 |
Links | |
Website | http://www.axn.pt/ |
The channel have two feeds: one for Portugal and Angola, and a second for Mozambique.
Sister channels
AXN White
AXN White first launched in Portugal on 7 May 2012, replacing Sony Entertainment Television. It focuses on comedy and romantic series and movies.
AXN Movies
AXN Movies was launched on 17 February 2020 replacing AXN Black, it is dedicated to movies.
Sony Entertainment Television
Sony Entertainment Television was launched in 2008 in Portugal. SET was replaced by AXN White on 14 April 2012 at 8 hours, followed by SET Spain replaced by AXN White on 7 May 2012.
Shows broadcast by AXN in Portugal
Magazines
- Tempo Sincro
- Insert Coin
Fiction
- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
- CSI: Miami
- CSI: NY
- NCIS
- In Plain Sight
- Castle
- Leverage
- Memphis Beat
- Law and Order: UK
- The Mentalist
- Criminal Minds
- Perception
- The Borgias
- Once Upon a Time
- Las Vegas
- Missing
- The Firm
- The Pillars of the Earth
- The Mob Doctor
- Sherlock
- Hannibal
- XIII: The Series
- Private
- The Confession
- Alarm für Cobra 11 – Die Autobahnpolizei
- Lasko – Die Faust Gottes
- Cybill
- Homicide: Life on the Street