Sat.1

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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; 40 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.

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.