Launched on 31 March 2005, W9 (French: double-ve neuf) is a national commercial TV channel in France, owned by Groupe M6, which in turn is owned by RTL Group. The channel is named such because W9 is an inversion of M6, the parent channel, and because Groupe M6 won a licence to broadcast on channel 9 on national (of television stations in France#National channels TNT) television.
W9 has a focus on entertainment programming, as well as music, targeted at a younger audience than the generalist nature of M6.
M6 Music[]
1998–2005[]
W9 was launched in March 1998 as M6 Music.[1] It was ment to air on the Télévision Numérique Terrestre in 2005, but it was split into two channels: W9, that would air on the Télévision Numérique Terrestre and M6 Music Hits, that would not.
W9[]
2005–present[]
2005–2010[]
Early logo with a smaller "9" (2005–present)
When television licenses were granted for the new digital terrestrial network (TNT), M6 Music was given a permission to broadcast for free.
On the terrestrial platform, the channels were assigned a pre-determined channel number. The seven historical analogue channels were given numbers 1 through 7, while the seven new channels would get numbers 8 through 14.detail.php?id=19999 What exact number the new channels would get was chosen at random through a draw on 7 December 2004.detail.php?id=20692 M6 Music was lucky enough to get number 9. This made M6 take the opportunity to rename the channel W9, which is M6 upside-down.detail.php?id=24457
M6 Music changed its name to W9 and launched on TNT on 31 March 2005. (M6 Music was relaunched as a pay-TV channel afterwards in 2012.) The launch identity was created by View.
2010–2018[]
A high-definition simulcast of W9 launched on 18 May 2011.
For the first time in 13 years, W9 launched a completely overhauled look on 19 November 2018, created by Paris-based Gédéon and featuring a graphics package with bright lights, fluorescent colours and sharp typography (set in the Sharp Grotesk typeface in multiple weights and styles). The key design element is a varicoloured slash. The channel adopted the slogan of 100% W9.
This is a list of programmes broadcast and/or produced by Antena 3. Most of the programmes below are also broadcast outside Spain through Antena 3 Internacional. No imported programming is included. Most Original Series were excluded to avoid problems with the template's lenght.
Original Series Currently broadcast:Amar es para siempre10 Formerly broadcast:El auténtico Rodrigo Leal12 | Velvet | Rescatando a Sara | Sin identidad | Cuéntame un cuento | Algo que celebrar | Bajo sospecha | Allí abajo | Vis a vis | Mar de plástico | Buscando el norte | La embajada | Pulsaciones | La Casa De Papel13 | El incidente | Tiempos de guerra | Apaches | Cuerpo de élite | Fariña | La catedral del mar | Presunto culpable | Matadero | 45 revoluciones | Pequeñas coincidencias | Toy Boy | Perdida | La valla | El nudo | La cocinera de Castamar | Benidorm | Mentiras | Alba14 Upcoming:Deudas15 | Señor, dame paciencia15 | Heridas | Cristo y Rey
Nordic: Denmark (Blu | Miso Film | Strong Productions) | Finland (Moskito Television | Grillifilms | Production House) | Norway (Playroom Event | Rakett TV | Monster AS | One Big Happy Family | Novemberfilm | Strix Television) | Sweden (Strix Television | Baluba)
Germany (UFA):UFA Fiction | UFA Serial Drama | UFA Show & Factual | UFA X | UFA Talent Base