 Logo used since 2019 | |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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| Broadcast area | |
| Programming | |
| Languages | English German Italian Spanish Portuguese (subtitles) Dutch (subtitles) Danish (subtitles) Norwegian (subtitles) Swedish Polish Hungarian Romanian (subtitles) Bulgarian (subtitles) Croatian (subtitles) Slovene (subtitles) Turkish Arabic |
| Picture format | 1080iHDTV (downscaled to16:9576i for theSDTV feed) |
| Timeshift service | Crime & Investigation +1 |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | A&E Networks UK (A&E Networks/Sky Group) |
| Sister channels | List of Sky UK channels |
| History | |
| Launched | 10 July 2006; 19 years ago (2006-07-10) |
| Closed | April 19, 2022 (2022-04-19) (Portugal and Spain) November 1, 2023 (2023-11-01) (Italy) October 31, 2019 (2019-10-31) (Africa) |
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| Links | |
| Website | www |
| Availability | |
| Terrestrial | |
| Zuku TV (Kenya) | Channel 418 |
| Streaming media | |
| Sky Go | Sky (UK & Ireland only) |
| Virgin TV Anywhere | Virgin Media (UK only) |
| EE TV Everywhere | EE TV (UK only) |
| Ziggo GO(Netherlands) | ZiggoGO.tv (Europe only) |
Crime & Investigation, stylized asCrime + Investigation, is thetelevision channel feed ofthe eponymous American channel owned byA&E Networks broadcast in most of Europe, theMiddle East andAfrica. Based inEngland in the United Kingdom, it is owned by A&E Networks UK (a joint venture ofA&E Networks andSky Group). The channel primarily broadcaststrue crime programming, and edits European versions of the original Crime & Investigation channel in the U.S.
TVT Media is responsible for the signal distribution across mainland Europe,[1][2] and local subsidiaries of A&E Networks are the distribution representatives across Europe.
In Spain, it launched on 1 February 2011 replacing Buzz Negro and was namedCrimen + Investigación, and it expanded inPortugal in 2016 asCrime + Investigation[3] and it was operated byAMC Networks International Southern Europe, initially under the joint-venture The History Channel Iberia with A&E Networks/Hearst until 2021.[4][5] The Portuguese version also aired in Portuguese-speaking African countries (Angola andMozambique). They were rebranded as AMC Crime on 19 April 2022.
Its programming is mainly in English and locallysubtitled ordubbed. It is available through numerous satellite, cable, terrestrial and IPTV distributors across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Ahigh definition version launched onSky UK andSky Ireland on 5 November 2008.[6] Crime+Investigation HD originally operated on a separate schedule to the standard definition channel and timeshared withBio. HD.[7] On 3 July 2012, Bio. HD closed to allow Crime + Investigation HD to broadcast 24 hours a day,simulcasting the standard definition channel.[8]
A one-hour timeshift channel namedCI +1 launched on Sky UK on 2 March 2009. Since the rebranding in January 2017, this has been namedCrime+Investigation +1 and is on Sky channel 256.
The channel launched in theNetherlands in July 2011.[9] Followed by Romania throughUPC Romania on 2 September 2013 and Italy throughSky Italia on 17 December 2013.[10]
The French channelPlanète+ Justice was rebranded as Planète+ Crime&Investigation on 13 November 2013, in a partnership betweenGroupe Canal+ and A&E Networks.[11] The co-branding was dropped on 17 February 2022 when it renamed to Planète+ Crime.[12]
The network launched on BT TV on 15 August 2013 and TalkTalk in the UK on 28 August 2014. It is on the Entertainment Extra Boost along withHistory.[citation needed]
The HD channel launched on Virgin Media channel 222 in the UK on 21 July 2018. At the same time, the timeshift channel also launched on there on channel 224.[citation needed]
On 6 November 2018, theEuropean Commission ordered A&E Networks UK to divest its factual channels, as a condition of Disney's acquisition of21st Century Fox.[13]
It was announced on 1 October 2019 that the channel, along with Sister channels,History andLifetime would no longer be packaged by MultiChoice's DStv across Africa by the end of October, 2019 after its carriage contract broke down between theA+E Networks andMultiChoice.[14] but since they reached carriage agreement with Multichoice and A+E Networks,History andLifetime are kept, but Crime+Investigation was dropped from the platform.[15]
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