This articleneeds additional citations forverification. Please helpimprove this article byadding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Sixx" – news ·newspapers ·books ·scholar ·JSTOR(December 2010) (Learn how and when to remove this message) |
| Country | Germany |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Germany,Austria,Switzerland |
| Headquarters | Unterföhring, Germany |
| Programming | |
| Language | German |
| Picture format | 1080iHDTV (downscaled to16:9576i for theSDTV feed) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | ProSiebenSat.1 Media |
| Key people | Ellen Koch |
| Sister channels | Sat.1 ProSieben kabel eins Sat.1 Emotions Sat.1 Gold ProSieben Fun ProSieben Maxx kabel eins classics kabel eins Doku |
| History | |
| Launched | 7 May 2010 (15 years ago) (2010-05-07) |
| Links | |
| Website | www.sixx.de |
| Availability | |
| Terrestrial | |
| Digital terrestrial television | Various; region dependent |
sixx is a Germanfree-to-airtelevision channel which targets afemale audience. It was launched on 7 May 2010 at 8:15pm.
In November 2009,ProSiebenSat.1 Media announced the new women's channelFem-TV, whose name changed to Sixx at the beginning of February 2010. The name change was intended to establish Sixx as the sixth channel on the remote control, just like other channels do:Das Erste,ZDF,Das Vierte orProSieben.[1]
In an interview in August 2010 with the industry magazine Kontakter, the then station manager Hofem-Best said that 80 percent of the viewers were women and that the most popular series includedDesperate Housewives,Grey's Anatomy andDamages. More in-house productions are currently planned, such asGalileo for women.[2]
Since 2012, the station has also worked with commercial breaks, mostly between 6:00PM and 9:00PM.[3]
In July 2013, the station received a new design and image concept. Animated chicken replaced the real white ones as testimonial.[4]
Source:[5]
| January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December | Annual average | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010[6] | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 2011[7] | - | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.4% | 0.4% | 0.4% | 0.4% | 0.5% | 0.3% |
| 2012[8] | 0.5% | 0.5% | 0.5% | 0.6% | 0.6% | 0.5% | 0.6% | 0.7% | 0.7% | 0.7% | 0.7% | 0.8% | |
| 2013[9] | 0.6% | 0.6% | 0.6% | 0.7% | 0.7% | 0.7% | 0.7% | 0.7% | 0.7% | 0.7% | 0.7% | 0.7% | 0.6% |
| 2014[10] | 0.7% | 0.7% | 0.7% | 0.7% | 0.7% | 0.8% | 0.7% | 0.9% | 0.7% | 0.7% | 0.8% | 0.9% | |
| 2015[11] | 0.7% | 0.7% | 0.8% | 0.8% | 0.7% | 0.8% | 0.8% | 1.0% | 0.9% | 0.8% | 0.8% | 0.9% | |
| 2016[12] | 0.7% | 0.7% | 0.8% | 0.8% | 0.8% | 0.8% | 0.8% | 0.8% | 1.0% | 0.8% | 0.7% | 0.7% | 0.8% |
| 2017[13] | 0.7% | 0.7% | 0.7% | 0.7% | 0.8% | 0.7% | 0.7% | 0.7% | 0.7% | 0.8% | 0.7% | 0.9% | |
| 2018[14] | 0.8% | 0.8% | 0.8% | 0.8% | 0.9% | 0.8% | 0.8% |