STAR TREK ABROAD
From: ottoh3@cfsmo.honeywell.com (Otto Heuer #3)
Date: 2 Dec 93 07:55:27 GMT
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: FAQL: STAR TREK ABROAD
Archive-Name: faql.rec.arts.startrek.abroad
STAR TREK OUTSIDE NORTH AMERICA (last updated 15 November 1993)
This posting is intended to cut down on the "often asked questions" that
pop up every few months about Star Trek outside of Canada and USA. It is
one of a number of periodic postings posted to r.a.s.*. For a full list of
informational postings, please read the "LIST OF PERIODIC POSTINGS" article
in rec.arts.startrek.misc. For a list of acronyms used in this (and other)
postings, please refer to the "ACRONYM LIST" article found in
rec.arts.startrek.misc.
===========================================================================
1) Australia
2) Belgium
3) Finland
4) Germany
5) Ireland
6) Italy
7) Japan
8) The Netherlands
9) New Zealand
10) Spain
11) Sweden
12) Switzerland
13) United Kingdom
14) Misc
===========================================================================
1) ========== AUSTRALIA
TNG is shown on the Nine Network and associated stations around Australia
(Sydney (channel 9), Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane and most regional centres)
at 10:30/11:00/11:30 pm on Tuesday nights (unless there's cricket or
tennis). They are currently in season four (as of November 1993). The
network has bought up through the end of season six. There is a rumour
that the network was looking at buying DS9. There is contension as to
whether TNG season 5 will follow on or be deferred for a while. This is
because of the video releases.
TNG is shown in Perth at 11:00 on Australian Western Standard Time. They
are currently in season three (August 1993).
TNG is shown once a week on Wednesday or Thursday nights (late) currently
in season four (7/93) (not sure what city this is).
CIC Video have released a lot of TNG episodes from season 5. They released
the DS9 pilot in mid-November.
The nine network has just purchased DS9 (at least season 1) with a whole
lot of other Paramount shows and movies, although there is contension as to
when they will commence screening it (1995?). This is because of the video
release (see below). (info updated 2 November 1993)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
2) ========== BELGIUM
TNG is shown once a week on Sunday afternoons at 17:00 on VTM. As of May
1993, they are airing season 3.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
3) ========== FINLAND
The Finnish Channel 3 (MTV3) has been airing TNG since September 1990 (but
not continuously). By 15 August 1993 they have aired through "The Best of
Both Worlds II" but has now simply stated that showing TNG is not
economically possible, as it has "only" 200.000+ viewers. They recommend
that Paramount would sell the series to cable channel PTV, which promptly
bought the show and is planning to start with season 4 in December 1993.
Finnish TV2 has reportedly said that DS9 is not a possibility on TV2 as
it's Star Trek and MTV3 has already dropped TNG so "it can't be successfull
enough" (though MTV3 approximated TNG would get 400.000+ viewers at prime
time AND TV2 is not a commercial channel, so economical reasons (apart from
perhaps the price of the show itself) can't be the reason). So currently
finns are getting TNG on a cable channel that has rather limited audience
(I think under 1.5M out of 5M that live here can theoretically get it) and
there is practically no chance of either TNG or DS9 to land on some
nationwide channel for now. Due to the scrambling of Sky One those with
the dish are also out of Trek, but luckily they got to see it up to season
6 end (except for Descent). The country's channels are being juggled
around and when all settles down, TNG (and possibly DS9) may get aired--but
nothing definite has been planned. A Channel 3 representative said in
FinnCon that they will NEVER air Star Trek anymore because of low ratings.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
4) ========== GERMANY
TOS is airing for the third time on the private channel SAT1 (this time it
will include the pilot episode "The Cage"). They started airing TOS
episodes 1 July 1993.
TNG: SAT1 will starting from season one and show about 130 episodes. They
report that with the huge success of DS9 in the US that it won't be long
until it shows up in Germany.
DS9 will air on SAT1 in mid-1994.
According to SAT1 videotext, a decoder for the SKY multichannel WITHOUT
SMART CARD will be availiable in Germany (for 1000 DM). But it decodes any
of the multichannel without further payment. They say this is legal.
Please check the according pages (470 ff) on SAT1 for further info. (7/93)
DS9 has been released on video in Germany.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
5) ========== IRELAND
TNG is shown once a week on Fridays on RTE at 7:00 pm. As of August 1993,
they are in the start of season 6.
Videos are released at the same rate and schedule as the UK.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
6) ========== ITALY
TNG began broadcast in Italy on the national channel Italia 1 some time in
the summer of 1992 (they showed a few season one episodes the previous
summer, but stopped with no warning).
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
7) ========== JAPAN
TNG is shown in Sendai on Tuesdays at 0:50 AM. They are currently airing
season three (7/93).
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
8) ========== THE NETHERLANDS
TNG is shown during the summers (started in 1992) on Fridays at 19:00 on
KRO TV in English with subtitles. They are currently in season two (8/93).
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
9) ========== NEW ZEALAND
TNG is shown once a week on Fridays at 19:30 on TV3. As of July 1993, they
are airing season 4.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
10) ========== SPAIN
In 1991, telemadrid in Madrid aired seasons one and two of TNG.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
11) ========== SWEDEN
TOS is being shown on TV5/Nordic. They are currently (7/93) in the middle
of season two.
TNG was being shown on channel 4. They stopped showing the series in the
middle of season one.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
12) ========== SWITZERLAND
The Swiss TV station TSR (Television Swiss Romand) has started to show
ST:TOS in stereo every Wednesday from 14.40 till 15.30.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
13) ========== UNITED KINGDOM
The BBC only owns the rights through the end of season three of TNG (plus
"The Best of Both Worlds II"). They have switched to airing TOS episodes.
Apparently, the BBC did not anticipate the popularity of Picard and the
rest of the gang and, as a result, only bought the show until July of 1992.
April 1993 reports claim that the BBC will show some "new" episodes of TNG
but won't say which ones. August 1993 reports say that they will show TNG
seasons 4-6 after they finish their run of TOS episodes.
Sky One has acquired the rights to TNG starting in August 1992. It will be
broadcast probably from October 1992 until July 1994, airing five episodes
per week. They will not cut the "brutal" scenes that the BBC decided to
cut. They claim they will braodcast it in stereo as well. --R.I. Burns,
General Manager of Sky One. Sky has aired TNG through season six, except
for Descent (they want to wait until they can show part II as well (March
1994?)), airing on a daily basis (with a repeat of the same episode shown
later in the day). At the middle of August 1993, they are re-starting
season 1.
According to ITV's teletext from 13 March 1993 (page 124), "Sky One [Astra
satellite channel] has bought [the rights to Deep Space Nine] and will be
showing it in May [1993] - no precise start date yet. The new series is
set in a space station near a 'worm hole' in deep space. BBC 2 is also
interested in buying it, but hasn't done a deal yet." Sky One, Sky News,
Discovery, Bravo, The Childrens Channel, and Nicklodeon will be available
as a subscription package starting in October 1993 for UK viewers only.
Cost will be #3.99 per month. MTV is also rumoured to join (but Sky is
considering re-launching their own music channel 'The Power Station' which
was acquired from the BSB takeover) and possibly even the recently merged
Eurosport satellite channels may all become scrambled subscription
channels, perhaps starting as early as October 1993, so you might have to
shell out some money to see TNG and DS9.
Sky has bought the rights to DS9 for the UK. They were going to start
broadcasting in it in May 1993, but CIC video talked them into waiting
until Autumn 1993 so the videos would come out first. No word on whether
it will be mono or stereo. Skytext page 142 4/10 reported that DS9 will
start in August 1993 and run alongside (rather than replacing) TNG. Sky
will start using VideoCrypt to encrypt their programming starting in
autumn.
CIC Video are already releasing TNG season six episodes in the UK. They
usually release two episodes on each tape. As of July 1993, they have
released 12 episodes of season six (two episodes per tape).
CIC Video will be releasing DS9 in the UK starting 7 June 1993.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
14) ========== MISC
AFN (Armed Forces Network-Europe) is showing TNG on Saturdays at 16.50.
They were up to season four in January 1993. Unless your TV is
NTSC-compatible, you won't be able to get a decent picture. The best
you'll manage with an NTSC signal into a PAL TV is a B/W, squished image
(twiddle the vertical hold and vertical size controls and you can probably
make it look normal) with no audio. Talk to someone in the rec.video
newsgroup for a better explanation.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
This is written in English as I'm not fluent enough to translate every
other language. There is a separate posting with airtimes and stations
that show Star Trek in Canada and USA. If you know of any other topics
that should be included in this list, feel free to email me at one of the
addresses below. Be aware that about 10% of the mail I send out bounces,
so if you don't get a reply from me, it isn't because I'm ignoring you. :-)
--Otto "HACK-MAN" Heuer
_____ _________ _ _____ _____ _____ _____
| ___|| _______|| | Otto E. Heuer, CEO ||___|| |_ _| |_ _| ||___||
| |__ | |___ ___| | FSD, Inc. | o | | | | | | o |
| __| |___ || _ | "The innovator for |__O__| |_| |_| |__O__|
| | _______| || |_| | software solutions." C, Pascal, Fortran, BASIC
|_||_________||_____| Assembly Language, Snobol, Ada, APL, Prolog, LISP
Unix, MS-DOS, ProDOS . . . .... . . . . . . . Audio/Video
ottoh@cfsmo.honeywell.com :..: .:.:. : :.' .. :`.': .:.:. :`. : Star Trek
hackman@pnet51.orb.mn.org : : : : :... : `. : : : : : `: Apple IIgs
Date: 2 Dec 93 07:55:27 GMT
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: FAQL: STAR TREK ABROAD
Archive-Name: faql.rec.arts.startrek.abroad
STAR TREK OUTSIDE NORTH AMERICA (last updated 15 November 1993)
This posting is intended to cut down on the "often asked questions" that
pop up every few months about Star Trek outside of Canada and USA. It is
one of a number of periodic postings posted to r.a.s.*. For a full list of
informational postings, please read the "LIST OF PERIODIC POSTINGS" article
in rec.arts.startrek.misc. For a list of acronyms used in this (and other)
postings, please refer to the "ACRONYM LIST" article found in
rec.arts.startrek.misc.
===========================================================================
1) Australia
2) Belgium
3) Finland
4) Germany
5) Ireland
6) Italy
7) Japan
8) The Netherlands
9) New Zealand
10) Spain
11) Sweden
12) Switzerland
13) United Kingdom
14) Misc
===========================================================================
1) ========== AUSTRALIA
TNG is shown on the Nine Network and associated stations around Australia
(Sydney (channel 9), Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane and most regional centres)
at 10:30/11:00/11:30 pm on Tuesday nights (unless there's cricket or
tennis). They are currently in season four (as of November 1993). The
network has bought up through the end of season six. There is a rumour
that the network was looking at buying DS9. There is contension as to
whether TNG season 5 will follow on or be deferred for a while. This is
because of the video releases.
TNG is shown in Perth at 11:00 on Australian Western Standard Time. They
are currently in season three (August 1993).
TNG is shown once a week on Wednesday or Thursday nights (late) currently
in season four (7/93) (not sure what city this is).
CIC Video have released a lot of TNG episodes from season 5. They released
the DS9 pilot in mid-November.
The nine network has just purchased DS9 (at least season 1) with a whole
lot of other Paramount shows and movies, although there is contension as to
when they will commence screening it (1995?). This is because of the video
release (see below). (info updated 2 November 1993)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
2) ========== BELGIUM
TNG is shown once a week on Sunday afternoons at 17:00 on VTM. As of May
1993, they are airing season 3.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
3) ========== FINLAND
The Finnish Channel 3 (MTV3) has been airing TNG since September 1990 (but
not continuously). By 15 August 1993 they have aired through "The Best of
Both Worlds II" but has now simply stated that showing TNG is not
economically possible, as it has "only" 200.000+ viewers. They recommend
that Paramount would sell the series to cable channel PTV, which promptly
bought the show and is planning to start with season 4 in December 1993.
Finnish TV2 has reportedly said that DS9 is not a possibility on TV2 as
it's Star Trek and MTV3 has already dropped TNG so "it can't be successfull
enough" (though MTV3 approximated TNG would get 400.000+ viewers at prime
time AND TV2 is not a commercial channel, so economical reasons (apart from
perhaps the price of the show itself) can't be the reason). So currently
finns are getting TNG on a cable channel that has rather limited audience
(I think under 1.5M out of 5M that live here can theoretically get it) and
there is practically no chance of either TNG or DS9 to land on some
nationwide channel for now. Due to the scrambling of Sky One those with
the dish are also out of Trek, but luckily they got to see it up to season
6 end (except for Descent). The country's channels are being juggled
around and when all settles down, TNG (and possibly DS9) may get aired--but
nothing definite has been planned. A Channel 3 representative said in
FinnCon that they will NEVER air Star Trek anymore because of low ratings.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
4) ========== GERMANY
TOS is airing for the third time on the private channel SAT1 (this time it
will include the pilot episode "The Cage"). They started airing TOS
episodes 1 July 1993.
TNG: SAT1 will starting from season one and show about 130 episodes. They
report that with the huge success of DS9 in the US that it won't be long
until it shows up in Germany.
DS9 will air on SAT1 in mid-1994.
According to SAT1 videotext, a decoder for the SKY multichannel WITHOUT
SMART CARD will be availiable in Germany (for 1000 DM). But it decodes any
of the multichannel without further payment. They say this is legal.
Please check the according pages (470 ff) on SAT1 for further info. (7/93)
DS9 has been released on video in Germany.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
5) ========== IRELAND
TNG is shown once a week on Fridays on RTE at 7:00 pm. As of August 1993,
they are in the start of season 6.
Videos are released at the same rate and schedule as the UK.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
6) ========== ITALY
TNG began broadcast in Italy on the national channel Italia 1 some time in
the summer of 1992 (they showed a few season one episodes the previous
summer, but stopped with no warning).
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
7) ========== JAPAN
TNG is shown in Sendai on Tuesdays at 0:50 AM. They are currently airing
season three (7/93).
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
8) ========== THE NETHERLANDS
TNG is shown during the summers (started in 1992) on Fridays at 19:00 on
KRO TV in English with subtitles. They are currently in season two (8/93).
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
9) ========== NEW ZEALAND
TNG is shown once a week on Fridays at 19:30 on TV3. As of July 1993, they
are airing season 4.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
10) ========== SPAIN
In 1991, telemadrid in Madrid aired seasons one and two of TNG.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
11) ========== SWEDEN
TOS is being shown on TV5/Nordic. They are currently (7/93) in the middle
of season two.
TNG was being shown on channel 4. They stopped showing the series in the
middle of season one.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
12) ========== SWITZERLAND
The Swiss TV station TSR (Television Swiss Romand) has started to show
ST:TOS in stereo every Wednesday from 14.40 till 15.30.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
13) ========== UNITED KINGDOM
The BBC only owns the rights through the end of season three of TNG (plus
"The Best of Both Worlds II"). They have switched to airing TOS episodes.
Apparently, the BBC did not anticipate the popularity of Picard and the
rest of the gang and, as a result, only bought the show until July of 1992.
April 1993 reports claim that the BBC will show some "new" episodes of TNG
but won't say which ones. August 1993 reports say that they will show TNG
seasons 4-6 after they finish their run of TOS episodes.
Sky One has acquired the rights to TNG starting in August 1992. It will be
broadcast probably from October 1992 until July 1994, airing five episodes
per week. They will not cut the "brutal" scenes that the BBC decided to
cut. They claim they will braodcast it in stereo as well. --R.I. Burns,
General Manager of Sky One. Sky has aired TNG through season six, except
for Descent (they want to wait until they can show part II as well (March
1994?)), airing on a daily basis (with a repeat of the same episode shown
later in the day). At the middle of August 1993, they are re-starting
season 1.
According to ITV's teletext from 13 March 1993 (page 124), "Sky One [Astra
satellite channel] has bought [the rights to Deep Space Nine] and will be
showing it in May [1993] - no precise start date yet. The new series is
set in a space station near a 'worm hole' in deep space. BBC 2 is also
interested in buying it, but hasn't done a deal yet." Sky One, Sky News,
Discovery, Bravo, The Childrens Channel, and Nicklodeon will be available
as a subscription package starting in October 1993 for UK viewers only.
Cost will be #3.99 per month. MTV is also rumoured to join (but Sky is
considering re-launching their own music channel 'The Power Station' which
was acquired from the BSB takeover) and possibly even the recently merged
Eurosport satellite channels may all become scrambled subscription
channels, perhaps starting as early as October 1993, so you might have to
shell out some money to see TNG and DS9.
Sky has bought the rights to DS9 for the UK. They were going to start
broadcasting in it in May 1993, but CIC video talked them into waiting
until Autumn 1993 so the videos would come out first. No word on whether
it will be mono or stereo. Skytext page 142 4/10 reported that DS9 will
start in August 1993 and run alongside (rather than replacing) TNG. Sky
will start using VideoCrypt to encrypt their programming starting in
autumn.
CIC Video are already releasing TNG season six episodes in the UK. They
usually release two episodes on each tape. As of July 1993, they have
released 12 episodes of season six (two episodes per tape).
CIC Video will be releasing DS9 in the UK starting 7 June 1993.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
14) ========== MISC
AFN (Armed Forces Network-Europe) is showing TNG on Saturdays at 16.50.
They were up to season four in January 1993. Unless your TV is
NTSC-compatible, you won't be able to get a decent picture. The best
you'll manage with an NTSC signal into a PAL TV is a B/W, squished image
(twiddle the vertical hold and vertical size controls and you can probably
make it look normal) with no audio. Talk to someone in the rec.video
newsgroup for a better explanation.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
This is written in English as I'm not fluent enough to translate every
other language. There is a separate posting with airtimes and stations
that show Star Trek in Canada and USA. If you know of any other topics
that should be included in this list, feel free to email me at one of the
addresses below. Be aware that about 10% of the mail I send out bounces,
so if you don't get a reply from me, it isn't because I'm ignoring you. :-)
--Otto "HACK-MAN" Heuer
_____ _________ _ _____ _____ _____ _____
| ___|| _______|| | Otto E. Heuer, CEO ||___|| |_ _| |_ _| ||___||
| |__ | |___ ___| | FSD, Inc. | o | | | | | | o |
| __| |___ || _ | "The innovator for |__O__| |_| |_| |__O__|
| | _______| || |_| | software solutions." C, Pascal, Fortran, BASIC
|_||_________||_____| Assembly Language, Snobol, Ada, APL, Prolog, LISP
Unix, MS-DOS, ProDOS . . . .... . . . . . . . Audio/Video
ottoh@cfsmo.honeywell.com :..: .:.:. : :.' .. :`.': .:.:. :`. : Star Trek
hackman@pnet51.orb.mn.org : : : : :... : `. : : : : : `: Apple IIgs
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