MUSEUM TV 4K expands its reach in Poland

THEMA, a CANAL+ group company, gladly announces a new launch of Museum TV 4K TV-channel in Poland on Polsat Box, Polsat Box Go and Netia platforms from Polsat Plus Group starting from the 1st of December.

The fully voice overed Polish version of Museum TV 4K is available to all S/Convenient package subscribers of Polsat Box in each of the three technologies: DTH satellite TV, cable IPTV and web OTT TV with a set-top box and to Polsat Box Go Premium package subscribers in the Polsat Box Go streaming service. The launch of the channel and Museum TV 4K VOD library have been done simultaneously on Netia IPTV platform, which provides multimedia entertainment based mainly on the fiber optic networks.

Museum TV is the first TV channel entirely dedicated to the visual arts, satisfying amateurs and passionate. It appeals to a large audience through a fun and accessible tone, proposing entertainment, stories and educational information for everyone who has ever been to an exhibition and who liked it! The programs are filmed in 4K format which allows to show the artistic works in its truest form and to offer an enriching viewing experience. More than that, Museum TV has one of the richest 4K content catalogue in the world.

“We are delighted to launch Museum TV 4K on Polsat Box, Polsat Box Go and Netia, together with our partner THEMA, and enlarge our distribution in this market where the channel has been available already for 3 years. Museum TV is bringing very exciting and accessible programming to the Polish audience, all programs are produced in native 4K and most of them are our exclusive originals. We are also looking forward to developing new partnerships with the Polish Art scene”, said Nela Pavlouskova, Managing Director of Museum TV.

This deal brokered by THEMA, with Polsat Plus Group, the biggest pay-TV operators in Poland, is already the second one on the respective market: “We are delighted to be able to extend the distribution of Museum TV 4K to a wider Polish audience thanks to this new collaboration with Polsat Plus Group. Now, Polsat Box, Polsat Box Go and Netia subscribers will be able to enjoy, in Polish language, highly entertaining and educative content on arts and travel to the museums of the world in 4K quality”, commented Camille Mury-Decouflet, THEMA Distribution manager in Europe.

About Polsat Plus Group
A leading media and telecommunication group in Poland. Polsat Plus Group offers a full range of media and telecommunications services in the following areas: pay digital TV (via Polsat Box, the biggest pay TV operator in Poland, offering services in satellite, IPTV and OTT technologies; streaming platform Polsat Box Go; Netia offering TV channels in IPTV technology), mobile telecommunications services and mobile broadband Internet, including 5G technology (via Polkomtel, one of the leading telecommunications operators in the country), fixed-line broadband Internet, including fiber optic (via Netia and Polkomtel under the Plus brand), TV production and broadcasting (via Telewizja Polsat – the leading commercial TV broadcaster on the Polish market) and online media (via Interia Group – the portal Interia.pl is one of the three largest horizontal portals in Poland, as well as a number of thematic portals). The group is also offering wholesale services on the carrier-to-carrier market, including interconnect services, traffic routing and domestic and international roaming. For more information: https://grupapolsatplus.pl/en

About Museum TV
Launched on 25 April, 2017, Museum TV is the top television channel entirely dedicated to the visual arts, including photography, design and architecture. It talks to viewers who are passionately immersed in the world of art, just as well as it does to those just discovering it.
Edited by Secom Corp, the programming has been conceived to offer entertainment, discovery, learning and news with programmes produced exclusively about the visual arts in the form of documentaries, interviews, reports, quizzes, games, series and competitions.
Museum TV is currently distributed across 55 countries around the world.

About THEMA – a CANAL+ Group Company
THEMA, a CANAL+ Group Company is a distributor of pay TV channels, fast TV channels, nonlinear content to cable, IPTV, DTH, operators and also for mobile packages and OTT. THEMA now includes 5 subsidiaries overseas. The company represents 180 channels as well as SVOD/VOD/OTT covering a wide range of thematic and has created strong relationships with the main television platforms in Europe, in Asia, in the Middle East, in Africa and in North America, thanks to its expertise in TV content distribution, TV packaging and marketing strategy. For more information, please visit www.thematv.com