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Swedish television channel
Television channel
Axess TV
is a Swedish television channel belonging to the
Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation
. It is mainly devoted to cultural and science programmes.
The Ax:son Johnson Foundation applied for a license to broadcast in the
Swedish digital terrestrial television
network in the autumn of 2005. The channel was awarded a license to broadcast free-to-air in the Weekends in February 2006.
Trial broadcasts started on 27 May 2006. The first weekend contained the opera
Dialogues of the Carmelites
, the British sitcom
Yes Minister
, a discussion programme and a documentary.
The channel had a full launch on 23 September 2006.
From 1 February 2010 Axess is no longer free-to-air but is available as part of a pay-channel package from Boxer. It has also changed compression to MPEG-4.