HRT Plus

HRT Plus was a Croatian satellite channel owned by the public service broadcaster, HRT. The channel was available via Hot Bird, cable and Max TV, in Croatia and parts of Europe, America, and Australia.

HRT Plus

Country	Croatia
Headquarters	Zagreb
Programming
Picture format	576i (4:3 SDTV)
Ownership
Owner	Hrvatska radiotelevizija
Sister channels	HRT 1 HRT 2 HRT 3 HRT 4
History
Launched	29 March 2004; 21 years ago (2004-03-29)
Closed	23 September 2012; 12 years ago (2012-09-23) (8 years, 178 days)
Links
Website	www.hrt.hr

History

Before the launch of HRT Plus on 29 March 2004, HRT 3 provided sports programming since 7 November 1994 until 28 March 2004. The next day, HRT Plus was launched, with the HRT 3 frequency denationalized and transferred to RTL Croatia.

On 19 April 2004, HRT Plus started broadcasting. The channel broadcast for sixteen hours a day from 10am to 2am.^[1] In October 2005, plans to replace HRT Plus were outlined, initially by a dedicated HRT Sport channel in a three-to-six month period,^[2] before later replacing the plan with the return of HRT 3 in November 2005, with no tentative launch date and no changes to the programming.^[3]

Programmes

HRT Plus usually aired a variety of HRT's archived programmes from the 1930s to 1990s and sometimes sports. HRT 3 relaunched on 15 September 2012, with HRT Plus closing two days earlier, forwarding its frequency.