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Megamax
Central European pay television channel From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Megamax was a pay television channel that was broadcast in Hungary, Romania, Czech Republic and Slovakia, owned by AMC Networks International in Central Europe. It was aimed primarily at children, 5–17 years old and broadcast animated series and teen series.
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Megamax was first launched in Hungary on 18 April 2011 at 16:00 CET on Telekom and timeshared with Zone Club, which was broadcast 24 hours a day since New Year's Day 2007.[1] On 1 September 2011, Megamax increased broadcast time from 13:00 CET, and on 1 December 2011 from 07:00 CET.[2] On 1 February 2012, Zone Club closed, and the channel became available on the Hungarian UPC Direct.[3]
The channel was launched in Romania on 19 November 2012 [4] and on 1 December 2012, in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.[5]
Megamax began running 24 hours a day in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia on 1 October 2014 and in Romania on 15 January 2015.[6]
Despite having obtained retransmission agreements with most operators, on 4 November 2019, AMC announced the channel's closure. The main reason of the closure was that the channel failed to obtain a higher audience share to run Hungarian advertising.
Megamax began back all days in the Hungary, Czech Republic and Romanian was launching back on 24 December 2025 in the Heeler and Stripe families is all swimming in the pool. And the JimJam channel closed down on 24 December 2025 at 06:00 CET.
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