Lumiere TV is a premium television service available in Cyprus

Cyprus

Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is a Eurasian island country, member of the European Union, in the Eastern Mediterranean, east of Greece, south of Turkey, west of Syria and north of Egypt. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.The earliest known human activity on the...

, that broadcasts movies and series. It is owned by LTV Group Ltd. Repeaters have been set up across the country that enable more than 80% of the population to receive these services. Lumiere TV was originally available on the NOVA Cyprus

NOVA Cyprus

NOVA Cyprus is a Cypriot digital satellite pay television service owned by Multichoice Cyprus. NOVA launched in July 2004 and was the first DTH satellite provider to launch in Cyprus...

 platform but following a financial dispute, it moved over to rival Athina Sat. It is also available through IPTV providers CytaVision & PrimeTel

PrimeTel

PrimeTel is a private Cypriot telecommunications carrier. Through their partnership with Electricity Authority of Cyprus , they have built their own fiber-optic network and ADSL2+ platform...

.

As of March 3, 2008, LTV is once again available through NOVA Cyprus

NOVA Cyprus

NOVA Cyprus is a Cypriot digital satellite pay television service owned by Multichoice Cyprus. NOVA launched in July 2004 and was the first DTH satellite provider to launch in Cyprus...

 following a new agreement that was signed between the two companies. The channel is no longer available through Athina Sat, which has ceased operations.

Channels and content

Lumiere TV operates nine multiplex

Multiplexing

The multiplexed signal is transmitted over a communication channel, which may be a physical transmission medium. The multiplexing divides the capacity of the low-level communication channel into several higher-level logical channels, one for each message signal or data stream to be transferred...

 channels:

• : It is a 24-hour channel and it broadcasts entertainment, news and sports programming, as well as live football matches of the Cypriot Champions League. Also it broadcasts blockbuster movies, feature films, top-rated television series, lifestyle programmes, reality shows and talk-shows. The sports section includes live football matches and sports programmes.

  It is a 24-hour channel and it focuses on live transmission of sports events and sports-related programmes. The entertainment content involves Nickelodeon’s children’s programmes and a vast range of animation movies which are broadcasted daily.

  It is a 24-hour channel and includes prime TV series and mini-series from the biggest American studios. Movies and programs of general interest are also included.

  It is a 24-hour channel and it broadcasts premieres of blockbuster films and TV-movies, but also old favourite movies. The channel also includes a daily adult zone.

• : It is a 24-hour channel and it broadcasts live transmissions, highlights and sports shows for big football events, such as the Marfin Laiki Championship, the Coca-Cola Cup, the Barclays Premier League, the German Bundesliga and the Spanish Primera Division. Also it broadcasts basketball and tennis games, golf, motor sports events and as well as the NBA.
• : The sports channel LTV SPORTS 2 aims to complement the LTV SPORTS 1 channel in cases of simultaneous or multiple event transmissions, such as the Barclays Premier League, the Spanish Primera Division, the Greek Superleague, and others. It also broadcasts live tennis events and weekly football highlights.
• : It broadcasts football games and many sports in HD.
• : Premier League’s High Definition channel with 380 LIVE exciting football matches and 400 derbies of the past that remained in history. Highlights, commentaries, season review, live transmissions, sports shows, and the latest updates.
• : The first Cyprus horse racing channel, with a 5-hour daily programme. It broadcasts the Nicosia Race Club’s meetings, as well as specialised talk-shows and programmes, including statistics, analyses and everything that interests the fans of horse racing.

Programming

Lumiere TV features hit movies from Greece and abroad, including Hollywood blockbusters. It also airs hit TV series from the US such as Grey's Anatomy

Grey's Anatomy

Grey's Anatomy is an American medical drama television series created by Shonda Rhimes. The series premiered on March 27, 2005 on ABC; since then, seven seasons have aired. The series follows the lives of interns, residents and their mentors in the fictional Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital in...

 and Supernatural

Supernatural (TV series)

Supernatural is an American supernatural and horror television series created by Eric Kripke, which debuted on September 13, 2005 on The WB, and is now part of The CW's lineup. Starring Jared Padalecki as Sam Winchester and Jensen Ackles as Dean Winchester, the series follows the brothers as they...

. It boadcasts over 15 premieres each month with new release films being added continuously.

LTV

• Desperate Housewives
  Desperate Housewives
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• Grey's Anatomy
  Grey's Anatomy
  Grey's Anatomy is an American medical drama television series created by Shonda Rhimes. The series premiered on March 27, 2005 on ABC; since then, seven seasons have aired. The series follows the lives of interns, residents and their mentors in the fictional Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital in...
  
  
• It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
  It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
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• Hung
  Hung (TV series)
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• The Big Bang Theory
  The Big Bang Theory
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• Criminal Minds
  Criminal Minds
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• Cougar Town
  Cougar Town
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• CSI: Miami
  CSI: Miami
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• Without a Trace
  Without a Trace
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• Two and a Half Men
  Two and a Half Men
  Two and a Half Men is an American television sitcom that premiered on CBS on September 22, 2003. Starring Charlie Sheen, Jon Cryer, and Angus T. Jones, the show was originally about a hedonistic jingle writer, Charlie Harper; his uptight brother, Alan; and Alan's growing son, Jake...
  
  
• Melissa & Joey
  Melissa & Joey
  Melissa & Joey is an ABC Family original television series starring Melissa Joan Hart and Joey Lawrence. It first aired on ABC Family on August 17, 2010...
  
  

LTV2

• Eastwick
  Eastwick (TV series)
  Eastwick is a 2009 screwball comedy series based on John Updike's novel, The Witches of Eastwick. The series was developed by Maggie Friedman, and starred Paul Gross as the infamous Darryl Van Horne, alongside Jaime Ray Newman , Lindsay Price, and Rebecca Romijn as the eponymous...
  
  
• The Vampire Diaries
  The Vampire Diaries
  The Vampire Diaries is a young adult vampire horror series of novels written by L. J. Smith. The story centers around Elena Gilbert, a high school girl torn between two vampire brothers. The series was originally a trilogy published in 1991, but pressure from readers led Smith to write a fourth...
  
  
• Fringe
  Fringe (TV series)
  Fringe is an American science fiction television series created by J. J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. The series follows a Federal Bureau of Investigation "Fringe Division" team based in Boston, Massachusetts under the supervision of Homeland Security...
  
  
• Friends
  Friends
  Friends is an American sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which aired on NBC from September 22, 1994 to May 6, 2004. The series revolves around a group of friends in Manhattan. The series was produced by Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions, in association with Warner Bros. Television...
  
  
• Ugly Betty
  Ugly Betty
  Ugly Betty is an American comedy-drama television series developed by Silvio Horta, which premiered on ABC on September 28, 2006, and ended on April 14, 2010. The series revolves around the character Betty Suarez and is based on Fernando Gaitán's Colombian telenovela soap opera Yo soy Betty, la fea...
  
  
• Miami Medical
• Hawaii Five-0
• CSI: NY
  CSI: NY
  CSI: NY is an American police procedural television series that premiered on September 22, 2004, on CBS. The show follows the investigations of a team of NYPD forensic scientists and police officers as they unveil the circumstances behind mysterious and unusual deaths as well as other crimes...
  
  
• Gossip Girl
  Gossip Girl
  Gossip Girl is an American young adult novel series written by Cecily von Ziegesar and published by Little, Brown and Company, a subsidiary of the Hachette Group. The series revolves around the lives and romances of the privileged teenagers at the Constance Billard School for Girls, an elite...
  
  
• Chuck
  Chuck (TV series)
  Chuck is an action-comedy/spy-drama television program from the United States created by Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak. The series is about an "average computer-whiz-next-door" named Chuck, played by Zachary Levi, who receives an encoded e-mail from an old college friend now working for the Central...
  
  
• Eastbound & Down
  Eastbound & Down
  Eastbound & Down is an American comedy television series broadcast on HBO, starring Danny McBride as Kenny Powers, a former professional baseball pitcher, who after an up and down career in the major leagues is forced to return to his hometown middle-school in Shelby, North Carolina, as a...
  
  
• Human Target
• Supernatural
  Supernatural (TV series)
  Supernatural is an American supernatural and horror television series created by Eric Kripke, which debuted on September 13, 2005 on The WB, and is now part of The CW's lineup. Starring Jared Padalecki as Sam Winchester and Jensen Ackles as Dean Winchester, the series follows the brothers as they...
  
  
• Huge
  Huge (TV series)
  Huge is a short lived American drama series that aired on the ABC Family television network. The series is based on the young-adult novel of the same name by Sasha Paley. The hour-long drama series revolves around eight teens sent to a summer weight-loss camp called Camp Victory...
  
  
• Southland
  Southland (TV series)
  Southland is an American drama series created by writer Ann Biderman and produced by Warner Bros. Television. It premiered on NBC on April 9, 2009...
  
  
• Bored to Death
  Bored to Death
  Bored to Death is an American comedy series, which premiered on HBO on September 20, 2009. , three seasons have aired, each consisting of eight episodes. The show was created by author Jonathan Ames, and stars Jason Schwartzman as a fictional Jonathan Ames – a writer based in Brooklyn, New York...
  
  
• V
  V (2009 TV series)
  V is an American science fiction television series that ran for two seasons on ABC, from November 3, 2009 to March 15, 2011. A remake of the 1983 miniseries created by Kenneth Johnson, the new series chronicles the arrival on Earth of a technologically advanced alien species which ostensibly comes...
  
  
• The Office (U.S. TV series)
• Entourage
  Entourage (TV series)
  Entourage is an American comedy-drama television series that premiered on HBO on July 18, 2004 and concluded on September 11, 2011, after eight seasons...
  
  
• Big Love
  Big Love
  Big Love is an American television drama that aired on HBO between March 2006 and March 2011. The show is about a fictional fundamentalist Mormon family in Utah that practices polygamy...
  
  
• Curb Your Enthusiasm
  Curb Your Enthusiasm
  Curb Your Enthusiasm is an American comedy television series produced and broadcast by HBO, which premiered on October 15, 2000. As of 2011, it has completed 80 episodes over eight seasons. The series was created by Seinfeld co-creator Larry David, who stars as a fictionalized version of himself...
  
  
• Castle
  Castle (TV series)
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