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ClassTV

Italian tv channel

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ3679161
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ClassTV was an Italian TV Channel launched in 2003 owned by Class Editori (which also owns Class CNBC).

The channel originally launched as an all-news channel and renamed before Class News msnbc on 6 September 2010 and after ClassTV MSNBC on 2 May 2011.

It was later relaunched as an Italian news and movie channel before its closure. It was broadcast in Italy on DTT channel 27 on Mux Mediaset 2.

On 27 January 2015, the channel ceased transmission, and was replaced by a series of filter to promote Sky TG24's launch over the air.

Programming

In 2001, Class Editori partnered with NBCUniversal to form Class CNBC, a joint venture of business television. It was the first and only business TV channel in Italy, utilizing CNBC's global network for 24/7 financial news and journalism. Class CNBC broadcasts on SKY Italia channel 507 and on other streaming services, such as Milano Finanza, "Le TV di Class Editori" App and GO TV.

The earliest broadcast channel of Class Editori is the Gambero Rosso Channel, which first aired on SKY on 1 July, 1999. This channel mainly covers food, wine, Italian culture, and tourism. Gambero Rosso is sometimes broadcast abroad in China, Switzerland, and on Alitalia flights (now ITA Airways).

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2003, 2010, 2011, 2015—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2003. For this dossier, ClassTV, Italian and channel is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from ClassTV” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.