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Crime District

television channel

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 27, 2025
Entity authorityQ24929869 ↗
Source-derived summary

Crime District is a French television channel from Luxembourg broadcasting news reports and criminal investigations. It belongs to AB Groupe via its subsidiary AB Luxembourg S.A..

History

Crime District began broadcasting on February 11, 2016 exclusively in the Orange TV package

. The channel is now broadcast on Bis Télévisions as well as on the applications of Molotov TV. Since December 15, 2016, it is also broadcast in Switzerland in the Swisscom TV offer.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Crime District” is television channel. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Crime, District and television, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2016-02-11. For this dossier, Crime, District and television is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “television channel” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 27, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q24929869. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2016.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

Best used for
  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
Verify next

The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Crime District”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Crime District primary sources, Crime District archive and Crime research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Crime District”?
  2. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
  3. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Crime District” 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.