Crime & Investigation (European TV channel)
The channel primarily broadcasts true crime programming, and edits European versions of the U.S. network of the same name.In Spain, it launched on 1 February 2011 replacing Buzz Negro and was named Crimen + Investigación, and it expanded in Portugal in 2016 as Crime + Investigation[3] and it was operated by AMC Networks International Southern Europe, initially under the joint-venture The History Channel Iberia with A&E Networks/Hearst until 2021.[6] Crime+Investigation HD originally operated on a separate schedule to the standard definition channel and timeshared with Bio.[10] The French channel Planète+ Justice was rebranded as Planète+ Crime&Investigation on 13 November 2013, in a partnership between Groupe Canal+ and A&E Networks.[citation needed] On 6 November 2018, the European Commission ordered A&E Networks UK to divest its factual channels, as a condition of Disney's acquisition of 21st Century Fox.