Sky Atlantic is a German-and English-language pay-TV station specializing in the broadcasting of HBO productions and therefore has the slogan The Home of HBO.

The pay-TV station started its broadcast in HD on 23 May 2012 at 9 pm and was free of charge for three weeks for all Sky subscribers.

[1] For the regular reception, the "Sky Entertainment" package and optionally the HD channels must be subscribed.

Since 5 November 2015, a one-hour timeshift of Sky Atlantic is also available in HD.

[2] The best audience, with 0.48 million viewers, scored the channel with the premiere of the seventh season of the series Game of Thrones on 17 July 2017.