TV6 focuses on entertainment and occasional but high-profile sports broadcasts (like the UEFA Champions League), comedy, sitcoms, action, science fiction and reality programmes from the United States are popular fixtures.

[1] Its inaugural night of broadcasting set the tone by scheduling a game from the 2006 ice hockey World Championships and the movie Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.

TV6 (along with several other Viasat channels) are broadcast from London in the United Kingdom making them exempt from strict Swedish advertising laws.

TV6 Latvia was launched on 22 April 2007, TV6 Hungary on 28 January 2008, TV6 Estonia on 24 March 2008 and in September 2008, Tango TV changed its name to TV6 Lithuania.

[5] As of 1 October 2021, TV6 is no longer free-to-air on Swedish digital terrestrial TV, because Viaplay Group decided to make TV6 focus more on live sports.