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TV4 AB
TV4 AB (formerly Nordisk Television AB; previously Trade name, traded as ) is a Swedish media company owned by Telia Company through TV4 Media (formerly known as Bonnier Broadcasting). The company owns the largest commercial television channel in Sweden, TV4 (Sweden), TV4. From 2007 until 2019, TV4 AB was owned by Bonnier Group, Bonnier, with Bonnier Broadcasting AB being its parent since 2016. The stock used to be traded at the Stockholm Stock Exchange (OM), but was removed from the OM when Bonnier took full control of the company. On 20 July 2018, Telia Company announced the acquisition proposal of the Bonnier Broadcasting, which includes this company, for 9.2 billion SEK (roughly US$1 billion). The acquisition was completed on 2 December 2019. On 25 February 2025, Schibsted Media announced the acquisition proposal of the TV4 Media, which includes this company, for 6.55 billion SEK. The acquisition expected to end in the third quarter of 2025, following regulatory approval. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Subsidiary
A subsidiary, subsidiary company, or daughter company is a company (law), company completely or partially owned or controlled by another company, called the parent company or holding company, which has legal and financial control over the subsidiary company. Unlike regional branches or divisions, subsidiaries are considered to be distinct entities from their parent companies; they are required to follow the laws of where they are incorporated, and they maintain their own executive leadership. Two or more subsidiaries primarily controlled by same entity/group are considered to be sister companies of each other. Subsidiaries are a common feature of modern business, and most multinational corporations organize their operations via the creation and purchase of subsidiary companies. Examples of holding companies are Berkshire Hathaway, Jefferies Financial Group, The Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Citigroup, which have subsidiaries involved in many different Industry (e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TV3 (Sweden)
TV3 (''TV tre'') is a Swedish pay television channel owned by Viaplay Group. It was launched on 31 December 1987 by businessman Jan Stenbeck. The channel was initially broadcast across all of Scandinavia. In 1990, separate Danish and Norwegian feeds were launched. The channel's name refers to its launch at a time when television in Sweden was dominated by the two channels of SVT. History TV3 was launched on 31 December 1987 and was the first commercial channel to broadcast in Sweden, Norway and Denmark. The channel was transmitted from London, in order to circumvent legislation that prohibited advertising being broadcast on Swedish television. TV3 was one of the first channels to be broadcast on the Astra 1A satellite when that launched in 1989; in addition, TV3 Sweden became available through cable television in many cities. In 1989, TV3 bought the rights to broadcast the Ice Hockey World Championships and the Wimbledon tennis championships The Wimbledon Champions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TV4 Sport
TV4 Sport was a Swedish sports television channel owned by television company TV4 AB, with the tabloid newspaper ''Expressen'' owning a minor share. In April 2014, a sports channel similar to TV4 Sport is launched as TV12 by the same company, replacing :sv:TV4 Sport Xtra. This channel was previously called TV4 Sport Xtra, with the name changed to TV4 Sport as TV12 was launched). History The channel was originally owned by Expressen who launched the channel on 17 March 2005. It was initially available in the analogue basic package from UPC cable, the digital "Medium" package from Com Hem and the "Family" package from Canal Digital on satellite. Sports rights used by the channel included matches from the football series Superettan and the Wimbledon. In May 2006, it was announced that TV4 AB bought a majority stake in the channel. The channel relaunched as "TV4 Sport-Expressen" with a new logo on 1 June. The deal meant that Sport-Expressen could use several sports rights held b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TV4 Guld
TV4 Guld is a Swedish television channel devoted to "classic" programmes such as older television dramas. The channel launched on November 3, simultaneously with its sister channel TV4 Komedi, on satellite from Canal Digital and cable from Com Hem. The channels were not available on the Viasat satellite platform or Boxer terrestrial package from the start. Programming Programmes shown on TV4 Guld are mostly American, British and Australian and include: *''21 Jump Street'' *''A Family at War'' *''Baretta'' *''Baywatch'' * ''Beauty and the Beast'' * ''Bring 'Em Back Alive'' * ''Cannon'' *''Cold Feet'' * ''Columbo'' *''Dallas'' *''Doctor Who'' *'' Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman'' * ''Dynasty'' * ''Fame'' *''Freddy's Nightmares'' *'' Flambards'' *'' I, Claudius'' *''Jake and the Fatman'' *''Kojak'' *'' La piovra'' * ''Matador'' *''Miami Vice'' *''Midnight Caller'' *'' Mr. Merlin'' *''Murder, She Wrote'' * ''Moonlighting'' * ''North and South'' * ''Perry Mason'' *''Pojken med guldbyxorn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TV4 Komedi
TV4 Komedi was a sister subchannel of Swedish TV4, owned by TV4 Group. The channel focuses on comedy only with sitcoms, comedy shows and talk shows. The channel airs classic sitcoms like '' ALF'', ''Family Matters'', ''Cheers'', ''Hope & Faith'', ''Roseanne'', ''Will & Grace'', ''The Golden Girls'' together with newer shows such as the ''Late Show with David Letterman'', ''30 Rock'' and '' Parks and Recreation''. History The channel was launched on November 3, 2006 along with TV4 Guld. The first programme aired on the channel was Father of the Bride Part II. On its launch, both TV4 Guld and TV4 Komedi were available on Com Hem's digital cable TV and Canal Digital's satellite package. Since September 2009, the two channels are available to Viasat subscribers. The channel was commercial-free until the channel introduced commercial breaks in January 2012. TV4 Komedi ceased its broadcasting on September 30, 2017 along with TV4 Fakta XL TV4 FaktaXL was a Swedish factual televis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canal Digital
Canal Digital was a Nordic pay TV and internet service provider in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland that was founded in March 1997 as a joint venture between the French pay TV company Canal+ and the Norwegian telecommunications operator Telenor. The number of customers in 2017 was 838,000. From 2003 to 2020, Canal Digital was fully owned by Telenor. In 2004, Telenor Avidi was merged into Canal Digital and changed its name to Canal Digital cable television. In 2020, Canal Digital formed a joint venture with Viasat to form the company Allente. The merger was completed on April 13, 2021. Canal Digital started as a direct broadcast satellite television service to Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland, but later expanded into cable television in Norway, Sweden and Denmark, digital terrestrial television in Finland and IPTV in Sweden and Denmark. More than 2.9 million Nordic households and activities were subscribed to their services. FTTH services have slowly started in sele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viasat (Nordic Television Service)
Viasat is a direct broadcast satellite, satellite and pay television brand, founded in Sweden in 1991. Viasat has previously been owned by Modern Times Group, Modern Times Group (MTG). The channels of both companies were broadcast from London. In 2018, Modern Times Group, MTG sourced out the television/streaming division, forming three companies: Viaplay Group (serving Nordic countries), Viasat World (international and Ukraine) and Viasat Russia (Russia and CIS). In 2020, Viaplay Group formed a joint venture with Canal Digital to form the company Allente, that offers satellite television services in the Nordic countries. The merger was completed on April 13, 2021. Satellite platforms The Viasat signals was received from the Astra 4A and SES-5 satellites at 4.8°E with any DVB-S receiver equipped with a NDS Group, NDS VideoGuard descrambling module. Viasat (now Viaplay Group, Viaplay) does not operate own platform outside the Nordic countries, Nordic and Baltic states, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TV4 Fakta
TV4 Fakta is a Swedish documentary television channel owned by the TV4 Group. It started broadcasting in 2005. Much of the programming is taken from A+E Networks. Since December 2005, the remainder of the schedule has been filled with the English language version of Euronews. The TV4 Group bought a stake in Euronews in June 2006. TV4 Fakta was the first channel owned by the TV4 Group that was not broadcast from Sweden. It is broadcast from Finland, where the advertising laws are more liberal. In November 2006, a Finnish version of the channel, called MTV3 Fakta, was launched in cooperation with MTV3. The channels have been broadcasting from Sweden since 2009. A version for Norway was launched in 2010. See also *List of documentary television channels *TV4 Group TV4 AB (formerly Nordisk Television AB; previously traded as ) is a Swedish media company owned by Telia Company through TV4 Media (formerly known as Bonnier Broadcasting). The company owns the largest commercial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TV4 Film
TV4 Film is a Swedish film channel owned by TV4 Group. TV4 applied for a licence to broadcast a film channel terrestrially in the autumn of 2003 and was granted a licence in December. The channel was launched as TV4 Film in April 2004. The first film shown was ''Top Gun''. Just one year after the launch, the channel's penetration had reached 26 percent, making TV4 Film the most popular film channel in Sweden. By August–October 2006, it increased to 39 percent. Films are delivered from several distributors, including MGM, Paramount, Warner Brothers, Nordisk Film, SF and Sonet Film. The channel focuses on "modern classics", meaning that the films shown on the channel are mostly from the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. A Finnish version of the channel was launched in November 2006 in cooperation with MTV3 MTV3 (, ) is a Finnish commercial television channel owned and operated by the media company MTV Oy, originally launched on 13 August 1957 as a programming blo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TV4 Plus
Sjuan (; formerly TV4 Plus until September 2011) is a Swedish television channel owned by TV4 AB, focusing on entertainment, sports and lifestyle programmes. The channel was launched in 2003 on digital terrestrial, digital satellite and cable networks. The channel could be received by many households from its launch and became the seventh most-watched television channel in 2005. Sjuan has been showing ''Late Night with Conan O'Brien'' since its launch. In 2004, Sjuan took over ''Dr. Phil'' from its parent channel. In 2005, they also took over ''The Bold and the Beautiful'' from its parent channel. Sjuan also broadcasts sports, including La Liga and Serie A matches, during weekends. In April 2011, TV4 announced that TV4 Plus would change its name to Sjuan, with the complete change happening on 12 September 2011. From 1 September 2020, the TV4 Group channels, including Sjuan, became available on the Dplay - Discovery SVOD service (later renamed Discovery+). Other channels from T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Digital Terrestrial Television
Digital terrestrial television (DTTV, DTT, or DTTB) is a technology for terrestrial television, in which television stations broadcast television content in a digital signal, digital format. Digital terrestrial television is a major technological advancement over analog television, and has largely replaced analog television broadcasting, which was previously in common use since the middle of the 20th century. Test broadcasts began in 1998, and the Digital television transition, changeover to digital television began in 2006 and is now complete in many countries. The advantages of digital terrestrial television are similar to those obtained by digitizing platforms such as cable TV, satellite, and telecommunications: more efficient use of radio spectrum bandwidth, the ability to broadcast more channels than analog, better quality images, and potentially lower operating costs for broadcasters. Different Country, countries have adopted different digital broadcasting standards. Some ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
