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in the United States and includes ''

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'', '' Earth Diaries'' and '' Gamespotting''. A deal between Rainbow Networks and the Stockholm-based company

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was made in 2006 that allowed NonStop to distribute the channel in

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and the

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. The channel was launched in Sweden by satellite distributor

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on November 1. This was soon followed by launched in Denmark, Norway, Finland, Estonia and Latvia on various providers. The channel was managed by Scandinavian television broadcaster NonStop Television, part of

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. In much of the rest of

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, the

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and parts of

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the channel was represented by Zonemedia. In April 2007, they launched the channel in the Arab World via the

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platform. Voom HD closed down in Europe on August 31, 2009. In many countries it was replaced by

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. This was the case on the Canal Digital platform,

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and in the Czech Republic.

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