Viasat was a
satellite and
pay television brand, co-owned by the Swedish media group
Nordic Entertainment Group
Viaplay Group AB, formerly known as Nordic Entertainment Group AB (NENT Group), is a Swedish media and entertainment company headquartered in Stockholm.
The company operates the namesake video streaming services Viaplay and Viafree, advertisin ...
(NENT) in the
Nordic countries
The Nordic countries (also known as the Nordics or ''Norden''; literal translation, lit. 'the North') are a geographical and cultural region in Northern Europe and the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic. It includes the sovereign states of Denmar ...
,
Antenna Group in
Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia a ...
, and by
Viasat World
Viasat was a satellite and pay television brand, co-owned by the Swedish media group Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT) in the Nordic countries, Antenna Group in Hungary, and by Viasat World internationally. Founded in Sweden in 1991, Viasat has ...
internationally. Founded in Sweden in 1991, Viasat has previously been owned by
Modern Times Group. The channels of both companies were broadcast from
London
London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...
.
In 2020 Viasat formed a
joint venture
A joint venture (JV) is a business entity created by two or more parties, generally characterized by shared ownership, shared returns and economic risk, risks, and shared governance. Companies typically pursue joint ventures for one of four rea ...
with
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 opera ...
to form the company
Allente
Allente is a Nordic TV distributor that offers TV solutions via satellite TV and IPTV, to 1.2 million customers in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. In addition, the company offers streaming services, as well as IPTV solutions and fiber bro ...
. The merger was completed on April 13, 2021.
Satellite platforms
The Viasat signals can be received from the
Astra 4A
Astra 4A is one of the Astra communications satellites owned and operated by SES at the Astra 5°E orbital slot providing digital television and radio broadcasts, data, and interactive services to Nordic countries, eastern Europe and sub-Saharan ...
and
SES-5
SES-5 (also known as Astra 4B and Sirius 5) is a commercial geostationary communication satellite operated by SES S.A. It was launched on 9 July 2012. The launch was arranged by International Launch Services (ILS).
History
In October 2008, S ...
satellites at 4.8°E with any
DVB-S receiver equipped with a
NDS NDS may stand for:
* Low German ( nl, Nedersaksisch, links=no, german: Niederdeutsche Sprache, links=no, ISO 639-2 language code: nds), a West Germanic language native to Northern Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands
* Lower Saxony (german: Niedersa ...
VideoGuard
VideoGuard (sometimes referred to simply as ''NDS''), produced by NDS, is a digital encryption system for use with conditional access television broadcasting. It is used on digital satellite television systems - some of which are operated by News ...
descrambling module.
Viasat does not have a platform of their own outside the
Nordic and
Baltic
Baltic may refer to:
Peoples and languages
* Baltic languages, a subfamily of Indo-European languages, including Lithuanian, Latvian and extinct Old Prussian
*Balts (or Baltic peoples), ethnic groups speaking the Baltic languages and/or originati ...
countries, so they have to rely on third party distributors in
Eastern
Eastern may refer to:
Transportation
*China Eastern Airlines, a current Chinese airline based in Shanghai
*Eastern Air, former name of Zambia Skyways
*Eastern Air Lines, a defunct American airline that operated from 1926 to 1991
*Eastern Air Li ...
and
Central Europe
Central Europe is an area of Europe between Western Europe and Eastern Europe, based on a common historical, social and cultural identity. The Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) between Catholicism and Protestantism significantly shaped the area' ...
.
In May 2016, MTG announced the launch of Viasat Ultra HD, the first
ultra-high-definition television
Ultra-high-definition television (also known as Ultra HD television, Ultra HD, UHDTV, UHD and Super Hi-Vision) today includes 4K UHD and 8K UHD, which are two digital video formats with an aspect ratio of 16:9. These were first proposed b ...
(UHD) channel in the Nordic region and its first UHD Sports channel. The channel will feature selected live sport events especially produced in Ultra HD and launch in the autumn in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland via SES-5. Viasat will also be launching an Ultra HD set-top box from
Samsung
The Samsung Group (or simply Samsung) ( ko, 삼성 ) is a South Korean multinational manufacturing conglomerate headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul, South Korea. It comprises numerous affiliated businesses, most of them united under the ...
and a TV-module to enable existing UHD TVs to display the channel.
TV channels
Nordic countries
The Nordic Viasat-branded operations are owned by NENT. With the exception of
Viasat 4
TV3+ (formerly V4 and Viasat 4) is a television channel broadcasting to Norway owned by the Viaplay Group. The channel was launched test on 28 September 2007, a week 14 June 2014 after the launch of the digital terrestrial television network in N ...
in Norway, the brand is no longer used for the advertising-funded and free-to-air channels of NENT.
V Film and V Series
V Film and V Series channels are common for the four Nordic markets.
*
V Film Premiere
*
V Film Action
*
V Film Hits
*
V Film Family
*
V Series
Sports
The available
sports television channels
Sports channels are television speciality channels (usually available exclusively through cable and satellite) broadcast sporting events, usually live, and when not broadcasting events, sports news and other related programming.
The first spo ...
differ across the Nordic markets due to the varying broadcasting rights. In Norway and Denmark, most of the NENT-owned sports channels use the brands
Viasport
V Sport is a group of Norwegian television channels owned by Viaplay Group, and a part of the pan-Nordic V Sport brand.
The channel launched on 17 October 2008, when Viasat re-tooled their sports channels in Norway and Sweden. Together with Viasa ...
and
TV3 respectively.
*
V Sport (Sweden and Finland)
*
V Sport Premium
V, or v, is the twenty-second and fifth-to-last letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''vee'' (pronounced ), plural ...
(Sweden and Finland)
*
V Sport Football
V Sport Football is a Swedish television channel dedicated to football.
The channel was launched on October 17, 2008, and became the primary home to most of Viasat's football broadcasts, which at the time included ''UEFA Champions League'', the ' ...
(Sweden and Finland)
*
V Sport Golf
V Sport Golf is a pan-Nordic television channel dedicated to broadcasting golf tournaments and golf-related programmes.
The channel was launched in January 2007 after MTG had acquired many rights for live broadcasting of golf tournaments, such as ...
(Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland)
*
V Sport Hockey
V Sport Hockey is a sports channel that is broadcasting from the United Kingdom, primarily targeting Sweden but also available in Finland and Norway. Broadcasting was commenced on 1 September 2009, at the start of the 2009 ice hockey season. The ...
(Sweden and Finland)
*
V Sport Motor
V Sport Motor is a Swedish motorsport channel that launched on 17 October 2008.
Events broadcast on the channel include Formula One, NASCAR
The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, LLC (NASCAR) is an American auto racing sanct ...
(Sweden and Finland)
*
V Sport Ultra HD
V, or v, is the twenty-second and fifth-to-last Letter (alphabet), letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the English alphabet, modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in Englis ...
(Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland)
*
V Sport Live
V, or v, is the twenty-second and fifth-to-last letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''vee'' (pronounced ), plural ...
1-5 (Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland)
*
V Sport Urheilu (Finland)
*
V Sport Jalkapallo (Finland)
*
V Sport Jääkiekko (Finland)
International channels
Owned by
Viasat World
Viasat was a satellite and pay television brand, co-owned by the Swedish media group Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT) in the Nordic countries, Antenna Group in Hungary, and by Viasat World internationally. Founded in Sweden in 1991, Viasat has ...
.
Pay channels:
*
Viasat Nature
Viasat Nature is a television channel owned by international media company, Viasat World LTD. The channel has a focus on animals and their owners, blue-chip, classic wildlife, ER and animal rescue, the natural world, and parks and sanctuaries. ...
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Viasat Explore
Viasat Explore is a television channel owned by international media company, Viasat World LTD. The channel focuses on fishing, adventure, men at work and engineering. Viasat Explore is a 24-hour channel broadcasting in Central and Eastern Euro ...
*
Viasat History
Viasat History is a pay television channel owned by the Swedish media company, Viasat World LTD. The channel broadcasts history series from around the world with a focus on the ancient world, historical drama, royal history, travel history and ...
*
Viasat Sport East
ViJu+ Sport (ViJu, from Russian вижу: seeing) is a television channel available in Russia and the CIS countries.
The channel launched in Russia, Belarus, Moldova, Georgia, Kazakhstan and the Baltic states in November 2006 in cooperation wit ...
*
TV1000 East
TV1000 East is a movie television channel targeting the Baltic countries, Russia, Kazakhstan and other Eastern European countries. It is owned by the international broadcaster Viasat World and was launched in 2003 by Swedish media conglomerate M ...
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TV1000 Action East
Viasat Kino Action is a television channel broadcasting action movies to the Baltics. It broadcasts international action movies. Movies are dubbed into Russian and subtitled into Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian.
In the Nordic region
The ...
*
TV1000 Russkoe Kino
TV1000 Russkoe Kino (also known as ''TV1000 Russian Kino'', ''ТВ1000 Русское Кино'') is a television channel broadcasting Russian language movies owned by Viasat World Ltd. The channel is available in Russia and Commonwealth of Indep ...
*TV1000 World Kino
*ViP Premiere
*ViP Comedy
*ViP Megahit
*ViP Serial
*Epic Drama
Hungary
Owned by
Sony Pictures Television
Sony Pictures Television Inc. (abbreviated as SPT) is an American television production and distribution studio. Based at the Sony Pictures Studios complex in Culver City, it is a division of Sony Entertainment's unit Sony Pictures Entertainme ...
.
Free channels:
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Viasat 3
Viasat 3 is a Hungarian TV channel. It began broadcasting on October 23, 2000.
Viasat 3 aired Hungary's first reality show in 2001 called ''A Bár'' ( The Bar).
In 2015, the Sony Pictures Television acquired the Hungarian Viasat channels fro ...
Hungary
*
Viasat 6
Viasat 6 (formerly known as TV6 until February 11, 2011) is one of the thematic television channels of Antenna Group.
History
The channel launched on January 28, 2008.
On April 1, 2013, the aspect ratio was changed to 16:9 and the channel got ...
Hungary
DBS Channels
In addition to their own channels, Viasat carry several third-party channels on their platform.
Country specific
Sweden:
*
SVT1
SVT1 (SVT Ett; commonly referred to as Ettan) is the primary television station of the Swedish public service broadcaster Sveriges Television in Sweden.
History
Television in Sweden officially launched on 4 September 1956 with the launch of '' ...
(also in HD)
*
SVT2
SVT2 (SVT Två; commonly referred to as Tvåan), is one of the two main television channels broadcast by Sveriges Television in Sweden.
Launched in 1969 by Sveriges Radio, the channel was until the 1990s the most watched in Sweden for many yea ...
(also in HD)
*
SVT24
SVT24, stylized as svt24, formerly known as SVT 24 (then stylized svt 24) or 24 is a Swedish language TV channel broadcast by Sveriges Television (SVT). It started broadcasting in 1999 as a dedicated news channel. In 2003 it extended its scope t ...
(timesharing with Barnkanalen)
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SVT Barnkanalen (timesharing with SVT24)
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Kunskapskanalen
Kunskapskanalen (in English: ''The Knowledge Channel'') is a Swedish language television channel broadcasting educational and factual programming between 9 a.m. and 01 a.m. all days of the week. The channel is operated by Sveriges Television (SV ...
*
TV4 TV4 or TV 4 may refer to:
*TV4 (Poland), a private Polish television station
*TV4 (Sweden), a Swedish television network
**TV4 Group, owners of the Swedish television station
*South African Broadcasting Corporation TV4, a channel operated by the st ...
*
Sjuan
Sjuan ( en, The Seven; formerly TV4 Plus) is a sister channel of Swedish TV4, owned by TV4 AB. The main focus of the channel is on entertainment, sports and lifestyle programmes. The channel started as ''TV4 Plus'' in 2003 but changed name to Sjua ...
*
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 f ...
*
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 is filled with the English langu ...
*
TV4 Science fiction
*
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, repl ...
*
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'', ...
*
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 He ...
*
TV4 News
TV4 News was a Swedish television channel owned and operated by the TV4 Group. It started broadcasting on 24 January 2012 as Sweden's first 24/7 news channel in the Swedish language, with some material from BBC World News also rebroadcast on the s ...
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Kanal 5
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Kanal 9
Kanal 9 (''Channel 9'') is a Swedish free-to-air television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. It targets the 25-59 age group, which is a slightly older age group than the sister channel Kanal 5. The channel launched on 25 February 2007. ...
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Kanal 11
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TNT
Trinitrotoluene (), more commonly known as TNT, more specifically 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene, and by its preferred IUPAC name 2-methyl-1,3,5-trinitrobenzene, is a chemical compound with the formula C6H2(NO2)3CH3. TNT is occasionally used as a reagen ...
*
MTV Sweden
MTV (Originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable channel that launched on August 1, 1981. Based in New York City, it serves as the flagship property of the MTV Entertainment Group, part of Paramount Media Networks, a di ...
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Nickelodeon Sweden
Nickelodeon is a children's channel broadcasting to Sweden, the channels headquarters is based in the United States.
Nickelodeon is the most popular commercial children's television channel in Sweden. SVTB is by far the most popular non-commer ...
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Comedy Central Sweden
Denmark:
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DR1
DR1 (DR Et) is the flagship television channel of the DR (broadcaster), Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR). It became Denmark's first television station when it began broadcasting in 1951 – at first only for an hour a day three times a we ...
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DR2
DR2 (DR To) is the second television channel operated by the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR) in Denmark. It covers a wide range of subject matter, but tending towards more "highbrow" programmes than the more mainstream and popular DR1. Like ...
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DR3
DR3 was a Danish national television channel, produced by the public service broadcaster, DR. The channel was mainly focused on sport, humor, science, music, documentary and fiction. It was launched on 28 January 2013, replacing DR HD.
DR3 progr ...
(HD)
*
DR K
DR K was a Danish free-to-air television channel owned by state broadcaster DR. Its programming was centred towards culture and history.
History
Originally conceived as a channel dedicated to history, the channel was first presented in 2005 in t ...
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DR Ramasjang
DR Ramasjang is a Danish television channel owned by DR targeting children aged 3–10.
The channel is named after the Danish word , which refers to a loud or festive uproar, similar to the English word ''hullabaloo''.
History
DR presented thei ...
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DR Ultra
DR Ultra was a Danish national television channel for children aged 9–14, produced by the public service broadcaster, DR. The channel launched on 4 March 2013, replacing DR Update.
All DR-owned shows for DR Ultra and DR Ramasjang are set in ...
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TV 2 Denmark
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TV 2 Charlie
TV 2 Charlie is a Danish television channel owned by TV 2. It was launched on 1 October 2004. The channel shows own productions and British criminal dramas (like ''Dalziel and Pascoe'', ''A Touch of Frost'' and ''Silent Witness''.)
It broadcasts ...
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TV 2 Film
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TV 2 News
TV 2 News (former working title: TV 2 Nyhedskanalen) is a Danish language television news channel which started broadcasting on 1 December 2006. It's one of the first 24-hour news channels in the Danish language ( 24Nordjyske is also a 24-ho ...
*
TV 2 Zulu
TV 2 Zulu is a Danish television station and a sister channel to TV 2 Denmark. It is primarily aimed at viewers between 15 and 30 years of age.
TV2 Zulu has been noted for Danish comedy shows and programmes such as '' Langt fra Las Vegas'', '' ...
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Kanal 4
Kanal 4 (''Channel 4'') is a Danish subscription television channel operated by Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery It was launched in 2006 as the successor of the former TvDanmark.
Its predecessor TvDanmark was l ...
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Kanal 5
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6'eren
6'eren is a Danish subscription television channel operated by Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA. It replaced SBS Net on 1 January 2009.
The channel's target audience is males, branding itself with the slogan "Denmark's got a new TV Channel - and it ...
*
7'eren
The Voice TV was the name of a Danish television station that broadcast music videos 24 hours a day. 7'eren was launched on January 1, 2012, as a programming block on The Voice TV, and a year later, on January 1, 2013, the channel renamed The Voi ...
*
24 Nordjyske
4 (four) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 3 and preceding 5. It is the smallest semiprime and composite number, and is considered unlucky in many East Asian cultures.
In mathematics
Four is the smallest c ...
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MTV Denmark
Norway:
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NRK1
NRK1 (pronounced as ''"NRK en"'' or ''"- ein"'') is the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation's (NRK) main television channel.
History
Test broadcasts started on 12 January 1954, regular test broadcasts started on 13 April 1958 and regular broadca ...
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NRK2
NRK2 (NRK To) is one of the TV channels of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK). It was launched on 1 September 1996.
History
The channel started its regular broadcasts on 1 September 1996, but the evening before, a live simulcast, led ...
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NRK3
NRK3 (NRK Tre) is a digital TV channel aimed at youth and young adults and produced by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation.
History
Launched on 3 September 2007, and on air from 19:30 each evening, the channel features such British and Americ ...
/
NRK Super
NRK Super is a Norwegian TV & radio channel aimed at children, run by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. The TV channel is broadcast on the digital terrestrial network, on the same frequency as NRK3 from 7am to 7pm, and was launched 1 Decem ...
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TV 2 Norge
*
TV 2 Filmkanalen
TV 2 Filmkanalen was a Norwegian
Norwegian, Norwayan, or Norsk may refer to:
*Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe
* Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway
* Demographics of Norway
...
*
TV 2 Nyhetskanalen
TV 2 Nyheter (''TV 2 News'') is a 24-hour Norwegian language television news channel which started broadcasting on 15 January 2007. It is Norway's first national news network in Norwegian, although Nyhetskanalen did exist from 1997 to 1998.
The c ...
*
TV 2 Sport
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TV3 (Norway)
TV3 Norway is a commercial television channel targeting Norway owned by Viaplay Group. It was separated from the earlier Pan-Scandinavian version in 1990.
Unlike its main rivals, NRK, TV 2 and TVNorge, the channel does not broadcast from Norway ...
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TVNorge
TVNorge (literally "TVNorway"; originally abbreviated TVN, now just abbreviated N in the logos) is a Norwegian television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA.
History
TVNorge went on the air on 5 December 1988 and was the first adver ...
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FEM
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MAX
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VOX
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MTV Norway
MTV Norway was a music and entertainment channel broadcasting to the Norwegian market.
The channel replaced MTV Nordic on September 18, 2005, however on February 22, 2019 it was replaced by the return of MTV Nordic.
History
*MTV Norway launche ...
Slovakia:
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RTVS
Radio and Television of Slovakia ( sk, Rozhlas a televízia Slovenska ) or RTVS is a nationwide public broadcasting, state-funded organisation in Slovakia. It is headquartered in Bratislava and led by Ľuboš Machaj.
History
The organization i ...
Lithuania:
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Lietuvos Rytas TV
Lietuvos ryto TV is a Lithuanian entertainment channel founded on 12 October 2008. In 2022, all programs started to be broadcasting in the Lithuanian language, considering the fact that half of the Russian programs that were shown were only with su ...
*
LRT Televizija
LRT televizija, formerly known as LTV 1, is the flagship television channel of Lithuanian National Radio and Television
Lithuanian National Radio and Television ( Lithuanian: Lietuvos nacionalinis radijas ir televizija) is a non-profit publi ...
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LRT Lituanica
LRT Lituanica is the third Lithuanian public television channel, operated by LRT. The channel broadcasts 24 hours per day and is a mix of original programming from LRT televizija and LRT Plius.
Launch and reach
LRT Lituanica was launched as 'L ...
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LNK
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TV1
*
BTV
*
Sport1 Sport1 may refer to the following TV channels:
* Sport1 (Eastern Europe)
* Sport1 (Germany)
* Sport1 (Lithuania)
* Sport1 (Netherlands) Sport1 may refer to the following TV channels:
* Sport1 (Eastern Europe)
* Sport1 (Germany)
* Sport1 (Lithuani ...
Transnational
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Animal Planet Europe
The Pan-European Animal Planet is a feed of Animal Planet, which broadcasts to several countries in Europe, UK, Africa and the Middle East.
The channel is broadcast in English, Czech, Hungarian and formerly Russian. The HD feed also carries a Tu ...
(only in the Baltics)
*
BBC World News
BBC World News is an international English-language pay television network, operated under the ''BBC Global News Limited'' division of the BBC, which is a public corporation of the UK government's Department for Digital, Culture, Media and ...
*
Cartoon Network
Cartoon Network (often abbreviated as CN) is an American cable television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. It is a part of The Cartoon Network, Inc., a division that also has the broadcasting and production activities of Boomerang, Car ...
(6.00-21.00, time-sharing with TCM Europe)
*
CNBC Nordic
Consumer News and Business Channel Europe (referred to on air simply as CNBC) is a business and financial news television channel which airs across Europe. The station is based in London, where it shares the Adrian Smith (architect), Adrian S ...
*
CNN International
CNN International (CNNI, simply branded on-air as CNN) is an international television channel that is owned by CNN Global. CNN International carries news-related programming worldwide; it cooperates with sister network CNN's national and inte ...
*
Discovery Channel Europe
Discovery Channel (Europe) is the Pan-European version of the Discovery Channel.
Over the years, the Discovery Channel has been split into many different channels for specific regions. Most language regions in Western Europe now have their own v ...
(only in the Baltics)
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Disney Channel Scandinavia
Disney Channel is a Scandinavian children's channel owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company Limited, broadcasting in the Nordic and Baltic countries.
History
On February 28, 2003, almost 80 years since the founding of The Walt Disney Com ...
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E!
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Euronews
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Boomerang (Nordic)
Cartoonito is a Nordic/Scandinavian children's television channel owned by the EMEA sub-division of the international division of Warner Bros. Discovery. Cartoonito was previously the feed of Boomerang, until it relaunched in 2023.
History Be ...
(launched on 30 September 2010 as a 24-hour channel)
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The God Channel
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MTV Live HD
MTV Live (formerly MTVNHD and MTV Live HD) is an international 24-hour high-definition live music pay television network that is operated by Paramount International Networks' subsidiary Paramount Networks EMEAA. The channel is currently avail ...
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Nat Geo Scandinavia
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Nat Geo HD
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Nat Geo Wild
National Geographic Wild (shortened as Nat Geo Wild and abbreviated NGW) is a global pay television network owned by National Geographic Partners, a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company (73%) and the National Geographic Society (27%). T ...
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Nickelodeon Scandinavia
Nickelodeon is a children's channel broadcasting in Denmark, Norway and Finland. It broadcasts programming from the similarly branded channels in the United Kingdom and the United States as well as a few locally produced programmes.
History
The ch ...
(6.00-18.00, time-sharing with VH1 Europe)
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Nick Jr. (Sweden)
Nick Jr. is a Scandinavian television channel targeting preschoolers.
Viasat (Nordic television service), Viasat announced the launch of Nick Jr. on 25 May 2010. It is scheduled to launch on September 1, 2010. Viasat and Tele2Vision, Tele2 TV w ...
*
NHK World
NHK World-Japan (formerly and also known simply as NHK World) is the international arm of the Japanese state-controlled public broadcaster NHK. Its services are aimed at the overseas market, similar to those offered by other national public-ser ...
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NTV Mir (only in the Baltics)
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Playboy TV
Playboy TV (originally The Playboy Channel) is a pay television channel based in the United States.
History
The channel first launched on December 9, 1980, as Escapade by Rainbow Programing Services (a joint-venture of four cable companies, ...
(time-sharing with Viasat Nature/Crime)
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Disney Junior Scandinavia (time-sharing with Viasat Film Drama)
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Ren TV
REN TV (russian: РЕН ТВ) is a Russian free-to-air television network, was founded on 1 January 1997 by Irena Lesnevskaya and her son, Dmitry Lesnevsky, who had been running REN TV as a production house for other national Russian television ...
(only in the Baltics)
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RTR Planeta (only in Estonia and Lithuania)
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RT
*
Spice Platinum (time-sharing with Viasat Explorer)
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Spice Private (also known as Viasat Ticket 2 Erotic)
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STS International
CTC (Pronounced as STS, stands for russian: Сеть Телевизионных Станций, , Network of television stations) is a commercial television station based in Moscow, Russia. It belongs to the CTC Media company. The company is owne ...
(only in the Baltics)
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Disney XD Scandinavia
Disney XD was a children's channel that broadcast 16 hours a day, between 6:00 and 22:00 CET. It replaced Jetix and Toon Disney on September 12, 2009. Jetix used to end its broadcast daily at 6:00 PM. Disney XD was funded by advertising, as was J ...
(defunct in December 31, 2020)
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TCM Nordic (Turner Classic Movies) (21.00-6.00, time-sharing with Cartoon Network Nordic)
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VH1 Europe
VH1 (referred as VH1 Europe) was a European music television channel owned by ViacomCBS Networks EMEAA. It played a wide variety of music programs on a daily or weekly basis, and various VH1 original series.
The channel focused on current mus ...
(18.00-6.00, time-sharing with Nick Jr Sweden)
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CBS Reality
CBS Reality is a European television channel broadcast in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
History
CBS Reality was launched as Reality TV on 1 December 1999 as a joint-venture between UPCtv and Zone Vision. In 2005, Liberty Global, owner of U ...
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MTV Europe
MTV Global (formerly as MTV Europe) is the international version of the American TV channel MTV, a 24-hour music and entertainment TV channel that began broadcasting on August 1, 1987, as part of the worldwide MTV network.
Initially, MTV serve ...
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Penthouse HD1
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Penthouse HD2
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Space Channel 3D
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Former channels
World record
The live 3D broadcast of the
2011 UEFA Champions League final match between Manchester United and Barcelona was provided by Viasat in 3D format in Gothenburg (Sweden). The football match was broadcast on
EKTA screen. This Ukrainian produced 3D LED TV made
The Guinness Book of World Records
''Guinness World Records'', known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as ''The Guinness Book of Records'' and in previous United States editions as ''The Guinness Book of World Records'', is a reference book published annually, listing world ...
.
EKTA’s Ukrainian produced 3D Led TV makes The Guinness Book of World Records
, www.ekta-led.com
See also
*List of Danish television channels
Television in Denmark was established in the 1950s and was run by a monopoly with only one channel available until the 1980s.
Danish programming
Universal Channel
* '' Bates Motel''
* '' The Border''
* ''Burn Notice''
* '' Chicago Fire''
* ''Ch ...
*List of Estonian television channels
This is the list of television channels in Estonia.
Public
* Eesti Televisioon, ETV – news, current affairs, culture, sports and general entertainment.
* ETV2 – general entertainment, sports, news and children's programming.
* ETV+ – Russ ...
*List of Finnish television channels
Television was introduced in Finland in 1955. Color television started in 1969 and was introduced gradually, with most programs in color by the late 1970s. All terrestrial analogue stations stopped broadcasting on 1 September 2007 after the int ...
* List of Latvian television channels
*List of Lithuanian television channels
Television in Lithuania was introduced in 1957. The following is a list of television channels broadcast in Lithuania.
Main channels
Regional channels
Others
Former channels
See also
* Media of Lithuania
* Lists of television c ...
*List of Norwegian television channels
Television in Norway was introduced in 1954, but the first television program was only shown in 1958, and regular broadcasts did not start until 1960. Like Denmark, Norway had only one television channel until the 1980s. Some 40% of the popula ...
* List of Swedish television channels
External links
Viasat World
Viasat Sverige
Viasat Danmark
Viasat Norge
Viasat Suomi
References
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Mass media companies established in 1991
2020 mergers and acquisitions
Mass media companies disestablished in 2021
Direct broadcast satellite services
Television in Sweden
Television in Denmark
Television in Finland
Television broadcasting companies of Norway
Television networks in Sweden
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Broadcasting in the United Kingdom
Local mass media in London