Deadline: Karin Lindstrom Joins Warner Bros Discovery Nordics After Amazon MGM Studios Exit

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Karin Lindström has joined Warner Bros Discovery in a senior Nordics programming role after her exit from Amazon MGM Studios.

Advanced Television: Viaplay doubling up on Premier Sunday

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Viaplay Premier Sunday is returning for the 2025/2026 Premier League season with double the number of live broadcasts (from 10 to 20).

Deadline: Charter Stock Has Its Worst Day Ever, Falling 18% On Q2 Earnings Miss; CEO Chris Winfrey Calls Streaming A Boon To Pay-TV Bundle

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Charter Communications stock had its worst single-day loss since going public in 1999, dropping 18.5% Friday after missing Wall Street’s second-quarter expectations.

Advanced Television: Telenor sells Allente stake to Viaplay

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Telenor Group has signed an agreement to sell its 50 per cent stake in Allente to Viaplay for a total consideration of SEK 1.1 billion (€0.09bn).

Advanced Television: Viaplay “continues transformation”; TV 2 football deal

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Viaplay Group, which has just announced the acquisition of the 50 per cent stake in Allente that it didn’t already own, has reported that its “transformation continued in Q2” with focus on value over volume.

Advanced Television: Viaplay unveils Sport vs Money docuseries

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Viaplay has announced Sport vs Money with Simon Jordan, a four-part docuseries that tackles one of the most urgent questions in global sport: how money is reshaping the game of football.

Broadband TV News: Viaplay Group launches dedicated sports channel

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Viaplay Group is to launch a new sports channel for the Nordic market with over 100 hours of sports coverage a week.

Deadline: Versant Adds To Leadership Team In Advance Of Comcast Spinoff

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Versant, spinoff company of Comcast that will include such networks as MSNBC, CNBC, USA Network, Oxygen and E!, announced a series of new appointments to its leadership team.

Advanced Television: Viaplay Select on prima+ in Czech Republic

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Viaplay Group and Czech media company Prima Group have entered a partnership to bring Viaplay Select to the Czech Republic via the prima+ streaming platform prima+.

Advanced Television: Viaplay acquires 16.5m own class B shares

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Viaplay Group, the Nordics streaming group, has acquired a total of 16,500,000 own class B shares within the scope of the repurchase programme introduced by the Board of Directors with the purpose of securing the delivery of class B shares to the participants of the company’s long term incentive programme resolved upon by the Annual General Meeting 2025.

Broadband TV News: NLconnect closes deal with Viaplay securing linear channel for smaller operators

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Trade association NLconnect has closed a deal with Viaplay on behalf of the smaller providers in its membership.

Broadband TV News: Viaplay to broadcast UEFA European Championship this summer

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Viaplay is to share the rights to this year’s UEFA European Football Championship with the public broadcaster SVT.

Deadline: A Year After Dramatic Recap Move, Viaplay Posts Mixed Q1 Results

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Things remain uncertain at Viaplay Group, but the Swedish company’s boss says it now has “a clear focus on value over volume.”

Broadband TV News: New Viaplay content on Finland’s Elisa

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Finland’s leading telecom operator Elisa has extended its long-term partnership through a new, multi-year distribution agreement.

Advanced Television: Viaplay proposes re-election of Board of Directors

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Ahead of Viaplay Group’s Annual General Meeting on May 13th, the Viaplay Group Nomination Committee has proposed the re-election of Andrea Gisle Joosen, Erik Forsberg, Katarina Bonde, Maxime Saada, Jacques du Puy, Anna Bäck, Didier Stoessel, and Annica Witschard as members of the Board of Directors, and the re-election of Simon Duffy as Chair of the Board of Directors.

Advanced Television: Viaplay extends ad partnership with BBC Nordic

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BBC Studios and Viaplay Group have announced the launch of advertising in Sweden for BBC Studios’ multi-genre linear channel, BBC Nordic.

Broadband TV News: Discovery, TV4, and Viaplay file take legal action against operators

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Nordic broadcasters Discovery, TV4, and Viaplay have begun legal action against several operators as part of a crackdown on illegal operators.

Broadcast Sport: E1 reveals global broadcast partners for 2025 season

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All-electric raceboat series, the UIM E1 World Championship, has agreed a host of new international broadcast deals and several rights renewals.

Deadline: How International Alliances Are Reshaping TV Drama Financing

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“‘Alliance’ is the mot du jour for all players on the global scripted scene,” says Alice Sommer, Head of Drama at Norwegian network TV2.

Deadline: Viaplay Continues Financial Turnaround With Reduced Q4 Losses

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Sweden’s Viaplay continues to head back towards the black, as its fourth quarter financial results showed dramatically shortened losses.