Five years ahead of its scheduled staging, FIFA has confirmed its Nordic broadcast partnerships for the 2026 World Cup. The tournament is set to take place across the US, Mexico and Canada, and will be the first to be expanded to 48 countries from the typical 32. As such, there will be 80 matches from […]
Danish telco and cable operator TDC’s YouSee cable arm is to launch a new streaming service that aggregates TV channels and other streaming offerings in a single app that can be accessed on any network. Separately, YouSee has added TV2 Play, the subscription streaming service from publicly-owned channel TV2, to its Bland Self offering. The […]
Despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Uefa has confirmed that the tender process for the Champions League rights in the Nordics will go ahead as scheduled. The deadline of March 31 for the 2021-24 rights cycle was still upheld, with bidding being managed by Uefa’s rights sales agency Team Marketing. The agency issued separate tenders in […]
Danish telco TDC’s YouSee operation has struck a new partnership with commercial broadcaster TV2 that will see streaming service TV2 Play and the broadcaster’s new venture TV2 Sport X added to YouSee’s Bland Self combined TV and streaming offering from the start of next year. YouSee director Jacob Mortensen said: “Today we are strengthening our […]
Danish commercial broadcaster TV2 has entered into a strategic partnership with cable operator Stofa and its digital-terrestrial pay TV subsidiary Boxer to extend access to TV2 Play, the broadcaster’s on-demand service, to 150,000 homes. Over the next few months, some 150,000 Boxer and Stofa households, representing an audience of about 300,000 people, will be able […]
Danish telco TDC’s YouSee cable arm has teamed up with national commercial broadcaster TV2 is provide 4K UHD coverage of the national team’s first fixture in the forthcoming World Cup final in Russia following its rollout of the first 4K set-tops to its base in January. The Denmark v Peru match in Saransk on June […]
Trygve Rønningen is returning to Norwegian commercial broadcaster TV2 to replace Trond Kvernstrøm as channel director. Rønningen began his career at the Modern Times Group-owned network, but left 16 yearsago. He has since held programme director roles at P4 and Scandinavian prodco Mastiff, and was last year appointed as MTG’s Norwegian chief. Rønningen returns to […]
Liberty Global-owned cable operator UPC Hungary has added two new channels to its programming line-up. The operator has added telenovela channel Izaura TV to its line-up, offering romantic series from around the world including ‘90s hit Muñeca Brava (The Wild Angel) along with La Viuda Joven (The Black Widow and Turkish series Queen of the […]
Norwegian commercial broadcaster TV2 is reportedly planning to make record cuts of NOK350 million (US$42.7 million) over the next four years. Various local reports say “shock waves” were sent through the local industry upon the announcement, though the number of jobs lost was not clear, and TBI couldn’t reach Egmont-owned TV2 before press time this […]
Dirk Gerkens will become the new head of Hungarian commercial broadcaster TV2, returning to the country he left last year amid claims he had received death threats over his company’s position on a local advertising tax. Gerkens had run RTL-owned RTL Klub for 13 years before stepping down last March. Several local reports said he […]
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