C MORE ENTERTAINMENT AB – Company presentation
C More Entertainment is the leading premium Pay-TV provider in the Nordic region. The company offers a premium Pay-TV offer under the brand CANAL+. CANAL+ bundle of channels offers a great variety of exclusive TV premieres of movies from the top Hollywood studios, award-winning series and exclusive broadcasts from the best International sport leagues. The customer can also choose to subscribe to sports only or films and series only.
Introduction
CANAL+ Television AB (transmitting in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Denmark) was launched in 1997 by French CANAL+. In 2003, the two private equity firms, Baker Capital and Nordic Capital acquired 100% of CANAL+ Television AB from the media group Vivendi, through the jointly owned C More Group AB. At the same time CANAL+ Television AB was re-named C More Entertainment. SBS Broadcasting Group acquired C More in 2005. 2007 ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG acquired 100 percent of the shares in SBS Broadcasting Group. Dec 4th 2008 TV4 AB acquired C More from ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG. Today, TV4 Group owns 65% of C MORE and Telenor owns 35%.
The company
C More Entertainment is operating as an independent media player in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark and provides a premium Pay-TV offer under the brands CANAL+ and C MORE. The premium TV concept is based on exclusive premium rights for sports, movies and series. CANAL+ is provided to subscribers through distributors for a monthly fee. Pay-per-view-services are also available.
CANAL+ exclusively broadcasts some of the best sport leagues in the world including La Liga and Elitserien (Swedish national ice hockey league). CANAL+ also shows the best game every week from Allsvenskan, the Swedish National Football League. The CANAL+ wrappings of live games, hosted by well-known sports commentators, are highly appreciated.
CANAL+ holds the first on TV rights for movies from 5 top Hollywood studios: Warner Brothers, Fox, DreamWorks, MGM and Paramount Pictures, and also has local rights with Svensk Filmindustri. CANAL+ ambition is also to support the local film productions in the Nordic region.
Series are rapidly becoming a larger and more important part of CANAL+ offer. Among the series introduced in the Nordic region by CANAL+ are "Game of Thrones", "Boardwalk Empire", "Treme", "Heroes", "True Blood ", "Six Feet Under", "The Shield", "Big Love", "South Park", "Curb Your Enthusiasm", "Entourage", "House", "Rome" and "Weeds".
CANAL+ channels
CANAL+ First - Where we show all our all films for the first time
CANAL+ Hits - New and older hit films
CANAL+ Action - Action, thriller and comedy films
CANAL+ Emotion - Drama and comedy films
CANAL+ Series - TV series and films
CANAL+ SF-kanalen - Only Swedish films from Svensk Filmindustri
CANAL+ Family - Family films and BBCs awarded childrens programs
CBeebies
CANAL+ Sport 1 - All sport studio programs, live games
CANAL+ Sport 2 - More games and also other sports programs
CANAL+ Fotboll - Football
CANAL+ Hockey - Hockey
CANAL+ Sport Extra - More games
CANAL+ Extra 1
CANAL+ Extra 2
CANAL+ Extra 3
CANAL+ Extra 4
CANAL+ First HD - High Definition channel with films and series
CANAL+ Hits HD - High Definition channel with films and series
CANAL+ Sport HD - High Definition channel with sports
CANAL+ Sport Extra HD - High Definition channel with sports
Distribution
C More Entertainment is a platform neutral company and its programming is distributed to subscribers via satellite (DTH), cable, digital terrestrial transmissions (DTT) and IP-TV. Main platforms per territory:
Sverige: Boxer (DTT), Canal Digital (satellite, cable and IP-TV), Com Hem (cable), Tele2 (cable), Telia, IP Sweden och Fast-TV (IP-TV)
Norge: Canal Digital (satellite and cable), Get (cable), RiksTV (DTT), altibox (IP-TV), NextGenTel, Homebase och FastTV (IP-TV)
Danmark: Canal Digital (satellit), YouSee (kabel), Stofa (kabel), Dansk Bredbaand (kabel/IP), FastTV, Waoo och ComX (IP-TV), Boxer, Telia, Altibox
Finland: Finnish distributors are: Canal Digital (satellite and DTT), Aina, Elisa, FSP, Sonera, TTV, Welho, Lumo tv, Turku Cable, Anvia och DNA (cable), Maxisat (IP-TV)
Sverige: Boxer (DTT), Canal Digital (satellite, cable and IP-TV), Com Hem (cable), Tele2 (cable), Telia, IP Sweden och Fast-TV (IP-TV)Norge: Canal Digital (satellite and cable), Get (cable), RiksTV (DTT), altibox (IP-TV), NextGenTel, Homebase och FastTV (IP-TV)Danmark: Canal Digital (satellit), YouSee (kabel), Stofa (kabel), Dansk Bredbaand (kabel/IP), FastTV, Waoo och ComX (IP-TV), Boxer, Telia, Altibox Finland: Finnish distributors are: Canal Digital (satellite and DTT), Aina, Elisa, FSP, Sonera, TTV, Welho, Lumo tv, Turku Cable, Anvia och DNA (cable), Maxisat (IP-TV)
On demand services
C SPORTS: live games and highlights from Elitserien, Allsvenskan, SM Liiga, Eredivisie and motor sports
Play: films on demand
Contact data
C MORE ENTERTAINMENT AB, S-115 84 Stockholm, Sweden.
Phone +46 8 459 28 00, Fax +46 8 459 28 01
e-mail address: firstname.lastname@canalplus.se