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+. The CANAL+ service today has more than 950 000 subscribers in the Nordic region. 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. Also available are Pay-per-view services and SÄSONGSKORTET.
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.
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 the best sport leagues in the world including Premier League, Serie A, 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 6 out of the top 8 Hollywood studios: Warner Brothers, Fox, Universal, 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 "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 and tv-series for the first time
CANAL+ Hits New and older hit films
CANAL+ Action Action films
CANAL+ Drama Drama films
CANAL+ Comedy Comedies and children's films
CANAL+ Sport 1 All sport studio programs, live games
CANAL+ Sport 2 More games and also other sports programs
CANAL+ Sport Extra More games
CANAL+ Film HD High Definition channel with films
CANAL+ Sport HD High Definition channel with series
CANAL 69 Erotic films
CANAL+ three subscriber packages
CANAL+ TOTAL All our channels.
CANAL+ SPORT Sport channels only
CANAL+ FILM All our film channels
In addition, CANAL+ offers PPV services including "season's ticket" with live sports broadcasts from Elitserien and Allsvenskan.
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 (satellite), YouSee (cable), Telia Stofa (cable), Dansk Bredbaand (cable/IP), Stofa.dk, FastTV, Smile Content och ComX (IP-TV)
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
FilmNet: films on demand
On demand services via IPTV operators
CANAL+ Select: certain operators offer this service to certain CANAL+ subscribers, depending on what channel package they have purchased. A selection of CANAL+ films can be seen here.
C MORE On Demand: a video on demand service offering a selection of CANAL+ films.
Contact data
C MORE ENTERTAINMENT AB, S-115 84 Stockholm, Sweden.
Phone +46 8 459 28 00, Fax +46 8 459 28 01
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