Premier Sports has officially relaunched in the UK with a new website, app and online streaming platform while linear channels across the platforms Sky, Virgin and Amazon have been fully rebranded to Premier Sports. Effective immediately, all current customers will experience a seamless transition to Premier Sports and new customers can subscribe through the new […]
Viaplay Group will complete the sale of its UK direct-to-consumer business to SSBL Limited, trading as Premier Sports, on April 4th. The proposed transaction was announced by Viaplay Group in December 2023 and has now received final clearance from the Irish authorities. Dublin-based Premier Sports was the previous owner of the UK business, which comprises […]
Viaplay Group and Dutch media company Talpa Network have agreed a linear TV partnership in the Netherlands. Starting April 5th, Talpa Network’s SBS9 linear TV channel will be rebranded as Viaplay TV, and will show selected content from the Viaplay streaming service’s portfolio of sports. Viaplay TV’s first live broadcast will be the second free […]
Prime Video has agreed a sublicensing deal with Viaplay to stream 38 live Premier Leagues (EPL) games per season in Sweden and Denmark until the end of the 2027/28 season. Starting with the 2024/25 campaign in August, Prime Video subscribers in the aforementioned countries will be able to watch Saturday 12:30pm kick-offs (1:30pm CET) from […]
Viaplay Group has announced the appointment of Johan Johansson as Executive Vice President, Group Chief Financial Officer and co-CEO of the Group’s Swedish operations. Johansson will join Viaplay Group no later than August 1st. Christian Albeck, Executive Vice President, Content Acquisition since July 2023, will now also take on the additional role of co-CEO of […]
BBC Scotland has secured the rights to show the national team’s friendlies against Northern Ireland in March and Finland in June following a deal with rights holder Viaplay. The two home matches will be seen as key to the preparations for Euro 2024 which begins on June 14th when Scotland face the host nation, Germany, […]
Viaplay, the troubled Sweden-based streaming company, posted a 3 per cent increase in Q4 organic sales despite a slight decline in the Nordic region, its key market. Following a mass restructuring, sales stood at SEK4.3 billion (€0.39bn) in the quarter, compared with SEK4.67 billion in the same quarter last year, and the operating loss was […]
Canal+, the pay-TV business owned by French media group Vivendi, has raised its stake in Viaplay to 29.33 per cent as part of a recapitalization plan, confirming its position as the largest shareholder in the Nordic streaming platform. Canal+;s previous stake in Viaplay was 12 per cent. Viaplay separately said it completed a recapitalisation that […]
Viaplay Group and Baltic media company TV3 Group have signed an agreement covering Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Viaplay’s full live sports portfolio now available in the Baltic region will be sublicensed to TV3 Group’s streaming service Go3, with direct Viaplay subscribers in the three countries to be transferred to Go3 during March. On December 1st […]
An agreement has been reached between Viaplay Group and the current management of Paprika Studios, the Central and Eastern Europeanproduction company: the management team led by Ákos Erdős (CEO) will take over the ownership of Paprika Studios. The producton group’s own-produced content is already available wildspread on the some of biggest media outlets of CEE […]