Nordic Entertainment Group


Nordic Entertainment Group is a pan-Nordic media and entertainment company headquartered in Stockholm.
The company operates the video streaming services Viaplay and Viafree, advertising-funded TV and radio channels, the V pay-TV channels, and more than 30 production companies.

History

In March 2018, the Stockholm-headquarted entertainment company Modern Times Group initiated a process to split into two companies by spinning off its then Nordic Entertainment and MTG Studios business segments plus Splay Networks into a new company. This was initiated after Danish telecommunications operator TDC A/S, which had proposed to buy these assets a month earlier, was itself acquired by the Australian private equity investor Macquarie Group. Anders Jensen, MTG executive vice president and CEO of Nordic Entertainment, was named president and CEO of NENT Group.
NENT Group began operating separately on July 1, 2018.. On 28 March 2019, shares in Nordic Entertainment Group started trading on Nasdaq Stockholm exchange.
NENT Group took a stake in Erik Feig's Picturestart studio along with first look Nordic rights to its content at Picturestart's May 2019 launch.

Company structure

Advertising funded television (Free-TV)

Nordic Entertainment Group operates advertising funded channels in Scandinavia. Typically, the portfolio structure for these channels is one primary channel, and then secondary channels These channels generate primarily advertising revenues, and are classified as free-TV, but a majority of the Scandinavian free-TV channels are encrypted and subject to decoding fees.
Networks
Channel typeSwedenNorwayDenmark
GeneralTV3 SwedenTV3 NorwayTV3 Denmark
General secondaryTV6 Sweden Viasat 4TV3+ Denmark
SupplementaryTV8
TV10		TV6 NorwayTV3 Puls
TV3 Max
TV3 Sport

Pay television

TV services

Nordic Entertainment Group operates the Viasat satellite platform in the Scandinavia, offering both in-house and third party channels.
The sports channels available in the different Scandinavian countries differ somewhat depending on different rights held for different markets and different business agreements.
Nordic Entertainment Group operates Viaplay, a streaming service in the Nordic countries.
Viafree - a free streaming service in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden

Scandinavia

The following channels are available in all Scandinavian countries:
These channels are only available in Sweden:
These channels are only available in Norway:
These channels are available in Finland:
Viasat owns several radio networks and stations in Sweden and Norway:
Nent Studios comprises more than 30 production companies in 17 countries, including Strix Television, Paprika Studios, Paprika Latino, Novemberfilm, Redaktörerna, DRG, Monster, One Big Happy Family, Playroom, Rakett, Baluba, Nice Drama, Moskito, Production House, Grillifilms and Gong. It also includes Splay, the largest Swedish MCN on YouTube.