MTG’s Viasat, Canal Digital Secure Carriage Agreement

STOCKHOLM, March 3: Modern
Times Group’s (MTG) Viasat Broadcasting has inked an agreement to add TVNorge
to its DTH satellite platform and for TV3 to be made available on the Canal
Digital satellite platform.

Viasat will include
TVNorge in its “Entertainment” package, which is available as part of its
satellite offering in Norway. TV3 will be available as part of Canal Digital’s
“Norway” package.

Hans-Holger Albrecht, the president and CEO of MTG, commented: “Today’s
announcement is a major event in the television history of not only Norway but
the whole of Scandinavia. In October last year we took the first major step
towards the final discontinuation of exclusive distribution of the major
commercial TV channels in Scandinavia. [Last week’s] agreement with TV 2 and
today’s agreement with Canal Digital in Norway signifies the end of that journey.”

He continued: “We now have
a complete basic tier in our Norwegian DTH satellite offering, and have ensured
that our TV3 and Viasat4 channels in Norway are distributed as widely as
possible, to as many viewers as possible.”

—By Kristin Brzoznowski