Tag: MTG

STOCKHOLM: MTG and the National Football League (NFL) have signed a new five-year deal, which sees it holding onto the sports franchise until Super Bowl LVI in 2022.

STOCKHOLM: MTG has inked a deal to pick up a 35-percent interest in Hamburg-based online games developer InnoGames, with an option to increase that to 51 percent.

STOCKHOLM: MTG Studios has given the go-ahead to a second season of Swedish Dicks, which will roll out to Viaplay subscribers in late 2017.

STOCKHOLM: Bun Beeson has rejoined Modern Times Group (MTG) after six years at BBC Worldwide, tapped for the post of VP of pay-TV and VOD programming acquisitions.

STOCKHOLM: MTG's streaming service Viaplay is expanding its reach with rollouts in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

STOCKHOLM: MTG's Viasat will be the first broadcaster in the Nordics to make live sports content available in 360-degree virtual reality (VR), and the first European broadcaster to present the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in Ultra HD 4K.

STOCKHOLM: A newly signed multiyear agreement will see the broader distribution of MTG’s channels on Telenor’s platforms across the Nordic region.

STOCKHOLM: MTG has acquired 22 percent of Engage Sports Media (ESM), which enables premium sports-rights owners to digitalize and monetize their content for global audiences, by making it available online, on-demand and on mobile.

STOCKHOLM: Modern Times Group (MTG) is launching Viasat Ultra HD this fall, marking the Nordic region’s first-ever TV channel with Ultra HD/4K content.

STOCKHOLM: MTG is bringing the new video streaming service Viafree across Scandinavia, in addition to launching eSportsTV.