{"id":5709,"date":"2015-01-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2015\/01\/15\/carriage-deal-brings-fight-sports-network-to-scandinavia\/"},"modified":"2015-01-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T00:00:00","slug":"carriage-deal-brings-fight-sports-network-to-scandinavia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2015\/01\/15\/carriage-deal-brings-fight-sports-network-to-scandinavia\/","title":{"rendered":"Carriage Deal Brings FIGHT SPORTS Network to Scandinavia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tLONDON: Fighting-content provider CSI Sports has secured a carriage deal for its HD network FIGHT SPORTS with pay-TV operator Telia for Scandinavia.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThrough the deal, the channel will launch in Sweden today, with a premiere in Finland scheduled for later this month. The network&rsquo;s programming lineup includes high-profile live World Title Boxing events (WBC, WBA, IBF and WBO), World Championship Kickboxing, Mixed Martial Arts and multiple Martial Arts tournaments from around the world, along with exclusive reality (<em>Fight Quest<\/em>) and documentary (<em>Xtreme Martial Arts<\/em>) series produced by Discovery Networks.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tCraig Miele, co-CEO of CSI Sports, said: &ldquo;We are proud to announce the launch of FIGHT SPORTS on Telia and look forward to providing the passionate fan base across Scandinavia with some of the best fights supported by our exclusive programing and original series, all in one destination.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRichard Miele, co-CEO of CSI Sports, commented: &ldquo;Our ongoing programming investment commitments in the most high-profile live events and original programming continues to benefit the subscribers of our existing and new carriage partners, like Telia. We are very pleased to be part of the Telia group of channels and we look forward to building FIGHT SPORTS into a leading sports channel in Scandinavia.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>\n\tStefan Borgqvist, the head of TV at Telia, added: &ldquo;FIGHT SPORTS is a channel in high demand and we believe it will make an already popular TV service even more attractive. The channel will be included in the package STOR for both IPTV and Play +. It will also be eligible for the customers who have packages of channels MIX8.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Fighting-content provider CSI Sports has secured a carriage deal for its HD network FIGHT SPORTS with pay-TV operator Telia for Scandinavia. Through the deal, the channel will launch in Sweden today, with a premiere in Finland scheduled for later this month. The network&rsquo;s programming lineup includes high-profile live World Title Boxing events (WBC, WBA, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-top-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Carriage Deal Brings FIGHT SPORTS Network to Scandinavia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Carriage Deal Brings FIGHT SPORTS Network to Scandinavia. LONDON, January 15: Fighting-content provider CSI Sports has secured a carriage deal for its HD network FIGHT SPORTS with pay-TV operator Telia for Scandinavia.. 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