TV3 (Viasat)
TV3 is the name of television station of Viasat in the countries Sweden , Denmark , Norway . TV3 in Slovenia was discontinued on February 29, 2012. The TV3 channels in Estonia , Lithuania and Latvia were sold. In contrast to most other stations in the Viasat family, the stations are free to air and offer entertainment-oriented programs, mainly with US series and feature films. All of Viasat's channels are broadcast from London. Viasat is part of the Swedish Nordic Entertainment Group , a spin-off of the Modern Times Group .
history
TV3 was initiated by Jan Stenbeck and started on December 31, 1987 as the first purely commercial TV channel in Sweden, Norway and Denmark. Initially, the station broadcast the same program from London for all three Scandinavian countries. The name came about due to the dominance of Sveriges Television with its two channels at the time. At first the Danish version split off and after a while there were also separate channels for Norway and Sweden. With the commissioning of an astra satellite in 1989, reception for customers improved significantly. In the same year, the first subsidiary channel, the TV1000, was launched. In 1991, a joint program block with the TV4 channel was launched, which later developed into ZTV. This was the first year TV3 was in the black.
In the 1990s, subsidiaries were established in the Baltic states and, after 2000, sister channels in Hungary and Russia . In 2017, MTG sold the Baltic channels of the TV3 Group to the investment company Providence Equity Partners .
Lithuania
On April 11, 1993, the station began broadcasting national programs in Lithuania under the name Tele-3 . In 1996 the company became insolvent, then taken over by Viasat and continued under its current name.
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- ↑ Providence Equity Partners press release: Providence Equity Partners Agrees to Acquire MTG Baltics , March 17, 2017, accessed April 2, 2020.