Viasat
Viasat is a satellite platform that offers TV channels, pay TV and video on demand . Viasat is broadcast from London and is owned by the Scandinavian company Allente , a subsidiary of the Norwegian Telenor Group (50%) and the Swedish media group Nordic Entertainment Group (50%), in the Nordic countries (Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland), Sony Pictures Television in Hungary (advertising-financed channels with the names Viasat 3 and Viasat 6 ) and Viasat World (pay TV in Russia, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, Ukraine, Hungary, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Greece, Croatia, Serbia , Slovenia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus and Turkey). Over 50 television channels are broadcast via the satellites in 29 countries, some of them in-house.
history
After the Modern Times Group had started the first commercial TV station in Scandinavia with TV3 in Sweden , the following year the broadcasting operations were expanded to Denmark and Norway and in 1989 the pay-TV station TV1000 was started.
In 1991 the Modern Times Group began broadcasting via satellite. Seven years later, the company had over a million customers with satellite dishes. After the conversion to digital signals began in 2001 as the first European satellite platform, over 500,000 households were digital customers at the end of the year. In 2003 Viasat expanded to Eastern and Central Europe.
In 2008 Viasat introduced video-on-demand offers, one year later also in HDTV quality. See also: Viaplay