C MORE ENTERTAINMENT AB - Company presentation
C More Entertainment is the leading premium Pay-TV provider in the Nordic region. The company offers a premium Pay-TV offer under the brand CANAL+. The CANAL+ service today has over 900 000 subscribers in the Nordic region. CANAL+ bundle of eight channels offers a great variety of exclusive TV premieres of movies from the top Hollywood studios, award-winning series and exclusive broadcasts from the best international sport leagues. The customer can also choose to subscribe to sports only or films and series only. Also available are Pay-per-view services. February 2005, C More Entertainment was acquired by SBS Broadcasting S.à.r.l. In 2007 ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG acquired 100 percent of the shares in SBS Broadcasting Group. Dec 4th 2008 TV4 AB acquired C More from ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG.
CANAL+ Television AB (transmitting in Denmark, Norway, Finland and Sweden) was launched in 1997 by French CANAL+. In 2003, the two private equity firms, Baker Capital and Nordic Capital acquired 100% of CANAL+ Television AB from the media group Vivendi, through the jointly owned C More Group AB. At the same time CANAL+ Television AB was re-named C More Entertainment. On the 9th of February in 2005 SBS Broadcasting announced the acquisition of C More Entertainment. In 2007 ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG acquired 100 percent of the shares in SBS Broadcasting Group. Dec 4th 2008 TV4 AB acquired C More from ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG.
CANAL+ exclusively broadcasts the best sport leagues in the world including Premier League, Serie A and Eredivisie. CANAL+ also shows the best game every week from Allsvenskan, the Swedish National Football League. The CANAL+ wrappings of live games, hosted by well-known sports commentators, are highly appreciated.
CANAL+ holds the "first on TV" rights for movies from 6 out of the top 8 Hollywood studios: Warner Brothers, Fox, Universal, DreamWorks, MGM and Paramount Pictures. CANAL+ ambition is also to support the local film productions in the Nordic region.
Series are rapidly becoming a larger and more important part of CANAL+ offer. Among the series introduced in the Nordic region by CANAL+ are "Heroes", "True Blood ", "Six Feet Under", "The Shield", "Big Love", "South Park", "Curb Your Enthusiasm", "Entourage", "House", "Rome" and "Weeds".
CANAL+ channels
CANAL+ First Where we show all our all films and tv-series for the first time
CANAL+ Hits New and older hit films
CANAL+ Action Action films
CANAL+ Drama Drama films
CANAL+ Comedy Comedies and children's films
CANAL+ Sport 1 All sport studio programs, live games
CANAL+ Sport 2 More games and also other sports programs
CANAL+ Sport Extra More games
CANAL+ Film HD High Definition channel with films
CANAL+ Sport HD High Definition channel with series
CANAL+ three subscriber packages
CANAL+ TOTAL All of our channels.
CANAL+ SPORT All of our sports channels
CANAL+ FILM All our film channels
Distribution
C More Entertainment is a platform neutral company and its programming is distributed to subscribers via satellite (DTH), cable, digital terrestrial transmissions (DTT) and IP-TV.