Canal Digital and TV2 resolve carriage dispute

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Canal Digital and TV2 have signed a new distribution agreement, six months after the start of the dispute saw the channels pulled from Norway’s cable network.

In Brief: Canal Digital, Sunrise, Star, UPC

Canal Digital Danmark is adding two more HD channels at the end of April, Eurosport 2 HD and Travel Channel HD. This will bring the platform’s total HD channels to over 20. Eurosport 2′s programming includes live Bundesliga matches from Germany.

Disappointing quarter for Telenor Broadcast

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Canal Digital lost 3,000 DTH subscribers in Q4 2012 as revenues from sales to Danish housing associations hit revenues.

Canal Digital and SBS sign new deal

Henrik Ravn

Canal Digital has maintained its hold on SBS content with a new three-year deal for exclusive rights to SBS’s satellite TV channels in the Nordic countries.

Canal Digital makes NOK250m offer to TV2

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Canal Digital Kabel TV has made a new offer to TV2 over the carriage of the Norwegian commercial network’s thematic channels.

Canal Digital switches to NDS

Patrik Hofbauer

Nordic DTH operator Canal Digital has announced plans to launch a hybrid satellite and over-the-top platform using a series of technologies provided by NDS.

Canal Digital delivers best quarter since 2008

Canal Digital has secured its best quarter since autumn 2008. In the mature Scandinavian market the Telenor-owned operator lost just 2,000 DTH subscribers while achieving a 20% growth in its EBITDA from a series of cost measures.

MTG loses interest in Canal Digital

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Modern Times Group CEO Hans Holger Albrecht says it is no longer interested in a merger or takeover of Nordic DTH rival Canal Digital.

Canal Digital box says Follow Me

Nordic DTH operator Canal Digital is to allow subscribers to stop watching a recording in one room and pick it up in another.

Tough quarter for Canal Digital

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Price increases and a rise in hardware sales helped Canal Digital maintain revenues amid continued subscriber falls.