MTG secures exclusive rights to the Sky Sports News channel and content in Nordic & Baltic countries
Modern Times Group MTG AB (publ.) (‘MTG’ or ‘the Group’), the international entertainment broadcasting group, today announced that it has signed a multi-year agreement with BSkyB (‘Sky’) to distribute the Sky Sports News HD channel on MTG’s Viasat satellite platforms. The Group will include the channel in its Nordic offerings on an exclusive basis from the end of February 2013, and add it to the Baltic platforms later in year. The exclusive agreement also enables MTG to include Sky Sports programming content on its Nordic and Baltic TV channels, as well as on its Viaplay online pay-TV service