NEW AGREEMENT GIVES CANAL DIGITAL CUSTOMERS MORE EUROSPORT

(Oslo 16.1.06) Canal Digital has entered into a new agreement concerning continued distribution of Eurosport and Eurosport 2 to 2,2 million Nordic house holds

The former alpine Olympic celebrity, Hans Petter Buraas and his Nordic colleagues in Eurosport, will during February guide Canal Digital’s TV-customers through almost 400 hours of Olympic coverage from Turin. The complete coverage, in Nordic lanuagues, of all Olympic disciplines adds a spice to this Winter’s Olympic TV feast and provides an excellent supplement to the National TV-channels’ coverage. With this new agreement Canal Digital’s viewers are guaranteed a complete coverage of the upcoming Winter Olympic Games in Turin in February 2006. In March the channel will broadcast both the Figure Skating World Championships and the Cross Country and Biathlon World Cup rounds in Holmenkollen. Other highlights throughout the year include Tour de France in July and the European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg in August. -Eurosport and Eurosport 2 are the European sport channels with the biggest variety in their coverage, concludes Svein Erik Davidsen, Managing Director of Canal Digital Norway In the Nordic region Eurosport employs 20 people working directly towards the local markets. In addition there are 250 freelance commentators regularly working for the channel which has it’s main office in Sweden. -We are very pleased with this deal which guarantees Canal Digital’s viewers access to fantastic sports experiences and strengthens our position as the leading sports provider in the Nordic region with the big rights, magazines in fixed time slots and unique commentators, says Märta Rydbeck, Managing Director of Eurosport in the Nordic region. The collaboration between Canal Digital and Eurosport stretches back to 1993. The distribution agreement comprises all of the company’s customers in cable, broadband (IPTV) and SMATV, and is exclusive for all of Canal Digital’s satellite customers. In January Eurosport 2 will celebrate its’ first anniversary after the complimentary channel went on-air in 2005. Eurosport 2 has fixed news and magazine broadcasts, several LIVE events and compliments Eurosport when two different events takes place at the same time. Ill: Hans Petter Buraas, Eurosport commentator and former Olympic champion in slalom. Ill: Svein Erik Davidsen, Managing Director of Canal Digital Norway. Ill: Märta Rydbeck, Managing Director of Eurosport in the Nordic region. Contacts Cathrine Barth-Nossum Information Manager Canal Digital AS +47 91 81 24 29 Martin Alarik, Press Officer, Eurosport Television AB +46 (0)8 50 66 10 11 About Canal Digital Canal Digital AS is the leading TV distributor in the Nordic region via cable, satellite and broadband. Canal Digital is seated in Norway with daughter companies in Sweden, Denmark and Finland. Close to 3 million Nordic households get direct or indirect TV transmissions from Canal Digital. Canal Digital is fully owned by Telenor and distributes 80 TV channels and 20 music channels as well as internet for cable customers and gaming.