Modern Times Group (MTG) is a Swedish digital entertainment company.

MTG was
formed out of the media holdings of investment company Kinnevik, which in 1997 was
distributed to the company stockholders. MTG operates free-to-air and pay-TV channels
and their catch-up (AVOD) services, radio stations, a premium subscription online
service Viaplay, multi-channel networks (MCN) Splay Networks and Zoomin.TV, as
well as eSports businesses, ESL and DreamHack.

Contents

1 Company structure
o 1.1 Advertising funded television (Free-TV)
o 1.2 Pay television

1.2.1 Subscription TV services (Pay-TV)

1.2.2 Worldwide

1.2.3 Scandinavian states

1.2.4 Baltic states

o 1.3 MTG Radio

o 1.4 Nice Entertainment Group
o 1.5 Modern African Productions

2 Timeline
o 2.1 1987
o 2.2 1988
o 2.3 1989
o 2.4 1990
o 2.5 1991
o 2.6 1992
o 2.7 1993
o 2.8 1994

o 2.9 1995
o 2.10 1996
o 2.11 1997
o 2.12 1998
o 2.13 1999
o 2.14 2000
o 2.15 2001
o 2.16 2002
o 2.17 2003
o 2.18 2004
o 2.19 2005
o 2.20 2006
o 2.21 2007
o 2.22 2008
o 2.23 2009
o 2.24 2010
o 2.25 2011
o 2.26 2012
o 2.27 2013
o 2.28 2014
o 2.29 2015
o 2.30 2016

3 References

Company structure

Since July 2015, MTG's digital presence was expanded through a number of
acquisitions. MTG bought 74% of the shares in Turtle Entertainment, the company that
runs Electronic Sports League (ESL), an eSports tournament organiser and followed up
that acquisition with a further investment in Splay, Scandinavia's largest Multi-channel
network, going from 49% to 81% of the shares in the company. MTG then acquired
51% of the shares in Zoomin.TV, Europe's largest MCN and the 5th largest network on
YouTube. Also very recently, MTG made the acquisition of 100% of DreamHack, one
of the biggest eSports tournament organisers in the world.

Advertising funded television (Free-TV)

MTG operates advertising funded channels in Scandinavia, Czech Republic, Bulgaria,
the Baltic countries, Ghana and Tanzania. Typically, the portfolio structure for these
channels is one primary channel (TV3, Prima, Nova), and then secondary channels
(TV6, TV3+, Prima Love, etc...) These channels generate primarily advertising
revenues, and are classified as free-TV, but a majority of the Scandinavian free-TV
channels are encrypted and subject to decoding fees.
Networks
Czech Ghana
Swede Norwa Denmar Estoni Latvi Lithuan Bulgari Republ
&
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k
a
a
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a (95%) ic
Tanzani
(50%)
a
TV3
TV3 TV3 TV3
TV3 TV3
Nova TV
Estoni
General
Swede Norwa Denmar
Latvi Lithuani televisio Prima Viasat 1
a
n
y
k
a
a (free) n (Free) (Free)
(Free)
TV6
TV3+ TV6
TV6
Prima
General
Swede Viasat
Denmar Estoni LNT Lithuani Diema COOL
secondary n
4
k
a
a (Free)
(Free)
(Free)
Prima
love
Diema (Free)
TV6
Family Prima
TV3
Latvi
Kino
ZOOM
TV8
Puls
a
Nova (Free)
TV10 TV6
3+
TV8
Supplementa
TV3
3+
Nova Prima
TV3 Norwa
Estoni
Lithuani
ry
Sport 1
Latvi
Sport MAX
Sport y
a
a (Free)
TV3
a
Diema (Free)
HD
Sport 2
Kanl
Sport Prima
s2
Diema Comed
Sport 2 y
Central
(Free)
Channel
type