TV 2 Group

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TV 2 Group
Company type Joint stock company
Industry Media
Founded13 November 1991
Headquarters
Bergen
,
Norway
Key people
 Hans Jacob Carstensen [1]
Products TV 2
Revenue2.7 billion kr (2008) [2]
Owner Egmont Group
Number of employees
830 (2008) [2]
Website TV 2

TV 2 Group (Norwegian: TV 2 Gruppen) is Norway's largest commercial and public media company. TV 2 Group provides services for TV, Teletext, radio, Internet, web TV, IPTV, mobile telephones and other information formats.

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Services

TV channels

Programming blocks only

Discontinued

Other

Previous

  • Radio Norge (TV 2 Group was an investor from the start in 2004, [4] acquired full ownership in 2006, and then sold all their stakes to SBS Group in 2008).

Notes

  1. ↑ Previously known as simply TV 2.
  2. ↑ Was known as TV 2 Xtra at launch.
  3. ↑ Converted from TV 2 Bliss.
  4. ↑ Previously known as TV 2 Nyhetskanalen.
  5. ↑ Previously known as TV 2 Sportskanalen.
  6. 1 2 Converted from TV 2 Premier League after they lost the Norwegian rights to Viaplay Group.
  7. ↑ Previously known as TV 2 Junior.
  8. ↑ Its targeted content was merged into TV 2 and TV 2 Zebra.
  9. ↑ Only lasted a few days in early October 2011 before being shut down, with only one scheduled program being aired, which was Norway v Cyprus in the Euro 2012 qualifiers.
  10. ↑ Previously known as TV 2 Sumo.

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References

  1. ↑ Owner of TV 2/TV 2 Gruppen
  2. 1 2 TV2 in numbers
  3. ↑ "TV 2 sender Norge-Kypros i 3D" (in Norwegian Bokmål). Kampanje. 5 October 2011. Retrieved 15 December 2023.
  4. ↑ "TV2 kjøper Kanal 4" (in Norwegian Bokmål). Radionytt. 30 July 2003. Retrieved 15 December 2023.
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