Swedish telco Telia Company has entered into a binding term sheet agreeing upon the key terms on which to sell 100 per cent of its operations and network assets in Denmark to Danish energy and telco group, Norlys, at an expected enterprise value of DKK 6.25 billion (€838m), on a cash and debt-free basis. The […]
SF Studios has started shooting the Danish supernatural thriller Cychosis (Danish title: Cykose), which is based on Birgitte Lorentzen’s book of the same name. Cychosis is directed by Kari Vidø, written by Birgitte Lorentzen and Henrik Kristensen and stars Danish rising stars Zoe Bryan Hertz and August Issac Carter. The cast also includes Maria Rossing, […]
Swedish streaming service SF Anytime, owned by SF Studios, has acquired the Danish streaming service Blockbuster from Nuuday. By acquiring the right to use the Blockbuster brand and all customer relationships, SF Anytime says it creates a “leading Nordic platform for digital rental and purchase of films to consumers”. The two businesses will continue to […]
Airties, a supplier of managed Wi-Fi solutions for service providers globally, is providing YouSee with a portfolio of Smart Wi-Fi software and services to support its broadband subscribers across Denmark. YouSee, a Nuuday company, is one of Denmark’s largest telcos, offering a range of services including Internet, TV, and mobile voice. YouSee have deployed Airties’ […]
In the search for the optimal provider for highly normalised dataset to power universal search across linear and streaming with advanced and rich metadata, YouSee has entered a multi-year deal with metadata leader Simply.TV. “To deliver a best-in-class tv experience all around, metadata across both streaming and linear cannot be ignored. It is through metadata […]
Haivision Systems, a provider of mission-critical, real-time video networking and visual collaboration solutions, has announced that it powered ultra-low latency live video contribution over a private 5G network during coverage of the Danish general elections in November 2022. Broadcasting the election live from the Danish parliament in Copenhagen, Denmark’s national public broadcaster, TV 2, was […]
Blu Digital Group, a media and entertainment industry digital supply chain company, has announced its acquisition of Dicentia Studios, a technical audiovisual services company based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Dicentia Studios specialises in content distribution, localisation, and post-production services for the European market. Dicentia Studios is both an iTunes Preferred Encoding House and a Netflix Preferred […]
Danish households’ appetite for video streaming continues to grow. The number of paid subscriptions now exceeds four million, as more than half a million new subscriptions have been added in the past 12 months, according to Mediavision’s analysis of the Danish TV and streaming market. The interest in streaming video is reaching record levels in […]
Acclaimed director Birgitte Stærmose (‘Industry’; ‘The English Game’; ‘The Spanish Princess’) will helm Viaplay’s first Danish feature, the wryly humorous drama ‘Camino’. Headlined by a star Nordic cast featuring Lars Brygmann (‘Riders of Justice’; ‘Borgen’) and Danica Curcic (‘The Chestnut Man’; ‘Silent Heart’), ‘Camino’ portrays the complex relationship between a father and daughter walking a […]
Danish regional broadcaster TV MIDTVEST has extended its strategic relationship with Avid by transitioning onto Avid’s MediaCentral | Flex subscription software. The move optimizes the reliability, scalability and flexibility of the broadcaster’s news production, and enhances its toolsets to enable story-centric workflows. The subscription will give TV MIDTVEST–which has relied on Avid solutions for more […]