February 14, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Viasat":
Society: 3 Aug 11
The mayor of the Lithuanian capital Vilnius has has been filmed driving an armoured vehicle over a parked car as both a prank for a Swedish TV show, and as a blunt warning to drivers to observe the city's regulations.
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Sport: 24 Nov 10
A thundering blast from Swedish striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic helped AC Milan qualify for the knockout phase of the Champions League football tournament with a victory over Auxerre on Tuesday.
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Business & Money: 19 Oct 10
Swedish media concern Modern Times Group has reported a pre-tax profit of 499 million kronor ($75 million) for the third quarter 2009, up from 336 million kronor in the corresponding period of 2009, while disappointing the markets.
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Sport: 29 Sep 10
Swedish striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored against his old team Ajax at the fourth attempt to help AC Milan to a 1-1 draw in Amsterdam on Tuesday evening.
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Sport: 16 Sep 10
Swedish striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic found himself embroiled in an ugly TV clash with Italy legend Arigo Sacchi on Wednesday after scoring twice to help his new club AC Milan beat Auxerre in the Champions League.
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Business & Money: 21 May 10
Swedish telecom firm TeliaSonera has announced its intention to appeal to the Supreme Court an anti-piracy law ruling ordering the firm to hand over the names and addresses of people behind a file sharing website.
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Business & Money: 18 May 10
Swedish-Finnish telecom giant TeliaSonera has been instructed by the appeals court to hand over the names and addresses of people behind a filesharing website in a landmark anti-piracy law ruling.
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National: 1 Apr 10
A year after the adoption of Sweden's IPRED anti-piracy legislation, new figures show that file sharing is growing in popularity, internet traffic has rebounded strongly, and only a small handful of cases have been brought before the courts.
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Business & Money: 22 Mar 10
Viasat, part of the MTG group, has won the exclusive rights to broadcast the English Barclays Premier League for the next three seasons for an undisclosed sum.
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Science & Technology: 30 Sep 09
Six months after the introduction of Sweden's controversial anti-piracy law, 11 percent of Swedes continue to download copyrighted material.
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Sport: 12 Mar 09
Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s Inter Milan, the current champions and leaders of Italy’s top football league, crashed out of the Champions League on Wednesday night with a 2-0 loss to Manchester United.
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Politics: 5 Dec 08
Sweden’s government on Thursday formally presented a legislative proposal for a new file sharing law designed to make it easier to hunt down people who illegally download copyrighted material.
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Analysis & Opinion: 23 Sep 08
Viasat was a long way from shooting par in its Swedish broadcast of the Ryder Cup, writes admitted golf addict Gene Oberto.
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Sport: 18 Sep 08
American Football fever has hit Sweden as fans excitedly anticipate championship final battle between the Stockholm Mean Machines and Arlanda Jets.
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Business & Money: 9 Jan 07
Modern Times Group, MTG AB, said it has acquired 90 percent of the share capital in Swedish online social networking community 'playahead.com' for 102 million kronor in cash.
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National: 29 Dec 06
The camera was rolling, the signature tune was blasting out - all that was missing for viewers of Swedish Television's regional news programmes on Thursday were the presenters.
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National: 14 Dec 06
The television licence fee that finances Sweden's public service broadcasters may soon be consigned to the scrapheap. The Centre Party has now come around to the view that the licence system is outdated.
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Business & Money: 22 Nov 06
New British rules banning TV junk food ads aimed at children will also affect Swedish broadcasters Viasat and SBS, which broadcast from London.
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Business & Money: 25 Oct 06
Swedish media group MTG has reported third-quarter pretax profit of 647 million kronor, more than double the figure for the same period last year.
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Society: 17 Aug 06
Satellite broadcaster Viasat was told that Maria Eriksson had died, but it still insisted that her estate pay up to the end of her two year contract.
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Business & Money: 26 Apr 06
Media giant Modern Times Group announces lower profits for the first quarter, but says operating profits are the 'best ever'.
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Business & Money: 23 Feb 06
Modern Times Group AB said it will launch a new free Swedish TV channel, TV6, at the start of May.
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Business & Money: 22 Aug 05
TV4 is developing a range of new channels - but that means fewer jobs, not more, as the company seeks across-the-board cost reductions.
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Business & Money: 17 May 05
A spring swoop by Sweden's three main independent sports channels confirms that screening TV sport in pubs, bars and restaurants brings in the punters. Now the channels just have to get the establishments to pay up.
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As diverse as Sweden is, there are a few societal norms that are distinctly Swedish. Understanding a handful of them will hopefully prepare you culturally before you relocate. When you're invited home to a Swede, you better be on time and take your shoes off, writes expat Lola Akinmade-Åkerström. Read more »
Sweden is a country where almost everyone can speak English. So why bother to learn Swedish? Edina Varnagy from Hungary managed with English for a whole year but then found that Swedish could open doors – to a job, a social life and greater understanding. Read more »
"The ice dripped in the winter sun. It was the first day when the light had been intense enough to cause dripping in the sunlight. To hear it was an extraordinary wakeup call. The cycle was happening again as it always does, always will (or so we think). I imagined that on my summer island, the bees..." READ »
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