TV4 Sport-Expressen

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TV4 Sport-Expressen
Launched March 17, 2005
Owned by TV4 AB/Expressen
Audience share ~0.1% (Jan '07, MMS)
Country Sweden
Formerly called Sport-Expressen
Availability
Satellite
Canal Digital
Cable
Com Hem Channel 100
Tele2Vision
Canal Digital

TV4 Sport-Expressen is a Swedish sports television channel owned by television company TV4 AB (51%) and the tabloid news paper Expressen (49%).

The channel was origiannly owned by Expressen who launched the channel on March 17, 2005. It was initally available in the analogue basic package from UPC cable, the digital "Medium" package from Com Hem and the "Family" package from Canal Digital on satellite. Sports rights used by the channel included matches from the football series Superettan and the Wimbledon.

In May 2006, it was announced that TV4 AB bought a majority stake in the channel. The channel relaunched as "TV4 Sport-Expressen" with a new logo on June 1. The deal meant that Sport-Expressen could use several sports rights held by TV4, including reruns of games from the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

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