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23-613: From 2007 until 2019, TV4 AB was owned by Bonnier , with Bonnier Broadcasting AB being its parent since 2016. The stock used to be traded at the Stockholm Stock Exchange (OM), but was removed from the OM when Bonnier took full control of the company. On 20 July 2018, Telia Company announced the acquisition proposal of the Bonnier Broadcasting, which includes this company, for 9.2 billion SEK (roughly US$ 1 billion). The acquisition

46-481: A decision followed by years of discussion between Kinnevik and the other owners of the company. Nordisk Television started trading on the Stockholm Stock Exchange in 1994 and changed its legal name to TV4 AB . With the terrestrial license followed an obligation to give some airtime to different local companies. This would regularly be owned by the TV4 Group in conjunction with local investors and media companies. With

69-1006: A dozen crossword magazines, and the tablet magazine C Mode . Other subsidiaries include the film production companies SF Studios and Sonet Film ; daily newspapers Dagens Nyheter , Expressen , Sydsvenskan and Helsingborgs Dagblad ; business daily Dagens Industri ; and medical journal Dagens Medicin . In Denmark, operations include magazine publisher Bonnier Publications, which has subsidiaries in Norway, Finland and Sweden; business daily Dagbladet Børsen ; film distributors SF Film and film producers SF Film Production. Finnish operations include book publishers Tammi and WSOY ; plus magazines from Bonnier Publications and film productions by FS Film. In Germany, Bonnier Media Deutschland includes Ullstein Buchverlage , Piper Verlag , Thienemann Verlag and Carlsen Verlag , among others. In Malta , Bonnier owned Evoke Gaming Ltd. This

92-459: A fully owned subsidiary of Bonnier. In early 2008, the company adopted its trade name , TV4-gruppen ( lit.   ' TV4 Group ' ). TV4 AB operates the following television channels: The company also owns TV4 Sverige AB that owns all the 25 local stations (of which 13 were defunct in 2014 with 140 people laid off and the rest producing national news only Local news had moved to web only in 2013) and TV4 Digitala Medier that includes

115-678: A group that had net income of around US$ 20 million and revenue of around $ 230 million. "We think we did a good deal, and we think Time did as well," said Jonas Bonnier , head of the Bonnier Magazine Group. Bonnier already had a small footprint in the US through a 50 percent stake in Winter Park, Florida -based World Publications, which owned the titles Islands and Spa , Saveur , Water Skiing , and Caribbean Travel & Life . nyheterna.se Too Many Requests If you report this error to

138-459: A range of action sport magazines focused on motorcycling, as well as a number of niche travel and lifestyle titles. Book publisher Weldon Owen was also part of the company. In 2013, Bonnier signed a deal with Source Interlink where they bought motorcycle franchises Dirt Rider , Motorcyclist , Sport Rider , Motorcycle Cruiser , Hot Bike , Baggers , Super Streetbike , Street Chopper and ATV Rider , whereas they sold Sound & Vision and

161-779: Is also behind several digital startups, including the tablet publishing platform Mag+ and children's toy app producer, Toca Boca (sold in 2016 to Spin Master ). In 2017, the Bonnier Motorcycle Group bought the AMA EnduroCross Championship , an off-road motorcycling series. The group also promotes the Quail Motorcycle Gathering, HighPipe, Track Day Shootout, Adventure Rally Series and Hot Bike Tour. Also in 2017, Bonnier sold Nordic Cinema Group to AMC Theatres . On 20 July 2018, Telia Company announced

184-515: Is controlled by around 75 family members, including some seventh-generation heirs. Some well-known relatives and descendants of the Bonnier family include: In January 2007, the Bonnier Magazine Group agreed to acquire 18 magazines that Time Inc. was divesting. The estimated price was US$ 225 million in cash and the assumption of about US$ 42 million in unfulfilled subscription liabilities (subscriptions already paid but not yet delivered.) The magazines in

207-639: The Canal Digital platform). In the digital television franchise round of 2006, the TV4 Group applied for three new digital channels, but none of them were given a license. They did however launch two new channels in November 2006: TV4 Komedi and TV4 Guld . In May 2006, the TV4 AB bought 51 percent of the sports channel Sport-Expressen from the newspaper Expressen. The ownership was increased to 66.2 percent in May 2007 and

230-449: The Tele-X satellite. A Norwegian sister channel, TV4 Norway , was also launched, but was sold a few years later. At the time, it was clear that the government intended to launch a third terrestrial station and that it would be commercially funded. The two main competitors for the new channel were Nordisk Television and Kinnevik (owners of TV3 ). Eventually it was Nordisk Television who got

253-426: The analogue version of TV4 (until 31 January 2008). As of 2005, TV4 is transmitted free-to-air on the digital terrestrial network while TV4 Plus, TV4 Film, TV400 and TV4 Fakta require subscription from Boxer , Canal Digital or Viasat via satellite, or cable TV from several cable networks, including Tele2Vision , Com Hem and Canal Digital . TV4 Plus is available in analogue form via most cable TV networks, while

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276-594: The TV4 Groups Text-TV (defunct as of 17 September 2019) and internet services like the websites tv4.se, nyheterna.se  [ sv ] (redirecting to tv4.se as of at least 2021) and Fotbollskanalen  [ sv ] , and on-demand service TV4 Play  [ sv ] . The TV4 Group is also involved in the selling of merchandising, DVDs, CDs, magazines and books relating to the television programmes. Laws in Sweden state that all television operators must carry

299-542: The TransWorld franchise. Bonnier’s publishing in the United Kingdom has two main divisions: Igloo Books and Bonnier Books UK. A number of imprints operate within each division, most notably: Blink, Autumn Publishing, Hot Key Books, John Blake Publishing, Embla, Templar Publishing and Piccadilly Press, Zaffre and Studio Press. In 2015, Bonnier UK acquired commercial fiction publisher Totally Entwined. Weldon Owen UK and US

322-708: The channel was relaunched as TV4 Sport in September 2007. In November 2006, it was announced that Bonnier and Proventus would buy the share in the TV4's operating company that was then held by Schibsted . The deal was approved in December 2006, making the TV4 almost entirely owned by Nordic Broadcasting Oy, a company owned jointly by Bonnier and Proventus. Proventus sold its shares in Nordic Broadcasting to Bonnier in March 2007, making it

345-504: The license since Kinnevik agreed to withdraw their application. In exchange, Kinnevik bought 30 percent of Nordisk Television and a company called Airtime AB was set up to sell advertising in TV3 and TV4, giving Kinnevik control of almost all television advertising in Sweden. TV4 could start broadcasting terrestrially in the spring of 1992. Nordisk Television discontinued the Airtime agreement in 1993,

368-1063: The others are mostly digital-only. Bonnier Group Bonnier AB ( Swedish pronunciation: [ˈbʊ̂nːiːr] ), also the Bonnier Group , is a privately held Swedish media group of 175 companies operating in 15 countries. It is controlled by the Bonnier family . The company was founded in 1804 by Gerhard Bonnier in Copenhagen , Denmark, when Bonnier published his first book, Underfulde og sandfærdige kriminalhistorier . Gerhard's sons later moved to Sweden. The Bonnier book publishing companies in Sweden that are part of book publishing house Bonnierförlagen now include Albert Bonniers förlag , Wahlström & Widstrand , Forum, and Bonnier Carlsen, as well as other book publishers and imprints in Sweden. Bonnier Tidskrifter publishes magazines, including Veckans Affärer , Damernas Värld , Amelia , Sköna hem , Teknikens Värld , Resume , nearly

391-461: The package employed 550 people and included Outdoor Life , Popular Science , Field & Stream , Ski , Yachting , and Transworld Snowboarding , as well as 11 other titles that were part of Time Inc.'s Time4 Media Group. Also included were Parenting and Babytalk , which were part of the Parenting Group. That price was believed to be a multiple of about 11 times cash flow for

414-542: The proposed acquisition of the Bonnier Broadcasting Group (which owns TV4 AB , MTV Oy and C More Entertainment ) from Bonnier. The acquisition was completed on 2 December 2019. On 6 February 2020, Bonnier Books UK launched literary imprint, Manilla Press. In October 2024, the UK division announced a restructuring with four imprints (Nine Eight, Heligo, John Blake and Black & White London) suspended. Bonnier

437-535: The space on the digital multiplex. In 2003, a general entertainment channel called TV4 Plus was started. It was followed by TV4 Film in 2004, and TV400 and TV4 Fakta in 2005. For several years, the TV channels of the TV4 AB wasn't a part of Kinnevik's digital satellite platform Viasat . However, in April 2005, TV4 Plus, TV4 Film and TV400 were launched on Viasat (the TV4 Group channel had to wait until 2006 due to contracts with

460-474: The start of TV4 Uppland the number of regional stations reached sixteen. Eventually, the TV4 Group started buying local stations and in 2001 they owned all but one, TV4 Fyrstad , which went bankrupt in 2003. The TV4 Group then merged all regional stations into a single entity, TV4 Sverige AB . TV4 started broadcasting in the digital terrestrial television network in 1999. In 2001, the TV4 Group started an experimental interactive channel called Mediteve using

483-409: Was completed on December 2, 2019. The company was founded in 1984 by Ingemar Leijonborg and Gunnar Bergvall as Nordisk Television AB ("Nordic Television"). They intended to start a Swedish commercial television channel. It took several years for Leijonborg and Bergvall to find someone willing to invest in their channel, but it was eventually launched on September 15, 1990 as "TV4", broadcasting from

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506-504: Was divested in late 2017. In January 2007, the Bonnier Magazine Group acquired 18 magazines from the American media company Time Inc. (at the time owned by Time Warner ) and merged the operations with other publishing companies to create the U.S. based Bonnier Corporation . As a result, Bonnier Corporation owns over 40 magazines, including Popular Science , Saveur , Field & Stream , Outdoor Life and Popular Photography ,

529-968: Was sold to Insight Editions in 2018. Former operations include Piccolia in France and Five Mile Press in Australia which have both been liquidated. Bonnier Publishing USA was formed in August 2016, then composed of the publisher Weldon Owen and the children's publisher, Little Bee. The president of Little Bee, Shimul Tolia, became the CEO of this group. Bonnier Publishing USA was sold to its management in 2019. Bonnier owns business newspapers in Estonia ( Äripäev ), Lithuania ( Verslo žinios ), Poland ( Puls Biznesu ) and Slovenia ( Finance Business Daily ), as well as medical journals in Denmark, Norway, Finland, Poland, and Slovenia. Bonnier

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