This article needs additional citations for. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. May 2018 C More Entertainment AB is a company that previously operated as. It targets and has a separate channel in C More Film. C More Entertainment AB Industry Headquarters Tegeluddsvägen 3-5, SE-115 84, Stockholm, Sweden South African company launched the Nordic version of in 1985, and SuperSport followed in 1995. The channels were renamed Canal+ in 1997 after MultiChoice sold most of its European operations to French company. In 2003, two firms, and , acquired 100% of Canal+ Television from the international. On February 9, 2005, announced the acquisition of C More Entertainment. SBS channels and launched their offering under the C-More brand in October 2006. In May 2010 bought 35% of shares in C More Entertainment from for 787 million, but sold them back in 2014. In the early 1990s, Filmnet became two channels: Filmnet Plus and The Complete Movie Channel: Filmnet. They were later rebranded as Filmnet 1 and Filmnet 2. Canal+ bought Filmnet in 1996 and the two channels were renamed on September 1, 1997. The channels were redesigned on May 1, 2004. The three colour-coded mixed channels were replaced with four themed channels. The Canal+ line-up consisted of the main Canal+ channel, Canal+ Film 1 and Canal+ Film 2 showing new movies, the all-sports channel Canal+ Sport, and C More Film, a channel showing older films. C More Film was the first channel to use the C More name. The line-up was extended on September 1, 2005, when Canal+ Film 3, C More Film 2, and C More HD were launched. C More HD was the first HD channel for the Nordic region. Canal+ Sport was split into country-specific channels. Canal+, which had been country-specific, became pan-Nordic. On satellite it has since been merged to the Canal Digital Go service, covering every channel on the platform and also available without a box online much like its British equivalent. On November 1, 2006, the and C More Film 2 channels were merged with Canal+ Film 2 and the main Canal+ channel was replaced by a bonus channel Canal+ Mix, showing series, documentaries and movies. C More also introduced a new sports channel called Canal+ Sport 2. Customers previously could only subscribe to all channels, but customers were now able to only subscribe to the sports or movie channels. On February 1, 2007, Canal+ HD splited to 2 channels in HD: Canal+ Film HD airs movies in HD and Canal+ Sport HD airs sports events in HD. In September 2007 a pay-per-view sports service called C Sports was launched in Sweden, Denmark and Norway. It was never launched in Finland or available in Finnish but could also be viewed there. The service initially showed single matches from Canal+ channels on a PPV basis, but soon after launch customers could also subscribe to a season ticket. This allowed them to view all matches from a chosen league during its season. In 2009 it was expanded to cover an archive of all shown matches and the ability to watch live streams of all Canal+ Sport's channels. The service is still available in all countries except for Finland, where the content of the service is now available through parent company 's VOD service Katsomo. The channel were again redesigned on November 1, 2007. The movies and series channels were all renamed and recategorised. Canal+ Sport 1 and 2 kept their names but were joined by Canal+ Sport Extra which time-shared with Canal 69, specialized in pornographic movies. In July 2009, C More Entertainment launched , a new sports channel, and another program for men. Canal 9 was free for Canal+ Sport and Canal+ Total customers on cable, satellite and IPTV and shared many sports rights with Canal+ channels, along with its independently purchased rights commissioned by TV4 Gruppen. The station was modeled on the Finnish MTV3 Max. There have been discussions to rename MTV3 Max as Canal 9 Suomi. In November 2011 Canal 9 also launched in Norway. On October 1, 2009, Canal+ launched the , a channel which broadcasts Swedish movies and miniseries from the libraries of. After TV4's purchase of the company, Canal+ and Svensk Filmindustri became part of the same corporation. SF-kanalen replaced Canal 69, which ceased operations the day before. It was similar to Canal+ Hits, but it showed series from 8pm to midnight instead of movies, while from midnight to 8pm it showed movies. On May 14, 2010, C More Entertainment launched three sports channels named Canal+ Sport 3, Canal+ Football and Canal+ Hockey. Canal+ Sport 3 was only available in Norway. At the same time, many new sports rights were announced. Later that year Canal+ announced it would launch a second Finnish-language sports channel called Canal+ Aitio English: Canal+ Skybox in December, since it retained the Finnish rights to and matches. The new channel allowed broadcasting a second simultaneous match from the Premier League, previously only possible on FTA channels. HD versions of the channels have since appeared on all platforms. On June 1, 2011, Canal+ launched two film and series channels named Canal+ Family and Canal+ Emotion. Canal+ Family consists of family-oriented movies and series. Canal+ Emotion replaced Canal+ Drama. In May 2012, C More Entertainment announced it would rebrand itself as C More. While most channels kept their previous names apart from replacing the Canal+ suffix with C More , some sports channels were renamed. Canal+ Sport 2 was changed to C More Tennis, Canal+ Sport Extra to C More Extreme, and Canal+ Extra channels were renamed to C More Live. The only channels unchanged during the rebrand are Canal 9 and the Danish , which was launched in August 2012 as the successor of Canal+ Sport 1 Denmark. C More Entertainment also announced that it would add documentaries as a new type of programming to complement their film programming. On 30 October 2012, C More channels in Finland were merged with Kanavapaketti to form MTV3 Total. C More Urheilu Sport , C More Aitio and C More Premier HD were renamed MTV3 MAX Sport 1, MTV3 MAX Sport 2 and MTV3 MAX Premier HD, respectively. The package was renamed MTV Total in the corporate-wide rebrand at in 2013, and then changed back to C More in 2017. As a result of the 2017 rebrand, MTV Oy's MTV Junior and MTV Max were renamed and , respectively. In October 2012, C More launched Filmnet in Sweden, an online streaming service to compete with and. Filmnet was available in Norway and Finland in early 2013. In Denmark, C More worked with YouSee on a similar service called YouBio. The Filmnet-branded services were moved to the main C More website on 30 June 2015. Formerly Subtv Juniori, Sub Juniori, MTV3 Juniori and MTV Juniori. Formerly Canal+ Extra 2. Formerly Canal+ Extra 3. Formerly Canal+ Extra 4. Formerly MTV3 MAX and MTV Max. Formerly Canal+ Sport and Canal+ Sport 1. Formerly Canal+ Sport 1, Canal+ Urheilu, MTV3 MAX Sport 1 and MTV Sport 1. Formerly Canal+ Sport 2, Canal+ Aitio, MTV3 MAX Sport 2 and MTV Sport 2. Formerly Canal+ Premier HD. Renamed MTV MAX Premier HD. Replaced Canal+ Sport 1. These broadcasting rights include sports, movies and TV series.
