Leading Nordic telco Telenor has agreed to make the Paramount+ video streaming service available as a premium service to its mobile subscribers in Sweden as part of its new streaming offer.

The historic decision last week to allow AT&T and Time Warner to merge has created one of the largest vertically integrated media companies in the world – and raises questions when it comes to consumer choice and content access.

Two more US pay-TV distributors have cranked up live coverage of the World Cup: DISH Network is offering all World Cup 2018 matches in 4K and High Dynamic Range; while Hulu is offering live and on-demand coverage of all World Cup matches on Fox and FS1.

The US has historically lagged behind the rest of the world when it comes to international soccer fandom; but US Hispanic viewers have been a driving force behind a surge of popularity of late, according to Nielsen.

Research from Mediavision has found that the Swedish TV market reached new record levels during 2017 with online being the market’s key growth driver, attributable for nearly a quarter of the commercial TV market’s turnover.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has accused Qatar’s beIN Media of politicising its broadcast coverage of the ongoing FIFA World Cup, in the latest clash between the two estranged Gulf nations.

Following on from what is claimed as international success, Talpa talk show The Story of My Life has been recommissioned for a second season in Poland and the Middle East.

In what is called a first of its kind deal in Europe bringing data and new voices to Germany’s entertainment market, Bavaria Fiction has become the first and exclusive production partner of global multiplatform entertainment company Wattpad for German-speaking territories.