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global opportunity in streaming”. NENT PARTNERS WITH RIKS Tom Ryan, president and CEO, TV ViacomCBS Streaming, added “Built NENT Group partnership with from an iconic portfolio of beloved the Norwegian DTT and online consumer brands and iconic franchises provider RiksTV continues and NENT like SpongeBob and Star Trek, Group’s TV channels TV3, TV6 and Paramount+ is a compelling and V4 will receive continued distribution, differentiated streaming offering for all and the Vsport channels will be added audiences. In combination with Pluto to RiksTV’s streaming offer, Strim. The TV and Showtime, the service will agreement is valid up to UNVEILS further strengthen our robust linked September 2023. RiksTV reaches out STREAMING PLANS streaming ecosystem, giving us a to 98% of Norwegian households. critical competitive advantage as we Jérôme Franck-Sætervoll, pursue our goal of reaching consumers RiksTV CEO: “This is an important across every platform, at every price distribution deal for us. We continue point, with creativity, content and to provide our customers with an experiences that are second to none”. exciting mix of streaming and linear TV in one distribution agreement. NENT ViacomCBS has a new strategy SKY – SES SATELLITE Group invests enormously in sports, in place and it plans to take Pluto TV AGREEMENT and their sports portfolio is growing and Showtime OTT and create a new Sky UK plans to rapidly. They have secured national ecosystem along with Paramount + sign up with SES sports such as cross-country skiing which is being launched in US, Canada for satellite and alpine from 2021, as well as ice and parts of Latin America. capacity for a €90 skating and the world’s best leagues Paramount+ program content million contract from women’s football on their will have sports, news and and the contract channels. This is content that our entertainment from ViacomCBS’ stable will be valid till customers want.” which has BET, CBS, , 2027 and this makes Sky UK a customer MTV, , of SES spreading over 40 years. and the . SES will deliver Sky UK’s LAUNCHES NEW CHANNELS Bob Bakish, president and channels in a mix of SD, HD and Ultra Sky Deutschland CEO, ViacomCBS, said: “In today’s HD from to the subscribers in the UK leading German entertainment landscape, ViacomCBS and Ireland. broadcaster will stands apart as the only media Steve Collar, CEO at SES, said: launch new company to fully embrace every “This is a significant, multi- channels - Sky segment of the streaming universe transponder, multi-year renewal Comedy and Sky Crime on April 1, 2021. across free, premium and pay. founded on SES’s of More Sky channels are to be further “The launch of Paramount+ delivering a flawless and immersive TV launched this year and it will be a supercharges our strategy with a broad viewing experience to Sky UK documentary channel and a nature pay service that will be home to customers. It also underlines the channel everything consumers love, all in one continued and rising importance of and Sky Crime will place: live sports, breaking news and a satellites in delivering a premium be available as linear channels. The mountain of entertainment, at scale. As content-viewing experience to end content will also be available on we look ahead, ViacomCBS is ideally customers virtually everywhere”. demand via and Sky Ticket in positioned to harness the full power SES had total revenues of Germany, on Sky X in Austria and on of our assets and capabilities – from €1,876 million in 2020, down from €1,984 in Switzerland. our world-class production studios million a year earlier. EBITDA was Sky Deutschland has secured and the value of our massive content €1.079 million (€1,217 million) and its the rights to the Extreme E motorsport library, to our global marketing platform net loss of €86 million contrasted with series in Germany, Austria and and local relationships – to seize the a net profit of €296 million in 2019. Switzerland. 

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