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After TV4's purchase of the company, Canal+ and Svensk Filmindustri became part of the same corporation.

Sports rights

Film and TV rights

In 2011, C More Entertainment had exclusive first-run deals for feature films and TV series with Fox Entertainment Group, DreamWorks, Home Box Office, MGM, Nonstop Entertainment, Paramount Pictures, Sandrew Metronome, Svensk Filmindustri, Warner Bros. Pictures and Zentropa.

At its peak, the library comprised thousands of titles, supporting flexible viewing options beyond linear channels. For the American research organisation, see Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education. C More also introduced a new sports channel called Canal+ Sport 2. These channels emphasized high-definition programming to deliver immersive viewing experiences for sports fans across Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Denmark.

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. This allowed them to view all matches from a chosen league during its season.

On 1 October 2009 Canal+ launched the SF-kanalen, a channel which broadcasts Swedish movies and miniseries from the libraries of Svensk Filmindustri.

The service emphasized exclusive first-run rights to high-profile titles, including award-winning HBO productions like Game of Thrones, which aired its final season on C More in Finland in 2019.^[37] These agreements enabled C More to deliver a diverse slate of films from top Hollywood studios, alongside acclaimed series that appealed to Nordic audiences seeking quality entertainment.^[16]In addition to international imports, C More invested in Nordic originals, producing and premiering local series such as the Swedish thriller Sthlm Requiem, which became one of the platform's most-watched shows and gained international recognition through partnerships like Walter Presents.

While most channels kept their previous names (apart from replacing the Canal+ suffix with C More), some sports channels were renamed. Hade du standardpaketet ingick 1 stömning, medan de större paketen tillät 2 strömningar samtidigt.

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Unique to C More was its focus on ad-free, premium experiences, backed by substantial annual content acquisition budgets that secured exclusivity and elevated the service's status in the Nordic pay-TV market.^[2][39] Following the 2023 merger with TV4 Play and discontinuation of the C More brand, much of this content was integrated into the unified TV4 Play streaming service.^[12]

Sports programming

C More Entertainment's sports programming centered on live coverage of ice hockey leagues, particularly the Swedish Hockey League (SHL), HockeyAllsvenskan, and the Swedish Women's Hockey League, under exclusive rights extended through the 2029-30 season.^[3] In the 2020-21 season, the company broadcast over 1,000 matches from these competitions, establishing ice hockey as its flagship sports content.^[3]The portfolio also included soccer broadcasts from major European and American leagues, such as La Liga, Serie A, and Major League Soccer (MLS), delivered via dedicated channels like C More Sport 1 and C More Sport HD.^[40] Additional sports coverage encompassed tennis, basketball, mixed martial arts (MMA), and motorsports, with programming shared across sister channels including C More Live and C More Sport for comprehensive event handling.^[40]Broadcast formats featured live streams and HD transmissions, enabling multi-channel simulcasts for simultaneous game coverage during peak periods, alongside delayed repeats and on-demand highlights to support viewer flexibility.^[27] Viewer engagement was bolstered through seasonal subscription bundles tailored to the hockey season, which saw heightened viewership during key events like SHL playoffs, complemented by in-house studios providing commentary in Swedish and Finnish for localized appeal.^[3] Partnerships with leagues ensured exclusive Nordic distribution rights, integrating interactive elements such as multi-view options on digital platforms.^[3] Following the 2023 merger, these sports rights and programming continued under TV4 Media.^[3]

Television channels

Entertainment and movie channels

C More Entertainment's entertainment and movie channels originated from the multi-tiered movie offerings of its predecessor, FilmNet, which launched in 1985 and evolved into Canal+ channels by the late 1990s, featuring dedicated film strands like FilmNet 1 and FilmNet 2.

Canal+, which had been country-specific, became pan-Nordic. 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. By the 2010s, these strategies positioned C More as one of the leading pay-TV providers in the Nordics, bolstered by market adaptations such as the 2012 bundling of its channels with MTV Oy's premium offerings in Finland.^[19]

Historical development

Origins as FilmNet and Canal+ era (1980s–1990s)

C More Entertainment's roots lie in FilmNet, a pioneering pan-European pay-TV service launched in March 1985 by a consortium including Esselte Video, Rob Houwer, and partners such as VNU and United International Pictures, as a satellite-based movie channel targeting Northern Europe.

Canal+ Film 1 was renamed "Canal+ Film". They were later rebranded as Filmnet 1 and Filmnet 2. 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.

This marked an early milestone in Nordic pay-TV, introducing subscription-based access in a region dominated by public broadcasters, and quickly gained traction in Sweden as the primary market.^[20][21][22]By the early 1990s, FilmNet had expanded its footprint across Scandinavia, establishing dedicated feeds for Denmark, Norway, and Finland while maintaining its core emphasis on recent theatrical releases and classic cinema.

Since 30 October 2012, the C More channels in Finland are bundled with MTV Oy's premium channels.^[2] The combined package was initially named MTV3 Total (later MTV Total) but was changed back to C More in 2017. The movies and series channels were all renamed and recategorised. Three channels were renamed: Canal+ Film was renamed back to "Canal+ Film 1", Canal+ Sport became Canal+ Sport 1", and C More HD became "Canal+ HD".

Customers previously could only subscribe to all channels, but customers were now able to only subscribe to the sports or movie channels.