Thursday, September 12, 2013

HBO Nordic is sold - Hardware.no

From the HBO series “Boardwalk Empire.”

Streaming service has changed hands.

Netflix ‘Norway launch in autumn 2012, it was seriously speed up the flow market in Norway. The international giant has been known worldwide for delivery of TV shows and movies, but they have not been alone. Among the major Competitors include HBO, which in terms of hit HBO Nordic Norwegian soil at the end.

Even with their own TV series, high quality does not have HBO Nordic turned particularly well placed in this country so far. Now reports Resumé.se that HBO Nordic is sold.


ownership

HBO Nordic has formally nothing with the American giant HBO to do, they are just a Nordic company that bought rights to broadcast the HBO series, and pouring the solution is completely released from the U.S. version of the service.

sale is in the first place apparently a clean change of ownership. 80 percent of HBO Nordic has until now been owned by Parsifal Nordic Holding, a company owned by HBO Nordic Chairman and Absolut Vodka-baron Peter Ekelund. This share is now taken over by another holding company, Home Box Office Nordic Investment.

Exactly what the purchase price has been is not known, but Resumé Ekelund says that this sale is exactly according to plan.


Hard Launch

Even before the release got HBO Nordic problems in Norway, and at one point threatened Bureau of launch-denial. As Hardware.no could expose the company would initially require 12 month lock without trial month. The manager even thought this was quite reasonable:

– We HBO. We are not a newcomer to the market, and people know what they go to. There’s no point with a free period, because people know what they are getting, said HBO Nordic CEO Hervé Payan Hardware.no.

Consumer Ombudsman did not agree and threatened to ban the service to launch in Norway. Only then chose HBO Nordic to change the terms, so that for a higher price could drop the lock-in period.

In mid-March, a few months after both Netflix and HBO had kept their launches, the first forecasts of membership figures from TNS Gallup in. When Netflix had the 369 000 Norwegian subscribers, while HBO Nordic had only 36 900 pieces, a tenth.

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(Source: Resumé.se)

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