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Scandinavia's sporting channel.


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, a subsidiary of Industriforvaltnings AB Kinnevik, plans to launch the channel for cable and satellite viewers in Sweden, Norway and Denmark by the beginning of next year. U.S.-based sports producer and distributor Trans World Trans World is an economic simulation game for the Commodore 64 published by Starbyte Software in 1990.

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 International is working with MTG on the new service, which will feature separate audio feeds for the three countries.

Programming will include coverage of regional events with popular local hosts and announcers. The channel already has rights for European Cup Soccer, the Italian Soccer League, the Ice Hockey World Championships The Ice Hockey World Championship is an annual event organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation.

They were preceded by the European Championship which was held from 1910 to 1932, and decided at the 1920 Summer Olympics for the first time.
, several hours of golf and many other sports events.

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 MTG's president, Pelle Tornberg, "Scandinavia has some of the greatest sports fans in the world." MTG also launched TV3, Scandinavia's first commercial channel, in 1987 and TV 1000 as the region's first pay-TV channel in 1989.
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