TV7 (Sweden)
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| Launched | 9 October 2006 |
| Owned by | NonStop Television |
| Audience share | 0.1% (2011, ) |
| Country | Sweden |
| Broadcast area | Nordic countries |
| Headquarters | |
| Formerly called | Storstads-tv (working title) Aftonbladet TV7 TV7 TNT7 |
| Website | http://www.tnt-tv.se |
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Availability
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| Terrestrial | |
| Digital terrestrial | Channel 15 |
| Satellite | |
| Canal Digital | Channel 83 |
| Viasat | Channel 44 |
| Cable | |
| Com Hem | Channel 40 |
| Tele2Vision | Channel 14 |
| IPTV | |
TNT is a commercial television channel in Sweden. The channel launched by the tabloid newspaper Aftonbladet as Aftonbladet TV7 on 9 October 2006. Aftonbladet sold the channel in late 2007. In August 2008, it was sold once again and is since owned by NonStop Television. On 2 March 2011 the channel was relaunched as TNT7, following Turner Broadcasting System's purchase of Millennium Media Group, the owner of NonStop Television. The channel is now called TNT since the seven was dropped from the name on 21 March 2012.
The channel was based on the webcasting service that was launched on Aftonbladet.se a few years earlier.
Aftonbladet applied for a license to broadcast a channel with the working title "Storstads-tv" ("City TV") unencrypted in the Swedish digital terrestrial television network in the autumn of 2005. During the process of reviewing the licenses, Storstads-TV teamed up with Axess TV of the Ax:son Johnsson Foundation. In February 2006, Aftonbladet was granted a license to broadcast on Weekdays. Axess TV would broadcast in the Weekends.
Broadcasting trials started on 29 May 2006 with the name "Aftonbladet TV". During this period, the schedule consisted almost solely of content from the webcasts and reruns.
The full launch as TV7 occurred on 9 October 2006. Within a few weeks the channel launched on satellite from Canal Digital and Viasat and digital cable from Com Hem. The schedule now started at 5 p.m. with continuous live news, weather and entertainment news to 9 p.m. when other programming took over. With the launch of TV7, Aftonbladet adjusted their TV guide by introducing TV7 next to the five largest channels. The evening schedule featured both programmes produced in-house at Aftonbladet and acquired programming, including many British lifestyle programmes.
In January 2007, the channel introduced sports to its newscasts and added some new programmes.
The CEO Stephen Mowbray decided to leave the channel in April 2007. He was replaced by Helena Westin. In August 2007, it was announced that Schibsted intended to sell TV7. The ratings had remained very low and advertising sales never caught up, meaning that Aftonbladet suffered heavy losses from both TV7 and the free newspaper Punkt SE. Aftonbladet would now concentrate on the web television service on their website aftonbladet.se.
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