[SatBroadcasting(tm)] euronews, the international news channel, and Viasat Broadcasting, the free-TV and pay-TV operator with TV channels in 31 countries, has concluded an agreement to broadcast euronews in Scandinavia and in the Baltic states.

euronews launched on the Viasat satellite platform in the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in English and Russian and in four Scandinavian countries: Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden in English. Other languages may be added in the future. In these seven countries, euronews is now available on the Viasat platform through the Astra 4A satellite. With this new agreement and the launch on Viasat Ukraine in August 2009 in 9 languages, euronews is now available in 890,000 Viasat households in 8 countries.