Kristian Oma has been hired as sports director at Nordic Entertainment Groups (Nent), which has the Premier League rights from 2022.
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Kristian Oma is the new sports director in the Nent group’s Norwegian department. Here from his days as a Eurosport reporter, in an interview with the then Odd coach Dag-Eilev Fagermo. Photo: Fredrik Hagen / NTB scanpix
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Nent is a Swedish media company behind Viasat and Viaplay’s TV content in Norway. The company has the Premier League rights for six years from 2022, in addition to the German Bundesliga and the World Cup in alpine and Nordic branches from 2021.
Grandma becomes sports director in the Norwegian department of the company, and will join by October 1, Campaign reports. He has previously been a sports anchor in Eurosport and a reporter in TV 2 sports.
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– I hope that I will have been through variants of all that I am going through the next few years through the jobs and responsibilities I have had. If you get such an opportunity like this, you owe it to yourself to just take it, says Oma.
– We have, and will get some of the most sought-after rights for Norwegian viewers such as the Premier League, handball championships, winter sports and German football, to name a few. I look forward to being part of a fantastic journey into the world of sports for the Nent Group, ”he says.
According to Campaign, the Nent group’s interim sports manager in Norway, Cecilia Gave, will continue in a new role in the company.
