(Dagbladet): yesterday came the news that closer to 1.3 million Get-customers run the risk of losing CHANNELS 2-channels by the new year.
the Reason is that the TV 2 and tv provider Get not managed to get in the port a new distribution agreement for the TV 2 its channels. According to the Campaign is the controversy over how much the Get pay TV 2 to be able to distribute tv group’s channels in the coming years.
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head of communication at TV 2, Jan-Petter Dahl, confirms that the tv channel is in distribueringsforhandlinger with Get, but will not say anything about why the parties have not come to a consensus or how long negotiations have been going on.
Agreements expire periodically, and we are now in the process of negotiating a new agreement. We have negotiated a small period of time. I can’t say how long, ” says Dahl to the Newspaper.
In February this year, the despairing many tv viewers when over 2.8 million lost access to the Discovery Network channels, because the negotiations between TVNorge-owner Discovery Networks and Canal Digital’s owner Telenor stranded. The conflict affected also Viasat customers. In Norway lost over one million households discovery’s 13 channels in the ten days.
This time there are approximately 500 000 households, or nearly 1.3 million tv viewers lose CHANNELS 2 of their channels, if CHANNELS 2 and Get cannot reach an agreement within the deadline by the new year.
It has not succeeded Dagbladet to get in touch with Get for a comment, but the Campaign says Øyvind Society, who is the director of communications and public affairs in Get, that it is generally challenging to negotiate new distribution agreements.
- Norwegian channels-customers want to be able to choose what they want to see, and it is important for us to get agreements that provide the opportunity for it. At the same time, we must ensure that the price to our customers, remains at an acceptable level, says the Society to the Campaign.
Jan-Petter Dahl shows that TV 2 has been through negotiations with both Canal Digital and Altibox earlier in the year, and that they’ve come to an agreement. But how close to the TV 2 and Get a solution, he will not comment.
I don’t want to go into details about either the negotiations or the status. Negotiations are in progress, and our goal is to come to an agreement, ” he says.
- What is required for that, not the TV screen to go black?
- That we come to an agreement, and we have a goal of. It is what we work for. The contact between the TV 2 and Get there, and we sit together and negotiate. There is not much more I can add, ” he says.
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