TeliaSonera : Discovery channels could disappear from Telia’s TV service
May 23, 2017 at 06:21 am EDT
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The current agreement with European broadcaster SBS, which sells channel packages to Telia, expires June 7. If the ongoing negotiations fail, Telia TV subscribers will not be able to watch Discovery's channels.
'Unfortunately, we have once again ended up in a situation where Discovery wants to limit how, what, and in which way our customers can watch TV at an unreasonable price increase. This is a change for the worse for our customers,' says Johan Hasselberg, Head of Consumer Business at Telia in Sweden.
700,000 TV viewers in Sweden
If an agreement is not reached, it would mean that channels such as Discovery, Animal Planet, Eurosport 1 and 2, TLC and Kanal 5, Kanal 9 and Kanal 11 would disappear from Telia's TV service.
Around 700,000 households in Sweden subscribe to Telia's television packages, but the dispute could also affect subscribers in Finland.
Compensation
Should the parties fail to reach an agreement, Telia will provide customers with HBO's replacement channels until further notice.
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Telia Company AB is the leading Scandinavian telecommunications operator. Net sales (including intragroup) break down by activity as follows:
- telecommunications services (85.8%): mobile telephony (19.8 million subscribers at year-end 2022), fixed-line telephony (0.9 million), cable television transmission (3 million), broadband Internet access (2.9 million), etc.;
- media services (9.6%): production and broadcasting of audiovisual content (TV4, C More and MTV channels);
- other (4.6%).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Sweden (46.4%), Finland (18.7%), Norway (16.5%), Denmark (5.8%), Lithuania (5.5%), Estonia (4%) and other (3.1%).
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