The parties have not reached agreement, thus losing over one million Norwegians Discovery 13 channels indefinitely, including TVNorge, MAX, FEM and Discovery Channel.
The report TVNorge in a statement tonight.
– A cup of coffee
A total of 2.8 million TV viewers affected, dissent was also affecting neighboring countries like Sweden.
The parties have long argued about how much the latter should pay to distribute Discovery channels.
– Dear viewers and Canal Digital customers. I regret to tell you that I have just received word from Telenor that all Canal Digital customers can now lose TVNorge, MAX, Discovery, Eurosport and nine other channels, writes Discovery CEO Harald Strømme.
– We have asked for a price increase for our 13 channels, the equivalent of 1 cup of coffee per customer per year. Telenor calls this an unreasonable demand. Our door is of course open to new offers from Telenor and Canal Digital. I hope for the longest time someone knocks, he continues.
For Dagbladet tells Stromme that there is a heavy day.
– Half of the audience can not see what they want to see, and we’re sorry for. We have stretched as far as we can, and still stands at our. he says.
– How long will this last?
– I will not speculate on that, but we are aware that it can last long . This means of course big cost for us.
Sorry
Information Manager at Telenor, Tormod Sandstø, confirmed to the newspaper Dagbladet that including TV Norway go black at midnight.
– That’s right. Now runs agreement out and we lose the rights to transmit the Discovery channels.
Sandstø emphasizes that they apologize strongly to customers, and say that they have gone to great lengths in the negotiations. Especially when it comes to the Norwegian channels.
– The requirement they have prepared for us has been totally unfair. There is talk of a price increase of several hundred million.
At present he can not say how far apart the parties are.
Disagree
Discovery Manager Stromme is not entirely agree manufacture to Telenor that they has gone to great lengths in the negotiations.
– although from our side for several laps have tried to reach an agreement and reduced our requirements significantly, Telenor has not moved one cent the last two weeks. The fact is that the offer from Telenor means 0, – NOK increased payment for our channel package since the last agreement was signed in 2010. In the same period, Canal Digital increased its selling prices by more than 30%, he said in an email to Dagbladet.
– Price for TVNorge has remained unchanged for 10 years. Our share of user payment is thus greatly reduced, while we have grown rapidly in viewing shares and invested heavily in Norwegian content. No pay less for Norwegian content production than Telenor.
– A sad day
The CEO of Canal Digital AS, Kårhus, said in a statement that this is a “sad day”.
– We are very disappointed that the US media group choose to go to this drastic step, though on Thursday announced that they were willing to go that far. We continue to work hard to get the channels back as quickly as possible.
He also mentions that for giant Discovery, Norway is a relatively small market.
– This is the third time Discovery choose to use conflict weapon in negotiations with Nordic distributors just the last 15 months. We do this for our customers in the future to get a good TV deals, and do our utmost to help our clients get back channels without an unreasonable price increase.
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