General International TV Channels Thread

[J10]

Premier Sports relaunches in UK after Viaplay takeover - SportsPro

Pay-TV broadcaster returns to British market after completing reacquisition.

www.sportspromedia.com

Premier Sports will relaunch on April 9th.

The emergency signal of Glitz has been off, month and few days after its closure.

 

[J10]

Double Post:

Sorry for that, but that’s URGENT.

CT Sport are being pulled from Slovakia.

Telecompaper

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Televisa buys AT&T’s shareholder at Sky Mexico. Strange they use the British Sky logo and it isn’t owned by Comcast. Hope they rebrand to another name after the takeover by Televisa.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/mexican-broadcaster-televisa-buys-out-att-control-sky-satellite-tv-unit-2024-04-03/

 

[canyuksel97]

At This Time, ATV Is About To Change Their Schedule To Air Kim Milyoner Olmak İster In Its Place.
Because Super Cup Match Was Postponed Again Due To Fenerbahçe Teams Was Headed To Locker Room,
But Galatasaray Got Their Goal. However This Match Was Lasted For 2 Minutes.

 

[RandomMe]

@J10: Did Kurdsat shut down or did it just leave Hotbird? Sunrise Switzerland announced that the channel shut down and they had the channel since the Cablecom days.

 

[Insidus]

Canal+ increased its bid for MultiChoice who seem to be open to the idea of an acquisition. But there's various hurdles for foreign investors to own a local company. It should be noted that this deal will be terminated by April 2025 if they don't resolve the problem and an extension is possible. Canal+ and MultiChoice join hands in takeover deal - TechCentral

 

[SpongeBobFan2004]

Paramount is starting to cut costs on international originals, due to its streaming push, Telefe has laid off its entire scripted TV staff and almost all of Argentine's big 6 TV channels are becoming variety/import-heavy.

Agoniza la ficción nacional: Telefe cerró su área y despidió a 150 empleados

Telefe decidió cerrar su área de producción de ficción. Los enlatados, que experimentan su peor momento, quedaron reducidos al streaming.

urgente24.com

 

[J10]

@J10: Did Kurdsat shut down or did it just leave Hotbird? Sunrise Switzerland announced that the channel shut down and they had the channel since the Cablecom days.

No, it didn’t close on satellites. I saw that their news station is still existed.

Canal+ increased its bid for MultiChoice who seem to be open to the idea of an acquisition. But there's various hurdles for foreign investors to own a local company. It should be noted that this deal will be terminated by April 2025 if they don't resolve the problem and an extension is possible. Canal+ and MultiChoice join hands in takeover deal - TechCentral

I don’t think extension is possible. They refuse many times, and suddenly another owner takes over the company.

 

[themidnightlore]

Paramount is starting to cut costs on international originals, due to its streaming push, Telefe has laid off its entire scripted TV staff and almost all of Argentine's big 6 TV channels are becoming variety/import-heavy.

Agoniza la ficción nacional: Telefe cerró su área y despidió a 150 empleados

Telefe decidió cerrar su área de producción de ficción. Los enlatados, que experimentan su peor momento, quedaron reducidos al streaming.

urgente24.com

Can someone tell ParGlo to sell Game One and J-One before it gets too late? (Also, Super! so it can go ot its old glory)

 

[SpongeBobFan2004]

Can someone tell ParGlo to sell Game One and J-One before it gets too late? (Also, Super! so it can go ot its old glory)

but Super! is the FTA home for Nickelodeon in IT (sans the Nick Jr. stuff, that goes to Cartoonito IT).

 

[themidnightlore]

but Super! is the FTA home for Nickelodeon in IT (sans the Nick Jr. stuff, that goes to Cartoonito IT).

It was better under DeAgostini.

 

[SpongeBobFan2004]

According to Telefe, their scripted content is not dead, there have been reductions due to Paramount's restructuring buzz (about 40-50 people left the channel due to this) and new shows are planned for 2025.

Cambios en Telefe: reestructuración, despidos y la vuelta de ficciones

Tras los rumores de cierre del departamento de ficción, el canal salió a desmentirlo y dio detalles.

exitoina.perfil.com

 

[RandomMe]

According to Telefe, their scripted content is not dead, there have been reductions due to Paramount's restructuring buzz (about 40-50 people left the channel due to this) and new shows are planned for 2025.

Cambios en Telefe: reestructuración, despidos y la vuelta de ficciones

Tras los rumores de cierre del departamento de ficción, el canal salió a desmentirlo y dio detalles.

exitoina.perfil.com

Also, Argentina has no national fiction, telenovelas etc. because Pol-Ka, El Trece's production company, shut down.

 

[themidnightlore]

By some divine miracle or whatever, Cairo Communication does the unthinkable and decides to renovate La7d after years of monotony.
You can see some sneakpeeks in the La7's stories here.

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A rebrand (they're sending the D in Segoe Print (?) in the basement) and new series (including some Disney content, like Modern Family) coming to the channel at the end of the month, the 29th of April.

 

[AdrenalineRush1996]

Citytv Colombia changed their logo to mark their 25th anniversary eight days ago and here's the first TX of it.

 

[Francisque]

By some divine miracle or whatever, Cairo Communication does the unthinkable and decides to renovate La7d after years of monotony.
You can see some sneakpeeks in the La7's stories here.

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A rebrand (they're sending the D in Segoe Print (?) in the basement) and new series (including some Disney content, like Modern Family) coming to the channel at the end of the month, the 29th of April.

La7 is in general something that needs rethinking

They have a lot of potential and I appreciate a few of their shows, but heck, they aren't doing much to "promote" them and they haven't done much against stronger competition
La7 is more known as a "seminews" channel

I still appreciate them much more than Mediaset, regardless

The rebrand seems nice

 

[Red Arrow]

Wow, even BBC Entertainment is gone now. I think there are now only 1 British and 6 American pay channels left with Dutch subtitles.

BBC First
STAR Channel
National Geographic Wild
Discovery Science
ID Investigation Discovery
History
Crime+Investigation

I'm actually surprised that Discovery Science still exists. Don't all of those programs also air on Discovery Channel?

 

[Francisque]

Discovery Science Netherlands is the "EMEA" feed, which has been shut down in most of the CEE region bar Poland

Nat Geo Wild similarly is a pan-feed, with ad opt outs

The rest is local though

 

[Red Arrow]

Investigation Discovery is weird because the Dutch schedule looks just like the EMEA one, but delayed by 75 minutes. So what we get at 07:15 CET is what the rest of Europe gets at 06:00 CET.

De TV gids van morgen voor Investigation Discovery - TVgids.nl

Bekijk de TV gids voor ID en kom te weten wanneer je favoriete programma's vandaag te zien zijn.

www.tvgids.nl

Investigation Discovery (DiscID) - TV program - 11.4.2024. - MojTV Mobile

mojtv.hr

 

[themidnightlore]

La7 is in general something that needs rethinking

They have a lot of potential and I appreciate a few of their shows, but heck, they aren't doing much to "promote" them and they haven't done much against stronger competition
La7 is more known as a "seminews" channel

I still appreciate them much more than Mediaset, regardless

The rebrand seems nice

I do say miracle as it's notorious that Cairo doesn't spend that much on the TV channels. La7d really needed some changes.

 

[Francisque]

Italian generalist WBD channel Nove (9) might well be about to become the next big generalist channel in Italy
Especially when Mediaset have thankfully died in terms of popularity

After they've bought popular Sunday talk show Che tempo Che fa from RAI, they're now about to strike a deal to have very popular Italian figure Amadeus (currently the presenter of the very popular "Affari tuoi" game show) there too

It's about to become a kind of Italian TVN in terms of popularity if it isn't already, and you can definitely breathe a fresher more exciting innovative and LIBERAL flare compared to government lobbied (sorry, I hate Giorgia Meloni) RAI and Mediaset, so I'm happy for Amadeus

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