Poland's Wizja, Canal Plus Spar Over Report.

Multichannel News, October, 1998 by Forrester, Chris

Canal Plus Polska has accused rival Polish satellite platform At Entertainment of deliberately "misrepresenting the situation" concerning a Sept. 18 "buy" recommendation issued for At Entertainment by investment bank Merrill Lynch & Co. The spat is the latest round between the two competitors, which were once paired to launch a joint platform, but which are now bitterly fighting on several fronts.

The Merrill report said At Entertainment's Wizja TV bouquet had "exclusive sports, movies and original programming," listing Universal Studios Network and Sundance Channel as part of At Entertainment's lineup, while a near-empty list was shown for Canal Plus. In fact, Universal Studios and Paramount Pictures have signed on as exclusive suppliers to...

Premium Content Partnership | HighBeam Research provides an in-depth online archive library of reference works. HighBeam Research

 

BNET TalkbackShare your ideas and expertise on this topic

Please add your comment:

  1. You are currently: a Guest |
  2.  

Basic HTML tags that work in comments are: bold (<b></b>), italic (<i></i>), underline (<u></u>), and hyperlink (<a href></a)

advertisement
advertisement
  • Click Here
  • Click Here
  • Click Here
advertisement