{"id":41289,"date":"2012-01-13T14:35:23","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T12:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=41289"},"modified":"2012-01-13T15:05:02","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T13:05:02","slug":"toptv-may-lose-another-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/41289-toptv-may-lose-another-channel.html","title":{"rendered":"TopTV may lose another channel"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a press statement issued today, TopTV<\/a> said that they may not be able to broadcast Current TV any longer, as the channel\u2019s carriage agreement with BSkyB in the United Kingdom is not being renewed.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs BSkyB is the channel\u2019s biggest broadcast client, this will affect their ability to maintain operations, which will in turn impact on the channel being available to the South African market,\u201d TopTV said.<\/p>\n

TopTV broadcasts the British-generated feed of Current TV, which is also broadcast on the BSkyB pay-TV platform. According to BSkyB, it is considering not renewing its contract with Current TV due to factors such as low viewership and under-performance.<\/p>\n

\u201cTopTV is currently in discussions with the channel\u2019s management over options and possible alternative solutions to continue to broadcast the channel,\u201d said the South African satellite broadcaster. \u201cCurrent TV is also considering other business offers at the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

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BSkyB won\u2019t renew its contract with Current TV, a channel broadcast by TopTV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":25203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[8123,8125,35,425,87],"class_list":["post-41289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-bskyb","tag-current-tv","tag-headline","tag-on-digital-media","tag-toptv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41297,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41289\/revisions\/41297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}