“Kanal One” and other TV channels of the First Digital Television Family were excluded from the schedule of the Kazakh operator TVCOM due to the operator’s broadcast debt in 2023. This was reported by the official representative of Channel One JSC. World Wide Web” Irina Kalashnikova in the Republic, reports TASS.
He stated that the decision was economic, not political. Kalashnikova stated that the parties could not reach an agreement for the next year, so an agreement was not reached.
“The main reason for this is the operator’s debt to the copyright owner. That’s why we had to close. “The operator was notified of the outage, we warned for a year,” he said.
The official representative of Channel One emphasized that the operator did not pay for broadcasting last year and still owes money for several months of broadcasting in 2022. Kalashnikova stated that Russian television will partially work in the country until the debt is paid.
On January 3, it was reported that the satellite and internet television operator in Kazakhstan had joined TVCOM. excluded Several Russian TV channels are included in the broadcast network.
Previously Discovery stopped broadcasts its channels in Russia.