Orange Slovakia turns off Czech channels
FEBRUARY 20, 2023 20.17 EUROPE/LONDON BY CHRIS DZIADUL

Orange has stopped showing most of the Czech TV channels it has hitherto offered to its subscribers in Slovakia.

According to Zive, Prima Cool, Prima Zoom, Prima Max, Prima Krimi, Prima Love, Prima Star, CT Sport and CT Art/:D can no longer be received as if February 20.

It adds that although this is due to licensing conditions, Orange has even removed CNN Prima News, which can officially be broadcast in Slovakia, from its line-up.

Orange is the first Slovak operator to respond to last month’s call by Markiza and Joj, the country’s two leading commercial broadcasters, to no longer distribute Czech channels when the show films and series for which they own the rights for Slovakia.

However, it has decided to block the Czech channels completely rather than at certain times.

Broadband TV News notes that Orange ended 2022 with 194,000 TV subscribers in Slovakia, or 20.5% more than the 161,000 it had a year earlier.