Fiji One and Pacific Channel to be removed from Sky Pacific today

Fiji One and Pacific Channel to be removed from Sky Pacific today

By Vijay Narayan
01/04/2016

Fiji One and Pacific Channel will be removed from the line-up of Sky Pacific channels from today.

Digicel Fiji Chief Executive Officer, Darren McLean says they have to comply with the Media Decree as a foreign company operating Pay Television in the country cannot have any local content on any of the channels.

McLean says this is part of the condition of the license and they will remove Fiji One and Pacific Channel when they take operational control of Sky Pacific from today.

He says they are getting many queries but Digicel has no other option.

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McLean says the four HSBC World Rugby 7s tournaments will be on the Super Channel for the Sky Pacific viewers who do not have access to Fiji One.

He says they will have a new channel, TVWAN on Sky Pacific from today.

When asked on other channels planned for Sky Pacific, McLean says they will progressively roll out other plans.

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Fiji TV says Sky Pacific customers who want to watch Fiji One, have to get the antennas.

In a public announcement, Fiji TV confirms that the final settlement figure for Sky Pacific's sale of assets and liabilities will be $4 million but subject to subscriber base, closing stock of setup boxes as well as outstanding receivables and payables.

The initial sale price was $5.75 million plus an additional amount depending on various content.

Fiji TV says Digicel received the Pay TV license subject to several conditions including no paid advertisements and no local content. Both parties then went back to negotiation on the final settlement figure.

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