All Disney owned TV channels including Fox to stop broadcasting across SE Asia 21 days

[ASEAN NOW News]

Fox Movies, Fox Sports, and Nat Geo People are among the popular channels that will stop broadcasting on pay television services across SE Asia from October.

 

According to the management company of these channels as saying the suspension would take place across Southeast Asia and Hong Kong.

 

No more Fox Channels

 

 

The channels that will no longer be available in Vietnam include two channels of Buena Vista International: Disney Channel and Disney Junior, and 12 channels of Disney Networks Group Asia Pacific: Fox, Fox Movies, Fox Family Movies, Fox Action Movies, Fox Life, Fox Crime, Fox Sports, Fox Sports 2, Fox Sports 3, FX, Channel V, and National Geographic People.

 

All of them are now owned by Disney after the company acquired Fox.

 

No more Live F1 or Tennis

 

Disney's sports rights in the region include Formula One and tennis grand slams the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open.

 

According to a representative of a pay TV service, stopping broadcasting in Southeast Asia could be part of Disney's strategy to entice users to use Disney Plus services to compete with its rival Netflix.

 

Apparently, the right to provide the fourteen foreign program channels on pay TV services in Vietnam is valid until the end of Sept. 30 and the broadcast will be stopped from Oct. 1.

 

According to an expert, the suspension of some channels had in fact started in May on the over-the-top television system (meaning any streaming service that delivers content over the internet), and would be applied to all 14 channels mentioned above across all platforms by October.

 

There is currently no information on the distribution of the 14 channels in Southeast Asia after Oct. 1.

 

According to an insider, users of pay TV services would likely be replaced by some other channels, but there are no specific plans yet.

 

 

In the end it will be the public, that will have to pay for their live TV as a potential war between Netflix and Disney heats up across the region.