HA NOI – Kplus, a subsidiary of VTV and French station Canal Plus, plans to meet the Vietnamese Football Fans Club next week and explain the cost of its football coverage to subscribers.
Kplus, (known as K+) won a US$10 million contract for three-years exclusive rights to broadcast the world's most popular football leagues.
Last year, it announced a monthly fee of VND250,000 (US$13), which covers the English Premier League, Spain's La Liga and Italy's Serie A.
The figure was four times the previous average monthly VND70,000 fee that K+ charged subscribers.
The high cost has prevented millions of viewers from seeing the English Premiership on local cable television services on Sundays.
As usual, subscribers of the popular VTV cable and VTC pay a monthly fee of only VND65,000 ($2.60) and VND90,000 ($4.70).
The fan club has collected 140,000 signatures from members across the nation protesting at Kplus prices.
Last year, a meeting was held to solve the issue between Kplus, Viet Nam Television (VTV), Viet Nam Multi-Media Corporation (VTC), HCM City Television and Ha Noi Television, but nothing was decided.
"We want Kplus to provide a reasonable price. The new price is too high," said Nguyen Duc Trung, chairman of Viet Nam Football Fans Club.
"We plan to collect one million signatures from Vietnamese fans objecting to the charges," he said. – VNS
No comments:
Post a Comment