October 11 (SeeNews) - AMC Networks International (AMCNI) said it has signed a deal with Telekom Austria Group that secures carriage for AMC across all Telekom Austria Group pay TV subscribers in Croatia and Bulgaria.
With this deal, AMC will extend its reach to the second biggest operator in Croatia, as Telekom Austria Group launches AMC on VIPnet on October 10, 2016. In Bulgaria, AMC channel distribution will be extended to Telekom Austria Group’s Mobiltel network in addition to carriage on Blizoo, the company said in a statement on Monday.
“We have reached a long-term agreement with Telekom Austria Group that recognizes the value of AMC and its award-winning and high-quality programming”, said Balazs Hajos, AMCNI CE regional director affiliate sales. He added that the company will provide AMC HD to Telekom Austria in December 2016, while further extensions of the cooperation will follow in 2017.
“We welcome this agreement with AMC, enabling us to break through Croatian and Bulgarian boundaries and deliver new and high quality thematic content to a wider CEE region”, Franz Bader, director wholesale international sales at Telekom Austria Group, also said.
For AMC, this move in Eastern Europe is the latest step in the expansion of its foot-print further in the Eastern and Central European regions, since the channel was launched outside North America in late 2014. AMC is now on subscription television platforms in more than 125 countries and territories across Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East.