Change to the Italian Disney channels

Dear friends and dear friends of the Community!

On September 30, 2022 Disney eliminates the two Italian language channels “National Geographic Channel” and “National Geographic Wild”. From this date the channels will no longer be available on any Swiss TV platform.

For Swisscom, this change concerns blue TV customers with Top Italiano+ and HD Italiano+ subscriptions. In the German and French Top+ and HD packages, the National Geographic channels continue to be active.

In exchange, starting from 5 October 2022, the exclusive Pay TV channel “Crime+Investigation” will be available in the Top Italiano+ subscription.

Dear regards,
CorinaS

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As for the two National Geographics in Italian, nothing can be done because the channels stop broadcasting, even in Italy. However, this does not mean that you should only look for one replacement instead of two.

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They are there, but those with the Sky name for example, I don’t think they can be brought by Swisscom.

There are channels like Blaze or Gambero Rosso that could be taken into consideration, but being pay-TV, it is not so simple (perhaps agreements for TV channels with Italy are more complex than for other countries like Germany or France, where many channels even have Swiss advertising windows, correct me if I’m wrong).

Furthermore, I have the feeling that more and more pay channels will be closed in the future to the detriment of the various streaming services, while the free-to-air channels cost little and make a lot of (advertising) and this is why new ones are also arriving (27 Twentyseven of Mediaset, for example).

However, I would like to point out that a new free-to-air Italian channel from Warner Bros Discovery will be launched soon, dedicated to films and TV series. It will be positioned at number 37 on digital terrestrial (where there is now a temporary channel) and therefore Swisscom will certainly be able to bring it into the offer. The name is not yet known for now.

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3 months later

Let’s hope that by the end of the year, at least the new free Warner Bros Discovery channel will be activated.

As already reported several times, Italian-speaking users are always put aside, compared to Germans and French.

This is a big disappointment, after all we pay the same rates!

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@“x”#39567 wrote: Let’s hope that by the end of the year, at least the new Warner Bros Discovery free channel will be activated. As already reported several times, Italian-speaking users are always put aside, compared to Germans and French. This is a big disappointment, after all we pay the same rates!

YES in fact from 10.30.2022 there is a new channel Warner Bros Discovery in Italy: Warner TV.
The channel will be FTA (also in DVB-T) and will be broadcast in HD quality.
Let’s all hope that the channel will soon be available on Swisscom blue TV too.

[Free-to-air from October 30th Warner TV, Warner Bros. Discovery channel dedicated to films and TV series | Digital-News.it](https://www.digital-news.it/news/televisione/49681/dal-30-october-in-chiaro-warner-tv-canale-warner-bros-discovery-dedicato-a -films-and-tv-series)

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Christmas G-4 🤶🎄🎅

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16 days later

I can’t find an appropriate topic…

But I would like to point out to swisscom that all Mediaset channels broadcast in HD… have you noticed or are we waiting six months? It’s time to make the change on your blue TV too, thanks.

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From 22 December 2022 they should all be in HD… on other platforms like zattoo they already are… but here obviously we sleep as usual… but you have to pay the bill immediately.

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