globes 2-12-2012
Yes, Hot unveil cut-price basic packages
Hot’s basic package will include 16 channels, while Yes is offering 15 channels.
Yes also decided to leave the RGE sports channel out of the basic package and replace it with Yediot Ahronot unit One. Hot, unlike Yes, offers its basic movie channel within the basic package.
Other channels in Yes’s basic package include the Children’s channel, while Hot will replace that channel with the Saban Group’s new Zoom channel. Other Yes channels will include yes Doco, radio stations channel, Yes base serials (the equivalent of Hot 3), non-TV channels 9 and 24, and basic Israeli TV channels 1, 2, 10, 33, 99 (Knesset) and 23 (Education TV). The package will also include Community TV channel 98.
Hot’s basic package costing NIS 129 this month instead of the regular price of NIS 149 includes 16 channels: 1, 2, 10, 23, 99, 24, 9, 33, Hot Music (Radio channels FM + 4 music channels free), Hala TV, Shopping Channel, Community Channel, Zoom, One, Hot Films, and Hot Family serials.
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news – www.globes-online.com – on December 2, 2012
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